Am J Transplant, Volume 16, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 21 of 180 - ATC Abstracts

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ABO-Incompatible Living Kidney Transplantation at Multicenter Japanese Case Series: Evolution of Outcomes and Immunosuppressive Management.
K. Tanabe,¹ M. Okumi,¹ M. Furusawa,¹ K. Unagami,¹ T. Hirai,¹ H. Shirakawa,² T. Shimizu,¹ K. Omoto,³ M. Inui,¹ H. Ishida.¹
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ²Urology, Ohkubo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; ³Urology, Todachuo General Hospital, Saitama, Japan.
[lsaquo]Background[rsaquo]ABO-incompatible living kidney transplantation (ABO-ILKT) has been performed to broaden the range of donor types used for living related kidney transplantation (LKT). Recently, ABO-ILKT has…
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Outcomes of Donor Nephrectomy in the Elderly.
O. Serrano,¹ A. Bangdiwala,² K. Yadav,¹ A. Adamusiak,¹ D. Vock,³ W. Payne,¹ T. Dunn,¹ S. Chinnakotla,¹ E. Finger,¹ T. Pruett,¹ A. Matas,¹ R. Kandaswamy.¹
¹Surgery, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, Masonic Cancer Center, Minneapolis, MN; ³Biostatistics, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
PURPOSE: The critical organ shortage has increased demand for marginal donor kidneys. Although previously a contraindication to live kidney donation, advanced age donors (>60 y.o.)…
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Establishing a Learning Curve for Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy.
Z. Ahmed, R. Tamburrini, R. Uwechue, P. Chandak, F. Calder, N. Kessaris, N. Mamode.
Abdominal Transplant Unit, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Despite thousands of hand assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomies (HALDNs) having been performed a paucity of data still exists in establishing how many procedures are required…
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Continuous Antithymocyte Globulin (rATG) for Treatment of Renal Allograft Rejection: Preliminary Analysis of a Prospective, Randomized Trial.
S. Patel, R. Knight, S. Kuten, J. Nolte, A. Gaber.
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX.
Intravenous (IV) rATG for acute rejection (AR) is primarily given on an inpatient basis due to its daily administration, IV access requirement, and monitoring. The…
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A Quantitative CD45 Assay May Improve Diagnostic Accuracy of the Diagnosis of Acute Cellular Rejection in Transplant Kidney Biopsies.
L. Laszik, S. Bowman, V. Walavalkar, F. Vincenti, Z. Laszik.
UCSF, San Francisco.
Purpose: We have previously shown that the total inflammatory load in transplant kidney biopsies (TxBx) can be determined with a high degree of accuracy using…
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Metabolomic Profiles of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cirrhotic Patients Before and After Transplantation.
C. Desai,¹ R. Varghese,² S. Robertazzi,¹ C. Di Poto,² A. Ferrarini,² C. Tu,² R. Girlanda,¹ K. Khan,¹ T. Fishbein,¹ H. Ressom.²
¹Medstar Georgetown Transplant institute, Washington DC; ²Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington DC.
Metabolomics offers the opportunity to characterize complex diseases like hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) through a systematic evaluation of thousands of metabolites in human liver tissues and…
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Outcomes of Small-for-Size Grafts in Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
T. Klair,¹ E. Przybyszewski,¹ B. Samstein.²
¹Columbia University Medical Center, New York; ²Weill Cornell Medical College, New York.
Lower limit of graft size in adult Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is not well established. This study examines the outcomes with use of small-for-size…
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Endoscopic Polydimethylsiloxane Injection in Prevention of Recurrent Graft Pyelonephritis for Transplanted Kidney with Vesicoureteral Reflux.
L. Nison,¹ M. Hazzan,² P. Puech,³ S. Bouye.¹
¹Urology, University of Lille, Lille, France; ²Nephrology, University of Lille, Lille, France; ³Radiology, University of Lille, Lille, France.
Reccurent acute graft pyelonephritis (AGPN) with vesicoureteral reflux (GVUR) can have a deleterious impact on graft outcome. The objective of this study was to evaluate…
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Impaired Outcome of Kidney Transplants from Donors with Acute Kidney Injury.
K. Schuette-Nuetgen,¹ G. Thölking,¹ H. Pavenstädt,¹ S. Ehlert,¹ B. Suwelack,¹ D. Palmes,² R. Bahde,² S. Reuter.¹
¹Department of Medicine D, Division of General Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Rheumatology, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster, Germany; ²Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Given the gap between patients in need of a kidney transplantation and organs available, transplantation centers increasingly accept lower quality organs, e.g. from donors with…
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Diabetes Mellitus Predicts Outcome in Obesity After Kidney Transplantation.
T. Schachtner,^1,2 M. Stein,² P. Reinke.^1,2
¹Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ²Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany.
Obesity has been associated with an increased risk of allograft loss and death from infection in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). Therefore, previous studies suggested bariatric…