2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of Kidney Transplantation in US Adults with Sickle Cell Nephropathy.
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients with sickle cell nephropathy (SCN) are less likely to receive a kidney transplant (KT) than ESRD patients without SCN. Comparing…2016 American Transplant Congress
Rapid Withdrawal of Donation After Cardiac Death Donors.
1Surgery, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA; 2Lifesharing, San Diego, CA.
Purpose: Potential organ donors may be lost if procurement needs to occur emergently due to hemodynamic instability or family request, in particular if serologies and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Rapid Discontinuation of Prednisone (RDP) in Kidney Transplant (KTx) Recipients: 15-Year Outcomes.
PURPOSE: RDP after KTx is associated with increased early rejection; no decrease in medium‐term patient (PS) or graft survival (GS); and significantly decreased prednisone‐related side…2016 American Transplant Congress
The BEST Trial: A Prospective Randomized Trial of Belatacept-Based, CNI- and Corticosteroid-Free Immunosuppression.
Efficacy of CNI- and corticosteroid-free immunosuppressive regimens has not been demonstrated in large, multicenter trials. BEST (Belatacept-based Early Steroid Withdrawal Trial) (NCT 01729494) compares 2…2016 American Transplant Congress
Gene Expression Levels of Advanced Heart Failure Patients in Terms of Coagulation and Its Effect within Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome.
Medicine Cardiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
MOD is progressive organ failure amongst 2 or more organs. Innate-immunity/inflammation-related coagulopathies can cause disseminated clotting in vasculature leading to organ failure. Purpose is to…2016 American Transplant Congress
Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients with a Continuous Flow, Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York.
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) increases morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Patients with a ventricular assist device (VAD) are exposed to known risk factors for…2016 American Transplant Congress
Renal Function Decline Is Higher in the First Year After Liver Transplantation: Final Results from the Italian Observational Study SURF.
SURF registry was designed to investigate the evolution of renal function in Italian adult liver transplant (LT) recipients by: exploring the prevalence of chronic kidney…2016 American Transplant Congress
Original KDRI Predicts Kidney Graft Failure in a Brazilian Cohort.
Current US allocation system for kidney transplantation (KT) is based on KDRI (Kidney Donor Risk Index). In Brazil, it is still based on HLA-compatibility; donor…2016 American Transplant Congress
15-Years Experience with the EUROTRANSPLANT Senior Program.
1Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; 2Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Halle, Germany.
Introduction: The ESP (Eurotransplant senior program), introduced in 1999 by EUROTRANSPLANT, is supposed to shorten the waiting period for elder recipients. The aim of this…2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Existing Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and Insufficiently Controlled Post-Transplant HbA1c in Kidney Transplantation.
Nephrology, Charité University, Berlin, Germany.
Background Limited data have been reported on the outcomes of kidney transplant recipients (KTR) with pre-existing diabetes mellitus type 2 (preDM) at time of transplantation…
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