Am J Transplant, Volume 17, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 14 of 181 - ATC Abstracts

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Transplant Economics Post Implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Budget Control Act Sequestration Adjustment on Medicare Reimbursement.
E. Zavala,¹ J. Rogers,² R. Howey,³ S. Karp.¹
¹VUMC, Nashville; ²Tx Mgmt Group, San Diego; ³Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville
Purpose: Adjustments in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 and sequestration from the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011 have impacted Medicare reimbursement for…
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Glomerular CD45 Immunostaining in Post Perfusion Graft Biopsies Predicting Rejection.
A. Yuvaraj, A. Prasad, K. Gopalakrishnan, N. Krishnan.
Renal Transplant Unit, University Hospitals Coventry, Coventry, United Kingdom
Introduction: Recipients of incompatible renal allografts remain at risk of developing AMR after transplantation. Current microarray analysis of allograft biopsies showed similar disturbances in AMR…
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Podocyte Participates in the ST2 Related Renal Fibrosis.
Y. Kim,¹ S. Yang,^2,3 R. Cha,⁴ M.-Y. Yu,¹ S. Lee,³ H. Lee,¹ J. Lee,⁵ D. Kim,^1,3 S. Kim,³ Y. Kim.^1,2,3
¹Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Seoul National University Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ³Kidney Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ⁴Internal Medicine, National Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ⁵Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Objective Soluble ST2 (sST2) which is the receptor of IL-33 is involved in renal inflammation and it is also correlated with disease severity in chronic…
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Assessment and Transplantation of Declined Human Kidneys Using Ex-Vivo Normothermic Kidney Perfusion.
S. Hosgood,¹ M. Hamed,¹ A. Sawpaul,² R. Figueiredo,² K. Saeb-Parsy,¹ C. Wilson,² M. Nicholson.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; ²Transplantation, Transplant Institute, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, United Kingdom
PurposeThe aim of this study was to make more kidneys available for transplantation by using ex-vivo normothermic kidney perfusion (EVKP) technology to assess the quality…
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Patient and Kidney Allograft Survival in Recipients with End Stage Renal Disease from Amyloidosis.
M. Lim,¹ D. Sawinski,¹ J. Cohen,^1,2 B. Weiss,^3,4 J. Hogan,^1,3 L. Dember.^1,3
¹Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ³Penn Amyloidosis Program, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Division of Hematology/Oncology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background: Data on patient and graft outcomes of kidney transplant recipients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) from systemic amyloidosis is scarce. Methods: We performed…
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Stable Deceased Donor Transplantation Rates Among Pediatric Candidates Post-KAS Implementation.
B. Shelton,¹ C. Ray,¹ D. Sawinski,² R. Reed,¹ P. MacLennan,¹ J. Locke.¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Background: The Kidney Allocation System (KAS) was implemented in December 2014 and increased access to deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) for highly sensitized candidates. Concerns…
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Living Kidney Donors: Battling High Attrition Rates During Evaluation Process.
J. Verbesey, A. Bacigalupo, A. Gilbert, A. Li, C. Zuttermeister, M. Grafals, J. Moore, B. Javaid, P. Abrams, S. Ghasemian, M. Cooper.
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington DC
With an ever increasing kidney waiting list, a major goal is to expand living donor transplantation (LD). LD increases volume and provides higher quality, longer…
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Combination αCD28+αCD40 Costimulation Blockade Attenuates Acute and Chronic Rejection in Non-Human Primates.
N. O'Neill, T. Zhang, W. Sun, G. Braileanu, X. Cheng, I. Tatarov, W. Hassanein, A. Azimzadeh, R. Pierson.
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Purpose: Monotherapy using αCD28 or αCD40 antibodies significantly prolongs graft survival but does not induce tolerance in non-human primates (NHP). Here, we evaluate the relative…
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Evolution of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) in Kidney Donors.
H. Ibrahim,¹ D. Berglund,¹ S. Jackson,² A. Matas.¹
¹U of MN, Mpls; ²M Health, Mpls
Most living donors (LDs) enjoy excellent HRQOL after donation. However, most studies addressing HRQOL in this group have ascertained HRQOL related outcomes only at one…
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Delayed Renal Implantation Improves Survival Following Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation in High Acuity Recipients.
K. Lunsford,¹ V. Agopian,² A. Saharia,¹ J. Balough,¹ C. Mobley,¹ S. Gordon-Boroughs,¹ H. Gritsch,² H. Podder,¹ R. Knight,¹ G. Danovitch,² X. Li,¹ A. Gaber,¹ R. Busuttil,² R. Ghobrial.¹
¹Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; ²David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
OBJECTIVES:Simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation (SLKT) improves survival for liver transplant (LT) recipients with renal dysfunction (RD); however, simultaneous transplant risks KT futility in high acuity recipients.…