2017 American Transplant Congress
Life Threatening Disparities in Calculated MELD Due to Variation in Laboratory Methods within a UNOS Region.
1CUMC, NY; 2WMC, NY; 3MSSM, NY; 4URMC, Rochester; 5MMC, NY; 6WCM, NY; 7NYU, NY
MELD was implemented as an objective measure to prioritize patients for liver transplant (LT). Accuracy and reproducibility of MELD is an essential assumption to ensure…2017 American Transplant Congress
Proteomic Profiles of Deceased Donor Kidney Biopsies Obtained Prior to Transplantation Correlate with Allograft Function at One Year.
Introduction:Cerebral injury during Donation after Brain Death (DBD) will induce a systemic inflammatory response affecting immediate kidney function and survival posttransplantation. Assessment of donor organ…2017 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Kidney Transplantation: Bakirkoy Experience.
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: As minimal invasive treatments develop, most urologists have preferred minimally invasive methods in recent years. There is a great shift through laparoscopic…2017 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function[mdash]Less Ominous for ARF or DCD Recipients?
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Delayed Graft Function (DGF) is both a transplant outcome and risk factor for graft failure. Kidneys from donors with kidney injury--such as acute renal failure…2017 American Transplant Congress
“Donor Age or Quality” a Qualitative Analysis of Livers Declined for 830.
Abdominal Transplant, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Background: Efforts to improve organ utilization have been hindered by a lack of specificity on center's reasons for declining organs. One of the most frequently…2017 American Transplant Congress
Twenty Year Trends in Outcomes and Costs Following Kidney Transplantation.
Purpose. Short term outcomes of kidney transplantation (KTx) are excellent, but it is unclear that long term outcomes have improved, despite advances in immunosuppression (IS).…2017 American Transplant Congress
Nephrectomy of the Failed First Kidney Allograft Predisposes Kidney Transplant Recipients to Presensitization with Alloreactive T-Cells and Inferior Allograft Survival After Retransplantation.
During the last two decades the number of recipients (KTRs) of a previous kidney transplantation being evaluated and waitlisted for a subsequent kidney transplantation has…2017 American Transplant Congress
EBV-Specific CD8+ T Cells from Pediatric Thoracic vs Abdominal Transplant Recipients Are Shaped Differently by the Chronic EBV Loads with Potential Impact on the Risk of PTLD.
Background: EBV infection and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) are life-threatening complications of pediatric solid organ transplantation (Tx). Chronic high EBV viral load (HVL) carriers have…2017 American Transplant Congress
Etiology and Timing of ESRD After Kidney Donation.
ESRD after kidney donation may occur because of nephrectomy-induced decreased GFR followed by normal age-related decline, by onset of kidney or systemic disease (e.g., HTN),…2017 American Transplant Congress
Early Antibody-Mediated Rejection C4d Status Remains a Marker of Prognosis in HLA-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation.
1CHP, Porto, Portugal; 2IPST, Porto, Portugal
Banff criteria for the diagnosis of antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in kidney transplantation (KT) was recently updated to include the entity of C4d negative AMR, if…
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