2017 American Transplant Congress
Sexual Dysfunction Among Living Kidney Donors.
1JHU, Baltimore, MD; 2UAB, Birmingham, AL
Ensuring high post-donation quality of life among living kidney donors (LKDs) is a critical component of making living donation worthwhile for both recipients and donors.…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Retrospective Study on the Impact of Abdominal Surgical Histories on Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy for Living Donor Adult Kidney Transplant.
Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Background This study investigated the impact of hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (HALDN) for living donors with surgical histories.Methods During January 2009–May 2015, 555 living kidney…2017 American Transplant Congress
Prospective Monitoring of 25-Hydroxyvitamin Vitamin D Levels After Kidney Transplantation and Its Associations with Clinical Outcomes.
Montefiore Transplant Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Background: Kidney transplant recipients usually have low vitamin D levels. Vitamin D deficiency is recognized as a risk factor for progression of kidney disease in…2017 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors of Recurrence of Diabetic Nephropathy in Renal Trasplant.
Nephrologist, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
BACKGROUND: Renal transplantation has been established as the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) due to diabetic nephropathy. This study aimed to investigate…2017 American Transplant Congress
18 Month Analysis of the Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System on Deceased Donor Kidney Utilization at the Donor Service Area Level.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
In December 2014, UNOS implemented broad sweeping changes in the Kidney Allocation System (KAS). Recently, UNOS reported that key goals of the new policy have…2017 American Transplant Congress
Prioritization for Kidney Transplant Due to Medical Urgency: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes After Transplantation.
Background: Kidney allocation in Brazil is mainly based on HLA compatibility. However, since 2002, patients who are no longer effectively dialyzed because hemodialysis (HD) and…2017 American Transplant Congress
Effective Targeting Plasma Cells with Daratumumab (Anti-CD38) and Mozobil (Anti-CXCR4) in a Sensitized Non-Human Primate Model.
1Surgery, Duke Transplant Center, Durham, NC; 2Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
[Introduction] The presence of donor-specific antibodies (DSA) leads to antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) and decreased graft survival. Therefore efforts continue to be made to reduce DSA…2017 American Transplant Congress
Can Viral Load Be Used as a Surrogate Marker in Clinical Studies of Cytomegalovirus in Solid Organ Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis.
Background: Regulatory trials assessing CMV drugs have utilized symptomatic CMV disease as the primary endpoint. However CMV disease occurs infrequently, CMV syndrome is nonspecific, and…2017 American Transplant Congress
De Novo Donor-Specific Antibodies After Allograft Nephrectomy.
Introduction: although the development of donor-specific antibodies (DSAs) is a known event after allograft nephrectomy (Nx), there are few studies describing the tempo, class and…2017 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Study of Donor Specific Antibodies in a Pediatric Kidney Transplant Population; Response to Optimization of Anti-Proliferative Therapy.
Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
In 2015 we implemented surveillance donor-specific antibody (DSA) monitoring in our pediatric kidney transplant recipients (pKTR); we found that in stable pKTRs (i.e. no changes…
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