Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 19 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

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Mid-Term Outcome of Donor Specific Antibody Positive Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation with Peri-Transplant Desensitization
K. Osickova,¹ P. Hruba,² J. Slatinska,¹ A. Slavcev,² J. Fronek,² E. Honsova,² O. Viklicky.¹
¹Dept. of Nephrology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic; ²Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
Donor specific HLA-antibodies (DSA) remain a large barrier to successful kidney transplantation and there is a limited knowledge about desensitization strategies in deceased donor programs.Anti…
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Desensitization to Facilitate Matching in a Large, National Kidney Paired Exchange Clearinghouse
C. Holscher,¹ A. Thomas,¹ K. Jackson,¹ C. Haugen,¹ M. Ronin,² A. Waterman,^3,4 A. Massie,^1,5 J. Garonzik Wang,¹ D. Segev.^1,5
¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; ²National Kidney Registry, New York; ³David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles; ⁴Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles; ⁵Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore.
In kidney paired exchange (KPE) programs, the use of incompatible transplantation has been necessary to prevent long waiting times for sensitized candidates and to facilitate…
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Tuberculosis among Kidney Transplant Patients Compared to Dialysis and Non-Dialysis CKD Patients over a Decade Period
A. Metry, I. Al Salmi, F. Al Ismaili, A. Hola, F. Shaheen, I. Al Salmi.
The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; SCOT, SCOT, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman.
USRDS showed that 1.2% & 1.6% incidences of tuberculosis-TB in patients on peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis-HD, respectively. Kidney transplant-KTX patients have higher rates.We studied the…
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Regression of Left Atrial Diameter after Kidney Transplantation is Associated with Prolonged Survival: An Observational Study
A. Kainz,¹ F. Regele,¹ M. Kammer,² A. Beer,³ R. Steringer-Mascherbauer,⁴ T. Binder,⁵ R. Oberbauer.¹
¹Nephrology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²CeMSIIS, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ³Nephrology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; ⁴Cardiology, Ordensklinikum Linz, Linz, Austria; ⁵Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
BackgroundThe risk of cardiovascular death in patients on dialysis is dramatically elevated but can be reduced by renal transplantation. We previously showed that left atrial…
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High Serum Resistin Levels Predict Future Acute Kidney Injury in Kidney Transplantation Patients
M-.C. Lee,^1,3 B-.G. Hsu.^2,3
¹Surgery, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan; ²Nephrology, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan; ³School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
Introduction:Resistin has a pathogenic role in the development and progression of atherosclerosis. This study was evaluated the association between serum resistin levels and future acute…
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Progression of Vertebral Bone Disease among Kidney Allograft Recipients on Steroid Maintenance
E. Abuhelaiqa,¹ M. Alkadi,¹ M. Jarman,² J. Mahmoud,² A. Hamdi,¹ A. Ashor,¹ A. Nauman,¹ M. Asim,¹ O. Fituri,¹ H. Al-Malki.¹
¹Nephrology-Internal Medicine, Hamad Medical Coperation, Doha, Qatar; ²Transplantat Surgery, Hamad Medical Coperation, Doha, Qatar.
BackgroundOsteoporosis has been recognized as a significant cause of morbidity post kidney transplantation. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of osteoporosis at one year post…
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Effects of Sarcopenia on Patients Undergoing Liver Re-Transplantation
J. Stracke, M. Ilias, S. Nagai.
Transplant Surgery, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
Background:Loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia) has been found to be a measure of mortality after primary liver transplantation. We aimed to evaluate its effect in…
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Predictors of Graft Survival amongst Recipients of Liver Allografts with Prolonged Cold Ischemic Time (CIT)
J. Steggerda,¹ K. Kim,¹ D. Malinoski,² M. Bloom.¹
¹Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; ²Surgery, Oregon Health Science University, Portland, OR.
Background: CIT is an independent risk factor for worse outcomes in liver transplantation (LT). Factors contributing to improved graft survival in organs with CIT ≥12…
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Non-US Citizen Liver Transplant Recipients (LTR) Have Superior Outcomes Compared to US Citizen LTR: A Retrospective Study of 50,422 Subjects Using the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) from 1992-2015
T. Butler,¹ A. Rana,² M. Garfinkel.¹
¹Department of Transplantation, Southern Illniois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL; ²Department of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor, Houston, TX.
The US performs over 7,000 liver transplants per year and a substantial subset of Non-US citizen recipients exist. United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) policy…
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Cumulative United States Experience in Domino Liver Transplants
K. Barrera, S. Sharma, A. Gruessner, R. Gruessner.
Surgery, State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, CA.
Background/Purpose: The ongoing shortage of livers in the setting of growing waiting lists remains a challenge in transplantation. First introduced in 1995, sequential or domino…