2018 American Transplant Congress
Successful Transplantation of Black Kidneys from Rhabdomyolysis Donors
Background: The kidneys from donors with rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury (AKI) may show discolored appearance. The transplant surgeons may be unwilling to accept a…2018 American Transplant Congress
DCD Kidneys with Remuzzi Scores of 4-5 Can Be Accepted for Solitary Kidney Transplantation
Organ Transplant Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Background Baseline chronic donor kidney injury is usually scored using Remuzzi's classification. It has been suggested that kidneys with Remuzzi scores of 0-3 can be…2018 American Transplant Congress
Early Steroid Withdrawal or Tacrolimus Minimization versus Standard Immunosuppression in Renal Transplant Recipients: The Allegro Trial
BackgroundCurrent immunosuppressive regimen in most renal transplant recipients (RTR) combines basiliximab induction with tacrolimus, mycophenolic acid and prednisolone maintenance therapy. Reduction of immunosuppression by withdrawal…2018 American Transplant Congress
Time within Therapeutic Range: A Comparison of Three Tacrolimus Formulations in Renal Transplant Recipients
University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL.
Purpose: To compare three formulations of tacrolimus (TAC) and assess differences in time within therapeutic range (TTR) and variability in levels.Methods: Renal transplant recipients from…2018 American Transplant Congress
Urinary CXCL9 Monitoring to Accompany a Safe CNI-to-Belatacept Conversion in Kidney Transplant Patients
Background: Converting renal transplant recipients from CNI to belatacept immunosuppression has been proposed as a strategy to limit nephrotoxicity, but it is associated with an…2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Nephrectomy: Is It as Safe as It Can Be? Analysis of Living Donor Deaths in the United States
The reported rate of death from living donor nephrectomy is 3 in 10,000 donations. Although this risk is low, the important question is how many…2018 American Transplant Congress
Self-Reported Post-Surgical Pain Following Living Kidney Donation
The Kidney Donor Outcomes Cohort (KDOC) is an NIH-funded observational cohort study evaluating outcomes in living kidney donors (LKDs) at 6 US centers. LKDs completed…2018 American Transplant Congress
Further In Vivo and In Vitro Evidence That Anti-CD40 MABS Do Not Induce Thromboembolism
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
Clinical trials with non-silenced anti-CD40L (anti-CD154) monoclonal antibodies (mAb) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) were halted after unexpected…2018 American Transplant Congress
Urological Complications of Prophylactic Ureteral Stent vs. No Stent in Kidney Transplant Recipients at Erie County Medical Center (ECMC)
Introduction:Complications after kidney transplant (tx) commonly originate from ureterovesical anastomosis, it accounts for 3-9% of urinary complications. Due to the difference in the surgical preference,…2018 American Transplant Congress
A “Multi-Omic” Analysis of Proteome and Metabolome for Acute Rejection and PVAN in Kidney Transplantation
Background: Most effort in identifying biomarkers have used gene expression analyses. Proteomics and metabolomics are useful to identify surrogate biomarkers in monitoring transplanted kidney and…
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