Articles tagged "African-American"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcome Disparities of Primary Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients by Payor, Ethnicity and Gender in the United States
S. M. Riad¹, S. Jackson², A. Matas³, S. Chinnakotla³, P. Verghese⁴
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Pediatric, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Racial disparity outcome in pediatric kidney recipients has been reported. We sought to assess other predictors of outcomes disparities.*Methods: Using the SRTR database, between…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor Race on Tacrolimus Dose Requirement for Liver Transplant Recipients
N. Nesselhauf¹, S. January¹, J. Hagopian¹, K. Progar¹, A. Khan²
¹Pharmacy, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, ²Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: It is well described that there is interpatient variability in tacrolimus dose requirements among transplant recipients. CYP3A5 plays a role in this variability. Black…
2020 American Transplant Congress
American Muslims & Informed Organ Donation Decisions: Findings from a Randomized, Controlled Trial of Religiously-Tailored Education in Mosques
A. I. Padela¹, R. Duivenbode², M. Quinn¹, M. Craig³, M. Saunders¹
¹Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Initiative on Islam and Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³The National Kidney Foundation Illinois, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: American Muslims hold more negative attitudes towards organ donation than other American populations, and these attitudes are associated with gaps in biomedical and religious…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Supporting “The Decision Project:” Understanding Perceptions of Organ, Eye, and Tissue Donation among Baltimore City Community Members
M. Johnson¹, A. Saha¹, M. Waldram¹, I. Johnson², L. Price², A. Coleman², C. Alexander², D. Segev¹, M. Henderson¹
¹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ²The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland, Halethorpe, MD
*Purpose: Using information provided by the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), it was found that the zip code 21205 in Baltimore City had one of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Virtual XM Adversely Affects Access for Highly Sensitized African Americans Awaiting Renal Transplantation
P. T. Jindra¹, B. V. Murthy¹, C. Van Buren²
¹Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Surgery, UT Medical School, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Recent UNOS policy proposals have changed kidney allocation from local Designated Service Areas (DSA) to geographic distribution areas of varying widths. Since crossmatch of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Barriers to Organ Transplantation among Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Groups
M. Parra
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To understand how known patient, provider, and system-level barriers to organ transplantation differ by race and ethnicity.*Methods: We searched Pubmed and Scopus for articles…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Physician Survey on Using APOL1 Genetic Testing in Live Kidney Donor Selection
M. Doshi¹, E. Gordon², B. Freedman³, C. Thomas⁴, C. Glover⁵, J. Locke⁶
¹Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁴Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁵N/A, Miami, FL, ⁶Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Live kidney donors of recent African ancestry are at an increased risk of developing end stage kidney disease than matched healthy non-donors. A recent…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Value of dd-cfDNA When Considering Recipient Ethnicity to Further to Help Risk Stratify Transplant Recipients
A. Langone¹, B. Fischbach², D. Cohen³
¹Vanderbilt Health, Nashville, TN, ²Baylor Scott & White Health, Fort Worth, TX, ³Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Within the modern era of kidney transplantation, African American (AA) transplant recipients continue to experience disproportionately higher rates of allograft loss. A combination of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improvement in Long Term Kidney Transplant Survival Most Dramatic among Minorities, Diabetics and Older Patients
E. D. Poggio¹, S. Arrigain², A. Wee³, D. C. Brennan⁴, J. D. Schold²
¹Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Nephrology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Short-term and long-term kidney transplant graft survival has been improving over time, but whether this improvement in outcomes is more pronounced in the early…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparing Early Kidney after Liver Transplant (KALT) and Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant (SLK): Evaluating Racial Disparities. Will Everyone Have the Same “Safety Net”?
C. Jay¹, R. Stratta¹, W. Washburn², J. Rogers¹, S. Rudnick¹, A. Reeves-Daniel¹, J. Heimbach³
¹Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC, ²The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ³Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, MN
*Purpose: In 2017, UNOS implemented simultaneous liver-kidney transplant (SLK) guidelines that included medical eligibility criteria and a “safety net” providing prioritization on the kidney transplant…