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Articles tagged "African-American"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Understanding the Relationship between Health Literacy, Education Level, and Transplant Actions among Low-Income and Black Patients

    A. Waterman1, S. L. Skelton2, O. N. Ranasinghe1, J. L. Beaumont3, L. Alvarez3

    1Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, 3Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Limited health literacy in end stage kidney disease patients is associated with low transplant referral rates. We estimated the prevalence of low health literacy…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of Tacrolimus Dose Requirement in Liver Transplant Recipients from African American Donors Compared to Non-African American Donors

    K. Guilbert, I. Plasari, S. Wiehe, F. Gordon

    Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA

    *Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a difference in tacrolimus total daily dose (TDD) exists between those receiving a liver transplant…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Inequitable Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Black and Asian Minority Ethnic Groups in the UK: A Single Centre Cross-Sectional Cohort Study

    A. Cronin, K. Sran, R. Gokmen, A. Copley, L. Silas, R. Zakri

    Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities constitute 11% of the UK population, yet represent 31% of the national kidney transplant waiting list. Moreover,…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in the US: Have We Made Any Progress among Pediatric Candidates over the Last Twenty Years?

    T. Purnell1, S. Bae1, X. Luo1, A. Chen1, D. Crews1, L. Cooper1, O. N. Bignall II2, K. Covarrubias1, D. Segev1

    1Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH

    *Purpose: A recent JAMA study demonstrated worsening disparities in access to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among adults in the US. We examined twenty-year trends…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of Race and Antibody-Mediated Injury on Outcomes after Early Subclinical Inflammation

    E. P. Kasik, M. E. Seifert, M. Bernard, G. Agarwal, H. Fatima, R. Gaston, B. Julian, C. Kew, V. Kumar, S. Mehta, S. Ong, F. Rosenblum, G. Towns, R. B. Mannon

    University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

    *Purpose: The impact of subclinical inflammation (SCI) on transplant outcomes has been variable, based on previous studies in homogeneous cohorts with relatively low immunologic risk.…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Gender Disparity In Access To Liver Transplant Larger In White Than Black Patients

    K. Guo, J. Peipert, M. Abecassis, L. Zhao, D. Ladner

    Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Disparities in receipt of liver transplantation (LT) by gender and race have been documented, limiting access to this life saving treatment for particular patient…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    A Video Intervention to Increase Organ Donor Registration (ODR) at the Department of Motorized Vehicles (DMV)

    D. A. DuBay1, T. Morinelli1, D. Redden2, N. Ivankova2, I. Herbey3, C. L. Holt4, L. Siminoff5, M. Fouad2, Z. Su6, M. Martin7

    1Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, 2University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 3Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 4University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 5Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 6Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, 7University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN

    *Purpose: To implement a sustainable, low cost DMV-based intervention that increased ODR of DMV patrons, and secondarily, increase ODR in African Americans (AAs).*Methods: Results from…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Racial Disparity in Pre-Kidney Transplant Work-Up

    J. Buggs1, H. Mohamed2, C. Myer3, S. Lloyd4, E. Rogers1, H. Pearson1, J. Clement1, D. Zunick1, A. Kumar2, V. Bowers1

    1Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, 2University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 3University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, 4University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

    *Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the disparity, by race, for pre-kidney transplant work-up completion rates of referred patients.*Methods: We conducted a…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    BK Virus Infection Disparity between Black and Other Races; Do Not Blame the Mycophenolic Acid

    N. Raj1, R. Spong1, S. Jackson2, V. Vakil1, D. Keys1, E. Finger3, S. Riad1

    1Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, 3Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: Disparities in kidney transplant outcomes between black recipients and others continue to exist. We sought to examine the impact of race and the differential…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    ilearnKAS: An Animated Video to Educate African Americans about Key Concepts of Kidney Allocation

    J. Narvaez, B. Dolph, T. Feeley, L. Kayler

    University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

    *Purpose: ilearnKAS is a iteratively-designed patient-engaged mobile educational animated video developed with guidance from patients, providers, Self-efficacy and Multimedia Learning Theories designed for African American…
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