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Articles tagged "African-American"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Improving Access to Transplantation and Outcomes for African American Patients

    D. Bekbolsynov, O. Ekwenna, B. Mierzejewska, J. Borucka, S. A. Khuder, M. Rees, R. Green, S. Stepkowski

    University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

    *Purpose: Black or African American patients are clearly disadvantaged in comparison to Caucasian patients both in terms of the access to kidney transplantation and post-transplant…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    HLA-DQ Plays an Important Role in Graft Survival in African American Transplant Recipients

    L. M. Rebellato1, W. Irish2, D. Leeser2, J. Tuttle2, C. E. Haisch2

    1Pathology, The Brody School of Medicine at ECU, Greenville, NC, 2Surgery, The Brody School of Medicine at ECU, Greenville, NC

    *Purpose: Our kidney transplant (KTx) program serves a medically underserved and racially diverse area of a southern state. The purpose of this study was to…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    The Effect of African American Race on Morbidity for Donors Undergoing Living Kidney Donation: A Single Center Study

    D. R. White, F. Desrosiers, S. Sultan, R. Craig-Schapiro, J. del Pizzo, S. Kapur, A. Watkins

    Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

    *Purpose: To assess perioperative complication rates in African-Americans (AA) undergoing living donor nephrectomy in a large, single center program in the northeast.*Methods: We performed a…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Race-Sex Effects on Immune Response Potential during Tacrolimus Minimization Therapy in Stable Renal Allograft Recipients

    K. Tornatore1, K. Attwood2, R. Venuto3, H. Minderman4

    1University at Buffalo; School of Pharmacy, Buffalo, NY, 2Biostatistics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, 3University at Buffalo; School of Medicine: Nephrology, Buffalo, NY, 4Flow & Image Cytometry, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY

    *Purpose: African American renal transplant recipients (RTR) exhibit more immunoreactivity to allografts which may contribute to chronic rejection. This study investigated race-sex influences on ex…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Lack of Linguistically and Culturally Tailored Initiatives in Kidney Transplant Programs in the United States

    S. Carbunaru1, A. Ortiz2, C. Ortiz3, J. Ortiz3, J. Locke4, J. Caicedo1

    1Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 3Department of Surgery, University of Toledo College of Medicine & Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, 4University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

    *Purpose: Although minorities are the majorities in the kidney transplant waiting list, it is unknown if kidney transplant programs in United States have implemented linguistically…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Time within Therapeutic Range: A Comparison of Three Tacrolimus Formulations within Ninety Days of Renal Transplant

    S. Patel, K. Khalil, A. Lichvar, E. Benedetti, P. West-Thielke

    University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Optimizing tacrolimus (TAC) time within therapeutic range (TTR) has been shown to improve outcomes post-transplant. To date, there are no studies assessing differences in…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Excellent Outcome in African-American (AA), Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetic Recipients after Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation (SPK)

    A. Gruessner, S. Saggi, R. W. Gruessner

    SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

    *Purpose: African-American recipients (AA) are considered a high risk group for organ transplantation. As outcomes after pancreas transplantation have significantly improved, the number of transplants…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Clinical Impact of Race and Timing of Acute Rejection on Recipients of Kidney Transplant on Early Steroid Withdrawal Protocol

    O. Adebiyi, S. Yaqub, W. Goggins, D. Mishler, T. Taber, A. Sharfuddin

    Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

    *Purpose: There has been conflicting reports on the impacts of the timing of acute rejection (AR) (early vs late) on the overall outcome of a…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Dosing Requirements Of Astagraf Xl In African American Kidney Transplant Recipients Converted From Twice-daily Tacrolimus (aaaktrs)

    J. N. Fleming, M. A. Posadas-Salas, D. J. Taber

    Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

    *Purpose: Pharmacokinetics from clinical studies demonstrated similar drug exposure (AUC) and correlation between trough (C0) and AUC between tacrolimus IR and Astagraf XL, which led…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of Envarsus XR in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients

    L. R. Lineberger1, E. Hollinger2, N. Kenyon1, M. Brokohf1, N. Alvey1

    1Pharmacy, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 2Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: This study is being conducted to evaluate the clinical impact of the utilization of tacrolimus LCP (TAC-LCP) compared to tacrolimus immediate release (TAC-IR) in…
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