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Articles tagged "African-American"

  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Patterns Of Anti-retroviral Use Among U.s. Liver Transplant Candidates With Hiv

    A. A. Shaffer1, A. G. Thomas2, D. L. Segev3

    1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 3Surgery & Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: There is a high burden of liver disease among HIV-infected (HIV+) individuals, and the class of antiretroviral therapy (ART) used for their treatment may…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Studying the Association of Melanocortin Receptor-4 Gene Polymorphism and Renal Transplant Rejection

    F. Yilmaz1, R. Abdi1, B. J. Keating2, V. R. Mas3

    1Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3Director Transplant Research Institute, Department of Surgery, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

    *Purpose: Accumulating experimental data highlight the importance of targeting the innate immune response to improve transplant outcomes. Inflammation is an unavoidable consequence of transplantation. The…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Racial Differences in Acute Kidney Injury Occurrence among Deceased Kidney Donors

    M. Doshi1, I. Hall2, S. Mohan3, C. Liu4, H. Philbrook4, P. Reese5, S. Mansour6, F. Weng7, E. Akalin8, J. Bromberg9, M. Harhay10, T. Muthukumar11, B. Schroeppel12, P. Singh13, C. Parikh4

    1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 3Columbia, New York, NY, 4Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, 5University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 6Yale University, New Haven, CT, 7St. Barnabas, Livingston, NJ, 8Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 9University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 10Drexel, Philadelphia, PA, 11Cornell, New York, NY, 12University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, 13Jefferson, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Kidneys from African American (AA) deceased donors have lower graft survival than kidneys from white donors, regardless of recipient race. We hypothesized that kidneys…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    What’s in a High Dose? An Analysis of Tacrolimus Pharmacokinetic Parameters in Rapid Metabolizers

    P. West-Thielke1, A. Maldonado2, S. J. Patel3, D. R. Stevens3, U. Meier-Kriesche3, D. Brennan4

    1University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC, 3Veloxis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cary, NC, 4Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: CYP3A5*1 expressers exhibit differences in immediate-release tacrolimus (IR-Tac) PK and require higher doses of IR-Tac to maintain therapeutic trough concentrations. LCP-Tacrolimus (LCPT) demonstrates a…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Enhanced Advocacy and Health Systems Training through Patient Navigation Increases Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

    R. D. Reed1, V. Kumar1, B. Berry1, D. Hendricks1, A. Carter1, B. A. Shelton1, M. N. Mustian1, P. A. MacLennan1, H. Qu1, L. Hannon2, C. Yates2, M. J. Hanaway1, J. E. Locke1

    1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL

    *Purpose: No living donation program has addressed transplant candidate factors by separating the advocacy role from the candidates while simultaneously addressing potential living donor concerns…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Race and Substance Use on Listing Decisions for Kidney Transplant

    R. N. DeBlasio1, L. Myaskovsky2, K. Kendall1, A. DiMartini1, G. Switzer1, D. M. Posluszny1, C. Puttarajappa1, A. D. Tevar1, S. Hariharan1, R. Shapiro3, M. A. Dew1

    1U Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2U New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 3Mt Sinai Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Racial/ethnic minority patients face reduced access to kidney transplantation. We hypothesized that this disparity may be magnified if patients also have major psychosocial liabilities…
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