Articles tagged "African-American"

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…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Mitigating Racial and Gender Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Impact of the Nation’s Longest Single-Center Kidney Chain
M. N. Mustian, V. Kumar, K. Stegner, D. Mompoint-Williams, M. Hanaway, M. H. Deierhoi, C. Young, B. Orandi, D. Anderson, P. A. MacLennan, R. D. Reed, B. A. Shelton, D. Eckhoff, J. E. Locke
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Disparities in access to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) exist among minorities and women and may be partially explained by antigen sensitization secondary to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Reduction In Early Readmission In Kidney Recipients – Outcomes At One Year With Standardized Intensive Follow Up
A. Crane, M. Eltemamy, R. Fatica, E. Poggio, C. Modlin, A. Wee, V. Krishnamurthi
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute CCF, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients often experience frequent ED visits and high early hospital readmission (EHR) rates (within 30 days). We sought to decrease our preventable…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Early Post-transplant Weight Gain In Inner-city Kidney Transplant Recipients (ktrs) Does Not Remit And Is Associated With Poor Food Quality, Stress And Anxiety.
A. Myrie, J. Leong, J. Fazli, Y. Akivis, C. Wilson, M. Markell
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Weight gain is a significant issue in the post-transplant period and can contribute to morbidity and development or worsening of diabetes and hypertension. Some…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Racial Disparities in Liver Transplant Outcomes by Hospital Quality
K. Ross, R. Patzer, R. Lynch
Emory University, Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Black patients experience inferior outcomes after liver transplant (LTx). Studies of other outcomes have shown that disparities are partially attributable to variation in quality…