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Articles tagged "African-American"

  • 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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation Of Workplace Environment In Transplant Medicine: Harassment Should Not Be The “Reality Of Life”

    M. Reilly1, T. Branstool1, S. Gregory1, T. R. Pearson2, T. S. Purnell3, G. Gunasekaran4, B. Kelly5, P. N. Martins6, C. M. Mobley7, S. M. Black8, E. C. Maynard9, D. C. Simpson10, M. B. Shah11, O. Ekwenna1, J. Locke12, J. Ortiz1

    1Surgical Transplant, University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, 2Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 3Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 4Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, 5DCI Donor Services, Nashville, TN, 6University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 7Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, 8The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 9Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, 10Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 11University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 12University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

    *Purpose: The recent increase in publications detailing discrimination and harassment in the medical setting has brought to light potential impairments of medical professional health and…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System A2/A2B –> B Policy on Access to Transplantation among Minority Candidates

    M. Mustian,1 P. Martins,2 P. MacLennan,1 J. Ortiz,2 J. Caicedo,2 S. Gray,1,2 B. Kelly,2 C. Esquivel,2 ASTS Diversity Affairs Commmittee,2 J. Locke.1,2

    1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; 2ASTS Diversity Affairs Committee, Arlington.

    Introduction: Blood group B kidney transplant candidates, many of whom represent ethnic minorities, have historically had diminished access to deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT). However,…
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