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Articles tagged "African-American"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Ethnicity and Transplant Knowledge Among Canadian ESKD Patients.

    D. Wong,1 H. Ford,1 C. Lok,1 G. Nesrallah,2 J. Peipert,3 C. Richardson,1 A. Waterman,3 M. Novak,1 I. Mucsi.1

    1University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Humber River Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

    Background:Living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) offers improved life expectancy and better quality of life compared to deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) or dialysis. African and…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Neighborhood Poverty and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Access to Live Donor Kidney Transplantation in the US.

    T. Purnell, X. Luo, D. Crews, S. Bae, L. Kucirka, L. Cooper, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

    Black transplant candidates have substantially lower rates of live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) than their White counterparts. We hypothesized that neighborhood poverty might play a…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Current Practice and Ethical Dimensions of Implementing APOL1 Testing into Living Donor Evaluation: A National Survey.

    E. Gordon,1 C. Wicklund,1 R. Sharp,2 J. Lee,1 C. Johnson,1 J. Friedewald.1

    1Northwestern University, Chicago; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester

    BackgroundAfrican American (AA) live kidney donors (LKDs) have an even greater risk of kidney failure than European American live donors. Apolipoprotein 1 (APOL1) gene variants…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Medical Mistrust, Perceived Racism, and Experiences of Medical Discrimination Among Transplant Patients.

    R. Hamoda, K. Lipford, L. McPherson, J. Gander, R. Patzer.

    Emory University, Atlanta, GA

    Background: Racial disparities in access to transplantation are well documented, but little is known about how transplant patients' distrust of the healthcare system, perceived medical…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Young African American Heart Transplant Recipients Have an Elevated Risk of Post-Transplant Mortality.

    H. Maredia, M. Bowring, A. Massie, S. Oyetunji, C. Merlo, R. Higgins, D. Segev, E. Bush.

    JHU, Baltimore

    African American (AA) race is associated with worse survival among heart transplant recipients. Even after controlling for socioeconomic and clinical characteristics, racial disparities persist and…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Protocol of the KTFT-TALK Study to Reduce Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplant Evaluation and Living Donor Kidney Transplantation.

    K. Bornemann,1 E. Croswell,1 M. Abaye,1 C. Bryce,1 J. Chang,1,2 D. Good,3 C. Freehling Heiles,3 M. Dew,1 L. Boulware,4 A. Tevar,1,3 L. Myaskovsky.1,2

    1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; 2VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh; 3University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh; 4Duke University School of Medicine, Durham

    Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the optimal treatment for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). But, the evaluation process for a kidney transplant is complex, time…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Time to Kidney Transplantation Following Live Donor Candidate Referral.

    K. Kumar, J. Tonascia, A. Muzaale, A. Poon, T. Purnell, J. Garonzik-Wang, E. King, M. Bowring, A. Massie, D. Segev.

    Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

    Kidney transplant candidates have utilized novel methods to identify and refer willing donors; however, delays or barriers to actually achieving live donor kidney transplantation are…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Differences in Racial and Sex Disparities in Liver Transplantation Outcomes Between Older and Younger Adult Recipients.

    Q. Huang, C. Haugen, X. Luo, A. Massie, M. McAdams-DeMarco, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

    Background: More older adults underwent liver transplantation (LT) in the past decade. While racial and sex disparities in LT outcomes have been reported in general,…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Living Kidney Donors: Battling High Attrition Rates During Evaluation Process.

    J. Verbesey, A. Bacigalupo, A. Gilbert, A. Li, C. Zuttermeister, M. Grafals, J. Moore, B. Javaid, P. Abrams, S. Ghasemian, M. Cooper.

    MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington DC

    With an ever increasing kidney waiting list, a major goal is to expand living donor transplantation (LD). LD increases volume and provides higher quality, longer…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Change in Mycophenolate and Tacrolimus Exposure by Transplant Vintage and Race.

    K. Soliman, A. Posadas Salas, D. Taber.

    Transplant, MUSC, Charleston, SC

    There is strong evidence that both tacrolimus (FK) and mycophenolate (MMF) have improved outcomes in kidney transplantation; yet, the impact of exposure of these immunosuppressants…
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