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Articles tagged "African-American"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Age and Gender Disparities in Post-Lung Transplant Mortality.

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

    JHU, Baltimore

    Gender, race, and age have been associated with health disparities, including in post-transplant outcomes. Given disparities in post-lung transplant outcomes are not well-understood, we assess…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Online Patient Resources for Deceased Donor and Live Donor Kidney Recipients: A Comparative Analysis of Readability.

    E. Zhou, E. Kiwanuka, W. Cioffi, P. Morrissey.

    Department of General Surgery and Division of Organ Transplantation, Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI

    BackgroundThe Internet has extensive online resources for kidney transplantation recipients. However, it is unclear if these materials are comprehensible for kidney transplant patients. Nearly, one-half…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Patient-Reported Barriers to the Pre-Kidney Transplant Evaluation in an At-Risk Population in the United States.

    M. Lockwood,1 W. Chon,2 M. Josephson,2 Y. Becker,2 M. Saunders.2

    1College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL

    Background: Despite our knowledge of barriers to the early stages of the transplant process, we have limited insight into patient reported barriers to the pre-kidney…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Non-Medical Factors Contributing to Racial Disparity in Kidney Transplant Wait-Listing.

    Y.-H. Ng,1 S. Pankratz,1 K. Bornemann,2 E. Croswell,2 J. Pleis,2 R. Shapiro,3 M. Unruh,1 L. Myaskovsky.2

    1Medicine, Nephrology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; 2Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; 3Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

    Background: African American (AA) and other minorities (OM) are known to have disproportionately higher incidence of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) but lower rates of kidney…
  • 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…
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