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Articles tagged "African-American"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    African Americans and Organ Donation: Where Do We Go After Moving from the Bottom to the Top?

    C. Callender,1 N. Koizumi,2 P. Miles,3 J. Melancon.3

    1Department of Surgery, Howard University, Washington, DC; 2School of Policy, Government and Intl Affairs, George Mason University, Arlington, VA; 3Transplant Institute, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC.

    PURPOSEThe purpose is to increase organ donation in all ethnic groupsMETHODSThe methodology was based upon the D.C. Organ Donor Program (1982-88) and the Dow Take…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    P-Glycoprotein Function: Association with Race, Gender and Tacrolimus Pharmacokinetics.

    K. Tornatore,1,4 H. Minderman,2 K. Attwood,3 K. O'Loughlin,2 R. Venuto.4

    1Translational Pharmacology Research, School of Pharmacy, Buffalo; 2Flow Cytometry Laboratory, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo; 3Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Buffalo; 4Medicine, School of Medicine;UB, Buffalo.

    Background: Long term allograft survival remains poorer in African American(AA) renal transplant recipients(RTR) compared to Caucasians(C) and may be due to racial differences in calcineurin…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    African Americans Have Greater Odds of Late Stage Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Mississippi.

    M. Aru, S. Seals, B. Ingram, A. Seawright, C. Anderson, T. Earl.

    Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS.

    Introduction: Centers for Disease Control Cancer Data show that death rates from HCC exceed expectations from incident rates in Mississippi, therefore we hypothesized that socioeconomic…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    African-American Primary Renal Transplant Recipients Are at a Significantly Higher Risk to Develop De Novo DSA.

    M. Everly,1 L. Rebellato,2 C. Haisch,2 K. Briley,2 P. Bolin,2 S. Kendrick,3 C. Morgan,2 A. Maldonado,4 A. Nguyen,1 P. Terasaki.1

    1Terasaki Foundation Laboratory, Los Angeles; 2East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; 3Eastern Nephrology Associates, Greenville, NC; 4Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC.

    Recent studies have shown multiple risk factors for de novo DSA (dnDSA) development. One controversial risk factor is race. Studying a primarily African-American (AA) transplant…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Racial Disparities in Cognitive and Social Requirements Prior to Listing for Liver Transplant.

    M. Jesse, E. Goldstein, T. Macaulay, N. Rebhan, C.-X. Ho, M. Bebanic, L. Shkokani, M. Abouljoud, A. Eshelman, A. Yoshida.

    Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.

    Guidelines for liver transplant candidates outline increased engagement of social supports in the context of patient cognitive impairments. However, there is little direction when limitations…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Racial Disparities in Perioperative Complications After Live Kidney Donation.

    K. Lentine,1 N. Lam,2 D. Axelrod,3 M. Schnitzler,1 A. Garg,4 J. Schold,5 D. Brennan,6 H. Randall,1 D. Segev.7

    1Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis; 2Univ Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 3Dartmouth, Hanover; 4Western Univ, London; 5Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; 6Washington Univ, St. Louis; 7Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.

    Background: The frequency and severity of perioperative complications after contemporary live kidney donation are not well-described.Methods: We integrated national U.S. live donor registry data with…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Attitudes Toward Living Kidney Transplantation Among Potential Transplant Candidates.

    K. Yu,1 S. Kulkarni,1 J. Gannon,1 P. Reese,2 E. Gordon,3 C. Thiessen.1

    1Yale U, New Haven; 2U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 3Northwestern U, Chicago.

    Background: Prior studies have shown that transplant candidates who are minorities and less educated are less willing to talk to others about living kidney donor…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Twenty Years of Evolving Trends in Racial Disparities for Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients.

    D. Taber, M. Gebregziabher, K. Chavin, T. Srinivas, P. Baliga, L. Egede.

    Med Univ of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

    Objective: To determine if baseline risks and post-transplant outcome disparities in African American (AA) kidney transplant recipients have evolved over time.Methods: Analysis of 20-years of…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Non-Adherence on Disparities in African-American Kidney Transplant Recipients.

    D. Taber, A. Chokkalingam, A. Posadas, R. Browning, N. Salazar, M. Kamel, R. Pullalarevu, B. Kadri, T. Srinivas, K. Chavin, P. Baliga.

    MUSC, Charleston, SC.

    Background: Non-adherence is considered to a be a strong risk factor for graft loss in kidney transplant recipients, with conflicting evidence of its impact on…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Racial Disparities in the Evaluation for Liver Transplantation.

    M. Jesse, E. Goldstein, N. Rebhan, C.-X. Ho, T. Macaulay, M. Bebanic, L. Shkokani, D. Moonka, M. Abouljoud, A. Yoshida.

    Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.

    The majority of research on disparities in liver transplantation is on patients listed for transplant in the OPTN/UNOS database, not patients in the evaluation process…
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