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Articles tagged "African-American"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Psychiatric Characteristics of Acute Liver Failure Patients: Acetaminophen Overdose versus Other Etiologies.

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

    Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit.

    Scant research exists on the psychiatric history of patients with acute liver failure (ALF) presenting for liver transplantation. This study compared psychiatric profiles of patients…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Predicting Survival to Listing for Liver Transplantation: Do MELD and Race Interact?

    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.

    Minimal research has been focused on the evaluation process for liver transplant listing. The purpose of this study was to examine whether evaluation MELD score…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Survival Benefit of Kidney Transplantation in US Adults with Sickle Cell Nephropathy.

    T. Purnell, X. Luo, S. Bae, A. Massie, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.

    End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients with sickle cell nephropathy (SCN) are less likely to receive a kidney transplant (KT) than ESRD patients without SCN. Comparing…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Geographic Differences in Racial Disparity Reduction in Kidney Transplant Rates Before and After the New Kidney Allocation System.

    R. Patzer,1 T. Melanson,1 M. Basu,1 L. Plantinga,1 L. McPherson,1 S. Mohan,2 J. Gander,1 D. Howard,1 S. Pastan.1

    1Emory University, Atlanta; 2Columbia University, New York.

    Background: Prior to the new kidney allocation system (KAS) implemented 12/4/2014, significant African American (AA) vs. white racial disparities existed in access to kidney transplantation…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Implicit Bias in Dialysis Providers' Transplant Education Practices for Low-Income and Racial/Ethnic Minority Patients.

    C. Gonzalez,1,2 A.-M. McSorley,1 J. Peipert,1 K. Norris,1 C. Goalby,1 L. Peace,3 P. Lutz,3 A. Waterman.1

    1University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 2Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA; 3University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO.

    Low-income or racial/ethnic minority dialysis patients (low-income/minority) are less likely to receive transplant education and, ultimately, kidney transplant. We conducted a mixed-methods study with 4…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Subtype-Compatible (A2/A2B–>B) Transplantation Under KAS Increases Access 3-Fold for Blood Type B Patients, yet Very Few Candidates Are Listed as Eligible.

    D. Stewart,1 W. Cherikh,1 A. Kucheryavaya,1 C. Bryan,2 N. Turgeon,3 M. Aeder.4

    1UNOS, Richmond, VA; 2Midwest Transplant Network, Westwood, KS; 3Emory, Atlanta, GA; 4Univ Hosp Case Med Ctr, Cleveland, OH.

    Background: Prior to the new kidney allocation system (KAS; 12/4/14), 8 OPOs participated in a voluntary policy variance permitting allocation of kidneys from subtype “A2”…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of an Early Steroid Withdrawal Maintenance Regimen in African American Renal Transplant Recipients.

    S. Gabardi, M. Kim, R. Alsheikh, K. Townsend, A. Chandraker.

    Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

    Introduction: Outcomes in African American (AA) transplant recipients are inferior to other ethnic groups. This population also has an accelerated decline in graft function after…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Efficacy, Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Once-Daily, MeltDose® Tacrolimus (Envarsus® XR) Versus Twice-Daily Tacrolimus (Prograf®) in De Novo Kidney Transplant Recipient Sub-Groups: A 2 Year Phase 3 Randomized, Double-Blind, Double-Dummy, Trial

    S. Bunnapradist,1 J. Denny,2 M. Waybill,3 P. West-Thielke,4 S. Steinberg.5

    1David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles; 2Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit; 3Central Pennsylvania Transplant Foundation, Harrisburg; 4University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago; 5California Institute of Renal Research, San Diego.

    Differences in tacrolimus (tac) metabolism are evident in certain populations; in particular, lower tac bioavailability has been shown in females and black kidney transplant recipients…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Correlates and Consequences of Gout Among Living Kidney Donors

    N. Lam,1 A. Garg,1 D. Segev,2 M. Schnitzler,3 H. Xiao,3 D. Axelrod,4 J. Tuttle-Newhall,3 D. Brennan,5 B. Kasiske,6 K. Lentine.3

    1Western Uni., London, Canada; 2John Hopkins Uni., Baltimore; 3Saint Louis Uni., St. Louis; 4Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover; 5Washington Uni., St. Louis; 6Uni. of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

    Background: Currently, the demographic correlates and consequences of gout in living kidney donors are understudied.Methods: We examined a novel database that linked national U.S. identifiers…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Identification of Genetic Variants Associated With Variation of Tacrolimus Levels in African Americans Using GWAS

    W. Oetting,1 D. Schladt,2 W. Guan,1 A. Israni,2 R. Remmel,1 C. Dorr,2 K. Sanghavi,1 R. Mannon,3 B. Herrera,4 A. Matas,1 D. Salomon,5 P. Kwok,4 P. Jacobson,1 for DeKAF Genomics.1

    1Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis; 2Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis; 3Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham; 4Univ. of California, San Francisco; 5Scripps Research Center, La Jolla.

    African American kidney transplant recipients (AA) have a higher incidence of allograft failure when compared to Caucasians. We have previously reported that tacrolimus troughs (TT)…
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