Articles tagged "African-American"

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)…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Campath Induction With Triple Maintenance Therapy in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients: Less Infections But Worse Graft Survival
M. Gillespie, F. Rasetto, B. Masters, T. Sparkes, B. Ravichandran, M. Moss, A. Haririan.
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.
Introduction:African American (AA) kidney transplant recipients (KTR) are at a higher risk for worse clinical outcomes vs non-AA. Strategies to improve outcomes in AA KTR…