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Articles tagged "African-American"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Novel Coronavirus 2019 in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Yet Again, Race and Payor Status Matters

    C. Huang1, M. Hemmersbach-Miller1, M. Goss2, N. Moreno3, A. Rana1, J. Goss1, N. Galvan1

    1General Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2General Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 3General Surgery, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: By the early spring of 2020, the United States has become the global epicenter of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Little is known if…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Genetic versus Self-reported African Ancestry and Kidney Allograft Outcome: Analysis of Two Large Multiethnic Urban Transplant Cohorts

    F. Zanoni1, D. Neugut1, S. Mohan1, A. Gharavi1, B. Keating2, K. Kiryluk1

    1Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: African-American (AA) kidney transplant recipients (KTx) have higher risk of rejection and failure. However, it is unknown to what extent the inferior outcomes in…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplant Outcomes in HIV+ Recipients: A Single-Center Study

    M. Samra1, A. Hall2, I. Tang2

    1Medicine, Edward Hines VA, Hines, IL, 2Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: HIV+ patients are eligible to recieve a kidney transplant (KT) provided they meet criteria of undetectable viral load (VL) and CD4 count >200. We…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Black Disparity in Access to Kidney Transplant Waitlist Worsens in Illinois After New Kidney Allocation System (kas)

    S. Park1, D. Simpson1, N. Katariya2, J. Friedewald3, B. Ho3, D. P. Ladner1

    1Transplant Outcomes Research Collaborative, Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2Division of Transplant Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 3Transplant Nephrology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: We hypothesized racial/ethnic disparities to access the kidney transplant (KT) waitlist (WL) remain after the implementation of the new kidney allocation system (KAS) at…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Attitudes Towards Covid-19 Vaccination in an Inner-city Population of Kidney Transplant Patients (Ktx)

    P. Kerner, A. Imas, G. Udod, L. Gruffi, M. Goldberg, A. Saleh, K. Cruickshank, M. Markell

    SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY

    *Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients are at high risk for complications from COVID-19 infection and prevention is important. We studied attitudes toward vaccines including willingness to…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Covid-19-related Knowledge, Health Behaviors and Attitudes Towards Telemedicine and Emergency Visits in a Population of Kidney Transplant (KTx) Recipients

    A. Lin, M. Saw-Aung, W. Yang, G. Udod, A. Imas, M. Markell

    SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY

    *Purpose: We explored knowledge about COVID-19 and attitudes towards emergency care and telemedicine visits in a population of inner-city KTx pts.*Methods: A telephone survey was…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Characterizing Kidney Transplant Recipients with SARS-CoV-2: An Academic Single Center Experience

    S. Nahi, A. Shetty, S. Tanna, J. Leventhal

    Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Kidney transplant (KTx) recipients are a unique cohort in regard to SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and clinical course, owing to their immunosuppressed state and propensity for…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Rabbit Anti-thymocyte Globulin Induction Dosing Strategies in a High-risk Kidney Transplant Population

    C. Nguyen, R. Yau, C. Tunwar

    Pharmacy, CHI Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: The objective of this retrospective observational study is to compare the safety and efficacy of two dosing strategies, rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG) at a…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Do Pretransplant C-peptide Levels Influence Outcomes in Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation? A Matched Case-Control Study

    K. B. Gurung, V. Gurram, J. Rogers, A. C. Farney, G. Orlando, C. L. Jay, A. Reeves-Daniel, A. Mena-Gutierrez, N. Sakhovskaya, W. Doares, S. Kaczmorski, M. D. Gautreaux, R. J. Stratta

    Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

    *Purpose: Experience with simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant (SPKT) in uremic patients (pts) with detectable pretransplant C-peptide (Cp) levels and a “type 2” diabetes mellitus (DM) phenotype…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplant Outcomes Stratified by Race with a Calcineurin and Steroid Free Regimen

    R. E. Scalzo, M. T. Harris, J. D. Morris, J. S. Byrns

    Pharmacy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

    *Purpose: This study aimed to describe the outcomes, stratified by race, associated with belatacept and sirolimus immunosuppression after alemtuzumab induction.*Methods: This was a retrospective, single-center…
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