Articles tagged "African-American"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Age and Racial Disparities in Access to Re-kidney Transplantation
S. S. Patole¹, J. Ahn¹, S. Sandal², D. Segev¹, M. McAdams Demarco³
¹Department of Transplantation Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Graft failure is likely increasing among kidney transplant (KT) recipients due to improvements in patient survival. While the benefits of re-KT have been well…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Healthcare Disparities Amongst Dialysis Patients in North Carolina: Decreased Access to Transplant in Lowest Health Rank Counties
D. Leto¹, W. Irish², C. Haisch², B. Tuttle², D. Leeser²
¹Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC, ²East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: This study measured healthcare disparities amongst the counties in North Carolina with the best compared with counties with the worst healthcare outcomes, specifically the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Confluence of Race, Socioeconomic Deprivation, and Waitlist Mortality for Children Awaiting Liver Transplant
S. Wadhwani¹, J. Ge¹, L. Gottlieb¹, C. Lyles¹, A. F. Beck², J. Bucuvalas³, U. Kotagal², J. C. Lai¹
¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ³Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: Social determinants like racism, ethnocentrism, and neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation are associated with poor outcomes for children after liver transplant. We studied the relationship between…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Creating a Culturally Sensitive Report Card for African American Kidney Transplant Candidates: Preliminary Results from Pilot Interviews and Focus Groups
W. T. McKinney¹, M. Bruin², B. Kasiske³, A. Matas⁴, A. K. Israni³
¹Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Racial disparities in kidney transplantation continue to negatively impact African American (AA) patients despite changes to deceased donor allocation practices. AA patients are overrepresented…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Black Patients with Cirrhosis Have Longer Length of Stay and Higher Mortality When Hospitalized
A. Thomas¹, D. Simpson², D. P. Ladner², R. Berkowitz²
¹ACS Clinical Scholar, Chicago, IL, ²Transplant Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Black patients with cirrhosis have been shown to have higher liver-related mortality compared to White patients. However, little knowledge exists about racial differences related…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Providing Equitable Access: Language and Literacy Levels of Kidney Transplant Center Websites
R. Olmeda Barrientos¹, C. E. Jacobson², V. S. Valbuena³, M. S. Anderson³, M. J. Englesbe³, S. A. Waits³, J. R. Santos-Parker²
¹University Of California – Riverside, School of Medicine, Riverside, CA, ²University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Health disparities exist for access to kidney transplantation. Accessibility of patient-facing transplant center resources can contribute to these disparities. Patients interact with transplant centers…
2020 American Transplant Congress
African American Patient Perceptions of Live Kidney Donation and Educational Health Animations
R. E. Seibert¹, M. Keller², B. Dolph³, T. H. Feeley⁴, L. K. Kayler³
¹Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ²Department of Community Health and Health Behavior, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ³Transplant and Kidney Care Regional Center of Excellence, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY, ⁴Department of Communication, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: Disparities in pursuit of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among African Americans remain challenging to overcome. Animation-based education is a promising approach to increasing…
2020 American Transplant Congress
De Novo Use of Envarsus (LCPT) in African American and Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients: An Early Single Center Experience
N. Wilson¹, R. Leek¹, R. Forbes², D. Shaffer², S. Rega³, I. Feurer³, B. Concepcion⁴, A. Langone⁴
¹Department of Pharmacy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ³Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁴Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Clinical trials with LCPT have shown a steadier and more consistent concentration time profile over 24 hours with increased bioavailability compared to twice daily…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Thymoglobulin for Induction Less is Clearly More!
N. Patel, P. Nicole
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*Purpose: The ideal total dose of anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) is unknown in the African American (AA) kidney transplant population.The purpose of this study was to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation in the United States
A. Zarrinpar, C. Warren, K. Andreoni, M. Johnson, N. Battula
Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: Despite research into the effects of race, ethnicity, and insurance status in liver transplantation, disparities persist. Access to care even in insured populations endures…

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