Articles tagged "African-American"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Virtual XM Adversely Affects Access for Highly Sensitized African Americans Awaiting Renal Transplantation
P. T. Jindra¹, B. V. Murthy¹, C. Van Buren²
¹Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Surgery, UT Medical School, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Recent UNOS policy proposals have changed kidney allocation from local Designated Service Areas (DSA) to geographic distribution areas of varying widths. Since crossmatch of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Barriers to Organ Transplantation among Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Groups
M. Parra
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To understand how known patient, provider, and system-level barriers to organ transplantation differ by race and ethnicity.*Methods: We searched Pubmed and Scopus for articles…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Physician Survey on Using APOL1 Genetic Testing in Live Kidney Donor Selection
M. Doshi¹, E. Gordon², B. Freedman³, C. Thomas⁴, C. Glover⁵, J. Locke⁶
¹Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁴Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁵N/A, Miami, FL, ⁶Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Live kidney donors of recent African ancestry are at an increased risk of developing end stage kidney disease than matched healthy non-donors. A recent…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Value of dd-cfDNA When Considering Recipient Ethnicity to Further to Help Risk Stratify Transplant Recipients
A. Langone¹, B. Fischbach², D. Cohen³
¹Vanderbilt Health, Nashville, TN, ²Baylor Scott & White Health, Fort Worth, TX, ³Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Within the modern era of kidney transplantation, African American (AA) transplant recipients continue to experience disproportionately higher rates of allograft loss. A combination of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improvement in Long Term Kidney Transplant Survival Most Dramatic among Minorities, Diabetics and Older Patients
E. D. Poggio¹, S. Arrigain², A. Wee³, D. C. Brennan⁴, J. D. Schold²
¹Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Nephrology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Short-term and long-term kidney transplant graft survival has been improving over time, but whether this improvement in outcomes is more pronounced in the early…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparing Early Kidney after Liver Transplant (KALT) and Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant (SLK): Evaluating Racial Disparities. Will Everyone Have the Same “Safety Net”?
C. Jay¹, R. Stratta¹, W. Washburn², J. Rogers¹, S. Rudnick¹, A. Reeves-Daniel¹, J. Heimbach³
¹Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC, ²The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ³Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, MN
*Purpose: In 2017, UNOS implemented simultaneous liver-kidney transplant (SLK) guidelines that included medical eligibility criteria and a “safety net” providing prioritization on the kidney transplant…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation in Caucasian versus African American Patients: Does Recipient Ethnicity Influence Outcomes?
J. Rogers¹, A. Farney¹, G. Orlando¹, C. Jay¹, V. Gurram¹, K. Gurung¹, A. Reeves-Daniel², A. Mena-Gutierrez², N. Sakhovskaya², M. Gautreaux¹, R. Stratta¹
¹Department of Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: The influence of African American (AA) recipient ethnicity on outcomes following simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPKT) in the modern era is uncertain.*Methods: From 11/01 to…
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Induction Therapy with Basiliximab versus Thymoglobulin in African-American Kidney Transplant Recipients in the Current Era of Immunosuppression
M. Zachariah¹, I. Mallawaarachchi², N. Meeks³, D. Wright¹, R. Minawala¹, V. Liu¹, J. Rolls⁴, S. Hussein⁴, C. Jarrin⁵
¹Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, ²Division of Biostatistics, University of Virginia, Charlottsville, VA, ³Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, ⁴Surgery, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, ⁵Infectious Disease, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: It is now common practice in the transplant community to select induction therapy on the basis of perceived immunological risk for acute rejection which…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Black Patients with Cirrhosis Have Worse Liver-Related Outcomes: A Large Multicenter Study
N. R. Mazumder¹, K. Atiemo², K. Jackson³, A. Daud⁴, A. Kho³, L. G. Gabra⁵, J. Levitsky¹, D. P. Ladner⁴
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Surgery, Tulane Abdominal Transplant Institute, New Orleans, LA, ³Center for Health Information Partnerships, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁵Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Racial disparity is influential in liver cirrhosis. Estimates of its magnitude have been limited by lack of large, longitudinal data that track patients from…
2020 American Transplant Congress
ESRD Risk Prediction for Black vs. White Related Living Kidney Donors
J. Wainright¹, A. Robinson¹, A. Wilk¹, D. Klassen², W. Cherikh¹, L. Cartwright¹, D. Stewart¹
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: We studied 25-year risk of post-donation ESRD in black (n=10,214) and white (n=45,700) first-degree related living kidney donors (RLKDs) who donated in the US…

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