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Articles tagged "African-American"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of Tacrolimus Dose Requirement in Liver Transplant Recipients from African American Donors Compared to Non-African American Donors

    K. Guilbert, I. Plasari, S. Wiehe, F. Gordon

    Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA

    *Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a difference in tacrolimus total daily dose (TDD) exists between those receiving a liver transplant…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Inequitable Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Black and Asian Minority Ethnic Groups in the UK: A Single Centre Cross-Sectional Cohort Study

    A. Cronin, K. Sran, R. Gokmen, A. Copley, L. Silas, R. Zakri

    Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities constitute 11% of the UK population, yet represent 31% of the national kidney transplant waiting list. Moreover,…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Anticipated Observations: The Role of DQ Antigen Frequencies among Donors and Recipients in a Pediatric Renal Transplant Cohort

    S. Gattis1, R. George2, R. Liverman3, A. Serluco3, R. Garro2, J. Figueroa2, R. A. Bray2, H. M. Gebel2, H. C. Sullivan2

    1Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, GA, 2Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 3Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

    *Purpose: Donor specific HLA antibodies (DSA) that develop in the face of donor-recipient HLA mismatches are well-established independent predictors of graft loss in solid organ…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Decision Support Needs for African American Kidney Transplant Candidates and Social Support Networks

    W. T. McKinney1, A. Hart1, S. Kurschner2, M. Bruin3, J. Zulema-Woodward4, M. Partin2, R. Patzer5

    1Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 2Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, 3College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 4Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 5Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

    *Purpose: Decision support tools to improve racial disparities in access to kidney transplant need to be relevant and tailored to underserved racial groups.*Methods: We conducted…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Improving Access to Transplantation and Outcomes for African American Patients

    D. Bekbolsynov, O. Ekwenna, B. Mierzejewska, J. Borucka, S. A. Khuder, M. Rees, R. Green, S. Stepkowski

    University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

    *Purpose: Black or African American patients are clearly disadvantaged in comparison to Caucasian patients both in terms of the access to kidney transplantation and post-transplant…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    HLA-DQ Plays an Important Role in Graft Survival in African American Transplant Recipients

    L. M. Rebellato1, W. Irish2, D. Leeser2, J. Tuttle2, C. E. Haisch2

    1Pathology, The Brody School of Medicine at ECU, Greenville, NC, 2Surgery, The Brody School of Medicine at ECU, Greenville, NC

    *Purpose: Our kidney transplant (KTx) program serves a medically underserved and racially diverse area of a southern state. The purpose of this study was to…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    The Effect of African American Race on Morbidity for Donors Undergoing Living Kidney Donation: A Single Center Study

    D. R. White, F. Desrosiers, S. Sultan, R. Craig-Schapiro, J. del Pizzo, S. Kapur, A. Watkins

    Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

    *Purpose: To assess perioperative complication rates in African-Americans (AA) undergoing living donor nephrectomy in a large, single center program in the northeast.*Methods: We performed a…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Outcome Disparities of Primary Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients by Payor, Ethnicity and Gender in the United States

    S. M. Riad1, S. Jackson2, A. Matas3, S. Chinnakotla3, P. Verghese4

    1Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, 3Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 4Pediatric, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: Racial disparity outcome in pediatric kidney recipients has been reported. We sought to assess other predictors of outcomes disparities.*Methods: Using the SRTR database, between…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Donor Race on Tacrolimus Dose Requirement for Liver Transplant Recipients

    N. Nesselhauf1, S. January1, J. Hagopian1, K. Progar1, A. Khan2

    1Pharmacy, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 2Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

    *Purpose: It is well described that there is interpatient variability in tacrolimus dose requirements among transplant recipients. CYP3A5 plays a role in this variability. Black…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    American Muslims & Informed Organ Donation Decisions: Findings from a Randomized, Controlled Trial of Religiously-Tailored Education in Mosques

    A. I. Padela1, R. Duivenbode2, M. Quinn1, M. Craig3, M. Saunders1

    1Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Initiative on Islam and Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 3The National Kidney Foundation Illinois, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: American Muslims hold more negative attitudes towards organ donation than other American populations, and these attitudes are associated with gaps in biomedical and religious…
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