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Articles tagged "Age factors"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Donor and Recipient Age Matching for Kidney Transplantation: A Machine Learning Approach

    J. Kim, J. Ahn, A. Massie, D. Segev, S. Bae

    Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Under the concept of ‘longevity matching,’ the Kidney Allocation System favors matching younger deceased donors with younger kidney transplant (KT) candidates. However, it remains…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Gender Disparities in Kidney Transplantation Referral Vary by Age and Race in the Southeast US

    L. Smothers1, R. Patzer1, S. Pastan1, D. DuBay2, J. Harding1

    1Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

    *Purpose: Men (vs. women) are more likely to be waitlisted or receive a kidney transplant. Whether gender disparities exist in earlier transplant steps (i.e., referral)…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Use of Frailty Assessment to Determine Fitness for Renal Transplant in a Veteran Dialysis Patient Population

    M. Samra1, A. Wadhwa1, T. Markossian2, R. Lopez-Soler3

    1Medicine, Edward Hine Jr., VA Medical Center, Hines, IL, 2Edward Hine Jr., VA Medical Center, Hines, IL, 3Surgery, Edward Hines VA Jr.,VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Frailty is a medical syndrome characterized by reduced physiologic function and strength. It is associated with an increased risk of mortality, hospital readmission and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Donor-Recipient Age Discrepancy in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation – The Need for Better Matching

    N. K. Prabhu1, V. Villani1, K. P. Samy1, D. Sudan1, K. Ravindra1, W. Irish2

    1Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 2Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

    *Purpose: The Kidney Allocation System (KAS) was implemented in 2014 to address donor-recipient matching in deceased donor kidney transplantation, with the goal of maximizing life-years…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Gender Imbalance in Kidney Transplantation in Japan

    Y. Nakagawa1, M. Mieno2, H. Date3, H. Sasaki3, Y. Takada4, T. Ito3, Y. Tanaka3, S. Horie4, D. Ogasa4

    1Department of Urology, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan, 3The Japan Society for Transplantation Gender Equality Committee, Tokyo, Japan, 4Department of Urology,, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

    *Purpose: Japan has a chronic shortage of donors. Therefore, kidney transplantation between elderly couples has increased. We examined how differences in gender and donor age…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Differential Impact of Subclinical Kidney Transplant Rejection in Young Adults

    S. Raza1, G. Agarwal1, H. Fatima1, R. Gaston1, V. Hauptfeld-Dolesjek1, B. Julian1, C. Kew1, V. Kumar1, S. Mehta1, S. Ong1, F. Rosenblum1, G. Towns1, R. Mannon2, M. Seifert1

    1School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2College of Medicine, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE

    *Purpose: Serum creatinine, while an insensitive biomarker of allograft injury, is the current standard for assessing the stability of allograft function and guiding kidney transplant…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Physiological Age by Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Electrograms as a Novel Biomarker of Mortality in Kidney Transplant Candidates

    E. Lorenz, I. Zaniletti, B. Johnson, T. Petterson, W. Kremers, C. Schinstock, H. Amer, A. Cheville, N. LeBrasseur, A. Baez-Suarez, Z. Attia, F. Lopez-Jimenez, P. Friedman, C. Kennedy, A. Rule

    Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    *Purpose: Assessing mortality risk prior to kidney transplantation is challenging. Age-Gap, which is the difference between physiological age determined by artificial intelligence-enhanced electrocardiograms (ECG) and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Re-Kidney Transplantation in Patients with Graft Failure: Survival Benefit by Age

    J. Ahn1, S. Sandal2, A. Massie1, D. Segev1, M. Cantarovich2, M. McAdams-DeMarco1

    1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    *Purpose: As the rates of kidney transplantation (KT) have doubled over the past three decades, so has the proportion of patients who experience graft failure…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Prescription Opioid Use May be More Detrimental to Younger Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Machine Learning Approach

    J. Kim1, S. Bae1, J. Ahn1, K. Lentine2, D. Segev1, M. McAdams-DeMarco1

    1Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO

    *Purpose: Prescription opioid use requires special attention in kidney transplant (KT) recipients considering that it increases the risk of death and graft loss. However, the…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Does Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Impact Risk Assessment for Potential Kidney Transplant Patients?

    J. Patel1, S. Hussain2, D. Mills1, A. Edobor3, E. Walters3, J. Williams3, Y. Kyeso2, J. F. Fung3, R. Barth3, D. Rubin4, M. Huisingh-Scheetz2, M. Martinchek5, M. L. Madariaga3

    1Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, 3Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, 4Anesthesia, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, 5Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: The clinical impact of the components of a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) on kidney transplant decision making in older adults has not been investigated.*Methods:…
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