2021 American Transplant Congress
Depressive Symptoms and Listing for Kidney Transplantation
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Among patients with kidney failure, depressive symptoms are common and may be a barrier to completing the complex process of kidney transplantation (KT) evaluation…2021 American Transplant Congress
Implications of Trends in Child to Parent Kidney Donation in Whites and African Americans
Nephrology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Racial disparities in access to transplantation referral, wait listing and transplant receipt are well described. African Americans (AA) receive fewer living donor transplants than…2021 American Transplant Congress
Frailty and Short-Term Outcomes in Kidney Transplant
*Purpose: Studies suggest worse outcomes for frail solid organ transplant recipients. We analyzed post transplant outcomes in relation to frailty.*Methods: We conducted a retrospective study…2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor and Recipient Age Difference: Outcomes within the First Year of Orthotopic Heart Transplant
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, TX
*Purpose: In recent history, the number of patients listed as eligible to receive a heart transplant has increased by nearly 40%. However, not all hearts…2021 American Transplant Congress
Improving Eligibility of Renal Transplants in the Elderly
Abdominal Organ Transplant, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: In the recent past, older age was contraindication to kidney transplantation (KT). New kidney allocation schemes with use of longevity matching, initiation of frailty…2020 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics of Anonymous Living Donors and Their Recipients. Appropriate Use of a Rare and Valuable Gift
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Anonymous Living Donors are a special select set of donors. As there continues to be advances in Paired Donation, we review the trends and…2020 American Transplant Congress
Multi-National Survey among Nephrologists and Transplant Surgeons About the Suitability and Acceptance of the Marginal Live Kidney Donors Regarding Age Discrepancy
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplantation is the best option for patients on dialysis. There are no guidelines or generally accepted consensus about the acceptable kidney…2020 American Transplant Congress
Aging Aggravated Liver Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury by Promoting Sting-Mediated NLRP3 Activation in Macrophages
The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
*Purpose: Aggravated liver injury and enhanced intrahepatic inflammation was found in old livers post ischemia and reperfusion (IR). However, the function and underlying mechanism of…2020 American Transplant Congress
Age-Enhanced Transplant Vasculopathy Associates with Impaired Vascular Mitophagy
*Purpose: Donor aging leads to increased chronic allograft vasculopathy (CAV) for unclear reasons. Here, we investigated whether impaired alterations in mitophagy, a mechanism to remove…2020 American Transplant Congress
Frailty Predicts Increased Length of Stay after Kidney Transplantation: An Implementation Study
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Our objective was to implement a standardized an assessment of physical frailty and other aging-associated syndromes during routine evaluation of kidney transplant candidates over…
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