Articles tagged "Age factors"

2021 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Covid-19 on Offer Acceptance Rates by Age and Race Groups
A. Wey¹, J. Miller¹, Y. Ahn¹, D. Musgrove¹, A. Hart¹, N. Salkowski¹, M. Skeans¹, R. Hirose², A. Israni¹, J. Snyder¹, B. Kasiske¹
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Univ of San Fransico, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: COVID-19 causes more severe complications in older patients and disproportionately leads to poor outcomes in racial minorities. High offer acceptance rates indicate better access…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Pre-Procurement Donor Liver Biopsy in Donation-after-circulatory-Death Liver Transplantation
A. C. Bolognese¹, N. Neidlinger¹, C. Sparks², A. Schneider², A. M. D'Alessandro¹, D. P. Foley¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ²UW Organ and Tissue Donation, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Careful selection of suitable DCD donor livers is critical to obtain optimal transplant outcomes. In order to identify potentially suitable livers prior to DCD…
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
The Impact of Lack of Access to Simultaneous Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Due to Insurance Ineligibility – A Single Center Analysis
Y. A. Qazi, E. Villalon, D. Samson, W. Mon, M. Smogorzewski
Keck Medical Center at USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation(SPK) provides a survival and quality of life advantage in young, low BMI insulin dependent diabetics with End Stage Renal…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Depressive Symptoms and Listing for Kidney Transplantation
X. Chen, N. Chu, P. Sharma Basyal, W. Vihokrut, D. Crews, D. Brennan, S. Andrews, T. Vannorsdall, D. Segev, M. McAdams DeMarco
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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Serum αKlotho after Living Kidney Donation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
W. Cheungpasitporn¹, C. Thongprayoon², N. Leeaphorn³, M. A. Mao⁴, J. A. Neyra⁵
¹Nephrology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, ²Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Renal Transplant Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine/Saint Luke's Health System, Kansas City, MO, ⁴Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁵Nephrology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
*Purpose: αKlotho (klotho) is a known anti-aging protein that exerts diverse physiological effects. Defect in klotho gene expression in mice can result in a syndrome…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Older Livers Should Not Be Utilized in Pediatric Liver Transplantation
M. MacConmara, C. Feizpour, A. Aqul, D. Desai, P. Vagefi, S. Hanish, L. DeGregorio, C. S. Hwang
UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Organ scarcity in liver transplantation has required expansion of the acceptable criteria used for donor selection. The utilization of older donors (>60 years) has…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Infectious and Malignant Complications in Elderly Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving Alemtuzumab Compared to Basiliximab
K. Lang¹, J. Shulte¹, K. Cunningham¹, C. D'Agostino¹, M. Kapugi¹, C. Kane¹, A. Novak¹, J. Leventhal²
¹Department of Pharmacy, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, ²Division of Transplant Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The choice of induction immunosuppression can affect several outcomes after kidney transplant (KTx), especially for elderly recipients. For this population, there is limited data…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Patient and Kidney Allograft Outcomes in Septuagenarians – A Single Center Experience
G. Katz-Greenberg, A. Yadav, M. P. Martinez-Cantarin, P. Singh
Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Based on Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients reporting, the proportion of patients 65 years or older on the kidney transplant (KT) waiting list has…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Pancreas Transplant in Patients Older Than 50: An Analysis of Outcomes and Immunosuppression
I. Booth¹, J. Casale¹, S. Freedman¹, B. Ravichandran¹, J. Scalea², A. Haririan², B. Masters¹
¹Pharmacy, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, ²Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Pancreas transplant (PT) is the ideal therapy for many patients with diabetes and kidney failure. There are limited published data addressing the impact of…

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