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Articles tagged "Elderly patients"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Survival Comparison of Waitlisted and Renal Transplanted Patients in the European Senior Programme

    M. G. Naik1, V. Greese1, K. U. Eckardt1, U. Frei1, P. Glander1, L. Liefeldt1, M. Pigorsch2, E. Schaeffner3, K. Budde1, F. Halleck1

    1Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Charité, Berlin, Germany, 2Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité, Berlin, Germany, 3Institute of Public Health, Charité, Berlin, Germany

    *Purpose: Patients >65years are eligible for kidney transplantation (KT) in the European Senior Program (ESP). We compare patient survival of waitlisted (WTL) and transplanted (Tx)…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    A Machine Learning Approach to Estimating Anticipated Waiting Time and Survival Benefit in Older Kidney Transplant Candidates

    D. M. Vock1, E. S. Helgeson2, A. J. Matas2

    1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2U MN, Mpls, MN

    *Purpose: Older kidney transplant (ktx) recipients face worse post-transplant survival due to increasing age and more comorbidities. Simultaneously, older ktx candidates are more likely to…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Functional Status Assessment in Kidney Transplant Candidates and Recipients: A Single-Center Experience

    M. Marshall, O. A. Moss, G. Friedman, O. A. Moss

    UC Davis Transplant Center, Sacramento, CA

    *Purpose: Functional status assessment (FSA) is important to kidney transplant (KT) candidacy evaluation; a low Fried Frailty score (FFS) is associated with poor waitlist and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes in Elderly Black Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving Basiliximab Induction and Early Steroid Withdrawal

    E. Garcia, T. Sparkes, A. Szczepanik, S. Bova, J. Bromberg, A. Haririan, J. Casale

    University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Black renal transplant recipients (RTR) carry a higher risk of rejection (BPAR) and graft loss due to immunologic and non-immunologic factors. Lymphocyte depleting induction…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Living Donor Liver Transplantation: A Better Option for Patients 70 Years or Older

    A. Ganoza, A. Duarte-Rojo, V. Gunabushanam, M. Molinari, S. Ganesh, D. Reddy, A. M. Thompson, A. Tevar, C. Hughes, A. Humar

    University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

    *Purpose: The burden of liver diseases in patients of advanced age has risen. Irrespective of its possible causes, older recipients have a higher waitlist mortality…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Bone Fractures Are Not Increased in Older Prior Living Kidney Donors

    H. Amer1, H. Maradit Kremers1, D. Larson1, I. Zaniletti1, W. K. Kremers1, A. Matas2, B. Kasiske3, S. Khosla1, R. Kumar1

    1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 3Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: Living kidney donors were shown to have derangements of bone biomarkers resembling those occurring in early chronic kidney disease within 36 months of donation.…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes Following Renal Transplant with Hepatitis C Viremic Donors in an Elderly Veteran Population with Preemptive Mayvret Therapy

    R. Lopez-Soler1, A. Thorndyke1, C. Trotter1, A. Abadier2, M. Samra1

    1Surgery, Transplantation, Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, IL, 2Surgery, Loyola University School of Medicine, Maywood, IL

    *Purpose: Overall mortality on the kidney transplant waiting list is higher for older diabetic patients. The average age of waitlisted veteran patients is 64, with…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Frailty Syndrome on Humoral Response to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccines in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients

    M. Schmalz1, H. Vankova2, S. Rajnochova-Bloudickova1, P. Hruba3, M. Fialova4, J. Gurka5, M. Magicova1, I. Striz4, I. Zahradka1, O. Viklicky1

    1Department of Nephrology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, 2The Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 3Transplantation Laboratory, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, 4Department of Immunology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, 5Department of Information Technology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

    *Purpose: Advanced age is associated with impaired humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in kidney transplant recipients (KTR), however mechanisms are poorly understood. Frailty…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    High KDPI Kidneys: Lifelong Freedom from Dialysis for Elderly Patients

    M. M. Romine1, W. Irish2, H. Jones3, A. Aaron2, D. Leeser4

    1Department of Surgery, Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 2Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 3Eastern Nephrology Associates, Greenville, NC, 4East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

    *Purpose: According to national data, there is an increase in kidney transplants in patients over 65, corresponding to an overall general increase. Elderly patients continue…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients 70 Years and Older

    J. Mehta, N. F. Okonkwo, A. Paramesh, K. Atiemo, M. Killackey, H. Jeon, A. Vijay

    Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA

    *Purpose: Patients older than 70 years are the fastest-growing age group of patients requiring renal replacement therapy. This has resulted in a corresponding increase in…
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