Articles tagged "Glomerular filtration rate (GFR)"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Bortezomib in Addition to Rituximab Based Treatment of Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation
A. Mattiazzi,^1,2 J. Pagan,^1,2 A. Arunachalam,¹ I. De la Cruz Alcantara,¹ J. Revollo,² A. Centeno,² A. Valdes,^1,2 G. Guerra.^1,2
¹Nephrology & Hypertension, University of Miami, Miami, FL; ²Miami Transplant Institute, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL.
Purpose:The optimal treatment strategy of acute antibody mediated rejection (AMR) in renal allograft recipients remains undefined. The aim of our study was to compare the…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Living-Donor Preemptive Kidney Transplant Timing Calculator: An Online Decision Support Tool
M. Barah,¹ M. Kurt,² A. Khojandi,¹ B. Tanriover.³
¹Industrial and Systems Engineering, Univeristy of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; ²Economic and Data Sciences, Merck Research Labs, North Wales, PA; ³Division of Nephrology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Purpose: Optimal glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and timing for living preemptive kidney transplantation (PKT) is not well studied.Method: We developed an online engine to calculate…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Postoperative Serum Chloride Changes on Graft Function and Acute Rejection in Recipients of Living Kidney Transplants
V. Vakil, D. Keys, M. Junghare, S. Jackson, D. Berglund, A. Matas, S. Riad.
U of MN, Minneapolis.
Background: In the non-transplant setting, hyperchloremia has been associated with kidney injury. We sought to study the impact of serum chloride (SCl) on transplant outcomes.Methods:…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Quantification of the Indirect Effect of Recipient Characteristics on Kidney Graft Function
S. Rao,¹ A. Gillespie,¹ J. Lee,¹ K. Lau,² S. Karhadkar,² A. Di Carlo,² S. Constantinescu.¹
¹Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; ²Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
Recipient characteristics play an important role for donor selection in deceased donor kidney transplant recipients (DDKT). The current kidney allocation system (KAS) for deceased donors…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Exploring the Impact of Recipient Age with Kidney Donor Risk Index and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate at One Year Following Kidney Transplant
S. Chan,^1,2,3 M. Chatfield,⁴ K. Baboolal.^2,3
¹Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; ²Kidney Health Service, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ³Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ⁴Statistics Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Background: Various kidney donor risk indexes (KDRI) have been developed to predict graft survival with various combinations of donor and recipient characteristics. The aim of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Marginal Factors on Postoperative Kidney Function of Complex Living Donors for Kidney Transplantation
T. Hiramitsu, K. Futamura, M. Okada, M. Tsujita, T. Ichimori, N. Goto, S. Narumi, Y. Watarai.
Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
BackgroundRecently, complex living donors with marginal factors including hypertension, dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance, and obesity are increasing. Postoperative kidney function of living donors for kidney transplantation…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Follow-Up Care of Living Kidney Donors
N. Lam,¹ K. Lentine,² B. Hemmelgarn,³ S. Klarenbach,¹ R. Quinn,³ A. Lloyd,¹ S. Gourishankar,¹ A. Garg.⁴
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; ³University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ⁴Western University, London, ON, Canada.
The 2017 KDIGO guidelines recommend that living kidney donors receive lifelong annual follow-up care to assess renal health, including serum creatinine measurements with glomerular filtration…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Renal Function in Living Kidney Donors with Renal Cysts
M. Waldram, A. Thomas, A. Muzaale, C. Holscher, A. Nguyen, S. Halpern, S. Anjum, J. Alejo, B. Boyarsky, S. Ottman, J. Garonzik-Wang, D. Segev, A. Massie.
JHU, Baltimore.
Renal cysts found during the evaluation of living kidney donor (LKD) candidates are often regarded as benign. However, it is possible that these structural abnormalities…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Equivalent Post-Donation eGFR after Robotic Assisted versus Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy
R. Cross, H. Pollinger, M. Tan, M. Mulloy, T. Ommert, A. Ray, C. Klein.
Piedmont Transplant Institute, Atlanta, GA.
Robotic assisted donor nephrectomy (RADN) has gained popularity in recent years as a minimally invasive alternative to traditional laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN). RADN offers advantages…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Shared Genetic Ancestry as a Predictor of Medium Term Renal Transplant Outcome in Deceased Donor Transplants
C. Stapleton,¹ On behalf of the UK and Ireland Renal Transplant Consortium, P. Conlon,² G. Cavalleri.¹
¹Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; ²Department of Nephrology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Sibling transplant pairs have better transplant outcomes than unrelated donor recipient (DR) pairs indicating that shared genetic ancestry between donors and recipients can aid in…