Articles tagged "Graft failure"

2021 American Transplant Congress
The Initial Impact of Covid-19 on Reported Graft Failure Rates and Potential Confounding of Srtr Psrs
A. Wey¹, J. Miller¹, D. Musgrove¹, Y. Ahn¹, M. Valapour², N. Salkowski¹, M. Skeans¹, A. Massie³, R. Hirose⁴, D. Segev³, A. Israni¹, J. Snyder¹, B. Kasiske¹
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: COVID-19 could bias the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) program-specific reports (PSRs), especially if its impact varied geographically.*Methods: Recipients who received transplants from…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Patients’ Perceptions of Kidney Transplant Failure and Transitioning to Dialysis
E. Ramos¹, C. Gu², C. Hanson², K. Abdel-Kader³, K. Bonnet², D. Schlundt², E. Gordon⁴, B. P. Concepcion³
¹Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ²Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁴Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Approximately 5,000 US kidney transplant recipients return to dialysis each year due to allograft failure. Understanding how kidney allograft failure and transitioning to chronic…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Biopsy Findings After Covid-19
E. Daniel¹, S. Kudose², D. J. Cohen¹, L. Ratner³, V. D'Agati², I. Batal²
¹Division of Nephrology, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, NY, ²Department of Pathology, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, NY, ³Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, NY
*Purpose: COVID-19 has been reported as a cause of kidney injury and data from published native kidney biopsy results demonstrate a variety of causes. To…
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Intrarenal B-cell Activating Factor (BAFF) Levels are Increased in Transplant Glomerulopathy
S. Panzer, K. Swanson, G. Pandya, L. Hidalgo, S. Reese
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Transplant glomerulopathy (TG), a key feature of chronic active antibody-mediated rejection (caABMR), is associated with allograft failure. B-cell activating factor (BAFF) is a cytokine…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Association of Delayed Graft Function with Mortality Post-kidney Transplantation
N. Eguchi¹, H. Ichii², F. J. Ferrey¹, U. G. Reddy¹, D. C. Dafoe², H. Seo³, K. Kalantar-Zadeh¹, E. Tantisattamo¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, ²Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, ³School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
*Purpose: Given the ongoing shortage of donated organs, marginal kidneys with a higher possibility of delayed graft function(DGF) have been increasingly utilized. While DGF in…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation in Times of Covid-19 – Decision Analysis in the Canadian Context
I. Yanev¹, M. Gagnon¹, M. Cheng², S. Paraskevas², D. Kumar³, A. Dragomir⁴, R. Sapir-Pichhadze⁴
¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic significantly impacted the field of transplantation across Canada. In this study, we outline the implications of COVID-19 related…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Duration and Magnitude of BK Viremia Do Not Predict Outcome in Patients After Kidney Transplantation
E. A. Farkash¹, J. T. Rajagopal², M. Vincent², M. D. Doshi³
¹Dept of Pathology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Dept of Nephrology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: BK viremia was a major cause of kidney transplant failure in the early 2000’s and remains a risk factor for subsequent rejection. The standard…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Comparative Analysis of Kidney Allograft Outcomes in Steroid Use versus Steroid Discontinuation After Basiliximab Induction: Unos Data Base Study
F. Cardarelli, H. Patel, A. Aala
Nephrology, BIDMC, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Basiliximab is a monoclonal antibody produced by recombinant DNA technology used by many transplant centers in the U.S. as induction immunosuppression. When Basiliximab is…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Recurrent Lupus Post Kidney Transplantation- The Histological and Clinical Characteristics
A. Bentall¹, W. Jiqiu², A. Kattah¹, M. L. Gonzalez Suarez³, F. G. Cosio¹, M. Mai⁴, H. Khamash⁵, M. D. Stegall⁶, H. Amer¹, L. D. Cornell⁷, F. Fervenza¹, M. P. Alexander⁷
¹Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, ³Department of Nephrology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, ⁴Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Jackonville, FL, ⁵Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Scottdale, AZ, ⁶Department of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁷Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) progresses to ESRD in
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Thymoglobulin for Induction Less is Clearly More!
N. Patel, P. Nicole
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*Purpose: The ideal total dose of anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) is unknown in the African American (AA) kidney transplant population.The purpose of this study was to…