Articles tagged "Graft failure"

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
2020 American Transplant Congress
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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transitional B Cell Cytokines for the Early Prediction of Long-Term Renal Allograft Decline
A. Cherukuri¹, A. Salama², A. Sharma¹, R. Mehta¹, S. Hariharan¹, D. Rothstein¹
¹Starzl Transplantation Institute, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ²UCL, London, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Early prediction of allograft loss using potentially modifiable risk factors is vital for conceiving novel therapeutic interventions to improve outcomes.*Methods: In this prospective, multicenter…
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The Accuracy of the ICD-10 Diagnostic Codes for Kidney Transplant Rejection and Failure
D. Massicotte-Azarniouch¹, M. Sood², D. Fergusson³, M. Chassé⁴, A. Tinmouth⁵, G. Knoll²
¹Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ²Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ³Clinical Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁴Medicine, University of Montreal, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁵Hematology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Clinical research requires that diagnostic codes captured from routinely collected health administrative data accurately identify individuals with a disease. In this study, we examined…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Renal Transplant Recipients with Different Pre-Transplant Cardiovascular Risk
G. Hsu¹, T. M. Sparkes¹, B. N. Reed², S. E. Gale¹, B. R. Ravichandran¹
¹University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, ²University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Renal transplant patients have higher cardiovascular (CV) risk compared to their peers. Pre-transplant CV risk factors may be amplified post-transplant, but little is known…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Influence of the Donor Kidney Weight to Recipient Body Weight Ratio on Long-Term Renal Graft Outcomes
S. Yang¹, J. Lee¹, Y. Jung², B. Kim³, M. Kim¹, S. Kim¹, Y. Kim¹, K. Huh¹
¹Department of Transplantation Surgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Surgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Nephrology, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: To study the impact of the relative donor kidney size on long-term graft function and survival, we investigated the living donor renal transplants outcomes.*Methods:…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Eplet Mismatch Not Correlated with Antibody Mediated Rejection or Allograft Loss Among Kidney Transplant Recipients with De Novo Donor Specific Antibody
A. Basu¹, W. Jiqiu², A. Bentall², M. Gandhi², B. Dukek², N. Henderson², C. Schinstock²
¹Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, GA, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Eplet mismatches are associated with development of de novo DSA (dnDSA) in kidney transplant recipients. However, it remains unclear how the degree of eplet…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Antibiotic Pretreatment Alleviates Liver Transplant Damage by Modulating the Composition of Commensal Microbiota
K. J. Dery, S. Kageyama, H. Hirao, K. Kadono, H. Kojima, R. W. Busuttil, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski
Surgery, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The human intestinal microbiome contains more than 100 trillion commensal microorganisms, exceeding the number of cells in the human body by 10-fold. Although recent…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Late Onset Primary Graft Dysfunction after Lung Transplantation Correlates with Transplant Arteriosclerosis in a Humanized Mouse Model
M. Franz¹, T. Siemeni¹, A. Knöfel¹, W. Sommer¹, M. Avsar¹, F. Ius¹, I. Tudorache¹, C. Kühn¹, C. S. Falk², G. Warnecke¹, A. Haverich¹
¹Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ²IFB-Tx, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
*Purpose: Primary Graft dysfunction (PGD) is one of the most important causes of early mortality after lung transplantation. We investigated the correlation between the incidence…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Incidence, Risk Factors, and Kidney Transplant Outcomes Associated with Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus
R. F. Malik¹, Y. Jia¹, S. G. Mansour², I. E. Hall², M. D. Doshi², P. P. Reese², P. Singh², M. N. Harhay², F. L. Weng², H. Thiessen Philbrook¹, B. Schröppel², T. Muthukumar², J. S. Bromberg², E. Akalin², S. Mohan², C. R. Parikh¹
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²DDS Consortium, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus (PTDM) is a common complication after kidney transplant (KT). Most prior studies are single-center with short follow-up and inconsistent outcome ascertainment.…