Articles tagged "Graft failure"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Graft and Patient Survival after A2-Incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
S. Getsin, P. Chiang, S. Yu, K. Jackson, D. Segev, A. Massie
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: ABO type B and O recipients have increased difficulty identifying a compatible donor for living-donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), and are harder to match in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Acute Allograft Rejection Treatment with R Anti-Thymocyte Globulin (r-ATG) One Year Post Kidney Transplant
M. Yaqub, A. Riaz, D. Mishler, O. Adebiyi, T. Taber, A. Sharfuddin
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Acute allograft rejection is considered one of the major causes of renal allograft dysfunction. Despite maximal anti-rejection therapy grafts may not regain baseline function.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Causes of Kidney Allograft Loss (GL) in the Current Era of Donor-Specific Alloantibody (DSA) Testing
M. Merzkani¹, X. Benavides¹, M. D'Costa¹, B. Smith¹, W. Park¹, A. Rule¹, H. Chakkera², K. Reddy², M. Alexander¹, H. Amer¹, M. El Ters¹, C. Schinstock¹, R. Heilman², A. Bentall¹, M. Stegall¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
*Purpose: The goal of this study was to examine the causes and risk factors (RF) for renal GL in the era since the widespread adoption…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Adult Primary Liver Transplant Recipient Outcomes by Immunosuppression Induction Received
T. Shaker¹, G. Larrieux¹, S. Jackson², S. Riad³, T. Pruett¹, T. Leventhal⁴
¹Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²M Health Fairview, Minneapolis, MN, ³Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: It has long been recognized that the highest risk of rejection of an organ is in the first few months post transplantation. To prevent…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Increased Graft Survival Following Implementation of the Kidney Allocation Score
M. L. Samoylova¹, B. I. Shaw¹, W. Irish², S. J. Kesseli¹, A. Connor¹, A. S. Barbas¹, L. McElroy¹, K. V. Ravindra¹
¹Surgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ²Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: The Kidney Allocation Score (KAS) was developed to improve matching of donor and recipients; we examine the effect of this change on transplantation practice…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Discordant Kidney Function at Transplant: A Single Center Analysis of Deceased Donor Paired Kidneys
E. Abuhelaiqa¹, M. Alkadi¹, S. Mansour², L. Mathew¹, F. Makableh¹, A. Nauman¹, O. Fituri¹, M. Asim¹, R. Fadhil³, H. A. Al-Malki¹
¹Nephrology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, ²Internal Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, ³Transplant Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
*Purpose: Analysis of paired kidneys from deceased donors has the advantage of eliminating donor and center related biases seen in previous studies that evaluated kidney…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Hyperspectral Imaging of Human Kidney Allografts
R. Sucher¹, H. Köhler², A. Lederer¹, H. M. Hau¹, I. Gockel¹, D. Seehofer¹
¹Department of Visceral, Transplant-, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Clinic Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, ²Innovation Center for Computer Assisted Surgery, University Clinic Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
*Purpose: Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is capable to deliver non-contact, non-ionizing and non-invasive quantitative diagnostic information about tissue pathology, morphology and composition, based on the spectral…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Time to Graft Loss by Dialysis Vintage
P. Ahearn, C. Lenihan, J. Scandling
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: Preemptive transplantation has been shown to be beneficial regarding all-cause graft failure compared to transplantation after dialysis initiation, and transplantation after a shorter time…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Center Performance for Liver Retransplantation Candidates is More Heterogeneous Than for Initial Liver Transplantation Recipients
T. Bittermann, P. L. Abt, D. E. Schaubel
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: This study evaluated center performance for wait-list outcomes for adult candidates awaiting liver retransplantation (reLT), and its association with initial liver transplant (iLT) center…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Do Higher Remuzzi Scores Make Good Kidneys Bad? Examining Histologic Criteria within the Framework of Single Kidney Transplantation
V. Fleetwood¹, C. Kensinger², C. Papageorge¹, D. Aufhauser¹, P. Pasha¹, G. Leverson³, B. Welch¹, D. Foley¹
¹Department of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ²Department of Transplantation, Piedmont Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA, ³Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: The Remuzzi score (RS), a histologic tool to assess chronic allograft damage, can guide allocation to single (SKT) or dual (DKT) kidney implantation. RS…