Articles tagged "Graft failure"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Mortality and Morbidity in Kidney Transplant Recipients with a Failing Graft
N. N. Lam¹, D. J. Boyne², R. R. Quinn², P. C. Austin³, B. R. Hemmelgarn², P. Campbell¹, G. A. Knoll⁴, L. Tibbles², S. Yilmaz², H. Quan², P. Ravani²
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Due to their history of renal disease and exposure to immunosuppression, kidney transplant recipients with a failing graft may be at higher risk of…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Actions Speak Louder Than Labs – The Impact of Dialysis Compliance on Posttransplant Outcomes
D. Sawinski¹, H. Lindner², J. Schults³, J. Locke⁴, P. Reese¹
¹Hospital of the U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Non-adherence is a modifable risk factor for poor posttransplant outcomes. While the factors contributing to posttransplant non-adherence are complex, noncompliance with the dialysis prescription…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Graft Survival of Fourth Time Renal Transplant Recipients Are Similar to Third Time Transplants: A SRTR Database Analysis
B. Petrun, R. Nygaard, M. Hill, C. Richardson, A. Israni, P. Stahler
Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The number of candidates for repeat kidney transplant in the United States has steadily increased over the last 30 years. Second and third kidney…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Recipient TIM4 Expression is Essential for Hepatocellular Function in Liver Transplantation
K. Kadono, S. Kageyama, H. Hirao, K. Nakamura, K. J. Dery, D. Oncel, T. Ito, B. Ke, F. M. Kaldas, R. W. Busuttil, J. W. Kupiec‐Weglinski
Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) represents a major risk factor of early graft dysfunction and predisposes to rejection in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Previous studies…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Acute Kidney Injury in Elderly Deceased Donor on the Post-Transplant Clinical Outcomes
J. Kim¹, J. Lee², Y. Kim³, K. Jin⁴, S. Han⁴, Y. Hong¹, Y. Chang¹, S. Kim¹, H. Yoon⁵, C. Yang², W. Park⁴, B. Chung²
¹Internal Medicine, Daejeon St. Mary`s Hospital, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of, ²Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary`s Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Internal Medicine, Uijeongbu St. Mary`s Hospital, Uijeongbu, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Internal Medicine, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary`s Hospital, Incheon, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The proportion of kidney transplantation (KT) from deceased donors (DDs) with acute kidney injury (AKI) or aged more than 60 has increased, but it…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Fasting Glood Glucose: A Simple and Reliable Marker to Predict Late Pancreas Graft Failure
D. Cantarovich¹, M. Ollivier², L. Chaillous², B. Cariou², J. Branchereau¹, G. Karam¹
¹Nephrology and Transplantation, ITUN, Nantes, France, ²Endocrinology, Institut du Thorax, Nantes, France
*Purpose: Causes of early post-transplant pancreas graft failure are well identified. Indeed, this is not the case after the first year. We searched factors which…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Preoperative Rifaximin Use on Reducing Graft Injury in Liver Transplantation: A Propensity Matched Analysis
T. Ito, K. Nakamura, S. Kageyama, H. Hirao, K. Kadono, J. Aziz, J. DiNorcia, V. G. Agopian, H. Yersiz, D. G. Farmer, R. W. Busuttil, J. Kupiec-Weglinski, F. M. Kaldas
Department of Surgery, The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Intestinal microbiota are thought to play an important role in affecting the multifactorial and complex mechanisms of hepatic ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) after liver…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Galectin-3 and Long-Term Graft Failure in Renal Transplant Recipients: A Prospective Cohort Study
C. G. Sotomayor¹, C. A. Keyzer¹, J. L. Anderson¹, R. O. Gans², I. M. Nolte³, M. H. de Borst¹, S. P. Berger¹, G. J. Navis¹, R. A. de Boer⁴, S. J. Bakker¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ³Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁴Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
*Purpose: Galectin-3 has been associated with renal fibrosis and decline of renal function. We aimed to determine the association of galectin-3 with long-term risk of…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Recipient Matching in Kidney Transplant: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
A. Vinson, K. Tennankore, B. Kiberd
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
*Purpose: In deceased donor kidney transplantation, strategic organ allocation is expected to prolong patient and graft survival after transplant. The aim of this study was…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Meet Your Mate: Lessons Gleaned from Analysis of 154 Paired Kidneys Transplanted at a Single Center
M. Lubetzky¹, M. Aull², K. Rhee¹, S. Sultan², S. Kapur²
¹Division of Nephrology, New York, NY, ²Surgery, NYP-Weill Cornell, New York, NY
*Purpose: The factors affecting graft and patient survival are in many studies confounded by center and donor related factors. Mate kidney analyses can help to…