Articles tagged "Graft failure"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Transplant Ureteral Stricture Location and Type of Ureteral Revision on Long-Term Graft Survival and Patient Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation
C. Shepherd¹, R. Cameron², C. Holbrooks², A. Lin³, S. Nadig³, J. McGillicuddy³, D. Dubay³, D. Taber³, P. Baliga³, V. Rohan³
¹Urology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ³Transplant Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Transplant ureteral strictures are a major cause of morbidity following kidney transplantation and often require surgical revision including ureteroureterostomy (UU) and neocystoureterostomy (NC). Our…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Post-Transplant Cancer and Graft Failure in Kidney Transplant Recipients
J. Kim, J. Ha, S. Min, H. Lee, Y. Kim, S. Han
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: As the long-term patient survival and graft survival rate are gradually increasing in kidney transplant (KT) recipients, the importance of cancer occurrence and proper…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Epitop Matching Predicts Immunization in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Allograft Failure Leading to Worse Outcomes
F. Halleck¹, M. Merkel¹, P. Bach², D. Schmidt¹, M. Niemann³, N. Lachmann⁴, K. Budde¹
¹Nephrology, Charite, Berlin, Germany, ²Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charite, Berlin, Germany, ³PIRCHE AG, Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Institute for Transfusion Medicine, H&I Laboratory, Charite, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: The number of immunized patients on the waitlist is increasing worldwide. There is a lack of data about the impact of immunization after transplantation…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Economic Burden of Graft Failure in the United States
J. A. Sussell¹, A. R. Silverstein¹, P. Goutam¹, D. Incerti¹, R. Kee¹, D. S. Batty, Jr.², C. X. Chen², J. Jansen¹, B. L. Kasiske³
¹Precision Health Economics, Oakland, CA, ²Medeor Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA, ³Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Despite recent advances, graft failure imposes a substantial burden on kidney transplant recipients. This study is the first to quantify this burden in economic…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Estimated vs. Actual Graft Failure and Patient Survival after Kidney Transplantation
J. Buggs¹, T. Thigpen², E. Rogers¹, A. Kumar³, V. Bowers¹
¹Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, ³University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the difference between the estimated and actual values of graft survival and patient survival in kidney…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Clinical Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients with Early Graft Failure: A Nationwide Study in South Korea
Y. Kim¹, S. Kwon¹, S. Park¹, J. Moon¹, J. Seon¹, J. Kim¹, M. Yu², K. Han³, D. Kim¹, Y. Kim¹, H. Lee¹
¹Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Internal Medicine, Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Medical Statistics, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Despite the graft outcome has been steadily improved over the years, early graft failure (EGF) poses a significant threat to kidney transplant (KT) recipients.…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Interpretable Post-Transplant Graft Failure Prediction Using Decision Tree Neural Networks
J. N. Valdez¹, T. Fu¹, J. Hogan², S. Adhikary¹, M. Arenson², R. Zhang², X. Zhang³, K. Li², A. B. Adams², R. E. Patzer², J. Sun¹
¹Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, ²Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Various predictive models identify kidney transplant (KTx) recipients at high risk of graft failure (GF), but comparisons across statistical approaches for a full range…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Sirolimus in Geriatric Kidney Transplantation: Modification of Outcomes by Pre-Transplant History of Malignancy or Cardiovascular Disease
H. Ibrahim¹, C. Chen², K. Alquadan³, X. Wen⁴, K. L. Womer³, A. H. Santos Jr¹
¹College of Medicine, Div. of Nephrology, Hypertension & Renal Transplantation, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²College of Pharmacy, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ³College of Medicine, Div. of Nephrology, Hypertension & Renal Transplantation, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁴College of Pharmacy, Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
*Purpose: We analyzed the outcomes associated with sirolimus (SRL)-regimens in geriatric (>/=65-year-old) kidney transplant recipients (KTRs).*Methods: Using 2000-2016 Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data, Cox…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Humoral Immune Responses to Kidney Associated Non-HLA Antigens is Not Associated with Progression to Chronic Immune Injury in Kidney Transplant Recipients
S. Sukumaran Nair¹, R. Ravichandran², R. Heilman¹, A. Jaramillo¹, D. Ramon¹, M. Buras¹, B. Kaplan¹, T. Mohanakumar²
¹Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, ²St. Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Development of donor specific anti-HLA (DSA) although is a known risk factor for Chronic immune injury (CII), it is undetectable in many patients with…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Association Of Kdpi And Dgf With Dcd Kidney Transplants Outcomes
M. Sampaio, B. Abdalla, S. Bunnapradist
David Geffen Sch of Med at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Donors of circulatory death (DCD) have similar outcomes compared to donors of brain death (DBD) in kidney transplants. It is unclear if this is…