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Articles tagged "Graft failure"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Size Does Not Matter: Should the Decision to Split Pediatric En Bloc Donor Kidneys Be Based on Donor Weight Rather Than Kidney Length?

    A. Perry, J. Woloszyn, J. McVicar, J. Sageshima, R. Perez, C. Troppmann, C. Santhanakrishnan.

    Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA

    Background: Deceased donor kidneys from pediatric donors have been used with good results. However, there is little consensus on the criteria used to safely split…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    A UNOS Database Analysis of Patient Outcomes from Kidney Alone versus Simultaneous Kidney Liver Transplants Utilizing Matched Donor Pairs.

    T. Zens, J. Danobeitia, P. Stahler, G. Leverson, R. Redfield III, A. D'Alessandro, L. Fernandez.

    Surgery - Division of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI

    Introduction: Renal grafts used in simultaneous kidney liver (SLK) transplants are allocated by arbitrary clinical criteria without entering the kidney allocation algorithm. The goal of…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Repeat Biopsies After the Diagnosis of BK Virus Associated Nephropathy: Importance of Integrating Clinical and Pathological Findings.

    C. Drachenberg,1 J. Papadimitriou,1 R. Ugarte,2 M. Mavanur,2 B. Thomas,2 C. Cangro,2 N. Costa,2 M. Weir,2 A. Haririan.2

    1Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 2Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    Early diagnosis of PV nephropathy(PyVAN) leads to overall improvements in the short term but sclerosing sequelae and risk for rejection (mainly antibody mediated) contribute to…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Risk Factors of Treatment Failure in Antibody Mediated Rejection.

    V. Pernin,1 I. Szwarc,1 T. Kanouni,2 V. Garrigue,1 J. Serre,1 S. Delmas,1 G. Mourad,1 M. Le Quintrec.1

    1Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, CHU Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France; 2Department of Hematology, CHU St ELoi, Montpellier, France

    Background: Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is recognized as the major cause of kidney allograft loss. Despite an aggressive treatment, prognosis is usually poor. The aim of…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Renal Function, Albuminuria, and the Risk of Death and Graft Loss After Kidney Transplantation.

    N. Lam,1 M. Tonelli,2 K. Lentine,3 B. Hemmelgarn,2 F. Ye,1 K. Wen,1 S. Klarenbach.1

    1University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 2University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; 3Saint Louis University, St. Louis

    In 2012, the KDIGO guidelines updated the classification system for chronic kidney disease to include albuminuria. Whether this classification system prognosticates adverse clinical outcomes among…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Allograft Hepatitis and Graft Loss After Hepatitis C Clearance.

    D. Bruno, S. Brown, S. Hanish, J. LaMattina, W. Hutson, S. Kottilil, W. Twadell, R. Barth.

    Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    Successful HCV therapies should improve inferior outcomes of liver transplantation (LT) for HCV cirrhosis. We hypothesize certain patients may be predisposed to heterologous immunity that…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Beyond the Bones – The Association Between Vitamin D, Graft Outcomes and Vascular Disease.

    A. Cherukuri,1 S. Balasubramanian,2 R. Molyneux,2 R. Baker.

    1UPMC, Pittsburgh; 2University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.

    Background: Vitamin D deficiency in KTRs is an emerging theme. The purported associations between Vitamin D deficiency and various metabolic, cardiovascular and non-metabolic adverse events…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Early Onset Hyperuricemia Is a Prognostic Marker for Kidney Allograft Dysfunction.

    M. Han,1 S. Yang,2 I. Jung,3 S.-K. Park,4 Y. Kim,5 D. Han,5 Y. Kim,1 S. Kim,6 J. Lee.7

    1Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 2Kidney Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 3Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 4Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 5Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 6Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea; 7Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

    Aim: It is not certain whether hyperuricemia is a true risk factor of kidney allograft failure. We investigated the association of hyperuricemia and graft outcome.Methods:…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Ex-Vivo Normothermic Perfusion for Assessment of High Risk Deceased Donor Kidneys for Transplantation.

    S. Kabagambe, I. Palma, Y. Smolin, T. Boyer, I. Palma, J. Sageshima, C. Santhanakrishnan, C. Troppmann, J. McVicar, R. Perez.

    Surgery, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA.

    Despite the organ shortage, many procured deceased donor kidneys are deemed too high risk for failure and discarded. Ex-vivo normothermic perfusion (EVNP) may be useful…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Serum Bicarbonate and Long-Term Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

    S. Park,1 E. Kang,1 M. Han,1 J. Park,1 S. Yang,2 S. Park,3 I. Jung,4 C. Lim,5 Y. Kim,1 Y. Kim,6 J. Lee.5

    1Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; 2Kidney Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; 3Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; 4Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea; 5Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea; 6Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

    Background: Metabolic acidosis indicated by low serum bicarbonate (TCO2) level has been known as a risk factor for mortality and progressive renal dysfunction in patients…
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