Articles tagged "Graft survival"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Non- Superior Patient and Death-Censored Graft Survival with Controlled after Cardiac Death Donors Than Expanded Criteria Brain Death Donors in Older Recipients Over 60 Years, with Better Outcomes with Living Kidney Donors
I. Revuelta¹, D. Cucchiari¹, A. Ruiz², E. De Sousa-Amorim¹, D. Paredes², L. Peri³, P. Ventura-Aguiar¹, M. Musquera³, N. Esforzado¹, F. Cofan¹, J. V. Torregrosa¹, G. J. Piñeiro¹, J. Ugalde-Altamirano¹, J. M. Campistol¹, F. Oppenheimer¹, F. Diekmann¹
¹Renal Transplant Unit, Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ²Donation and Transplant Coordination Section, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ³Department of Urology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Each time transplant candidates are older, and the allocation of suitable donors is a real challenge. Controlled Donors after Cardiac Death (cDCD) are using…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Blocking Complement Component C3 in a Sensitized Nonhuman Primate Model of Kidney Allotransplantation
R. Schmitz¹, P. M. Schroder¹, Z. W. Fitch¹, A. Y. Choi¹, M. Manook¹, J. Yoon¹, A. Farris², E. S. Reis³, J. D. Lambris³, J. Kwun¹, S. J. Knechtle¹
¹Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ²Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ³Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Sensitized transplant recipients represent a challenge due to the presence of donor-specific antibodies (DSA), which increase the risk of antibody-mediated rejection. Complement inhibition has…
2020 American Transplant Congress
New IGL-2 Perfusate in Liver HOPE Strategies
A. Panisello-Rosello¹, C. Castro-Benítez², E. Folch-Puy¹, J. Rosello-Catafau¹, R. Adam²
¹Experimental Pathology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Centre Hépato-Billiare, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Paris, France
*Purpose: HOPE has shown to optimize graft liver preservation. However, the most used perfusion solutions as such as Belzer-MPS and its generics were initially for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Multidimensional System to Dynamically Predict Graft Survival after Kidney Transplantation
M. Raynaud¹, O. Aubert¹, S. Jordan², M. Stegall³, J. Friedewald⁴, D. Glotz¹, C. Legendre¹, D. Segev⁵, C. Lefaucheur¹, A. Loupy, On behalf of the study NCT03474003¹
¹Paris Transplant Group, Paris, France, ²Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁵Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Current prediction systems of kidney-graft loss do not integrate the dynamic effect of parameters assessed over the time course of kidney recipients. Recent dynamic…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Significant Improvement in Short and Long-Term Kidney Transplant Survival Despite Stagnant Rates of Delayed Graft Function
J. Schold¹, S. Arrigain², E. Poggio³
¹Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ²Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ³Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Delayed Graft Function (DGF) is routinely characterized as attributing to significant morbidity and mortality among kidney transplant recipients. While there are diverse potential mechanisms…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Preventing Allograft Rejection by Circrna FSCN1 Mediated Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells
B. Wang, Q. Zhou, V. Veramkovich, A. Greasley, S. Li, X. Zheng
Pathology, University of Western Ontario-LHSC, London, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Induction of immune tolerance is a major challenge in heart transplants. There is no robust treatment with fewer side effects for preventing chronic rejection.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Graft Survival by the Teaching Status of a Transplant Center (2008-2019)
K. Maroney, Z. Wang, K. Ross, J. Hogan, R. Patzer
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Graft survival is an important metric in which transplant centers are graded, yet center-level variation in kidney graft survival still exist after accounting for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Calcium Level-Dependence of the Adverse Effect of Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism on Graft Survival in Renal Transplant Recipients
M. Okada, T. Tomosugi, T. Hiramitsu, K. Futamura, A. Kanda, N. Goto, S. Narumi, T. Ichimori, Y. Watarai
Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
*Purpose: Tertiary hyperparathyroidism (THPT) is a condition in which hyperparathyroidism persists after renal transplantation (RTx), and is a frequent complication. The aim of this retrospective…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Anticoagulation in Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney (SPK) Transplantation- On What Basis?
J. Gopal, P. Herbert, J. Crane, F. Dor, V. Papalois, A. Muthusamy
Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Despite technical refinements, early pancreas graft loss due to thrombosis continues to occur. Conventional coagulation tests do not detect hypercoagulability and hence is left…
2020 American Transplant Congress
High Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate at the First Year after Kidney Transplantation is Associated with Worse Long-Term Graft Survival in Kidney Recipient
H. Choi¹, K. Huh², M. Kim², S. Kim², Y. Kim², B. Kim¹
¹Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Transplantation Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: High estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) as well as low eGFR is associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The transplanted kidney in the recipient…