Articles tagged "Graft survival"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes Among Slow versus Delayed or Immediate Graft Function Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Single-Center Experience.
I. Bajjoka, A. Yaldo, C. Crombez, M. Abouljoud.
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
Purpose: To compare and evaluate short and long-term outcomes for kidney transplant recipients (KTR) with slow graft function (SGF) versus delayed (DGF) or immediate (IGF)…
2017 American Transplant Congress
CD4⁺/CD8⁺ T Cell Ratio as a Predictive Marker for Early Graft Failure in Pig to Non-Human Primate Islet Xenotransplantation with Immunosuppression.
S. Choi,^1,3,4 H.-J. Kim,^1,2,3,4 I.-H. Yoon,^1,2 J.-S. Kim,^1,2,6 S.-J. Kang,^1,2,3,4 H.-Y. Nam,^1,2 B.-H. Min,¹ J.-S. Shin,^1,6 J.-M. Kim,^1,6 Y.-H. Kim,^1,5 W.-W. Lee,^1,2,3,4 C.-G. Park.^1,2,3,4,6
¹Xenotransplantation Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ²Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ³Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ⁴Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea; ⁵Department of Microbiology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea; ⁶Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Background: Outstanding results from nonhuman primate study put islet xenotransplantation with immunosuppression closer to the clinical application. To establish successful immune suppressive protocols, immune monitoring…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Is It Safe to Use Older Donor Liver Grafts for Older Recipients?
M. Safwan, K. Collins, K. Takahashi, M. Rizzari, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud, S. Nagai.
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Aim: The safety of liver transplantation (LT) using older donor grafts into older recipients remains to be elucidated. The aim of this study was to…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Muscle Mass Is Predictive of Mortality in Obese Renal Transplant Patients.
J. Souweine,^1,3 M. Le Quintrec,¹ I. Szwarc,¹ V. Pernin,¹ G. Mourad,¹ J. Cristol,^2,3 J. Serre.¹
¹Nephrology, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France; ²Biochemistry, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France; ³PhyMedExp, UMR CNRS 9214, INSERM U1046, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Introduction: The impact of obesity (body mass index [BMI] > 30 kg/m[sup2]) on kidney allograft outcomes is controversial. Recent studies found that obesity does not…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Comparing Renal Function Recovery and Long Term Outcomes in Recipients of Standard and Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplants.
S. Sandal, M. Cantarovich, S. Paraskevas, N. Almaghrawi, P. Chaudhury, J. Tchervenkov.
McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada
Several donor and recipient characteristics are associated with adverse kidney transplantation (KT) outcomes. Our group has previously shown that based on the donor's terminal creatinine,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Post-Transplant Monitoring of Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies and Their Characteristics Improves Risk Stratification of Kidney Allograft Loss.
D. Viglietti,¹ A. Loupy,² C. Bentlejewski,³ C. Legendre,² D. Glotz,¹ A. Zeevi,³ C. Lefaucheur.¹
¹Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France; ²Necker Hospital, Paris, France; ³University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh.
Circulating donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) are associated with allograft failure in solid-organ transplantation. We investigated the pathogenic characteristics of DSA that may improve risk prediction…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Lessons Learned Transplanting High KDPI Kidneys Over a Decade: Improvements in Graft Survival Stem from Lower Rates of Early Graft Loss.
S. Sanoff,¹ K. Ravindra, D. Vikraman, U. Patel, D. Sudan, W. Irish.²
¹Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; ²CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services, Raleigh, NC.
Purpose. The Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) recently replaced SCD/ECD designations, to provide transplant centers a more precise estimate of predicted graft survival, with the…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Transitional B Cell T1/T2 Ratio Is a Prognostic Marker for Human Renal Allograft Deterioration.
A. Cherukuri,¹ D. Rothstein,¹ R. Baker.²
¹UPMC, Pittsburgh; ²University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Human transitional B cells (TrB) may play a significant role in auto and alloimmune disease. TrB express a high IL10:TNFα ratio and this fell with…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Delayed Graft Function in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in a Brazilian Center.
A. Ribeiro,¹ M. Helfer,² O. Costa,² A. Viccari,¹ R. Manfro.^1,2
¹Division of Nephrology, Renal Transplant Unit, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; ²School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Background. A high incidence of delayed graft function (DGF), after deceased donor kidney transplantation, occurs in Brazil and the reasons for such finding have not…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Non-adherence to Appointments Is a Strong Predictor of Medication Non-Adherence and Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
M. Posadas Salas, R. Pullalarevu, M. Kamel, A. Chokkalingam, R. Browning, B. Kadri, M. Salazar, T. Srinivas, D. Taber.
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Disparities in healthcare access and non-adherence are important aspects of transplantation that affect outcomes. This study aims to investigate the impact of non-adherence to laboratory…