Articles tagged "High-risk"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Ambiguous Nucleic Acid Tests (NAT) Results – Case of a Donor with Intermittent HCV NAT(+) but No HCV Transmission.
M. Nowicki,^1,2 H. Prince,² C. Chinchilla,² C. De Los Santos,² J. Trageser,³ L. Stocks.³
¹Mendez National Institute of Transplantation Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; ²VRL-Eurofins, Los Angeles, CA; ³Lifesharing OPO, San Diego, CA
Background Less than 0.2 % of initially NAT(+) upon retesting are reported as NAT negative. However, there is a concern that these results could be…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Rates Are Not Affected by Chronic HIV(+) or HCV(+) Infection in Organ Transplant Recipients.
K. Nadhan, E. Usedom, S. Shipman, A. Doyle, G. Malat, E. Buchanan, C. Chung.
Dermatology, Drexel, Philadelphia
Purpose: HIV and HCV are two immune dysregulatory processes that may exacerbate the risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in organ transplant recipients (OTR), a…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Worsening Rather Than Severe Acute Kidney Injury Affects Kidney Transplantation Outcomes.
M.-Y. Yu,¹ B. Yu,² Y. Kim,¹ S. Mi,³ J. Ha,³ J. Yang,³ Y. Kim,¹ H. Lee.¹
¹Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Internal Medicine, Soon Chun Hyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Republic of Korea; ³Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
BackgroundThe growing evidence has suggested that deceased donor kidneys with acute kidney injury (AKI) may be a good solution to overcome organ shortage. Although previous…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Use of Pulsatile Perfusion Modifies the Effect of Delayed Graft Function on Graft Failure.
A. Thomas, A. Shaffer, A. Massie, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore
While the causal mechanisms remain elusive, delayed graft function (DGF) has been associated with graft failure in recipients of deceased-donor kidneys. Pulsatile perfusion pump use…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Pregnancy Outcomes in Female Kidney Transplant Recipients Using Assisted Fertility Methods.
L. Coscia,¹ D. Armenti,¹ S. Constantinescu,^1,2 M. Moritz.^1,3,4
¹Transplant Pregnancy Registry, Gift of Life Institute, Philadelphia, PA; ²Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; ³Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA; ⁴Morsani College of Medicine, USF, Tampa, FL
The purpose of this study was to analyze pregnancy and transplant outcomes in female kidney recipients who used fertility medications alone (FM), intrauterine insemination (IUI),…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation Beyond MELD 40.
J. Scalea, D. Bruno, S. Hanish, J. Lamattina, J. Alvarez-Casas, S. Malik, A. Cimeno, S. Bartlett, R. Barth.
Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
OBJECTIVE(S): Liver allocation is prioritized for the sickest patients; however, poorer liver transplant (LTx) outcomes are associated with increasing MELD scores. While MELD is capped…
2017 American Transplant Congress
High Risk Renal Transplant Recipients on Steroid Free Immunosupression Regimen. Indiana University Experience.
O. Adebiyi, S. Hussain, D. Mishler, W. Goggins, M. Yaqub, T. Taber, A. Sharfuddin.
Renal Transplant, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
Background : Immunologic risk often influence the choice immunosuppressive regimen used in renal transplant recipient. Patient with positive flow cytometry crossmatch (FCXM) or presence of…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Higher Mortality Among Candidates Who Refused Increased-Infectious Risk Kidney Offers.
M. Bowring, L. Kucirka, A. Massie, C. Holscher, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore
Increased infectious risk donors (IRD) are younger and healthier than most deceased donors, but IRD kidneys are discarded at higher rates despite potential benefit to…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Facing Unintended Challenges of Increased Risk Donor Kidneys in a New Kidney Allocation Era.
A. Rahnemai-Azar,¹ J. Perkins,¹ A. Limaye,² N. Leca,³ C. Blosser,³ C. Johnson,³ S. Morrison,¹ R. Bakthavatsalam,¹ L. Sibulesky.¹
¹Abdominal Organ Transplantation, University of Washington Medical Center, Sattle, WA; ²Transplant Infectious Disease, University of Washington Medical Center, Sattle, WA; ³Transplant Nephrology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Background: In 2014, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) approved a new kidney allocation system (KAS). One of the intended goals of this system…
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The Impact of the Kidney Allocation System on Outcomes for Kidneys with KDPI > 85%.
A. Perry,¹ J. Sageshima,¹ C. Santhanakrishnan,¹ J. McVicar,¹ C. Troppmann,¹ A. De Mattos,² J. Woloszyn,¹ R. Perez.¹
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA; ²Division of Transplant Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA
Single center outcomes were examined to assess the impact of the implementation of the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) on outcomes for kidneys with KDPI >85%.Methods:…