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Articles tagged "Hispanic"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Unresolved Disparities: Sex, Racial, Ethnic, and Insurance Differences in Performance Status at Listing for Liver Transplant

    R. Rosenblatt, B. Fortune, A. Jesudian, C. Lucero, R. S. Brown, B. Samstein, J. Emond, E. Verna, K. Halazun

    Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Cirrhosis is a chronic disease characterized by progressive worsening in physical functioning. We hypothesized that poor performance status at time of listing was an…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Associations of Chronic Kidney Disease with Temperature, Ancestry and Employment

    A. A. Connor, B. I. Shaw, K. V. Ravindra

    Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC

    *Purpose: We sought to assess the suggested associations of chronic kidney disease (CKD) of unknown origin, also known as Mesoamerican Nephropathy, with temperature, ancestry and…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Financial Feasibility of a Culturally Competent and Linguistically Congruent Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program

    E. Gordon1, A. Wang1, G. McNatt1, M. Abecassis2, J. Caicedo1

    1Northwestern U Feinberg Sch of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ

    *Purpose: Relative to their representation on the waitlist, Hispanics/Latinos received significantly fewer LDKTs than non-Hispanic Whites in 2018: 5.0% versus 12.2%. In 2006, Northwestern Medicine…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Racial/Ethnic Differences in Deceased Organ Donor Rates Over Time in the United States

    A. Kernodle, W. Zhang, B. Doby, L. Liyanage, A. Massie, T. Purnell, D. Segev

    Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Historically, deceased organ donation rates have varied across racial/ethnic groups within the US. To address these differences, the transplant community has investigated select minority…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange on Glomerular Filtration Rate in Patients with Acute Humoral Rejection

    M. Maza Moreno, S. Hernandez-Estrada, J. Cano Cervantes, D. Maldonado Tapia, M. Alamilla Sanchez

    Nephrology and Transplant Division, CMN 20 de Noviembre, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

    *Purpose: AMR is the main risk factor for graft loss, especially after the first post transplant year. Up to 80% of patients achieve response with…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Outcome Disparities of Primary Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients by Payor, Ethnicity and Gender in the United States

    S. M. Riad1, S. Jackson2, A. Matas3, S. Chinnakotla3, P. Verghese4

    1Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, 3Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 4Pediatric, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: Racial disparity outcome in pediatric kidney recipients has been reported. We sought to assess other predictors of outcomes disparities.*Methods: Using the SRTR database, between…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    A NASHional Crisis: Liver Transplantation Outcomes in Female Hispanics

    R. A. Sosa1, A. Q. Terry1, M. Rossetti1, F. M. Kaldas2, B. V. Naini1, J. Nevarez-Mejia1, V. M. Groysberg1, S. Younan2, R. W. Busuttil2, D. W. Gjertson1, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski2, E. F. Reed1

    1Pathology and Lab Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Obesity and metabolic syndrome have recently become an epidemic with Hispanics bearing a disproportionate burden. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a severe immune-mediated stage of…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    The Time is Now: Improving Waiting Times in Minority Populations

    L. Mendez-Castaner, L. Preczewski, M. Muldoon, A. Harshman, M. Goble, G. Guerra

    Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL

    *Purpose: A significant limiting factor to transplantation resides on waiting time based on blood type. Historically candidates in blood groups B and O experience higher…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation in the United States

    A. Zarrinpar, C. Warren, K. Andreoni, M. Johnson, N. Battula

    Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

    *Purpose: Despite research into the effects of race, ethnicity, and insurance status in liver transplantation, disparities persist. Access to care even in insured populations endures…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    New Onset Diabetes after Transplant (NODAT) in Hispanic Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multi-Center Retrospective Study

    R. Alsheikh1, L. Kodali2, O. Alfayez3, M. Alshibani1, A. Basilim1, M. Fazel4

    1King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, 3Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia, 4University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

    *Purpose: Hispanic ethnicity is one of the reported risk factors for NODAT in kidney transplant recipients (KTR). The purpose of our study is to determine…
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