2021 American Transplant Congress
Noninferiority Outcomes Among Undocumented Immigrant Kidney Transplant Recipients in California
*Purpose: There are over 2 million undocumented immigrants (UI) in California, where currently, all individuals regardless of immigration status have equal access to kidney transplant(KT).…2021 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Next of Kin Authorization for Research in Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation: Experience at One Organ Procurement Organization
*Purpose: Research related to deceased donor interventions seeks to address diverse questions to improve the use and outcomes of organ gifts for transplantation. Consent for…2021 American Transplant Congress
Providing Equitable Access: Language and Literacy Levels of Kidney Transplant Center Websites
*Purpose: Health disparities exist for access to kidney transplantation. Accessibility of patient-facing transplant center resources can contribute to these disparities. Patients interact with transplant centers…2021 American Transplant Congress
Gray on the Border: A Closer Look at the Gap in Access to Kidney Transplantation for Hispanic Americans
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
*Purpose: Hispanic Americans have disproportionately reduced access to kidney transplantation that is significantly affected by longstanding cultural and geographical disparities. These disparities are multifactorial and…2021 American Transplant Congress
Seeing is Believing: Efficacy of a Video-based Intervention in Improving Awareness of Skin Cancer Risk for Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
1Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2Dermatology, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Our research focuses on the efficacy of using a novel video-based intervention to educate solid organ transplant recipients on their increased risk of skin…2020 American Transplant Congress
Unresolved Disparities: Sex, Racial, Ethnic, and Insurance Differences in Performance Status at Listing for Liver Transplant
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
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
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
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
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…
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