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Articles tagged "Hispanic"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Providing Equitable Access: Language and Literacy Levels of Kidney Transplant Center Websites

    R. Olmeda Barrientos1, C. E. Jacobson2, V. S. Valbuena3, M. S. Anderson3, M. J. Englesbe3, S. A. Waits3, J. R. Santos-Parker2

    1University Of California – Riverside, School of Medicine, Riverside, CA, 2University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 3Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI

    *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

    A. Padilla, M. Mujtaba, R. Samper-Ternent, S. Al Snih, N. Perez, J. Fair, R. Kulkarni, E. Polychronopoulou, M. Kueht

    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

    E. Shah1, S. Michalak1, R. Haughton1, B. Fernandez1, I. Ahronowitz2

    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…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of a Latinx Kidney Transplant Clinic

    P. Serrano Rodriguez

    Abdominal Transplant Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

    *Purpose: To evaluate the impact of a Latinx clinic in our institution. With a growing increase of end stage renal disease (ESRD)in the Latino population…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Service Area Characteristics Impacting Liver and Kidney Deceased Donor Population

    C. O. Warren, A. Zarrinpar

    Surgery, -University of Florida, Gaiinesville, FL

    *Purpose: While there is ample evidence of racial and ethnic disparities in access to the waitlist, being transplanted, and post-transplant outcomes in liver and kidney…
  • 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…
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