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…2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcome Disparities of Primary Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients by Payor, Ethnicity and Gender in the United States
*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…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Immigrant Bonus: Non US Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients Have Superior Outcomes versus US Citizen Recipients. A Retrospective Study of 30,092 Subjects Using the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) from 1992-2015
*Purpose: In 2017, there were 19,849 kidney transplant recipients, and most of these patients were US Citizens1. There has been however, a significant amount non-US…2019 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in the US: Have We Made Any Progress among Pediatric Candidates over the Last Twenty Years?
1Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: A recent JAMA study demonstrated worsening disparities in access to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among adults in the US. We examined twenty-year trends…2019 American Transplant Congress
Facilitators and Barriers to the Implementation of Culturally Competent Care to Increase Living Kidney Donation in Transplant Centers
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Hispanics/Latinos are disproportionately less likely than non-Hispanic whites to receive a live donor kidney transplant (LDKT). Cultural beliefs and linguistic barriers contribute to LDKT…2019 American Transplant Congress
Lack of Linguistically and Culturally Tailored Initiatives in Kidney Transplant Programs in the United States
*Purpose: Although minorities are the majorities in the kidney transplant waiting list, it is unknown if kidney transplant programs in United States have implemented linguistically…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System A2/A2B –> B Policy on Access to Transplantation among Minority Candidates
1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; 2ASTS Diversity Affairs Committee, Arlington.
Introduction: Blood group B kidney transplant candidates, many of whom represent ethnic minorities, have historically had diminished access to deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT). However,…
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