Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
The Accuracy of the ICD-10 Diagnostic Codes for Kidney Transplant Rejection and Failure
D. Massicotte-Azarniouch¹, M. Sood², D. Fergusson³, M. Chassé⁴, A. Tinmouth⁵, G. Knoll²
¹Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ²Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ³Clinical Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁴Medicine, University of Montreal, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁵Hematology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Clinical research requires that diagnostic codes captured from routinely collected health administrative data accurately identify individuals with a disease. In this study, we examined…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Low Food Security in Inner-City Kidney Transplant Recipients is Associated with Worse Graft Function, Lower Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Increased Psychosocial Stress
E. Kasparov, K. Cruickshank, A. Saleh, S. Pak, M. Markell
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Long-term kidney graft survival may be affected by factors other than biologic, including social determinants of health. We examined the association of the use…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Kidney Graft Survival is Superior with Simultaneous-Liver Kidney (SLK) Transplants Than Kidney Alone (KA) or Kidney after Liver (KALi) Transplants in the United States
N. Lim¹, S. M. Riad¹, S. Jackson², J. Lake¹
¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²M Health Fairview, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: There is a concern that SLK transplant recipients have worse outcomes resulting in poor utilization of the kidney donor pool. We utilized the Scientific…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Safety of A2 Incompatible Kidney Transplantation in Donors with Acute Kidney Injury
Y. Al Azzi, L. Liriano-Ward, G. Nair, M. Ajaimy, J. Graham, C. Pynadath, P. Nandigam, A. Colovai, A. Campbell, S. Greenstein, M. Kinkhabwala, J. Rocca, E. Akalin
Abdominal Transplant, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Kidneys with donor acute kidney injury (AKI) are frequently discarded. We aimed to study the outcomes of A2 incompatible kidney transplantation from donors with…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Tumor of Transplanted Kidney: Graft Resection Preserves Renal Function with Good Long-Term Oncologic Outcome
J. Chlupac, T. Marada, M. Kudla, L. Janousek, J. Fronek
Transplantation Surgery Department, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
*Purpose: Incidence of urologic tumors is increased in renal transplant recipients. In case of a kidney transplant neoplasm, the graft-nephrectomy and hemodialysis reduce the quality…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Pneumocystis Pneumonia Occurrence and Prophylaxis Duration in Kidney Transplant Recipients According to Perioperative Treatment with Rituximab
Y. Ko, Y. Kim, D. Han, H. Kwon
Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant, AMC, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a life-threatening fungal infection that can occur in kidney transplantation (KT) recipients. A growing number of KT recipients are receiving…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Increased Transplant Surgery Advanced Practice Provider Involvement Associated with Decreased Hospital Length of Stay and Readmissions Following Kidney Transplantation
E. A. Herriman¹, J. R. Montgomery², K. J. Brown¹, K. J. Woodside¹
¹Surgery-Section of Transplantation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Transplant surgery Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) are utilized to provide complex care to transplant patients. Daily responsibilities of APPs are broad and variable across…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Role of Ceria-Nanoparticles in Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury Models in Rats
C. T. Chung, H. Ko, H. Kim, H. Mo, A. Han, S. Min, J. Ha
Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Preventing ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is an important issue in kidney transplantation, significantly related to graft survival. Ceria nanoparticles has antioxidant properties as a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Elucidating the Genetic Background of End Stage Renal Disease of Unknown Aetiology in Patients Listed for Kidney Transplantation
E. Leenen¹, B. Beck², A. Joerres¹, A. Weidemann¹
¹Department of Medicine I - Nephrology, Transplantation & Medical Intensive Care, Medical Center Cologne-Merheim, Cologne, Germany, ²Institute of Human Genetics University Hospital Cologne, Medical Center Cologne-Merheim, Cologne, Germany
*Purpose: The prevalence of end stage renal disease (ESRD) of unknown aetiology in adult patients accounts for almost 20% of all dialysis patients in Europe.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Influence of Donor Kidney to Recipient Body Weight Ratio on Long-Term Outcomes of Living-Donor Kidney Transplantation
N. Sato, Y. Kakuta, T. Kanzawa, K. Unagami, M. Okumi, H. Ishida, K. Tanabe
Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: We often experience the incompatibility in size between the kidney graft and recipient in living-donor kidney transplantation. This study evaluated the effect of the…