Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparative Review of Adult Kidney Transplant Medicare Cost Report Reimbursement in U. S. Transplant Hospitals
E. Zavala¹, J. Rogers², S. Karp¹
¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Transplant Management Group, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: Medicare organ acquisition reimbursement (MOAR) from the Medicare Cost Report (MCR) includes but is not limited to costs associated with candidate evaluation, maintenance on…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Single Cell Profiling of PBMC Identifies Immune Populations Associated with High Risk of Early Acute Rejection
W. Zhang, S. Farouk, Z. Sun, W. Huang, Z. Yi, J. Fu, C. Wei, M. Fribourg-Casajuana, C. He, P. Cravedi, B. Murphy
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: Our previous transcriptomic analysis of pre-transplant peripheral blood revealed a 23-gene set predictive of early acute rejection (EAR) post kidney transplant (JCI Insight, 2019).…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Activation of the ICOS/ICOS-Ligand Pathway in Antibody-Mediated Kidney Graft Rejection
V. Cantaluppi¹, G. Merlotti¹, M. Quaglia¹, G. Rosso¹, N. Clemente¹, G. Cappellano¹, A. Chiocchetti¹, G. Castellano², U. Dianzani¹, G. Camussi³
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Unit, University of Piemonte Orientale (UPO), Novara, Italy, ²Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Unit, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy, ³Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
*Purpose: The costimulatory pathway ICOS/ICOS-Ligand may represent a new therapeutic target in antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR), the major cause of long term kidney graft failure. The…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Non-Active Hepatitis B after Renal Transplantation
M. G. Naik, W. Duettmann, M. Mayrdorfer, F. Halleck, K. Budde, M. Duerr
Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Charité, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: Hepatitis B (HB) is more frequent in dialysis patients (pts) than in the general population. Patient and graft survival in pts with chronic HB…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Exposure to Tacrolimus Trough Levels Below 6ng/ml During the First Year is Associated with Inferior Kidney Graft Survival
T. Agur, B. Rozen-Zvi, R. Rahamimov
Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel
*Purpose: Accumulating data indicates that sub-therapeutic levels of calcineurin inhibitors are associated with long-term graft loss. However, while widely used tacrolimus (TAC) was shown to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Continuous Improvement in Long Term Survival of Kidney Transplants Over the Past Two Decades
E. D. Poggio¹, S. Arrigain², A. Wee³, D. C. Brennan⁴, J. D. Schold²
¹Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Nephrology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Short-term kidney transplant (KTx) graft survival has improved during past decades, but prior research has indicated stagnation or minimally improving long-term outcomes. We studied…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ranking Eplet Mismatches as Predictors of Graft Failure
W. Zhang¹, H. Mohammadhassanzadeh¹, K. Oualkacha², H. Gebel³, W. Klement⁴, R. Sapir-Pichhadze¹
¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Donor:recipient matching at the level of sequence defined HLA targets (eplets) is being promoted as a biologically sound strategy to prevent graft failure. Because…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Patterns of Belatacept Use and Risk of Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD) in US Kidney Transplant Recipients – Analysis of Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Database
W. S. Cherikh¹, T. Kou², J. Foutz¹, A. Gomez-Caminero²
¹United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), Richmond, VA, ²Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
*Purpose: Belatacept, a selective T-cell costimulation blocker, was approved in 2011 for the prophylaxis of organ rejection in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-seropositive kidney transplant recipients. PTLD…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Learning Curve for Pure Laparoscopic Robotic Kidney Transplantation: An Analysis of Outcomes of the First 80 Consecutive Cases at a High-Volume Transplant Center
F. Tinney Jr.¹, J. Stracke², T. Ivanics¹, A. Elsabbagh¹, J. Denny¹, D. Kim¹, L. Malinzak¹, A. Yoshida¹
¹Transplant Institute, Henry ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ²Transplant Surgery, Metro Health Hospital, Wyoming, MI
*Purpose: Robotic surgery is increasingly used in complex operations, including living-donor kidney transplantation. At this time, knowledge of the number of cases required to attain…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Eplet Mismatches on the Risk of Graft Loss: Not All Eplets are Created Equal
H. Mohammadhassanzadeh¹, W. Klement², H. Gebel³, B. Foster⁴, P. Keown⁵, K. Oualkacha⁶, R. Sapir-Pichhadze¹
¹Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Organ Donation and Transplantation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ³Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁶Université du Québec À Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: To mitigate risks related to HLA incompatibility, we assessed whether some unique sequence defined HLA targets (eplets) are associated with graft failure while others…