Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Calcium Phosphate Crystals: An Under Recognized Cause of Kidney Allograft Injury?
R. H. Naik, E. Ramos, B. Paueksakon, M. Anand, A. Fogo, B. P. Concepcion, M. Lusco
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Calcium phosphate (CaPhos) crystals are a known cause of dysfunction in native kidneys. Our objectives were to describe the incidence of CaPhos crystal deposition…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation Of Typical Renal Transplant Infections In Simultaneous Heart-kidney Transplant Recipients
E. J. Henricksen¹, U. Wang¹, R. Lee¹, R. Imai¹, A. Puing², A. Couture², A. Multani³, Y. Moayedi⁴, C. Lenihan⁵, K. K. Khush⁶, J. J. Teuteberg⁵
¹Pharmacy, Stanford Healthcare, Stanford, CA, ²Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ³Infectious Diseases, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁶Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Simultaneous heart-kidney transplant (SHKT) is an increasingly utilized treatment for patients with end stage heart failure and advanced kidney disease. Data regarding infectious complications…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outreach as a Way to Improve Access to Kidney Transplants: A Model to Align with Future of Kidney Disease Care
A. Govil¹, P. Gudsoorkar¹, C. Siemer², C. King², T. Diwan¹, E. Woodle¹, S. Shah¹, C. V. Thakar¹
¹Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ²UC Health, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: In 2018, there were more than 100,000 patients wait-listed for kidney transplant whereas only around 21,000 patients received a kidney transplant. Increasing access to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Inflammatory Cytokines Have a Different Effect from One HLA-II Subclass to Another on Human Endothelium
S. Beland, F. Bouchard-Boivin, A. Gama, O. Desy, S. A. De Serres
Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Development of de novo donor-specific antibodies (DSAs) is associated with antibody-mediated rejection and allograft failure. More particularly, HLA-II DSAs, especially those against DQ are…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease and Trait
G. Katz-Greenberg, F. Hailemariam, P. Singh, A. Yadav
Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive hematological disorder caused by point mutation (substitution of valine for glutamine). There are about 100,000 patients…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Synergistic Impact of Obesity and Pre-sensitization in Kidney Transplant Recipients on the Long Term Allograft Survival
Y. Park¹, S. Lee¹, E. Ko¹, T. Ban², J. Min³, H. Yoon⁴, C. Yang¹, B. Chung¹
¹Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Internal Medicine, Eunpeyong St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Internal Medicine, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Obesity is emerging as important health problems worldwide. In recent years, with the development of desensitization therapy, successful kidney transplantation has been performed even…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Anatomy of a Conversation: Assessing ESRD Patients’ Transplant-Related Communication
H. M. Gardiner
Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Live Donor and Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation (LDKT and DDKT) confer meaningful survival, and quality of life benefits to patients with End Stage Renal…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Estimating Alloantibody Levels in Highly-Sensitized Renal Allograft Candidates Using Serial Dilutions
C. Maguire¹, A. R. Tambur¹, C. Schinstock², M. D. Stegall²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Despite the new Kidney Allocation System and Kidney Paired Donation, renal allograft candidates with a >99.9% cPRA still have extremely low rates of transplantation…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Clinical Impact of HCV D+/r- Kidney Transplantation
S. Meade¹, M. A. Simpson², E. D. Walshe², M. E. Akoad², F. D. Gordon²
¹Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA, ²Transplantation, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA
*Purpose: Transplantation of hepatitis C (HCV) positive organs into HCV negative recipients raises concerns regarding potential for infections unresponsive to DAAs. In September 2018, we…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Histological Picture of Indication Biopsies in the First Days after Renal Transplantation
E. Van Loon, M. Coemans, A. Senev, D. Kuypers, M. Emonds, M. Naesens
Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
*Purpose: In preclinical studies, ischemia reperfusion injury and older donor age are associated with renal inflammation in the early phase after transplantation. In human kidney…