Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Maintenance Belatacept Therapy is Associated with Increased Rates of Polyoma Viremia
D. Conti, E. Maciera, D. Pluckrose, M. Garner, D. Schuster, S. Patel
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
*Purpose: The introduction of belatacept costimulatory blockade therapy has added a novel and powerful agent to the immunosuppressive armamentarium utilized after renal transplantation. However, limited…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Opioid-Free Pain Control? Surgical Opioid Avoidance Protocol (SOAP) Following Kidney Transplant
J. Benken¹, M. Campara¹, E. Votta Velis², I. Tzvetanov³, E. Benedetti³
¹Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The opioid epidemic within the United States has devastated patients and their families in addition to triggering a national public health crisis. Unnecessary prescribing…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Utilization and Outcomes of Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplants after Change in Allocation Policy
M. L. Samoylova¹, B. I. Shaw¹, S. J. Kesseli¹, S. Sanoff², Y. Patel², A. S. Barbas¹, L. McElroy¹
¹Surgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ²Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC
*Purpose: The July 10, 2017 change in simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) listing policy imposed more stringent criteria on recipient renal function. Recipient outcomes following this change…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characterization of Histological Phenotypes of Acute Rejection Episodes in Kidney Transplant Recipient Receiving a Single 3mg/kg Dose of Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin
R. S. Campos¹, M. Cristelli¹, H. Proença², R. D. Foresto¹, L. Viana¹, S. Stopa Martins¹, M. Nakamura¹, L. Takara¹, J. Taddeo¹, C. Felipe¹, H. T. Tedesco Jr.¹, J. Pestana¹
¹Nephrology Division, Hospital Do Rim, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ²Pathology Division, Hospital Do Rim, Sao Paulo, Brazil
*Purpose: Late acute rejections appear to exert a more negative effect on graft kidney allograft survival than earlier events. Literature lacks studies that detail the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Challenges to National Kidney Paired Donation Education and Opportunities for Improvement
A. Waterman¹, E. H. Wood¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², S. McGuire³, K. Miller⁴, V. Chipman⁵, J. Sinacore⁶, M. Cooper⁷
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UW Health, Madison, WI, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, ⁷Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: To increase kidney paired donation (KPD) rates nationally, we need to overcome systematic barriers to educating potential donors and recipients consistently about the option…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of High KDPI Kidneys in Selected Recipients at a Large Center
J. Pagan, L. Preczewski, M. Muldoon, L. Mendez, A. Harshman, E. Shipman, G. Guerra
Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Kidneys from donors with high KDPI’s are frequently discarded due to concerns about short- and long-term outcomes. Despite the decreased graft survival of these…
2020 American Transplant Congress
How Prepared are Potential Donors to Donate?: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Potential Kidney Donors’ Knowledge and Education Before Starting Evaluation
A. Waterman¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, Y. Cui², J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, U. Reddy⁴, B. Campbell⁵, F. L. Weng⁶
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³Division of Nephrology, UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, ⁵Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: Potential living donors of different races/ethnicities present for kidney donor evaluation with varying levels of knowledge.*Methods: We surveyed potential living donors about how they…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Socioeconomic and Financial Challenges Affecting 2500 Potential Living Kidney Donors’ Pursuit of Donation
A. Waterman¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, Y. Cui², J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, U. Reddy⁴, B. Campbell⁵, F. L. Weng⁶
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, ⁵Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, CA
*Purpose: To identify financial factors that affect living kidney donors’ attitudes and progress towards donation, we conducted a survey of 2576 potential living donors [48%…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Contralateral Upper Tracturothelial Carcinoma after Primary Radical Nephroureterectomy in Kidney Transplant Patients
Z. Wang, J. Lin, Y. Zhu, Y. Guo, Y. Tian
Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
*Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of contralateral upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) after primary radical…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving Access to Transplantation and Outcomes for African American Patients
D. Bekbolsynov, O. Ekwenna, B. Mierzejewska, J. Borucka, S. A. Khuder, M. Rees, R. Green, S. Stepkowski
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
*Purpose: Black or African American patients are clearly disadvantaged in comparison to Caucasian patients both in terms of the access to kidney transplantation and post-transplant…