Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Single Center Kidney Costs and Transplant Outcomes Analysis of Undocumented Aliens
Y. A. Qazi, E. Villalon, T. Sadiq, E. Qazi, E. Mir, A. Reza, M. Smogorzewski
USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The purpose of the study was to perform an outcomes and cost comparison analysis between dialysis and kidney transplantation in individuals identified as undocumented…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Providers’ Accuracy in Predicting Early Readmission after Kidney and Liver Transplantation
K. Maroney, Z. Wang, R. Lynch, A. Adams, R. Patzer, J. Hogan
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Predictive models capable of identifying patients at risk for readmission are in development. However, it is unknown how accurate clinicians are at predicting early…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Donor Nephrectomy: A Novel Approach to Improve Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
R. Shahbazov¹, A. Popovic¹, D. Friedman², I. Bandler², S. Loerzel¹, K. Heslin², R. Hod Duvarai³, B. Gallay⁴, O. Pankewycz⁴, M. Laftavi¹
¹Surgery, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ²College of Medicine, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ³Pathology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ⁴Medicine, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
*Purpose: Robotic assisted live donor nephrectomies (RDN) have continued to gain popularity in recent years. Our purpose was to investigate the difference in outcomes between…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The UCSF Cardiovascular Risk after Kidney Transplantation (CARAKTER) Study
M. Park¹, Y. Gao¹, S. Schroeder², S. Siyahian¹, Z. Laszik¹, F. Vincenti¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²UC Davis, Sacramento, CA
*Purpose: We established the UCSF CARAKTER (Cardiovascular Risk After Kidney Transplantation) Study in order to evaluate risk factors for cardiac disease onset and progression in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Timing of T Cell Mediated Rejection in the First Year after Kidney Transplantation
R. Mehta, D. Jorgensen, C. Puttarajappa, S. Hariharan, R. Mehta, P. Sood
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: To evaluate the impact of timing of T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR) occurrence in the first year after kidney transplantation (KT).*Methods: Single center retrospective cohort…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Operative vs. Non-Operative Management of Hemorrhage in the Postoperative Kidney Transplant Patient
R. Shaw¹, T. Reavis¹, V. Meruva², F. Montz³, E. Rogers⁴, A. Kumar¹, V. Bowers⁴, J. Buggs⁴
¹Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ²Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Bradenton, FL, ³University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Postoperative hemorrhage has been described at rates of 14 percent in kidney transplant (KT) literature. The preferred management of postoperative hemorrhage in this population…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Urinary Tract Infections in Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving Alternate Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Regimens
D. Quan¹, J. Phillips¹, E. Chiang¹, V. Kuo²
¹UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ²UC Davis, Davis, CA
*Purpose: Urinary tract infections (UTI) occur frequently in renal transplant (RT) recipients. Antimicrobial prophylaxis may help prevent UTI early post RT. Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) is the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Deceased Donor Maintenance on the Incidence of Delayed Kidney Allograft Function
S. Costa¹, F. Barroso¹, C. Oliveira¹, E. Daher¹, P. Fernandes¹, L. Andrade², R. Esmeraldo³, T. Sandes-Freitas¹
¹Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, ²Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Botucatu, Brazil, ³Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil
*Purpose: To evaluate the risk factors for delayed graft function (DGF) in a Brazilian cohort with high DGF incidence, focusing on variables reflecting donor maintenance.*Methods:…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Two Pilot Studies Exploring the Diagnostic and Predictive Potential of Serum LAG3 and FGL1 in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Y. Li¹, L. Yan¹, Y. Li¹, C. Yang¹, Z. Wan¹, Y. An¹, Y. Bai¹, L. Wang¹, Y. Shi²
¹Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Chengdu, China, ²Department of Nephrology, West China Hospital, Chengdu, China
*Purpose: Lymphocyte activation gene 3 (LAG3), an immune checkpoint, plays an important role in the negative regulation of immune response and the induction of immune…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Tyrosine Receptor Kinase Axl Regulates Intragraft Trafficking of Alloreactive T Cells Post Kidney Transplantation
A. Dangi¹, K. Glinton², M. Sharma¹, S. Yu¹, M. DeBerge², E. B. Thorp², X. Luo¹
¹Nephrology/Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Previous studies have shown that receptor tyrosine kinase Axl, primarily expressed on dendritic cells and some tissue-specific macrophage population, is required for T cells…