Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Concentrations on Conversion from Twice‑Daily to Once‑Daily Tacrolimus in Stable Kidney Graft Recipients: A Single-Center Retrospective Study
Z. Wang, Y. Cao, Y. Fu
Transplant Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tian Jin, China
*Purpose: Potential benefits of once-daily tacrolimus include improved adherence to immunosuppressives and decreased Intrapatient variability (IPV) post kidney transplantation. A retrospective analysis was performed to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Decision Support Needs for African American Kidney Transplant Candidates and Social Support Networks
W. T. McKinney¹, A. Hart¹, S. Kurschner², M. Bruin³, J. Zulema-Woodward⁴, M. Partin², R. Patzer⁵
¹Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, ³College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ⁵Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Decision support tools to improve racial disparities in access to kidney transplant need to be relevant and tailored to underserved racial groups.*Methods: We conducted…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Novel Biomarkers for Post-Transplant Recurrent IgA Nephropathy
Y. Caliskan¹, B. Dirim², E. Aksoy², R. Ouseph¹, Y. Ozluk³, H. Randall⁴, F. Savran Oguz⁵, A. Turkmen², M. S. Sever², K. Lentine¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ²Division of Nephrology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Department of Pathology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Center for Abdominal Transplantation, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ⁵Department of Medical Biology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
*Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate serum levels of galactose-deficient IgA1 (Gd-IgA1), advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) and 4 tag single-nucleotide variants…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Passenger Lymphocyte Syndrome Due to Anti-Rh(D) Reactivity after Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report
S. Nemr¹, S. Bani Hani¹, E. Klohe², C. Gresens³, S. Desmond¹, O. Ojogho¹
¹Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital, Spokane, WA, ²HLA Laboratory, Inland Northwest Blood Center, Spokane, WA, ³Inland Northwest Blood Center, Spokane, WA
*Purpose: PLS can occur soon after solid organ transplantation when donor-derived antibodies against recipient red cell antigens are produced and lead to hemolysis. The anemia…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Video Education Intervention to Improve Kidney Transplant Knowledge and Willingness to Complete Transplant Evaluation in Dialysis Patients
D. A. DuBay¹, T. A. Morinelli¹, Z. Sutton¹, M. Chastain¹, T. Thompkins Tindal¹, Z. Su², E. Weeda³, P. Mauldin⁴, M. Casey¹, J. Bian², D. Taber¹, P. K. Baliga¹
¹Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ²General Internal Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ³Clinical Pharmacy-Outcomes Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ⁴General Internal Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has set a goal of 30% (currently 18.5%) of dialysis patients to be on a transplant (Tx)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Anti-Thymocyte Globulin versus Interleukin-2 Receptor Antagonist and Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplant Outcomes among Older Recipients
J. Ahn¹, S. Bae¹, K. Lentine², M. Schnitzler², G. Hess³, D. Segev¹, M. McAdams-DeMarco¹
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ³Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation (KT) has been growing treatment option for older end-stage renal disease patients. Although lymphocyte-depleting agents are considered to be superior than interleukin-2…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparative Analysis of Kidney Transplant-Specific versus Hospital-Wide Antibiograms
J. D. Lewis
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients are more likely to develop antimicrobial-resistant infections versus the general population, but few transplant centers have developed SOT-specific antibiograms…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Kidneys from Deceased Donors with Positive Hepatitis C Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing (HCV NAT+)
K. L. King, S. A. Husain, S. Mohan
Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: With modern direct-acting antiviral agents, transplantation of kidneys from HCV NAT+ deceased donors for recipients with or without HCV has expanded the kidney supply.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Financial Feasibility of a Culturally Competent and Linguistically Congruent Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program
E. Gordon¹, A. Wang¹, G. McNatt¹, M. Abecassis², J. Caicedo¹
¹Northwestern U Feinberg Sch of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
*Purpose: Relative to their representation on the waitlist, Hispanics/Latinos received significantly fewer LDKTs than non-Hispanic Whites in 2018: 5.0% versus 12.2%. In 2006, Northwestern Medicine…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Single Cell RNA Transcriptomics to Further the Precision Transplantation Medicine Approaches in Kidney Allograft Recipients
H. Suryawanshi, H. Yang, M. Lubetzky, S. Seshan, T. Tuschl, M. Suthanthiran, T. Muthukumar
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Test the hypothesis that single cell RNA transcriptomics will further the precision transplantation medicine approaches and address important conundrums in clinical transplantation.*Methods: We studied…