Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Early Antibody-Mediated Rejection and Late Antibody-Mediated Rejection after Kidney Transplantation
G. Chen, Z. Wu, C. Wang, X. Liu, Q. Li, L. Chen
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
*Purpose: Antibody-mediated rejection(AMR) is a major risk factor for graft loss after kidney transplantation. Some AMR appeared within 6 months after kidney transplant, that we…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Body Composition One Year after Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy in Living Kidney Donors
H. Fukuhara¹, Y. Watarai¹, S. Narumi¹, N. Goto¹, T. Hiramitsu¹, M. Okada¹, K. Futamura¹, T. Tomosugi¹, A. Kanda¹, T. Nawano¹, N. Tsuchiya²
¹Department of Transplant Nephrology and Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Myoukentyou, Japan, ²Department of Urology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata City, Iidanishi, Japan
*Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of surgery on living donors’ body composition and to clarify the factors related to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improved Serum Vitamin D Level and Better Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation
J. Ryu¹, T. Koo², H. Jeon³, C. Ahn⁴, J. Yang⁵
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Transplantation Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Vitamin D deficiency increases cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk through both immunologic and non-immunologic mechanisms. Although vitamin D deficiency is common in end stage renal…
2020 American Transplant Congress
An Evaluation of Converting Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients from Tacrolimus to LCPT to Limit Neurological Adverse Events and Improve Quality of Life
A. Reticker, B. Valdepenas, K. Bruno, D. Cikopana, S. Walton, E. Benedetti, I. Tzvetanov, P. West-Thielke
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Adverse effects (AEs) of tacrolimus significantly reduce recipients’ quality of life (QOL). Given its ability for tremor improvement, this study investigates whether conversion from…