Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
The Risk of Systematic Error in Kidney Transplant Opioid Research
J. N. Fleming, N. A. Pilch, S. Ball, P. K. Baliga, V. Rohan, D. J. Taber
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Opioid use before and after kidney transplant is strongly associated with morbidity and mortality; yet data assessing opioid utilization has centered on sources with…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Using Transplant Referral Regions to Measure Access to Kidney Transplant
K. Ross¹, D. Axelrod², R. Patzer¹
¹Emory University, Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA, ²Dept of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: The transplant community has advocated to emphasize pre-transplant quality metrics to promote access to kidney transplantation (KT). Measuring access to transplant requires a well-defined,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Once-Daily Tacrolimus on Trough Concentration Variability in Stable Adolescent and Young Adult Renal Transplant Recipients
M. Moss, J. Goebel, A. Lofton, E. Steinberg, M. Bock
Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: High tacrolimus concentration variability (Vtac), likely influenced by medication non-adherence, is a risk factor for graft dysfunction and loss among renal transplant recipients (RTRs),…
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Is Alemtuzumab Induction Safe In Septuagenarians Undergoing Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation?
D. Harriman, V. Gurram, C. Jay, J. Rogers, A. Farney, G. Orlando, A. Reeves-Daniel, A. Mena-Gutierrez, R. Stratta
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: Alemtuzumab induction in septuagenarians is controversial but understudied.*Methods: Single center retrospective review of adult deceased donor kidney transplant (KT) recipients receiving single dose (30…
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in the US: Have We Made Any Progress among Pediatric Candidates over the Last Twenty Years?
T. Purnell¹, S. Bae¹, X. Luo¹, A. Chen¹, D. Crews¹, L. Cooper¹, O. N. Bignall II², K. Covarrubias¹, D. Segev¹
¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: A recent JAMA study demonstrated worsening disparities in access to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among adults in the US. We examined twenty-year trends…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor-derived Cell-free Dna In Donor Specific Antibody Positive Kidney Transplant Recipients
D. Cheng¹, X. Li², T. Jiang², H. Liu², Y. Zhou³, H. Shi³
¹National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China, ²Research and Development, AlloDx Biotech Co.Ltd., Suzhou, China, ³Precise Medicine Center, Biology and Science School, JiangSu University, Zhenjiang, China
*Purpose: Donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) is an emerging biomarker of kidney allograft injury. Studies examining the clinical validity of this biomarker have identified cut off…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Withaferin A as a Possible Therapy for Chronic Allograft Nephropathy
T. Divanyan¹, D. Patel¹, E. Acosta¹, D. Howard², F. Jourd'heuil², D. Jourd'heuil², R. Lopez-Soler³
¹Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, ²Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, ³Surgery, Section of Transplantation, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
*Purpose: One of the possible steps in the development of post-transplant interstitial fibrosis is epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) of proximal renal tubular cells with…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Subtyping Of Histologically Stable Kidney Transplants In Molecular Meta-analysis
D. Rychkov¹, T. Sigdel², J. Liberto², M. Sarwal², M. Sirota³
¹ICHS, Department of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Department of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ³ICHS, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Histologically stable allografts have been shown to have molecular inflammation by prior gene expression studies. Nevertheless, there are no methodologies in place to sub-group…
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CD56+CD57+ Infiltrate is a Predominant Subset of Infiltrating Natural Killer Cell in Renal Transplant Biopsies with Antibody-Mediated Rejection
H. Jung¹, Y. Wee², J. Kim², M. Choi², J. Choi², H. Kwon², J. Jung², S. Kim³, Y. Cho⁴, Y. Park⁴, H. Go⁴, M. Han⁵, Y. Kim², D. Han², S. Shin²
¹Department of Biomedical Science, Asan Medical Institute of Convergence Science and Technology (AMIST), Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Convergence Medicine, Asan Institute for life sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Department of Pathology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: To verify a subset of intragraft and circulating natural killer cells associated with kidney allograft rejection and fibrosis.*Methods: Thirty-nine clinically indicated transplant biopsies performed…
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Oral Preconditioning of Donors after Brain Death with Calcineurin Inhibitors vs. Inhibitors of Mammalian Target for Rapamycin in Pig Kidney Transplantation
S. Abbasi Dezfouli¹, M. Golriz¹, O. Ghamarnejad¹, E. Khajeh¹, S. Mohammadi¹, M. Nikdad¹, A. Majlesara¹, M. Sabagh¹, P. Fathi¹, S. Shafiei¹, M. Kentar², A. Younsi², C. Eckert³, T. Poth³, A. Mehrabi¹, A. Nickkholgh¹
¹Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, ²Department of Neurosurgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, ³Department of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
*Purpose: The systemic inflammatory cascade triggered in donors after brain death (DBD) enhances the ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) after organ transplantation. Data regarding donor preconditioning with…