Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Tibetans and Hans Have Comparable Transplant Outcomes- A Propensity Score Matched Cohort Analysis
T. Lin, Y. Jiang, T. Song, Y. Fan
Organ transplantation center, Urology department, Urology research institute, WestChina Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
*Purpose: Tibetans is usually believed to have inferior clinical outcomes to Hans due to social economical and culture reasons. Limited data concerning kidney transplant (KT)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Return to Work after Sick Leave in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A 365-Day Cohort of the Japan Academic Consortium of Kidney Transplantation (JACK) Study
K. Miyake¹, M. Okumi¹, K. Unagami², Y. Kakuta¹, M. Furusawa¹, K. Omoto³, T. Shimizu³, M. Endo⁴, H. Ishida², K. Tanabe¹
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Sinjuku, Japan, ²Organ Transplant Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Sinjuku, Japan, ³Urology, Toda Chuo General Hospital, Saitama, Japan, ⁴Public Health, Juntendo University, Bunkyo, Japan
*Purpose: They said that kidney transplantation was better than dialysis about patient survival and quality of life. However, there have been no large-scale Japanese studies…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Reduction of Warm Ischemia on DCD Kidney Transplantation Outcomes
S. Aquil, D. Wonjoon, M. Levine, R. Al Ogaili, A. Sener, P. Luke
Department of Surgery, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Western University Hospital, LHSC, London, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Warm ischemic time (WIT) during donation after cardiac death (DCD) kidney transplantation has significant effects on post-operative outcomes, such as graft survival, function, and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Utility of a Novel dd-cfDNA Test to Detect Injury in Renal Post-Transplant Patients
J. Peabody¹, P. Billings², Z. Demko², D. Paculdo¹, M. Tran¹, S. Moshkevich², C. Valdenor¹
¹QURE Healthcare, San Francisco, CA, ²Natera, Inc., San Carlos, CA
*Purpose: Detecting allograft injury and rejection is critical to preventing graft loss. Current standard of care (SoC) relies on serum creatinine (SC) and biopsy to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Speckle Echo Pre and Post Kidney Transplant: A Pilot Study
M. Olivares-Perez¹, Y. Gao¹, A. Webber¹, F. Ghahghaie¹, M. Lassen², A. Qasim¹, M. Park¹
¹University California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
*Purpose: Relative to dialysis, cardiovascular (CV) mortality improves with transplantation. Nevertheless, CV disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for kidney transplant recipients (KTR),…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Older Kidney-Transplant Recipients: A Single-Center Experience
S. Sultan, M. Aull, M. Lubetzky, A. Watkins, S. Kapur
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
*Purpose: Given the aging population of patients with ESRD, and the high rates of associated mortality, at our center we perform an individualized risk assessment…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Tandem Mass Tags Based Liquid Chromatography/ Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Quantitative Proteomic Changes in Renal Allograft Biopsies with Polyomavirus BK Nephropathy
F. Fang, P. Liu, L. Song, Y. Zhao, G. Zeng, G. Tseng, K. Xiao, P. Randhawa
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Transcriptomics analyses have not generated reliable means to distinguish T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR) from BK virus nephropathy (BKVN). Proteomics-based approaches deserve further exploration since…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Single-Port Robotic Kidney Transplantation: Initial Pre-Clinical Experience Using the SP Surgical System
M. Eltemamy, J. Garisto, R. Bertolo, E. Miller, A. Wee, J. Kaouk
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Multiport robotic kidney transplantation has been described as a novel minimally invasive approach. We evaluate the feasibility of a robot-assisted single-port kidney transplantation using…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Infectious Complications after Treatment of Antibody-Mediated Kidney Allograft Rejection: A National Cohort Study
N. Perrottet¹, D. Golshayan², O. Manuel², V. Aubert², M. Koller³, K. Hadaya⁴, L. Bühler⁴, T. Mueller⁵, U. Huynh-Do⁶, S. Dahdal⁶, I. Binet⁷, M. Dickenmann³, S. Schaub³, J. Steiger³, M. Pascual², M. Fernández-Ruiz²
¹Pharmacy, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland, ²CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland, ³USB, Basel, Switzerland, ⁴HUG, Geneva, Switzerland, ⁵USZ, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁶Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland, ⁷KSSG, St. Gallen, Switzerland
*Purpose: Multimodal therapeutic strategies used to treat acute antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) could enhance the risk of infection. However, data in this context are scarce.*Methods: We…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Lack of Linguistically and Culturally Tailored Initiatives in Kidney Transplant Programs in the United States
S. Carbunaru¹, A. Ortiz², C. Ortiz³, J. Ortiz³, J. Locke⁴, J. Caicedo¹
¹Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³Department of Surgery, University of Toledo College of Medicine & Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Although minorities are the majorities in the kidney transplant waiting list, it is unknown if kidney transplant programs in United States have implemented linguistically…