Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Derived Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae Infection after Renal Transplantation
B. Liu, M. Wang, F. Zeng, S. Chang, N. Gong, G. Chen, Z. Chen
Institute of Transplantation, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
*Purpose: We summarized the experience of diagnosis and treatment of donor-derived carbapene-resistant klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) infection after renal transplantation.*Methods: From January 2015 to June 2018,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Influence of Arteriosclerosis in Kidney Grafts Proven by a Zero-Hour Biopsy
Y. Kakuta¹, M. Okumi¹, T. Kanzawa¹, K. Unagami², H. Ishida¹, K. Tanabe¹
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ²Organ Transplant Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: Histopathological assessment of kidney grafts by zero-hour biopsies adds unique information concerning organ quality that is not available on clinical grounds. The most prevalent…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Donor Nephrectomy: Is It Safe Alternative?
D. Friedman, R. Shahbazov, I. Bandler, T. Malik, Z. Acun, K. Olivera-Wright, B. Gallay, O. Pankewycz, M. Laftavi
Surgery, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
*Purpose: Robotic assisted live donor nephrectomies (RDN) have continued to gain popularity in recent years. Previous studies have shown that the outcomes of these robotic…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Potential Role of IL-33/ST2 Pathway in Renal Allograft Rejection
M. Yu¹, Y. Kim², J. Moon², S. Lee², H. Lee², D. Kim², C. Lee³, Y. Kim², S. Yang²
¹Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, Korea, Republic of, ²Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Cheju Halla General Hospital, Jeju, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Interleukin (IL)-33 is one of IL-1 family cytokine that has pleiotropic effects, such as inflammation promotion and immune response regulation. Recent studies showed that…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Body Mass Index and Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation: A Single Centre, Retrospective, Observational Study
A. Arshad¹, J. Hodson², K. Khalil¹, A. Sharif³
¹University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ²Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, Institute of Translational Medicine, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ³Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, UK, Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Birmingham, United Kingdom
*Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe the changes in body mass index (BMI) after kidney transplantation and assess how this influences long-term…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Retrospective Matched Case-Control Study of Medical and Psychiatric Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Bipolar Disorder
A. GOSWAMI BANERJEE¹, S. Hamel², R. Weinrieb¹, S. Dave¹, V. Johnson³, D. Sawinski⁴, J. Trofe-Clark³
¹Psychiatry, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ³Pharmacy, Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Renal, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Management of kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) with bipolar disorder (BD) is complicated by risk factors for non-adherence, complex medication regimens and limited published guidance.…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Interpretable Post-Transplant Graft Failure Prediction Using Decision Tree Neural Networks
J. N. Valdez¹, T. Fu¹, J. Hogan², S. Adhikary¹, M. Arenson², R. Zhang², X. Zhang³, K. Li², A. B. Adams², R. E. Patzer², J. Sun¹
¹Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, ²Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Various predictive models identify kidney transplant (KTx) recipients at high risk of graft failure (GF), but comparisons across statistical approaches for a full range…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Phenotypes in Early Subclinical Inflammation (SCI) Determined by Presence of Interstitial Inflammation with or without Concomitant Tubulitis
R. Mehta, S. Tandukar, D. Jorgensen, I. Owoyemi, P. Sood, A. Tevar, S. Hariharan
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Low levels of renal allograft inflammation in the early post transplant period appear to have an impact on renal architecture and function. However, the…
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…