Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

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…
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…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Specific Reasons for Public Health Service (PHS) Increased Risk (IR) Designation Had Little Influence on Doctors’ Kidney Offer Acceptance Decisions in Controlled “Lab” Experiment
D. Stewart¹, J. Rosendale¹, H. McGehee¹, J. Schold², J. Lindemans³, J. Kessler⁴, C. Sullivan⁴, K. Mekeel⁵, R. Stratta⁶, R. Formica⁷, D. Klassen¹
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²CCF, Cleveland, OH, ³Duke, Durham, NC, ⁴Wharton, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵UCSD, San Diego, CA, ⁶Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁷Yale, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Over 25% of donors are labeled as PHS “increased risk,” a designation associated with reduced organ utilization despite favorable risk/benefit calculations for most patients.…