2019 American Transplant Congress
Unsuccessful Resuscitative Thoracotomy Patients Are Potential Kidney Donors
1University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, 2Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Renal transplantation remains the most effective therapy in patients with end-stage renal disease, offering exceptional survival benefits and quality of life improvement. However, a…2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Renal Transplantation in Elderly Patients Older Than 60 Years of Age
*Purpose: Patients ≥ 60 years are the largest growing age group which comprise 40% of all patients with ESRD. Kidney transplantation has been shown to…2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Reduced Thymoglobulin Induction Dosing in Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients at a Steroid Sparing Center
Pharmacy, NewYork-Presbyterian, New York, NY
*Purpose: Studies have demonstrated a mortality benefit with kidney transplantation (KT) in elderly patients, but there is little consensus over optimal immunosuppression. Older KT recipients…2019 American Transplant Congress
Real World Data Support International Consenus Guidelines on Management of CMV after Kidney Transplantation
Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
*Purpose: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) naïve kidney transplant recipients (R-) transplanted with an organ from a CMV positive donor (D+) are at high risk for CMV disease.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Hypertrophy Prediction Model for Contralateral Kidney after Living Donation
*Purpose: Compensation of contralateral kidney function is well established and many factors have been proposed as risk factors. There is no prediction model to estimate…2019 American Transplant Congress
Mitigating Racial and Gender Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Impact of the Nation’s Longest Single-Center Kidney Chain
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Disparities in access to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) exist among minorities and women and may be partially explained by antigen sensitization secondary to…2019 American Transplant Congress
Breakthrough Changes in the Access to Transplantation for the Patients with Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in the Eculizumab Era
On behalf of the French aHUS Study Group, France, France
*Purpose: Eculizumab has revolutionized the management of atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS). In 2012, the French aHUS Study Group issued recommendations to advocate a pro-transplantation…2019 American Transplant Congress
Interstitial CD68+ Cells Infiltration and Kidney Graft Outcome
*Purpose: Macrophage infiltration, as an expression of early inflammation, is associated with unfavorable kidney graft outcome in protocol biopsies. However, few studies have evaluated the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Attitude towards Organ Donation among Medical Students: Relationship to Knowledge and Beliefs
Nephrology/Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of organ donation may underlie physician unwillingness to refer patients for organ donation. We examined baseline knowledge and beliefs…2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Grafts Ultrasound Guided Biopsy Performed By Nephrologist. Regaining Technique And Improving Results
Nephrology, Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Stablish the optimal technique and protocol of ultrasound guided renal graft biopsy to be performed by nephrologist compared with previous standard of care, regading…
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