Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Ex-Vivo Kidney Perfusion Restores the Genetic Profile of Marginal Kidney Grafts Subjected to Warm Ischemia
P. Urbanellis,¹ M. Hamar,¹ I. Linares,¹ D. Kollmann,¹ S. Ganesh,¹ R. John,¹ P. Yip,¹ I. Mucsi,¹ A. Ghanekar,¹ D. Bagli,² A. Konvalinka,¹ D. Grant,¹ L. Robinson,² M. Selzner.¹
¹University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²SickKids Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Background: Increasing evidence demonstrates the superiority of normothermic ex-vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP) over cold storage (CS) for marginal renal grafts. To account for this improvement,…
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Transplant Benefit to Patients with Long Dialysis Vintage
A. Massie, D. Crews, T. Purnell, J. Garonzik-Wang, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Following implementation of KAS, deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) waitlist registrants with long dialysis vintage have high allocation priority. However, having survived for many years…
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Greater Access to Kidney Transplantation in Competitive DSAs: Due to Improved Referral?
J. Adler,¹ D. Chang,² H. Yeh.²
¹Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI; ²Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
INTRODUCTION: For patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), access to kidney transplantation (ATT) varies across the 58 Donor Service Areas (DSAs) of the United States,…
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A Comparison of Alemtuzumab versus Antithymocyte Globulin Induction in High-Risk, Non-Sensitized Renal Transplant Recipients
S. Patel, A. Lichvar, E. Benedetti, P. West-Thielke.
University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago.
Background: Lymphocyte depleting induction is routinely utilized in high immunologic risk renal transplant (RTx). African Americans (AA) have a relatively higher risk of rejection regardless…
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Investigating the Variability of Fluid Resuscitation during Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
A. Williams,¹ S. Kumar,² R. Sung,¹ K. Woodside,¹ M. Englesbe,¹ M. Alameddine,¹ S. Waits.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Section of Transplantation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²Department of Anesthesia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Background: Under or over resuscitation during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy may have a significant effect on donor and graft outcomes. Despite the importance, no guidelines exist…
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Psychotic Disorders and Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation
M. Molnar,^1,2 J. Eason,^1,2 A. Gaipov,³ M. Talwar,^1,2 P. Potukuchi,³ K. Kalantar-Zadeh,⁴ C. Kovesdy.^3,5
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, Memphis, TN; ²Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; ³Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; ⁴Division of Nephrology, University of California, Irvine, CA; ⁵Nephrology Section, Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, TN.
Background: The prevalence of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia combined is around 1-4% in the general population and both represent relative contraindications for kidney transplantation. However,…
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Patient and Transplant Outcome in Infants Starting Renal Replacement Therapy before Two Years of Age
J. Hogan,^1,2,3 J. Harambat,⁴ E. Berard,⁵ C. Couchoud,³ M-.A. Macher.^2,3
¹Pediatric Nephrology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ²Pediatric Nephrology, Robert Debre University Hospital, Paris, France; ³REIN Registry, French Biomedecine Agency, Paris, France; ⁴Pediatric Nephrology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France; ⁵Pediatric Nephrology, L'archet Hospital, Nice, France.
Introduction: Despite major technical improvement in the care of children requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) before two years of age, the management of those patients…
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Age Difference between Donor and Recipient Predisposes to Early Interstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Atrophy in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
S. Panombualert, M. Pearl, P. Weng, R. Ettenger.
Pediatric Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Introduction: Previous studies in adult kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) have shown that an increased age difference between donor and recipient increases the risk of arterial…
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Is BMI > 35 a Barrier to Kidney Transplantation?
D. Walczak, E. Benedetti, C. Ryan.
Organ Transplant, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
Background:Although lower rates of patient and graft survival are reported for kidney transplant recipients with BMI > 35, kidney transplant in this group provides a…
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Lower Incidence of De Novo Donor-Specific Antibodies against HLA-DR in ABO-Incompatible Renal Transplantation
M. Okada,¹ K. Futamura,¹ T. Hiramitsu,¹ M. Tsujita,¹ N. Goto,¹ S. Narumi,¹ Y. Watarai,¹ K. Iwasaki,² T. Kobayashi.²
¹Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; ²Department of Transplant Surgery, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan.
IntroductionDe novo DSA-induced chronic antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is one of major obstacles to long term graft survival. We have reported that anti-A/B antibody binding could…