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Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Significant Anti-CMV/BKV Effect of a Modern Everolimus-Based Regimen Comparted to a Standard Tacrolimus-MPA Regimen in De Novo Kidney Transplant Recipients: ATHENA 12 Months Data on Infections

    A. Hauser,1 C. Sommerer,1 B. Suwelack,1 D. Dragun,1 O. Witzke,1 C. Hugo,1 N. Kamar,2 P. Merville,2 P. Schenker,1 M. Junge,3 F. Thaiss,1 B. Nashan.1

    1Athena Study Group, Germany; 2Athena Study Group, France; 3Novartis, Pharma, Germany.

    The ATHENA trial was designed to compare everolimus [EVR] in combination with tacrolimus [TAC] or cyclosporine A [CyA] vs. a standard regimen of mycophenolic acid…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of Induction Therapy on CD4 Cell Count Recovery Following Renal Transplantation in HIV Positive Recipients – A Single Center Experience

    J. Chique Figueroa, M. Prendergast, H. Wadei, M. Mai, K. Oshel, D. Leonard.

    Department of Transplantation, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL.

    The feasibility, complications and outcomes of solid organ transplantation in the HIV positive population are well documented and have had excellent outcomes with a slight…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Are Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Kidneys Unsuitable for Pediatric Recipients?

    M. MacConmara,1 S. Levea,2 C. Hwang.1

    1Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; 2Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.

    Introduction: Despite the fact that the number of pediatric patients listed for kidney transplantation far exceeds the supply of deceased donor kidneys, there is a…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Long Term Outcomes of Renal Allografts with De Novo DSA in the Setting of Stable Graft Function versus Acute Rejection

    R. Knight,1 D. Nguyen,2 E. Graviss,2 T. Eagar,2 S. Kuten,3 S. Patel,3 L. Moore,1 A. Gaber.1

    1Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 2Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 3Pharmacy, Houston Methodist, Houston, TX.

    We sought to compare the long-term outcome of renal allograft recipients with de novo DSA (dnDSA) in the setting of stable allograft function versus dnDSA…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Can Immunosuppression Maintenance after Renal Allograft Failure Prevent Further Sensitization?

    A. Mena-Gutierrez, K. Alquadan, A. Santos, K. Womer, M. Casey.

    University of Florida, Gainesville.

    After renal graft failure, retransplantation(ReTx) becomes more difficult due to sensitization to alloantigens. In 2013, our center opened a specialty clinic to maintain immunosuppression(IS) after…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Vesicoureteral Reflux after Kidney Transplantation Influences Long-Term Graft Survival

    T. Hirose,1 K. Hotta,2 N. Fukuzawa,3 A. Mitsuke,3 H. Harada.3

    1Urology, Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan; 2Renal and Genito-Urinary Surgery, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; 3Kidney Transplant Surgery, Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.

    [Introduction] Post-transplant vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a complication of kidney transplantation (KT) causing graft interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy. However, risk factors for VUR or…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Reactive Eomesderminhi CD8+ T Cells Are Significantly Upregulated Early after Transplant in Kidney Transplant Patients without Rejection

    A. Perez-Gutierrez,1,2 D. Metes,1 S. Hariharan,1 A. Thomson,1 M. Ezzelarab.1

    1Surgery, Thomas Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Surgery, Transplantation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

    IntroductionMemory T cell responses play a critical role in the outcome of allo-transplantation. While the role of the T-box transcription factor Eomesodermin (Eomes) in the…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Cell Free DNA Sequencing for Diagnosing Infections, Estimating Growth Rates, and Characterizing Antibiotic Resistomes in Urine Supernatants

    J. Lee,1 P. Burnham,2 D. Dadhania,1 M. Heyang,2 F. Chen,2 M. Suthanthiran,1 I. De Vlaminck.2

    1Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; 2Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

    INTRODUCTION. We examined the utility of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) sequencing of urine supernatants in kidney transplant recipients for diagnosing rare and common urinary tract infections…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Medullary Tissue Sampling in Renal Allograft Biopsy is More Sensitive for Pathologic Diagnosis of PVN

    D. Abdelwahab,1 H. Khamash,1 S. Kriegshauser,3 R. Heilman,1 M. Smith.2

    1Nephrology and Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix; 2Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix; 3Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix.

    Background Post-transplant polyoma virus nephropathy (PVN) prevalence is 1-10%. Definitive PVN diagnosis requires polyoma virus presence in infected cells, done with immunohistochemical staining for SV40…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Waitlist Survival is Approaching Survival after Kidney Transplantation

    A. Rana, B. Murthy, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss.

    Abdominal Tranplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

    Backround: Kidney transplantation confers a significant survival benefit to its recipients. Our objective was to reassess this survival benefit in light of improving outcomes on…
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