Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Do Reconstruction Techniques for Two Renal Arteries Affect Long-Term Graft Survival after Living Donor Renal Transplantation?
S. Yamanaga, P. Stock, M. Tavkol, S-.M. Kang.
Transplant Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Background: Living donor kidneys with two arteries can be revascularized using various techniques depending on anatomy. We hypothesized that the revascularization technique could impact long-term…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Estimated Impact of the Number of Simultaneous Offers on Kidney Delay and Discard
M. Mankowski,¹ S. Raghavan,³ C. Holscher,² M. Kosztowski,² D. Segev,² S. Gentry.⁴
¹King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; ³University of Maryland, College Park; ⁴US Naval Academy, Annapolis.
Following local decline of a recovered kidney, making regional and national offers in larger simultaneous batches might decrease discards. We simulated varying batch sizes for…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Advantage of Utilizing ABO and HLA Compatible Pairs in Kidney Paired Donation
A. Basu,¹ C. Kosberg,¹ H. Khamash,² M. Mai,³ M. Prieto,¹ C. Schinstock.¹
¹Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; ³Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
BACKGROUND: Kidney paired donation (KPD) programs are mainly used to facilitate transplantation for candidates with ABO or HLA incompatible living donors. However, the benefit of…
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Pancreas Transplant Recipients with End-Stage Renal Disease Benefit from Kidney Transplantation
Y. Tang, Z. Zhu, S. Huang, Z. Zhang, W. Ju, Z. Guo, X. He, G. Chen.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Background: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) has been shown after pancreas transplant alone (PTA), however, the benefit of kidney transplantation (KT) in PTA recipients with ESRD…
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The Living Donor Lost Wages Trial: Study Rationale, Protocol, and Update
J. Rodrigue,¹ M. Pavlakis,¹ A. Evenson,¹ A. Fleishman,¹ M. Carroll,¹ D. Mandelbrot,² P. Baliga,³ D. Howard,⁴ J. Schold.⁵
¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; ²University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; ³Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; ⁴Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ⁵Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the optimal treatment for adults with renal failure. However, living kidney donation has declined in the past decade, particularly…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Non-Myeloablative Conditioning with Low-Dose Total Body Irradiation in Place of Cyclophosphamide Induces Mixed Chimerism and Long-Term Immunosuppression Free Allograft Survival without Acute Kidney Injury in HLA Mismatched Kidney Transplantation
T. Kawai,¹ T. Spitzer,¹ T. Oura,¹ N. Torkoff-Rubin,¹ N. Elias,¹ M. Sykes,² R. Colvin,¹ D. Sachs,² A. Cosimi.¹
¹Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University, New York, NY.
We have achieved successful induction of long-term immunosuppression (IS) free renal allograft survival in HLA mismatched kidney transplantation using cyclophosphamide (CP) based conditioning and combined…
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Elucidating Novel Signatures of Allograft Rejection through Cytometry by Time of Flight (CyTOF) in Kidney Transplant Recipients
S. Eskandari,¹ B. Al Dulaijan,¹ J. Assaker,¹ L. Riella,¹ A. Kurdi,² J. Azzi.¹
¹Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ²Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.
Mass cytometry by time-of-flight (CyTOF) permits the simultaneous assessment of over 40 functional and phenotypic parameters at the single-cell level. This novel tool holds tremendous…
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Influence of X-Ray Repair Cross-Complementing Group (XRCC) Genes Polymorphisms on the Development of Antibody-Mediated Rejection (ABMR) in Renal Transplant Recipients
Z. Wang, Z. Han, J. Tao, R. Tan, M. Gu.
Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
The importance of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) on the renal transplant recipients has been recognized in recent years. However, the pathogenesis of ABMR following kidney transplantation…
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The Impact of Pre-Transplant Donor Specific Antibodies (DSA) on AMR Rates in HIV-Infected Kidney Transplant Recipients Inducted with IL-2 RA
S. Farouk, B. Rollins, V. Delaney, N. Singh, V. Sehgal, R. Kent, M. Menon, R. Shapiro, S. Florman, G. DeBoccardo.
Recanati Miller Transplant Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, NY.
Background: 1-year rejection rates in HIV-infected kidney transplant recipients range from 15-40%, compared to overall rejection rates of 10% in HIV-negative patients. We report the…
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Risk Factors for Graft Failure in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Polycystic Kidney Disease
G. Bhutani, B. Astor, A. Djamali.
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Background: Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is the underlying renal disease in 15% of kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) in the US. Post-transplant outcomes and contributing factors…