Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Prevention of Hepatitis B Virus Reactivation in HBsAg-Positive Renal Transplant Recipients with Rituximab Treatment
J. Choi, J. Jung, H. Kwon, S. Shin, Y. Kim, D. Han.
Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Background: The risk of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation under immunosuppressant has been well known. Hepatitis B virus reactivation increase patient mortality and graft failure…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Vitamin D Levels after Kidney Transplantation
E. Lum, K. Phonphok, N. Datta, S. Bunnapradist.
Nephrology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
IntroductionLow levels of serum vitamin D are common and associated adverse renal outcomes. The frequency of hypovitaminosis D following kidney transplantation (KT) is not well…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Qualitative Analysis of Facebook Posts Created via the Donor Application
J. Konel, S. Weeks, K. Kumar, D. Helfer, D. Segev, J. Garonzik Wang, M. Henderson, A. Cameron.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
The Donor App is a smartphone app that helps transplant candidates create a Facebook (FB) post telling their story about organ failure and their need…
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Innovative Strategies to Accommodate Increased Patient Volume in an Outpatient Transplant Infusion Center
J. Estrada, M. Tyrell, J. Choi, J. Jagolino, S. Jordan.
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: To accommodate the increasing volume of patients scheduled for infusions at the Comprehensive Transplant Center(CTC) Infusion suite. It began as a two chair unit…
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A Proteomic Analysis of Kidneys Subjected to Normothermic Ex Vivo Kidney Perfusion (NEVKP) Demonstrates That Metabolism is an Important Determinant of Kidney Function Following Warm Ischemia
A. Konvalinka,^1,4 T. Tokar,² S. Reid,⁴ P. Urbanellis,⁴ M. Hamar,⁴ M. Kaths,⁴ I. Jurisica,² L. Robinson,^4,3 M. Selzner.^4,5
¹Medicine/Nephrology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Medical Biophysics/Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Pediatrics/Nephrology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁵Surgery/General Surgery, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Kidney transplantation reduces mortality compared to staying on dialysis, incentivizing the use of marginal kidneys in face of organ shortage. These marginal kidneys after cardiocirculatory…
2018 American Transplant Congress
A Decade of Dual Kidney Transplantation Reveals Excellent Patient Outcomes from Otherwise Discarded Organs
I. Rajput, S. Farid, A. Hakeem, M. Jameel, N. Ahmad, O. Masood.
Department of Organ Transplantation, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom.
IntroductionBridging the disparity between the kidney waiting list and donor pool remains challenging. For highly sensitised patients and older recipients the wait is contributing to…
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Should Kidneys from Donation after Cardiac Death Expanded Criteria Donors Be Transplanted?
D. Harriman, J. Rogers, A. Farney, G. Orlando, A. Reeves-Daniel, M. Gautreaux, W. Doares, S. Kaczmorski, R. Stratta.
Surgery, Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacy, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.
Introduction: Expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys increase the organ pool but their discard rate remains high, especially in the setting of donation after cardiac death…
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Early Allograft Biopsy in Kidney Transplant Recipients with DGF – Call for an Individualized Approach
A. Vijay, L. Barrison, M. Cooper, S. Ghasemian.
Transplant Surgery, Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC.
Introduction:With the use of potent induction and maintenance immunosuppressive therapy, routine early/protocol biopsy in DGF patients is questionable.AimThis study aimed to determine the incidence of…
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Impact of Overseas Organ Transplantation on Outcome of Kidney Transplant Patients
M. Mammadli,¹ H. Ismayilov,¹ A. Asgarli,² F. Babayev,⁴ I. Hemidov,⁴ R. Shahbazov.³
¹Nephrology, Medservice Medical Center, Baku, Azerbaijan; ²School of Medicine, Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey; ³Surgery, University of Virginia Healthsystem, Charlottesville, VA; ⁴Nephrology and Hemodialysis, Republic Urology Hospital, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Background.Kidney transplantation is an effective treatment option for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Although there is a trend to decrease in overseas transplantation…
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Impact of Psychosocial Variables on Renal Allograft Rejection Risk: A Multivariate Analysis
D. Chernobylsky, K. Carsky, C. McDermott, P. Ferrin, R. Fernandez, I. Gaines, M. Killackey, R. Zhang, A. Paramesh, J. Buell.
Transplant Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
Transplant-specific risk factors for rejection are well documented, yet psychosocial variable correlation with rejection risk is not; this analysis seeks to determine the relationship between…