2018 American Transplant Congress
Components of Microvascular Inflammation (MVI) in Kidney Transplant Biopsies (KTxBX) Impacting Late Death Censored Graft Failure (DCGF)
Recent studies document that MVI increases DCGF. However, the relationship between components of MVI (Banff scores g, cg, ptc) and macrovascular inflammation (v) have not…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Internet as a Source of Transplant-Related Information for New Kidney Transplant Candidates
Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Background: Studies of Internet usage show that a large proportion of Americans turn to the Internet as a source of health information, with many reporting…2018 American Transplant Congress
High Tacrolimus Variability is Associated with Worse Outcomes in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Background: Subtherapeutic tacrolimus trough concentrations are associated with donor specific antibody (DSA), acute rejection and shortened graft survival. The role of intrapatient variability in tacrolimus…2018 American Transplant Congress
Protocol Biopsies after Paediatric Kidney Transplantation: A Single Centres' 17 Year Experience
PURPOSE: Standard laboratory measures are not sensitive indicators of kidney dysfunction following transplantation and may be less reliable in paediatric recipients. Early graft surveillance may…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Pre-Transplant Insomnia and Post-Transplant Insomnia on Survival among Solid Organ Recipients
BackgroundBecause studies about insomnia among organ recipients were scarce, we used National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) between 2001 and 2012 to understand how pre-transplant…2018 American Transplant Congress
Sub-Clinical Acute Rejection (subAR) Detected by Both Surveillance Biopsy (SBx) and a Peripheral Blood Molecular Biomarker Correlates with De Novo Donor Specific Antibody (dnDSA) Following Kidney Transplant (KT)
AIMWe investigated the correlation between subAR diagnosed by SBx or by a newly-defined biomarker, and the development of dnDSA.METHODS307 KT patients enrolled into a multi-center…2018 American Transplant Congress
Patients Prioritize Waitlist Factors over Outcomes When Evaluating Kidney Transplant Centers
Nephrology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
The factors that influence transplant candidates' selection of a transplant center for waitlisting are not well understood. Further, the relative weightage of these factors has…2018 American Transplant Congress
Late Conversion from Calcineurin Inhibitors to Belatacept is Associated with a Sustained Improvement in Kidney Allograft Function
Medicine/Nephrology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Introduction: Belatacept was shown to have longer kidney graft survival and higher eGFR at 7 years than a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-based regimen in the BENEFIT…2018 American Transplant Congress
Cognition after Belatacept Conversion
Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Intro: Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTRs) taking calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) can experience varying drug toxicities. Less well studied compared to the metabolic consequences, many patients report…2018 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation among U.S. Transplant Centers
1Emory University, Atlanta; 2Columbia University, New York.
Introduction: Living donor kidney transplant (LDKTx) is the preferred treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) but continues to be less common than deceased…
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