Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation in ESKD Patients with a History of Sickle Cell Disease/Trait
A. Lee, G. Malat, M. Harhay, L. Levin, G. Xiao, S. Guy, D. Reich, K. Ranganna.
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
Introduction:Kidney transplantation in Sickle Cell Disease patients is fraught with complications, including increased risk of infection and thrombosis. We present long term outcomes of patients…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Candidates and Potential Living Kidney Donors Are Supportive of Reciprocity for Transplant Candidates Who Participate in Kidney Paired Donation with a Compatible Donor
J. Gill,¹ J. Gill,¹ F. Ballesteros,² M. Fortin.²
¹UBC, Vancouver, Canada; ²Centre de Recherche du CHUM, Montreal, Canada.
The inclusion of compatible pairs in kidney paired donation (KPD) is a strategy to increase transplantation for incompatible pairs in KPD. We proposed a reciprocity…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Influenza Vaccine in Patients with Kidney Transplant
K. Tsujimura,¹ M. Ota,¹ H. Ishida,² K. Tanabe.²
¹Surgery, Tomishiro Central Hospital, Tomishiro-shi, Okinawa, Japan; ²Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Objective: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of influenza vaccine in kidney transplant recipients.Methods: We retrospectively studied 98 participants who underwent kidney…
2018 American Transplant Congress
5-Year Serum Alkaline Phosphatase Levels after Kidney Transplantation is Associated with Long-Term Graft Survival and Mortality in Kidney Recipient
H. Choi,¹ D. Kim,^2,3 K. Huh,^2,3 Y. Kim,^2,3 B. Kim.^1,3
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ²Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ³The Research Institute for Transplantation, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Background: Previous studies have attempted to identify risk factors of renal graft injury that can be used to improve long-term graft survival. Recently, higher serum…
2018 American Transplant Congress
High Prevalence of New Onset Diabetes Mellitus in a Predominantly Minority Urban Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients and Clinical Outcomes
S. Aleksic, S. Zahedpour, E. Tsomos, M. Ajaimy, J. Zonszein, E. Akalin.
Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx.
Background: We aimed to determine the prevalence of new onset diabetes after transplant (NODAT) and its association with clinical outcomes in a cohort of predominantly…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Telehealth Evaluations to Screen Kidney Transplant Candidates Does Not Adversely Affect Time to or Rate of Transplant
R. Forbes,^1,2 D. Rybacki,¹ T. Johnson,¹ D. Shaffer,^1,2 D. Hale.^1,2
¹VA, Nashville; ²VUMC, Nashville.
Background. Telehealth can improve efficiency, timeliness, and cost effectiveness for kidney transplant waitlist candidates. Patients approved for further evaluation after a screening telehealth visit are…
2018 American Transplant Congress
High Fibre Diet Induces Donor Specific Kidney Allograft Tolerance in Mice
H. Wu,^1,2 T. Kwan,² Y. Loh,² C. Wang,² L. Macia,² S. Alexander,^2,3 S. Chadban.^1,2
¹Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ²University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ³The Children Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
Aim: To investigate the impact of high fibre (HF) diet or dietary supplementation with the short chain fatty acid sodium acetate (SA) on kidney allograft…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Quantification of the Indirect Effect of Recipient Characteristics on Kidney Graft Function
S. Rao,¹ A. Gillespie,¹ J. Lee,¹ K. Lau,² S. Karhadkar,² A. Di Carlo,² S. Constantinescu.¹
¹Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; ²Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
Recipient characteristics play an important role for donor selection in deceased donor kidney transplant recipients (DDKT). The current kidney allocation system (KAS) for deceased donors…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Sharing Works; Avoiding Kidney Transplantation to an Unintended Recipient by Precision Virtual Cross Match with Excellent Outcomes
G. Roll,¹ A. Webber,¹ M. Travakol,¹ D. Gae,¹ L. Mayen,² V. Corpuz,¹ J. Roberts,¹ N. Ascher,¹ P. Stock,¹ R. Rajalingam.¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco; ²Donor Network West, San Ramon.
Aim: It was recently estimated that 19.2% of imported kidneys go into an unintended recipient(UR), most commonly due to a positive crossmatch(AJT 2017, 17:2139) so…
2018 American Transplant Congress
ABO Incompatible Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation – Time to Remove the Barrier
J. Melancon,¹ M. Nayebpour,² K. Mahendran,¹ H. Spivak,¹ N. Koizumi.²
¹Transplant Institute and Division of Transplant Surgery, The George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC; ²George Mason University, Washington, DC.
Objective: To propose a new allocation system for deceased donor kidney transplants that would decrease cold ischemia time, increase HLA matching, decrease kidney discard rates…