Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Reliability of Deceased Donor Procurement Biopsy Images at the Time of Kidney Allocation
S. Mansour,¹ E. Hall,² P. Reese,³ Y. Jia,¹ H. Thiessen-Philbrook,¹ G. Moeckel,¹ F. Weng,⁴ P. Revelo,² M. Khalighi,² A. Trivedi,⁵ M. Doshi,⁶ B. Schroppel,⁷ C. Parikh.¹
¹Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven; ²University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; ³Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; ⁴Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston; ⁵Hartford Hospital, Hartford; ⁶Wayne State University, Detroit; ⁷University Hospital, Ulm, Germany.
Histological findings of procurement deceased-donor kidney biopsies contribute to organ allocation decisions. Representative images of pathology on biopsy slides are often uploaded into United Network…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Anti-Thymocyte Globulin vs. Alemtuzumab: A Comparison of Long-Term Outcomes among Renal Transplant Recipients
E. Loncharic, A. Dodson, K. Gutierrez.
Department of Pharmacy, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Background: Two lymphocyte depleting agents are currently available for renal transplant induction: alemtuzumab (C1H) and rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG). Studies comparing long-term outcomes between C1H…
2018 American Transplant Congress
High Prevalence of Kidney Transplant-Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy after ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation: Risk Factors, Rapid Clinical Diagnosis, and Prompt Successful Treatment
K. Tanabe,¹ M. Okumi,¹ K. Unagami,² Y. Kakuta,¹ M. Inui,¹ H. Ishida.¹
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ²Nephrology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
BackgroundKidney transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (KTA-TMA) is a multifactorial inflammatory disorder and thrombotic disease of the microvasculature. It is characterized by hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation Tourism and Recipients Perspectives and Experience
F. Al Rahbi, I. Al Salmi.
The Renal Medicine Department, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman.
Background: In view of shortages of available organs, long wait times for possible transplantation and strict regulation, many patients opt for commercial transplantation. This study…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of the Influenza Vaccine on Pediatric Kidney Transplant Outcomes
M. Camerino,¹ S. Jackson,² S. Chinnakotla,³ P. Verghese.¹
¹Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN; ³Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
The influenza vaccine has been associated with de novo DSA and rejection in adult kidney recipients. This risk has not been adequately assessed in pediatric…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Recurrence of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and Response to Prolonged Plasmapheresis Therapy: A Single Center Pediatric Experience
A. Bobrowski, D. Matossian.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
FSGS is the most common glomerular cause of ESKD in pediatric patients. The risk of recurrence after kidney transplant (KT) is 30-60%, and half of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Transplantation within the ASTS: A Member Survey
W. Andrews, S. Chinnakotla, J. Nathan, A. Gallo, P. Healey, J. Dominique, C. Esquivel.
ASTS, Pediatric Transplant Task Force, Arlington, VA.
Pediatric transplantation has always been a subset of transplants that are performed by members of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS). The ASTS formed…
2018 American Transplant Congress
FSGS Pattern with Podocyte Proliferation and Heavy Proteinuria Combined Late Antibody Mediated Rejection of Renal Allograft: Collapsing Glomerulopathy or Transplant Podocytopathy?
J. Wen, M. Zhang, F. Xu, J. Chen, D. Cheng, X. Ni, X. Li.
National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Background: Collapsing Glomerulopathy is a pathologically and clinically distinct variant of FSGS with poor prognosis.Hemodynamic disturbances may play a role in the development of the…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor Plasma Mitochondrial DNA Predicts Post-Transplant Renal Allograft Outcomes
F. Han,¹ S. Wan,² N. Chen,² L. Zheng,³ N. Zhang,⁴ Q. Sun,¹ H. Li,¹ Z. Huang,¹ L. Hong,¹ Q. Sun.¹
¹Kidney Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; ²Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers and Liquid Biopsy, Henan University, Henan, China; ³Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; ⁴Department of Pathology, Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen, China.
The lack of an accurate biomarker makes it difficult to determine whether an organ is acceptable for transplantation. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) correlates with tissue damage…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Effect of De Novo Use of Everolimus with Reduced Calcineurin Inhibitor versus Standard Mycophenolic Acid-Based Regimen on Wound Healing Events in Kidney Transplant Recipients from TRANSFORM Study
M. Henry, F. Citterio, M. Kim, D. Kim, P. Bernhardt, A. Gupta, Y. Watarai.
TRANSFORM Study Group, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland.
Purpose: Anti-proliferative properties of mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors (mTORi) may affect the wound healing process and there are some reservations about including mTORi into…