Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Exercise Rehabilitation's Effect on Employment and School Rates in Kidney Transplant Patients
A. Kastelz,^1,2 C. Di Bella,¹ I. Tzvetanov,¹ B. Fernhall,² L. Gallon,³ G. Hachaj,⁴ E. Benedetti.¹
¹Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; ²Integrative Physiology Lab, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; ³Internal Medicine Nephrology, Northwestern Medical Group, Chicago, IL; ⁴GH FitLab, Chicago, IL.
Unemployment after kidney transplant is common and creates a heavy reliance on public aid. While the exact reason for low employment rates is unknown, patients…
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“Majority Rules”: A Method to Reduce Variability in Diagnosing Antibody Mediated Rejection in Renal Allograft Biopsies Using Banff 2013
B. Smith,¹ L. Cornell,¹ M. Smith,² C. Cortese,³ X. Geiger,³ C. Schinstock,¹ W. Kremers,¹ M. Stegall.¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; ³Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Introduction: The Banff 2013 criteria for diagnosing antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) includes three lesions: glomerulitis (g), peritubularitis (PTC), and chronic glomerulopathy (cg). The poor reproducibility of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Population-Based Modeling of Prototypes and Determinants of Allograft Function Trajectories after Kidney Transplantation: Implications for Patient Monitoring and Risk Stratification
M. Raynaud, O. Aubert, M. Naessens, E. Morelon, M. Giral, N. Kamar, E. Wong, S. Jordan, B. Orandi, D. Segev, M. Stegal, P. Reese, C. Lefaucheur, A. Loupy.
Paris Transplant Group, Paris, France.
Background:Although the current gold standard of monitoring kidney allograft patients relies primarily on GFR assessment, little is known about long-term eGFR trajectories prototypes and their…
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The Effect of Perioperative Antiplatelet/Anticoagulant Therapy on the Incidence of Early Postoperative Thromboembolic Complications and Bleeding in Kidney Transplantation – A Dual Center Retrospective Cohort Study of 2000 Kidney Transplant Recipients
T. van den Berg,¹ R. Minnee,² G. Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke,³ S. Bakker,⁴ R. Pol.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, Netherlands; ²Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ³Department of Anesthesiology, UMCG, Groningen, Netherlands; ⁴Department of Internal Medicine-Nephrology, UMCG, Groningen, Netherlands.
Thromboembolic complications (TECs) are dreaded complications after kidney transplantation (KTx). Consequences are severe and can result in delayed graft function or even graft loss. Perioperative…
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CFZ533, a New Anti-CD40 mAB Demonstrates Comparable Efficacy and Better Renal Function versus Tacrolimus in De-Novo CNI-Free Kidney Transplantation
B. Nashan,¹ H. Tedesco,¹ M. van den Hoogen,¹ S. Berger,¹ D. Cibrik,¹ S. Mulgaonkar,¹ D. Leeser,¹ R. Alloway,¹ A. Patel,¹ J. Pratschke,¹ C. Sommerer,¹ A. Wiseman,¹ A. van Zuilen,¹ U. Laessing,² J. Rush,² B. Haraldsson,² O. Witzke.¹
¹CFZ533 Study Group, Basel, Switzerland; ²Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland.
Purpose: To assess the potential of CFZ533 as primary immunosuppressant in a calcineurin(CNI)-free regimen in de novo kidney transplant (KTx) patients(pts).Method: CFZ533 is a new,…
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Development of Denovo DSA after One Year Post Kidney Transplant and Clinical Outcomes in Patient on Steroid Free Immunosupression
A. Sharfuddin, M. Yaqub, D. Mishler, W. Goggins, T. Taber, O. Adebiyi.
Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension, Indiana University Health Transplant Program, Indianapolis, IN.
Background: Development of Denovo donor specific antibodies (DnDSA) has been associated with poor allograft outcomes in few studies. However, there is scarcity of data evaluating…
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IL-6 Inhibition with Tocilizumab to Promote Tregs and Control Renal Graft Inflammation: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial
S. Chandran, J. Leung, Z. Laszik, Q. Tang, C. Hu, M. Sarwal, F. Vincenti.
UCSF, San Francisco.
Background: IL-6, a proinflammatory cytokine & key regulator of Treg/Th17, is strongly associated with renal graft rejection. In theory, IL-6 blockade with tocilizumab (TCZ), a…
2018 American Transplant Congress
All DQ DSA May Not Be Equal: Comparing Outcomes between De Novo DQ DSA Specificities
M. Everly,¹ K. Briley,² A. Nguyen,¹ V. Jucaud,¹ A. Maldonado,³ C. Haisch,² P. Bolin,² S. Kendrick,⁴ H. Jones,⁴ K. McLawhorn,⁴ D. Leeser,² L. Rebellato.²
¹Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles; ²East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; ³Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC; ⁴Eastern Nephrology Associates, Greenville, NC.
It is not known if development of de novo DSA (dnDSA) to different HLA-DQ mismatches (serological) are associated with equal risk to a patient's allograft…
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Hospital Readmissions Following ABO-Incompatible Live Donor Kidney Transplantation: A National Study
B. Orandi,¹ X. Luo,² S. Bae,² E. King,² J. Garonzik-Wang,² D. Segev.²
¹UCSF, San Francisco; ²Hopkins, Baltimore.
30% of kidney transplant recipients are readmitted in the first month post-transplant. ABO-incompatible (ABO-I) recipients constitute a unique subpopulation that might be at higher readmission…
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Serial Monitoring of Resolution of Sub-Clinical Acute Rejection (subAR) in Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTR) Using a Gene Expression Profile (GEP)
L. Zhao,¹ B. Armstrong,² J. Friedewald,¹ T. Whisenant,³ S. Kurian,³ R. Heilman,⁴ E. Poggio,⁵ C. Marsh,³ P. Baliga,⁶ N. Bridges,⁷ J. Odim,⁷ M. Brown,⁷ D. Ikle,² J. Charette,¹ S. Brietigam,¹ N. Sustento-Reodica,¹ M. Kandpal,¹ D. Salomon,³ M. Abecassis.¹
¹Northwestern, Chicago; ²Rho, Chapel Hill; ³Scripps, La Jolla; ⁴Mayo AZ, Scottsdale; ⁵Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; ⁶MUSC, Charleston; ⁷NIAID, Bethesda.
BACKGROUNDSubAR can currently only be detected using surveillance biopsies (SBx) and is associated with poor long-term graft outcomes. Response to treatment is difficult to assess.…