Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Combined Heart–Kidney Compared to Isolated Heart Transplant in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease – A Single Center Experience
D. Gauvin, A. Bhalla, W. McCallum, A. Vest, N. Goyal.
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
Background: Severe irreversible renal dysfunction has been a contraindication for heart transplant (HTx); however, combined heart-kidney transplant (HKTx) is an accepted therapeutic option for concomitant…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Exploring the Impact of Recipient Age with Kidney Donor Risk Index and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate at One Year Following Kidney Transplant
S. Chan,^1,2,3 M. Chatfield,⁴ K. Baboolal.^2,3
¹Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; ²Kidney Health Service, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ³Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ⁴Statistics Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Background: Various kidney donor risk indexes (KDRI) have been developed to predict graft survival with various combinations of donor and recipient characteristics. The aim of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Kidney Allocation System on a Solitary, Isolated, Rural Transplant Program
K. Brown,² S. Hill,² L. Lipscomb,² A. Jones,² J. Africa.¹
¹Glickman Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²Urology and Renal Transplant, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV.
The new kidney allocation system (KAS) was expected to create an impact on smaller, rural and geographically isolated centers.Methods. We examined the changes by the…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Alemtuzumab Induction is Effective and Safe in Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Toledo, K. Szempruch, P. Serrano, K. Andreoni, T. Kozlowski.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Purpose of this study is to determine safety of Alemtuzumab (Ab) in elderly kidney recipients.MethodsThis is a retrospective single center cohort analysis concerning kidney transplant…
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Components of Microvascular Inflammation (MVI) in Kidney Transplant Biopsies (KTxBX) Impacting Late Death Censored Graft Failure (DCGF)
J. Grande,¹ L. Hunsicker,² R. LeDuc,³ A. Matas,³ The DeKAF Consortium.
¹Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Int. Med., U Iowa, Iowa City, IA; ³Biostatistics and Surgery, U Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
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
Cognitive Impairment Influences Transplant Eligibility
A. Gupta, J. Klein, J. Mahnken, R. Montgomery, A. Ilahe, P. Budhiraja, T. Thomas, T. Schmitt, J. Burns, D. Cibrik.
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.
Background: Cognitive impairment is common in end stage renal disease and affects health outcomes. Cognitive impairment after solid organ transplants affects medication adherence and graft…
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…