Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

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…
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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…
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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…
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Developing a Rationale for an Appropriate Immunosuppressive Regimen in Lung vs Kidney Transplant Recipients: Effects of Induction Therapy
P. Martin-Moreno,^1,2 H. Shin,^1,3 H. Goldberg,⁴ A. Chandraker.¹
¹Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ²Nephrology Department, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; ³Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Gospel Hospital, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea; ⁴Pulmonary Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
IntroductionThe appropriate use of Thymoglobulin (ATG) or Basiliximab as induction therapy is not fully understood. We studied circulating cytokine profiles following kidney and lung transplantation…
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Does the End Justify the Means? An Analysis of Outcomes in Recipients of Combined Kidney/Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) Transplants and Comparison to Standard of Care (SOC) Patients
J. Leventhal,¹ A. Shetty,¹ L. Gallon,¹ K. Kurtenbach,¹ D. Stare,¹ S. Ildstad.²
¹Northwestern U, Chicago; ²U Louisville, Louisville.
Eliminating the long term costs and side effects of immunosuppression (IS) is a compelling reason to pursue transplant tolerance. Tolerance in kidney transplant (KTx) pts…
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The Internet as a Source of Transplant-Related Information for New Kidney Transplant Candidates
W. Fu, N. Chai, P. Yoo.
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
S. Solomon, M. Del Rio, A. Colovai, N. Hayde.
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
T. Alsulaimi,¹ M. Aloufi,² S. Grisaru,¹ S. Samuel,¹ L. Hamiwka.¹
¹Paediatric Nephrology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ²Pediatric Nephrology, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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…