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Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Long Term Renal and Patient Risks for Living Kidney Donors

    Y. Kim, M. Yu, Y. Kim, H. Lee.

    Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

    Purpose:Recent studies have issued that living kidney donor (LKD) might be exposed to higher risk for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and death, compared with healthy…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Cost Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Positive Donor Kidney Transplantation for Hepatitis C Negative Recipients with Concomitant Direct-Acting Anti-Viral Therapy

    G. Gupta, Y. Zhang, H. Kale, N. Carroll, R. Sterling.

    Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

    Background: The development of direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) could allow for safe and effective treatment following renal transplantation (RT).…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Early Steroid Withdrawal and Kidney Transplant Outcomes for Recipients with Delayed Graft Function

    S. Bae, A. Massie, X. Luo, J. Garonzik Wang, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.

    Current guidelines suggest early steroid withdrawal (ESW) regimen for kidney transplant (KT) recipients with low immunological risk. Delayed graft function (DGF) is a risk factor…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    What Deceased Donors Do KPD Candidates Accept?

    A. Toll,1 R. Leishman,1 V. Casingal,2 M. Aeder,3 T. Sandholm,4 N. Turgeon.5

    1UNOS, Richmond, VA; 2Carolinas HealthCare Sys, Charlotte, NC; 3Univ Hosp Med Ctr, Cleveland, OH; 4Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA; 5Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA.

    Background: Possible utilization of deceased donors (DDs) to initiate KPD chains has been of interest to the transplant community. OPTN KPD candidates are required to…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Genome Wide Non-HLA Alloimmunity Contributes to Graft Loss after Kidney Transplantation

    R. Reindl-Schwaighofer, A. Heinzel, A. Kainz, K. Jelencsics, O. Viklicky, G. Böhmig, G. Fischer, B. Keating, R. Oberbauer.

    Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Department of Nephrology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic; Transplant Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    BackgroundChronic rejection is the main cause of renal transplant loss after the first year and has mostly been attributed to alloimmune responses against human leukocyte…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Enhancing Coordination across Healthcare Settings through a Web-Based Transplant Referral Exchange (T-REX) Platform

    L. McPherson,1 R. Mutell,2 P. Broughton,2 M. Basu,1 J. Gander,1 S. Pastan,1 R. Patzer.1

    1Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 2Apex Health Innovations, Simi Valley, CA.

    Background: Communication between dialysis and transplant centers with regard to end-stage renal disease patient information throughout the transplant process is administratively intensive. We collaborated with…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    T cell Phenotypes Predict Infectious Risk in Transplanted Children

    E. T. Chambers,1 R. Ettenger,2 H.-J. Lee,1 C. Chan,1 L. Stempora,1 B. Warshaw,3 P. Grimm,4 E. F. Reed,2 M. Sarwal,5 A. Kirk.1

    1Pediatrics/Surgery, Duke University, Durham; 2Pediatrics, UCLA, Los Angeles; 3Pediatrics, Emory, Atlanta; 4Pediatrics, Stanford, Palo Alto; 5Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco.

    AIM: Current monitoring strategies do not adequately differentiate infection from complications such as allograft rejection (AR). We aimed to identify peripheral T cell phenotypes that…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    IgM HLA DSAs Do Not Alter the Outcomes of Renal Allograft Rejection

    A. Gueret-Wardle,1 P. Dodd,1 G. Lucisano,1 S. Hassan,1 P. Brookes,2 E. Santos-Nunez,2 N. Firmin,2 D. Goodall,1 C. Roufosse,1 M. Willicombe,1 D. Taube.1

    1Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; 2Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.

    Introduction: whilst IgG HLA DSAs are associated with renal allograft rejection and graft loss, the role of IgM HLA DSAs is controversial. We investigate the…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Defining Response to Standard of Care Treatment in Kidney Recipients with Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Role of C1q-Binding Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies

    Y. Bouatou, D. Viglietti, O. Aubert, A. Loupy, C. Lefaucheur.

    Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, Paris, France.

    A major hurdle to improving clinical care in kidney transplantation is the lack of biomarkers of the response to antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) treatment. We investigated…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Comparison of C1Q Binding and Flow Cytometric Crossmatch Results Provides an Accurate Evaluation of Hypersensitive Kidney Transplant Patients

    E. Eksioğlu-Demiralp,1 A. Türkmen,2 B. Yelken,2 S. Görçin,2 O. Elbasi,1 F. Yalçin,3 B. Koçak,2 C. Karatas,4 M. Tuncer,4 M. Altinel.3

    1Tissue Typing and Immunology Laboratory, Memorial Health Group, Istanbul, Turkey; 2Sisli Hospital Transplantation Unit, Memorial Health Group, Istanbul, Turkey; 3Hizmet Hospital Transplantation Unit, Memorial Health Group, Istanbul, Turkey; 4Atasehir Hospital Transplantation Unit, Memorial Health Group, Istanbul, Turkey.

    Measurement of C1q binding to Donor specific antibodies (DSA) gives transplantation chance to hypersensitive patients having non-binding high amount of anti-HLA antibodies. In our series…
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