Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function in Live Donor HLA-Incompatible Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Study
J. Motter,¹ A. Massie,¹ J. Garonzik Wang,¹ K. Jackson,¹ X. Luo,¹ A. Muzaale,¹ B. Orandi,² D. Segev.¹
¹JHU, Baltimore; ²UCSF, San Francisco.
Background: Many patients with a willing, but incompatible live donor choose to undergo incompatible live donor kidney transplantation (ILDKT) facilitated by desensitization procedures to eliminate…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Integration of Blood Type Incompatibility Desensitization Protocols into Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) Programs
F. Karami,¹ M. Nayebpour,² M. Gentili,¹ N. Koizumi,² K. Melancon.³
¹Industrial Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; ²Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA; ³Department of Surgery, George Washington University Hospital, Washington DC.
Even if blood type incompatibility (ABOi) is one of the most significant barriers in transplantation, recent studies report that the outcomes of ABOi transplants with…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Retrospective Study of Cryptococcosis in Kidney Transplant Recipients from a Single Center
R. Wang, M. Cen, J. Lin, H. Huang, W. Peng, J. Wu.
Kidney Disease Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Background: The mortality of Cryptococcosis remains unchanged among kidney transplant recipients(KTR) over the past two decades, and the prognosis of Cryptococcosis is yet unpredicted. Hence,…
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Impact of Postoperative Serum Chloride Changes on Graft Function and Acute Rejection in Recipients of Living Kidney Transplants
V. Vakil, D. Keys, M. Junghare, S. Jackson, D. Berglund, A. Matas, S. Riad.
U of MN, Minneapolis.
Background: In the non-transplant setting, hyperchloremia has been associated with kidney injury. We sought to study the impact of serum chloride (SCl) on transplant outcomes.Methods:…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Progression of Vertebral Bone Disease among Kidney Allograft Recipients on Steroid Maintenance
E. Abuhelaiqa,¹ M. Alkadi,¹ M. Jarman,² J. Mahmoud,² A. Hamdi,¹ A. Ashor,¹ A. Nauman,¹ M. Asim,¹ O. Fituri,¹ H. Al-Malki.¹
¹Nephrology-Internal Medicine, Hamad Medical Coperation, Doha, Qatar; ²Transplantat Surgery, Hamad Medical Coperation, Doha, Qatar.
BackgroundOsteoporosis has been recognized as a significant cause of morbidity post kidney transplantation. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of osteoporosis at one year post…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Ethnicity on Recipient Characteristics, Kidney Transplant Provision and Outcomes in a High-Volume National Health Service Hospital
E. Favi,¹ C. Puliatti,² M. Ferraresso,¹ R. Cacciola.²
¹Kidney Transplant, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy; ²Kidney Transplant, Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Background. Several reports have demonstrated that outcomes of kidney transplantation (KTx) can be influenced by recipient's ethnicity and social status. However, available data mostly refer…
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Intensified Immunosuppression Improves Early Renal Allograft Function after Transplantation in a Porcine Model with Extended Asystolic Warm Ischemic Time
M. Xu,¹ X. Wang,¹ S. Garcia-Aroz,¹ B. Banan,¹ B. Rabe,¹ Z. Zhang,¹ J. Jia,¹ G. Upadhya,¹ P. Manning,² J. Gaut,³ Y. Lin,¹ W. Chapman.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Section of Abdominal Transplantation, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; ²Arch Oncology, St. Louis, MO; ³Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
PURPOSE: Extensive ischemia-reperfusion injury significantly increases the immunogenicity of renal allograft which may be associated with increased risk of acute rejection (AR). This study investigated…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Changes in Impact of HLA Mismatch among Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
J. Ruck, A. Massie, N. Desai, D. Segev, J. Garonzik-Wang.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
U.S. pediatric deceased-donor kidney transplantation (pDDKT) allocation now deemphasizes HLA matching to improve equality in access to transplantation, but other national systems still consider HLA…
2018 American Transplant Congress
A Calculated Panel Reactive Antibody (CPRA) Calculator Supporting Both Allele-Level and Antigen-Level HLA Specificities
L. Gragert,^1,2 E. Kransdorf,³ N. Kaur,¹ M. Maiers,² J. Kobashigawa,³ M. Pando.⁴
¹Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans; ²National Marrow Donor Program / Be The Match, Minneapolis; ³Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles; ⁴Baylor Scott and White, Temple.
Introduction:The number of HLA alleles represented on Luminex assays has increased over time, allowing for improved characterization of anti-HLA antibody specificity. Calculated Panel Reactive Antibody…
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Outcomes Associated with Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction According to Mg/Kg of Total Body Weight in Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Brueckner, A. Logan, L. Bowman.
Pharmacy, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL.
Purpose: The optimal dosing weight used for rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG) induction therapy in transplantation continues to lack a consensus. The impact of alternative dosing…