Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcome of Kidney Transplant Recipient with HTLV-1 Infection
N. Goto,¹ M. Minami,¹ K. Futamura,² M. Okada,¹ M. Tsujita,¹ T. Hiramitsu,² S. Narumi,² Y. Watarai.²
¹Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Transplant Nephrology, Nagoya, Japan; ²Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Transplant Surgery, Nagoya, Japan.
BackgroundThe human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV-I), which is endemic in southern Japan, is recognized as the cause of adult T cell leukemia-lymphoma (ATL) and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Duration of Dialysis, N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Post-Transplant Mortality in Renal Transplant Recipients
M. Yeung, M. Van Londen, U. Nakshbandi, Y. Said, M. Eisenga, B. Hepkema, M. Nolte, S. Berger, M. De Borst, S. Bakker.
Internal Medicine Department, Division Nephrology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Background and objective: Pre-transplant dialysis duration (DD) is associated with increased mortality in renal transplant recipients (RTRs) due to accelerated atherosclerosis, intradialytic volume overload and…
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Low Serum 3-Methyl Histidine Level is Associated with Peripheral Arterial Stiffness in Renal Transplant Recipients
B-.G. Hsu,^1,4 Y-.H. Lai,¹ J. Hou,¹ C-.H. Liu,³ M-.C. Lee.^2,4
¹Nephrology, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan; ²Surgery, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan; ³Pharmacology, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan; ⁴School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
Introduction:3-methyl histidine (3MH) is a non-proteinogenic amino acid and an index of muscle breakdown. Subclinical protein malnutrition is an independent association with arterial stiffness. The…
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Racial and Socioeconomic Influences on Kidney Transplantation. A 10 Year Retrospective Study
A. Arvelakis, S. Lerner, V. Wadhera, V. Delaney, S. Ames, V. Shegal, R. Kent, G. DeBoccardo, N. Singh, S. Florman, R. Shapiro.
Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
Introduction: Racial disparities in kidney transplantation are a widely discussed topic. Studies have shown less access to listing and transplantation, and worse graft survival in…
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Tomotherapy and Donor Hematopoietic Cells for Tolerance to Kidney Transplants in Rhesus Macaques
D. Kaufman,¹ L. Haynes,¹ P. Hematti,¹ W. Burlingham,¹ L. Forest,² J. Post,¹ R. Redfield,¹ L. Fernandez,¹ A. D'Alessandro,¹ J. Haynes,¹ K. Jensen,³ S. Strober.³
¹Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI; ²Surgical Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Vet Med, Madison, WI; ³Medicine, Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, CA.
The goal of this project was to develop a tolerance induction protocol for MHC 1-haplotype mismatched kidney transplants (txs) in a rhesus macaque model. The…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…