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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Effect of Pre-Transplant Insomnia and Post-Transplant Insomnia on Survival among Solid Organ Recipients
K-.F. Lee,² Y. Tsai,¹ C. Lin,¹ C-.B. Hsieh,^3,5 S. Wu,⁴ T. Chen,⁵ Y-.C. Lin,¹ W-.H. Lee,^6,7 F. Lin,⁸ C. Tsai.^1,9,10
¹Cardiovascular Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Biobank Management Center, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ³General Surgery, Hualien Armed Forces General Hospital, Hualien County, Taiwan; ⁴Urology, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁵General Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁶Pathology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁷Pathology, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei, Taiwan; ⁸Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁹Cardiovascular Surgery, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan; ¹⁰Graduate Institute of Pharmacology, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
BackgroundBecause studies about insomnia among organ recipients were scarce, we used National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) between 2001 and 2012 to understand how pre-transplant…
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Sub-Clinical Acute Rejection (subAR) Detected by Both Surveillance Biopsy (SBx) and a Peripheral Blood Molecular Biomarker Correlates with De Novo Donor Specific Antibody (dnDSA) Following Kidney Transplant (KT)
R. Heilman,¹ J. Friedewald,² K. Kurian,⁵ T. Whisemant,⁵ E. Poggio,³ C. Marsh,⁵ P. Baliga,⁷ N. Bridges,⁴ J. Odim,⁴ M. Brown,⁴ D. Ikle,³ B. Armstrong,³ L. Zhao,² D. Salomon,⁵ M. Abecassis.²
¹Mayo Clinic, Phoenix; ²Northwestern University, Chicago; ³Rho Federal Systems, Chapel Hill; ⁴National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Bethesda; ⁵Scripps Health, La Jolla; ⁶Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; ⁷Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.
AIMWe investigated the correlation between subAR diagnosed by SBx or by a newly-defined biomarker, and the development of dnDSA.METHODS307 KT patients enrolled into a multi-center…