Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2017 American Transplant Congress
An Argument for Expanding the Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplant Criteria: Validity of the New UNOS Allocation Policy.
S. Nagai,¹ M. Safwan,¹ K. Collins,¹ M. Rizzari,¹ D. Moonka,² K. Brown,² A. Patel,³ A. Yoshida,¹ M. Abouljuod.¹
¹Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; ²Gastroenterology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; ³Nephrology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Aim: According to the latest simultaneous liver-kidney transplant (SLK) allocation policy by UNOS, allocation of kidney is dependent on duration of low glomerular filtration rate…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Tangible Benefits in Caregiving Burden Among Spouses/Partners of Transplant Patients: Adding “Donor Benefit” to Live Donor Risk Assessment.
S. Rasmussen, L. Duquette, M. Henderson, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore
Background The mental and physical health of spouses and co-habiting partners (dyads) are highly correlated. Dialysis entails significant caregiving burden and decreases the quality of…
2017 American Transplant Congress
25-Hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], but Not 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)₂D], Independently Predicts Kidney Graft Failure: The Wisconsin Allograft Recipient Database (WisARD).
B. Astor,¹ M. Melamed,² D. Mandelbrot,¹ A. Djamali.¹
¹University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI; ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Vitamin D deficiency is common in chronic kidney disease and is associated with cardiovascular events and mortality. Kidney transplant recipients are at elevated risk of…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on the Importance of Outcomes for Trials in Kidney Transplantation: An International Best Worse Scaling Survey.
M. Howell,^1,2 N. Evangelidis,^1,2 B. Sautenet,² G. Wong,^1,2,3 J. Craig,^1,2 K. Howard,¹ A. Tong.^1,2
¹School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ³Centre for Transplant Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
To optimize the benefits of kidney transplantation, recipients and clinicians should have an agreed, shared management plan. This relies on prioritizing the same outcomes but…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Dual Targeting with Carfilzomib and Tocilizumab Abrogates Antibody-Mediated Rejection and Prolongs Survival in a Highly Sensitized Rhesus Model of Kidney Transplantation.
B. Ezekian, J. Kwun, M. Manook, K. Freischlag, V. Curfman, E. Branum, J. Park, J. Yi, S. Jordan, S. Knechtle.
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Purpose:Sensitized recipients have poor access to kidney transplantation (KT) and worse outcomes when transplanted. We have shown that bortezomib inhibits plasma cells (PCs), but does…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Advanced Donation within a Paired Exchange Program.
M. Charlton,¹ F. Desrosiers,¹ G. Bretzlaff,¹ D. Serur.²
¹Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY; ²Division of Nephrology and the Rogosin Institute, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY
BACKGROUND:Advanced Donation (ADP) within Kidney Paired Donation (KDP) occurs when a donor is time-limited and chooses to donate a kidney before their intended recipient with…
2017 American Transplant Congress
A Possible Unintended Consequence of the Kidney Allocation System: The Effect of Duration of Dialysis on Mental Health Outcomes.
S. Radomski,^1,2 I. Feurer,² R. Forbes,² B. Concepcion,² H. Schaefer.²
¹Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; ²Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Purpose: Long-term dialysis has been shown to adversely affect physical health-related quality of life (HRQOL) but its effect on mental HRQOL and symptoms of depression…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Tacrolimus Trough Concentration Variability and Disparities in African American Kidney Transplantation.
D. Taber, Z. Su, A. Posadas, M. Gebregziabher, L. Egede, D. Dubay, J. McGillicuddy, C. Bratton, S. Nadig, K. Chavin, P. Baliga.
MUSC, Charleston, SC
Low tacrolimus (FK) trough concentrations have been associated with higher risk of acute rejection, particularly within African-American (AA) kidney transplant recipients; less is known about…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Hepatitis B Virus Infection Is Associated with Recurrent Nephropathy After Kidney Transplantation.
G. Chen, C. Wang, Z. Wu, C. Wang, J. Qiu, L. Chen.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Background Hepatitis B virus(HBV) infection can cause HBV associated nephropathy, and is one of the major reasons for secondary nephropathy. We carried out a retrospective…
2017 American Transplant Congress
A Non-Invasive Urinary Common Rejection Module (uCRM) Gene Expression Score Quantifies and Differentiates Kidney Transplant Injury.
T. Sigdel,¹ J. Yang,¹ O. Bestard,² S.-C. Hsieh,¹ S. Roedder,² I. Damm,¹ J. Liberto,¹ S. Nandoe,¹ M. Sarwal.¹
¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco; ²Immucor Inc, Atlanta
We sought to investigate the use of the common rejection module (CRM) genes in the discrimination of AR, BKVN, and stable transplant phenotypes in urine…