Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Assessments of Literacy, Cognitive Function and Transplant Medication Knowledge in Renal Transplant Recipients.
J. Trofe-Clark,¹ W. Gbemudu,² S. Ryan,² D. Sawinski,¹ M. Lim,¹ S. Goral,¹ M. Bleicher,¹ R. Bloom,¹ P. Reese.¹
¹Renal Division, Perelman School of Medicine, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; ²Hosp. of Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Background: Medication adherence is often low in renal transplant recipients (RTR) and is in part due to inadequate knowledge. Therefore, new tools to identify medication…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Building a Conceptual Framework of Treatment Burden After Kidney Transplant: A Qualitative Study.
E. Lorenz, J. Egginton, M. Stegall, A. Cheville, D. Eton.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Background: After kidney transplant, patients must negotiate complex medication regimens, lifestyle changes, laboratory monitoring and clinic appointments. The personal workload of healthcare and its impact…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Professionals' Attitudes and Approaches to the Living Kidney Donor-Recipient Relationship: Interview Study.
A. Ralph,^1,2,3 P. Butow,^3,4,5 J. Craig,^1,2 J. Chapman,⁸ J. Gill,⁶ J. Kanellis,⁷ A. Tong.^1,2
¹Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia; ³School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ⁴Psycho-Oncology Co-Operative Research Group, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ⁵Centre for Medical Psychology & Evidence-Based Decision-Making, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ⁶Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; ⁷Department of Nephrology, Monash Health and Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; ⁸Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Background: Assessment of the donor-recipient relationship is recommended by international guidelines to prevent undue coercion and ensure realistic expectations. We aimed to describe attitudes and…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Identification of Plasma Protein Biomarkers of Acute Renal Allograft Rejection.
M. Rossetti,¹ C. Fitzpatrick,¹ N. Harre,¹ Y. Zheng,¹ N. Mercer,² G. Sunga,¹ D. Gjertson,¹ E. Reed.¹
¹Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; ²Department of Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Background & Aim: Upon presentation of clinical symptoms, renal transplant recipients routinely undergo needle core biopsy to diagnose acute graft rejection. This procedure is invasive…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Recurrence in Renal Transplant Recipients Treated with Belatacept.
W. Kitchens, A. Farris, S. Pastan, T. Pearson, C. Larsen, A. Adams.
Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA
Introduction: Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a cause of end-stage renal failure that frequently recurs following renal transplant, often leading to allograft loss. A recently…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Steroid Withdrawal Using Everolimus in Maintenance Kidney Transplant Recipients with Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus.
K. Nanmoku, A. Kurosawa, T. Kubo, T. Shinzato, T. Shimizu, T. Kimura, T. Yagisawa.
Surgical Branch, Institute of Kidney Diseases, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan
Background: Although steroid withdrawal from conventional immunosuppressive therapy has been attempted to ameliorate various complications, especially diabetes mellitus (DM), in kidney transplant recipients, a steroid-sparing…
2017 American Transplant Congress
A Prospective Observational Study to Evaluate Use of a Panel of Reactive T Cell (PRT) Assay as a Pre-Transplant Marker of Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
D. Brennan,¹ L. Kayler,² D. Wojciechowski,³ A. Limaye,⁴ A. Gaber,⁵ I. Durrant.⁶
¹Washington University, St. Louis, MO; ²Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY; ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ⁴Washington University, Seattle, WA; ⁵Houston Methodist, Houston, TX; ⁶Oxford Immunotec, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Background:To assess risk of T cell mediated acute rejection a recently developed assay uses a panel of reactive T cell lines (PRT) to measure recipient…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Change in QTC Interval After Kidney Transplant.
E. Lai, V. Acharya, D. Nguyen, E. Graviss, W. Suki.
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Cardiovascular (CV) disease is the leading cause of mortality in ESRD patients. A prolonged QTc interval on EKG is a predictor of adverse CV outcomes.…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Renal Transplantation to the Extraperitoneal Cavity in Children Weighing Less Than 15 kg Can Be Performed Safely.
K. Hata,¹ M. Okumi,¹ K. Ishizuka,² K. Unagami,³ T. Hirai,¹ T. Shimizu,¹ K. Omoto,¹ H. Ishida,¹ M. Hattori,² K. Tanabe.¹
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ²Pediatric Nephrology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ³Nephrology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Pediatric kidney transplantation is associated with various surgical complications due to the complexity of technique and often fragile condition of end-stage renal…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Sexual Dysfunction Among Living Kidney Donors.
S. Halpern,¹ A. Thomas,¹ C. Holscher,¹ A. Massie,¹ M. Henderson,¹ S. Anjum,¹ J. Locke,² D. Segev.¹
¹JHU, Baltimore, MD; ²UAB, Birmingham, AL
Ensuring high post-donation quality of life among living kidney donors (LKDs) is a critical component of making living donation worthwhile for both recipients and donors.…