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Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Treatment of Post-Transplant Nephrotic Syndrome with Adrenocorticotropic (ACTH) Gel.

    A. Khalil,2 A. Karabala,1 A. Sharfuddin,2 M. Grafals.1

    1Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington DC; 2Indiana University Health, Indianapolis

    Objectives: Post-kidney transplant proteinuria due to recurrent GN is considered to be a significant risk factor negatively affecting kidney transplant survival. In this case series…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Clinical Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients by Steroid Early Withdraw Protocol with Basiliximab Induction.

    Y. Takada, K. Hotta, D. Iwami, H. Higuchi, T. Hirose, H. Sasaki, N. Shinohara.

    Urology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

    [Purpose] Several steroid early withdrawal protocols (SEWD) have been attempted in recent decades to avoid steroid related adverse effects among kidney transplant recipients. However, there…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Size Does Not Matter: Should the Decision to Split Pediatric En Bloc Donor Kidneys Be Based on Donor Weight Rather Than Kidney Length?

    A. Perry, J. Woloszyn, J. McVicar, J. Sageshima, R. Perez, C. Troppmann, C. Santhanakrishnan.

    Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA

    Background: Deceased donor kidneys from pediatric donors have been used with good results. However, there is little consensus on the criteria used to safely split…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Association of Dialysis Facility Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status with Barriers to Kidney Transplant.

    K. Ross,1 M. Basu,2 C. Escoffery,3 J. Gander,2 S. Mohan,4 S. Pastan,2 L. Plantinga,1 K. Smith,2 R. Patzer.1,2

    1Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta; 2Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta; 3Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta; 4Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York

    Introduction: Dialysis facilities in neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status (SES) have lower facility-level transplantation rates. We estimated the association between barriers to transplantation and facility-area…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Increasing the Kidney Donor Pool by Expanding Limits on Body Mass Index and Age: A Single-Center Evaluation of Safety for Donors and Recipients.

    J. Tonascia, S. Yi.

    Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    Using donors with advanced age or elevated body mass index (BMI) could increase the number of live donor kidney transplants. Our aim was to evaluate…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Pregnandy During Kidney Trasplantation in a Low Income Population.

    M. Taylor, M. Torres, D. Silvia, L. Martínez, H. Petrone.

    Renal Transplant Unit, CRAI Sur - CUCAIBA, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Background: The possibility of having a successful pregnancy in stage V chornic kidney failure improves after transplant, although the fertility rate is lower than in…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Early and Late High Intrapatient Variability of Tacrolimus Levels Can Predict Late Renal Allograft Rejection.

    D. Goodall, M. Willicombe, D. Swerdlow, A. McLean, D. Taube.

    Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

    Introduction Nonadherence to immunosuppressive medication can start any time after transplantation and is associated with rejection and graft loss. We have previously shown that high…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Malignancy Risk in Kidney Transplant Recipients Treated with Cyclophosphamide Pre-Transplant for Native Glomerular Disease.

    J. Mills,1 M. Jorgenson,1 J. Fose,1 B. Astor,2 S. Panzer.2

    1Pharmacy, UW Health, Madison, WI; 2Nephrology, UW Health, Madison, WI

    Purpose: To evaluate the incidence of malignancy in kidney transplant recipients who previously received cyclophosphamide for treatment of native glomerular disease.Methods: Single center study of…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Performance Comparison of Barcoded Oligos and Standard qPCR on Matched FFPE and RNAlater-Submerged Human Kidney Allograft Samples.

    T. Sigdel, M. Nguyen, D. Dobi, J. Liberto, S.-C. Hsieh, F. Vincenti, M. Sarwal, Z. Laszik.

    University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco

    Background: Gene expression profiling can improve the diagnostic ability of kidney allograft injury. Fresh tissue is the favored study material for transcriptomic analysis due to…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Immunosuppression Adherence on De Novo Donor-Specific Antibody Formation in Renal Transplant Recipients in Canada: A Modeling Analysis.

    J. Howell,1 R. Pollock,2 J. Schwartz.3

    1Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc., Markham, ON, Canada; 2Ossian Health Economics and Communications GmbH, Basel, Switzerland; 3Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc., Northbrook, IL

    Acute rejection rates and short-term graft survival have improved substantially as a result of advances in immunosuppression (IS), though longer-term graft survival rates have improved…
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