2017 American Transplant Congress
More Rapid Decline in Male VS Female Living Kidney Donations (LKD) Varies by Income.
Reasons for the decline in LKD remain uncertain. We hypothesized that there would be a more rapid decline in male vs female LKD and that…2017 American Transplant Congress
Tacrolimus Intra-Patient Variability Determined from Daily Trough Levels in Adherent Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients.
Drugs are classified as highly variable when intra-patient coefficient of variation (CV%) is > 30%. Tacrolimus (TAC) is characterized as highly variable often without supporting…2017 American Transplant Congress
Treating Hepatitis C+ Patients Before or After Kidney Transplantation: A Medical Decision Analysis.
Some have recommended that HCV+ kidney wait list patients delay HCV treatment with direct acting antiviral agents (DAAs) with the option of receiving an HCV+/HCV-…2017 American Transplant Congress
Chagas Disease and Outcome in Kidney Transplant.
Renal Transplant Unit, CRAI Sur - CUCAIBA, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Introduction: Chagas disease is one of the most expanded endemic in Latin America with 8 people from every 10.000.000 being infected. In Argentina its estimated…2017 American Transplant Congress
Epigenetic Modifications in the Progression to Chronic Renal Allograft Injury.
1UVA, Charlottesville; 2VCU, Richmond; 3OSU, Columbus; 4NWU, Chicago
Background: The renal allograft is exposed to a milieu of environmental/metabolic stimuli that trigger epigenetic modifications and thereby gene expression patterns which influence function and…2017 American Transplant Congress
Meta-Analysis of Clinical Significance of Complement Activating Anti-HLA DSA in Kidney Transplantation.
Donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) are currently recognized as the major limitation to access transplantation and the first cause of late transplant failures. The effect of…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Cumulative United States Experience with Transplants (Txs) from Living Donors (LDs): 140,156 LD Txs in 28 Years.
Background/Purpose: Solid organ txs from LDs provide better outcome results than from DDs. We analyzed the cumulative US LD tx experience since UNOS inception. The…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Relationship Between Frailty and Decreased Physical Performance with Death on the Kidney Transplant Waiting List.
Background: Frailty and decreased physical performance are associated with poor outcomes after kidney transplant. Less is known about their relationship with pre-transplant outcomes. The aim…2017 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Hand Assisted Laparoscopic Right Donor Nephrectomy, Single Center Experience.
Transplant Surgery, The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Right donor nephrectomy,especially when conducted laparoscopically,has not been accepted by most transplant surgeons because of the consequent short right renal vein and the possible increased…2017 American Transplant Congress
Release of HMGB1 in Serum and Urine of Brain-Death Donors Is Associated with Delayed Graft Function (DGF) of the Kidney.
Delayed kidney graft function (DGF) following a kidney transplant is associated with worse graft survival and higher rejection risk. Risk factors for DGF have been…
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