2017 American Transplant Congress
Induction in the Elderly: A Comparison of Basiliximab versus Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin After Kidney Transplantation.
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Background: Although it is well established that kidney transplant (KT) in the elderly is beneficial and safe, there is limited literature on the appropriate choice…2017 American Transplant Congress
Prediction of Positive Cytotoxic and Flow Crossmatches for Sensitized Wait List Candidates: Comparison of Luminex MFI, C1q and FcR Binding Assays.
Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
Clinical relevance of HLA antibodies identified in solid phase assays includes their ability to generate a positive crossmatch (XM) test, which often precludes transplantation. The…2017 American Transplant Congress
Weekend Discharge and Early Hospital Readmission After Kidney Transplant: A Multi-Center Analysis.
Background: Kidney transplant (KT) recipients with early hospital readmission (EHR, <30 days after discharge from KT) are at higher risk for poor post-KT outcomes. There…2017 American Transplant Congress
Reduced Racial Disparity in Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI
OBJECTIVE: Earlier studies reported inferior outcomes among African-American (AA) compared with white kidney transplant (KT) recipients.DESIGN: Prospective database.SETTING: Single center.PATIENTS: During 1997-2015, 1102 patients underwent…2017 American Transplant Congress
Primary Urtero- Ureterostomy in Renal Transplant, an Old Forgotten but Promising Technique.
John C McDonald Regional Transplant Center, Shreveport
Introduction:Ureter anastomosis is considered the achilles heel of renal transplant. Different types of Uretero-neocystostomy anastomosis techniques have been used as well as Uretero-Ureterostomy but latter…2017 American Transplant Congress
Early Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation When Comparing Waist-to-Hip Ratio vs. Body Mass Index.
Introduction - High body mass index (BMI) is a concern for kidney transplantation due to wound infections and other surgical complications. BMI has been used…2017 American Transplant Congress
Commonly Expressed Living Donation Fears and Concerns by Non-Directed (Altruistic) Living Kidney Donors in the United States.
A. In the United States, many factors, including lack of awareness and misconceptions about living kidney transplantation, create challenges that limit increasing the live kidney…2017 American Transplant Congress
Rejection of Human Kidney Allografts According to BANFF Classification Is Associated with a Chemokine-Enriched Protein Microenvironment in Biopsy Tssue.
Background: Expression profiling efforts of biopsy tissue after kidney transplantation indicate that rejection can be defined by distinct signatures. Based on pathological evaluation (BANFF) as…2017 American Transplant Congress
Immunosuppression (IS) Withdrawal (ISW) After ATG and Rituximab in Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTR): RESTARRT Early Results (NCT01318915).
Growing evidence implicates B cells in transplant tolerance. RESTARRT is a 6-center ISW study in adult living-related-donor KTR receiving ATG induction and rituximab with a…2017 American Transplant Congress
Conversion from Calcineurin Inhibitor to Sirolimus in Kidney Transplantation Recipients with Malignancy.
Nephrology, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Background: Kidney transplant recipients are at an increased risk of malignancy for various reasons, such as the chronic use of calcineurin inhibitor (CNI). Sirolimus (SRL),…
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