2017 American Transplant Congress
Shared Decision Aid to Decipher Long-Term Treatment Risks for End Stage Renal Disease Patients.
Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for end stage renal disease (ESRD) compared to dialysis. The incidence of ESRD continues to increase while the gap…2017 American Transplant Congress
Recurrence of IgA Nephropathy After Kidney Transplantation in Maintenance Steroids versus Steroid Avoidance Regimens: A UNOS/OPTN Analysis.
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Background: There has been an increase in the use of steroid-avoidance regimens. However, there is some evidence to suggest that steroid avoidance may be associated…2017 American Transplant Congress
Inferior 10-Year Graft and Patient Survival After End-to-Side Reconstruction for Two Renal Arteries in Living Donor Renal Transplantation.
Purpose: Living donor kidneys with two arteries can be revascularized using various techniques depending on anatomy and surgeon preference. We hypothesized that the revascularization technique…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Forgotten Element of KAS: A2 to B Transplantation Reduces Waiting Time for Blood Group B Patients by 20%.
Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
Introduction Since the implementation of the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) in 2014 blood group B patients have been able to receive priority for blood group…2017 American Transplant Congress
Contribution of New Generation Sequencing to CMV Resistance Analysis in Renal Transplant Recipients (on Behalf of the CMV Resist Group).
Results from the French Cohorts 2006-2010 and OrphaVic (NCTNCT02067169) indicates that fifty percent of graft failures in renal recipients infected by HCMV after treatment with…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…2016 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of eGFR Slope at One Year in Kidney Transplants – A Big Data Approach.
Background: Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), a predictor of graft loss (GL) in kidney transplantation could inform intervention. National data yield eGFRs at fixed time…
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