2016 American Transplant Congress
Wait List Removals and Transplant Rates Are Significantly Associated with Transplant Center Performance Oversight.
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Prior studies indicate that low performance(LP) center evaluations by the SRTR are associated with reductions in transplant volume. There is limited information to determine whether…2016 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus Plus Reduced-Exposure Cyclosporin versus Mycophenolic Acid Plus Cyclosporin: Seven-Year Follow-Up of Australia and New Zealand Kidney Transplant Recipients in the A2309 Study.
A2309 was a 2-year, phase III randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect on graft and patient outcomes of three groups:1.5mg everolimus plus low exposure cyclosporine…2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Kidney Transplant Outcomes Have Improved Over the Last Decade.
Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Our group recently reported improved 6-month eGFR and long-term patient and allograft outcomes in deceased donor transplant over the last decade. Our goal was to…2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Donation Weight Loss Postpones Living Kidney Donation without Attaining the Desired Weight Maintenance in the Midterm.
Renal Transplant Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
Pre-donation weight loss in living kidney donation has two main objectives: reduce surgical risk, and decrease long-term complications from obesity and glomerular hypertrophy secondary to…2016 American Transplant Congress
IFTA Is Linked to Urinary Microbiome Changes.
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.
Purpose: The microbiome is important to human health and alteration may lead to aberrant immunity and disease. Interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy(IFTA) occurs in 20%…2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of High-KDPI Kidneys Among Obese Transplant Candidates.
Obese patients have less access to kidney transplantation; use of high-KDPI kidneys could help expand access in this population, but the cumulative effect of obesity…2016 American Transplant Congress
Arterial Hypertension After Renal Transplantation in Pediatric Patients: An Analysis of CERTAIN Registry.
BackgroundOur study aimed to describe the prevalence of hypertension & blood pressure (BP) control as well as influencing factors in pediatric renal transplant patients.MethodCasual BP…2016 American Transplant Congress
Adiponectin Is Produced by Leukocytes Infiltrating Renal Transplants.
Immunology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Fat is now recognized as a source of immunologically significant cytokines. Adiponectin, the most abundant adipokine, is usually classified as an anti-inflammatory cytokine because decreased…2016 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Follow Up of Kidney Donors with Asymptomatic Renal Stones.
BACKGROUND:Kidney stones are often found incidentally in potential renal donors and there is a concern that they may become symptomatic and cause damage in the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Natural Language Processing Methods Allow Reliable Extraction of Banff Scores and Grades.
Objective: National Data are sparse with regard to pathology of rejection. Incorporating biopsy pathology grades and lesion scores into analyses requires manual extraction and entry…
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