Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Identification of Donor HLA-Specific Antibodies as a Risk Factor for Graft Dysfunction and Failure Following BK Virus Associated Nephropathy.
E. Abuhelaiqa, S. Salvatore, J. Lee, J. Lee, V. Sharma, T. Muthukumar, S. Seshan, M. Suthanthiran, D. Dadhania.
Transplantation Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
Background: BK virus associated nephropathy (BKVN) has emerged as a significant cause of graft dysfunction and graft failure. Identification of risk factors for graft dysfunction…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Thrombotic Microangiopathy After Kidney Transplantation: A Rare but Serious Complication.
C. Teixeira, I. Pietrobom, A. Lima, N. Tenório, G. Basso, M. Cristelli, L. Viana, G. Kirsztajn, H. Tedesco-Silva, J. Medina-Pestana.
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Purposes: Study the clinical characteristics of cases with thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) in the renal allograft, identify the triggers of this disease and determine its impact…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Urgent Kidney Transplantation as Successful Treatment of Calciphylaxis in Three Patients with End-Stage Kidney Failure.
E. Nordheim,¹ D. Dahle,¹ I. Syse,¹ A. Åsberg,^1,2 A. Reisæter,¹ H. Holdaas,¹ T. Jenssen,^1,3 A. Hartmann.^1,4
¹Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway; ²Shool of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; ³Kidney, Arctic University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway; ⁴Institute of Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Background: Calciphylaxis often referred to as calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA) is a rare and serious complication with limited treatment options. Kidney transplantation restores kidney function…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Anxiety Following Live Kidney Donation.
J. Leanza, A. Massie, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore.
Few studies have explored post-donation anxiety (PA) for live kidney donors. Donors who are younger, who develop post-op kidney-related morbidities, who are divorced, and who…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Peer Mentoring to Improve Access to Kidney Transplantation in the Southeast.
J. Gander,¹ S. McMath,² M. Rudd,² L. Sauls,³ S. Tripathi,¹ L. Plantinga,¹ L. McPherson,¹ T. Browne,⁴ S. Pastan,¹ R. Patzer.¹
¹Emory University, Atlanta; ²Georgia Transplant Foundation, Atlanta; ³ESRD Network 6, Raleigh; ⁴University of South Carolina, Columbia.
BACKGROUND The Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition's (SEKTC) mission is to improve the low kidney transplantation (KTx) rate in the North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Treatment of Borderline Lesion in Protocol Biopsies Did Not Improve the Outcome in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
A. Flores-Mendoza, L. Marino-Vazquez, A. Guichard-Romero, N. Uribe-Uribe, R. Rivera-Marfil, A. Nuñez-Abreu, J. Alberu, L. Morales-Buenrostro.
Nephrology, Transplantation and Pathology, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition SZ, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Introduction. Up to 30% of patients with protocol biopsies and stable renal function have borderline lesions. His relationship with acute rejection remains uncertain, as does…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Pediatric en Bloc Kidney (PeB) Grafts After Loss of a Single Kidney.
C. Santhanakrishnan, R. Perez, J. McVicar, J. Sageshima, C. Troppmannn.
Division of Transplantation, Dept of Surgery, Univ of Calif Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA.
Background: Transplantation (Tx) of PeB kidney grafts has been shown to result in good long-term outcomes. However, the fate of PeB grafts that suffer loss…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Initial Experience with Donor Specific Tregs in Kidney Transplantation.
J. Markmann,¹ E. Guinan,² E. Geissler,³ G. Cole,² S. Germana,¹ J. Kim,¹ B. Sawitzki.⁴
¹Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Hematology/Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Center, Boston, MA; ³Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; ⁴Institute of Medical Immunology, Charite Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
Systematic multicenter clinical evaluation of regulatory cells is being conducted by the EU supported ONE Study trial in which each site is administering a different…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus with Low-Dose Tacrolimus vs. a Standard Immunosuppressive Regimen: Renal Histology at 6 Months in De Novo Renal Transplant Patients.
S. Yilmaz,¹ D. Shaffer,² F. Shihab,³ K. McCague,⁴ D. Patel,⁴ Y. Qazi,⁵ F. Vincenti.⁶
¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ²Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; ³University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; ⁴Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ; ⁵University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; ⁶University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Morphologic changes in transplant protocol biopsies provide early evidence of renal damage. This study examined the renal histology of de novo patients 6 months post…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Defective Post-Reperfusion Metabolic Recovery Directly Associates with Incident Delayed Graft Function.
L. Wijermars, A. Schaapherder, J. Lindeman.
Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Delayed graft function (DGF) following kidney transplantation detrimentally affects long-term graft function and survival. DGF is a manifestation of ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury, yet up…