2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Social Support on Feelings of Powerlessness and Attitudes Towards the Kidney Transplant in Long-Term Inner City Recipients.
Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Psychosocial factors play an important role in the post-transplant period, affecting adherence and quality of life. We investigated the relationships between social support, attitude towards…2016 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Social Barriers to Health Literacy in ESRD Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplant Evaluation.
Background: Low health literacy is associated with increased hospitalizations and mortality. ESRD patients have reduced health literacy as ESRD disproportionately affects the elderly and individuals…2016 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation According to Donor Source: 24-Month Results from Post-Hoc Analysis of the ELEVATE Study in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
ELEVATE study group, Leiden, Netherlands.
Background: Several studies reported that recipients receiving renal allograft from living donors have better efficacy outcomes than the deceased donor counterparts. This post-hoc analysis of…2016 American Transplant Congress
Renal Dysfunction at 12 Months Is Not Associated with Everolimus Exposure in De Novo Renal Transplant Recipients.
Renal dysfunction at 1 year post-transplantation is associated with poor graft outcome. Here, we assess post-transplant renal function associated with everolimus (EVR) and tacrolimus (TAC)…2016 American Transplant Congress
Dual Kidney Transplants as Policy to Optimize the Allocation of Marginal Donor Kidneys: Analysis of the French Cohort Since 2002.
The aim of this national multicentre cohort study was to assess the safety of dual kidney transplantation (DKT) in terms of patient and graft survival…2016 American Transplant Congress
Chronic High Epstein-Barr Viral Load Carriage in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients.
BackgroundThe development of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is normally associated with a high EBV viral load in peripheral blood. Observations…2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Early Red Blood Cell Transfusion After Kidney Transplantation on De Novo HLA Sensitization in the Setting of Antithymocyte Globulin Induction.
Introduction:HLA specific antibodies detection (HSA) and that of Donor Specific Antibodies (DSA) were revolutionized by the introduction of solid phase assays (Luminex®), therefore making these…2016 American Transplant Congress
Antithymocyte (ATG) Dose Density in Renal Transplant Recipients (RTR) with Early Graft Dysfunction (EGD).
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX.
The cumulative amount of ATG for induction may be given as consecutive (cDD) or intermittent day dosages (iDD). iDD allows for leukocyte or platelet recovery…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Fine-Tuning of CXCL8 Protects Kidney Against Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Mice Lacking MicroRNA-146a.
Acute kidney injury leads to the development of tubular injury and interstitial inflammation that need to be controlled to avoid fibrosis development. We hypothesized that…2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: How Do Recipients Benefit Psychologically?
Introduction: Living donor kidney transplantation remains the gold standard treatment for end-stage renal failure. There is an assumption amongst the transplant community that the physical…
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