Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Donation Weight Loss Postpones Living Kidney Donation without Attaining the Desired Weight Maintenance in the Midterm.
P. Ventura-Aguiar, E. De Sousa-Amorim, J. Campistol, F. Diekmann, F. Oppenheimer, I. Revuelta.
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…
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IFTA Is Linked to Urinary Microbiome Changes.
B. Modena, R. Milam, F. Harrison, S. Kurian, D. Salomon, A. Kirk.
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%…
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Survival Benefit of High-KDPI Kidneys Among Obese Transplant Candidates.
M. Bowring, A. Massie, X. Luo, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore.
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…
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Arterial Hypertension After Renal Transplantation in Pediatric Patients: An Analysis of CERTAIN Registry.
R. Sugianto,¹ E. Wühl,² B. Schmidt,¹ K. Krupka,² B. Höcker,² B. Tönshoff,² A. Melk.¹
¹Children's Hospital, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany; ²Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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…
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Adiponectin Is Produced by Leukocytes Infiltrating Renal Transplants.
S. Goparaju, R. Fan, K. Keslar, N. Dvorina, W. Baldwin III.
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…
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Long Term Follow Up of Kidney Donors with Asymptomatic Renal Stones.
D. Serur,¹ M. Charlton,² K. Juluru,³ G. Salama,³ E. LoCastro,³ G. Bretzlaff,² C. Hartono.¹
¹Nephrology/Rogosin, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY; ²Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY; ³Radiology, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY.
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…
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Natural Language Processing Methods Allow Reliable Extraction of Banff Scores and Grades.
K. Reilly,¹ L. Lenert,¹ H. Anwar,² J. Thompson,¹ D. Taber,¹ P. Mauldin,¹ T. Srinivas.¹
¹MUSC, Charleston; ²IBM, NY.
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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Evaluating Delayed Graft Function After Kidney Transplantation as a Potential Surrogate Outcome.
S. Cramm, X. Luo, A. Massie, D. Segev.
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.
Background: Recent work demonstrates significant inter-center heterogeneity in delayed graft function (DGF) rates after kidney transplantation, calling into question the value of a metric based…
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The Effect of Everolimus and Tacrolimus Exposure Levels on Renal Histology Parameters 6 Months Post-Transplantation.
S. Yilmaz,¹ D. Shaffer,² Y. Qazi,³ K. McCague,⁴ D. Patel,⁴ V. Peddi,⁵ F. Vincenti.⁶
¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; ²Vanderbilt University, Nashville; ³University of Southern California, Los Angeles; ⁴Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover; ⁵California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco; ⁶University of California San Francisco, San Francisco.
We examined renal histology scores in patients with different exposure levels of everolimus (EVR) and tacrolimus (TAC) over 6 months.Renal transplant patients (N=613) were randomized…
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Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Delayed Graft Function in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in a Brazilian Center.
A. Ribeiro,¹ M. Helfer,² O. Costa,² A. Viccari,¹ R. Manfro.^1,2
¹Division of Nephrology, Renal Transplant Unit, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; ²School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Background. A high incidence of delayed graft function (DGF), after deceased donor kidney transplantation, occurs in Brazil and the reasons for such finding have not…