Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
The Fine-Tuning of CXCL8 Protects Kidney Against Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Mice Lacking MicroRNA-146a.
L. Amrouche,^1,2 G. Desbuissons,¹ M. Rabant,^1,2 C. Legendre,^1,2 F. Terzi,² D. Anglicheau.^1,2
¹U1151, INSERM, Paris, France, Metropolitan; ²Department of Kidney Transplantation, Necker hospital, Paris, France, Metropolitan.
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?
H. Maple,¹ J. Chilcot,² J. Weinman,² N. Mamode.¹
¹Department of Transplantation, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; ²Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Association Between Delayed Graft Function and Long-Term Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation from Donors After Circulatory Death.
P. Clayton,^1,2,3 G. Russ,^1,2,3 S. McDonald,^1,2,3 S. Chadban.^1,4,5
¹Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia; ²Central Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplantation Service, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia; ³School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; ⁴Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ⁵Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Purpose: Delayed graft function (DGF) is associated with worse long-term outcomes after kidney transplantation from donation after brain death (DBD) donors. We aimed to determine…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation: Do Early Urinary Tract Complications Influence Long-Term Graft Survival?
E. Arpali, D. Kaufman, H. Sollinger.
Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of urological complications seen in the first year after the primary kidney transplant on long term outcomes.Patients and Methods: ESRD…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Which Post-Transplant Complications Are More Common in Elderly Renal Recipients?
F. Agena, F. Paula, B. Reichert, P. Neves, A. Piovesan, W. Nahas, E. David-Neto.
Renal Transplantation Service, Hospital das Clinicas - University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Elderly recipients are listed for renal transplantation (RTx) more frequently. The immediate (first 60 days) post-transplant complications expected in this group have not been well…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Post Transplant Lymphoprolipherative Disorder Among Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients.
M. Mohamed, S. Parajuli, B. Muth, A. Djamali, B. Astor.
Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI.
Objective: Identifying predictors of Post Transplant Lymphoprolipherative Disorder (PTLD); early (0 - 3 years) and late in kidney transplantation.Methodology: Single center longitudinal study among kidney…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Prediction of Molecular ABMR by Anti-HLA Donor-Specific Antibody Properties.
F. Eskandary,^1,2 J. Reeve,^1,3 D. Yoo,¹ H. Regele,⁴ L. Hidalgo,^1,3 G. Böhmig,² P. Halloran.^1,5
¹Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; ²Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ³Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ⁴Department of Clinical Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ⁵Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Transplant Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Study purpose: Besides HLA antibody characterization and workup of biopsies (Bx) molecular assessment of gene expression may considerably improve ABMR diagnosis. The objective of the…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Vaccination Compliance in Listed Kidney Transplant Candidates: A Retrospective Chart Review.
I. Tawhari,¹ C. Staffeld-Coit,² J. Garcia-Diaz.¹
¹Infectious Disease, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA; ²Nephrology, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA.
Background: Infections in solid organ transplant recipients, some of which are vaccine preventable, may result in excessive morbidity and mortality. Immunosuppressive agents increase the risk…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Reduced Incidence and Level of De Novo Donor-Specific Antibodies in Belatacept-Treated vs. Cyclosporine-Treated Patients: Final Results from BENEFIT.
R. Bray,¹ H. Gebel,¹ R. Townsend,² M. Polinsky,² L. Yang,² U. Meier-Kriesche,² C. Larsen.¹
¹Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ²Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ.
Background: The presence of donor-specific antibodies (DSA) has been associated with an increased risk of antibody-mediated rejection and graft failure. Mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) is…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Acute Rejection, New-Onset Diabetes After Transplant and Transplant Outcomes in Pediatric Kidney Recipients: Analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network/United Network for Organ Sharing (OPTN/UNOS) Database.
A. Mehrnia, T. Le, T. Tamer, S. Bunnapradist.
Nephrology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Introduction Our objective was to identify the associations of new-onset diabetes after transplant (NODAT) and acute rejection (AR) in predicting patient mortality and transplant failure…