Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
The Coefficient of Variability of Tacrolimus Levels Can Predict Antibody-Mediated Rejection After Renal Transplantation.
P. Ruiz-Esteban,¹ M. Gonzalez-Molina,¹ A. Caballero,² E. Palma,¹ D. Burgos,¹ M. Cabello,¹ J. Alonso-Titos,¹ A. Duarte,¹ D. Hernandez.¹
¹Nephrology, Regional Universitary Hospital, IBIMA, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain; ²Immunology, Regional University Hospital, IBIMA, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain.
Introduction. Antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) is the major cause of allograft failure. We studied whether the coefficient of variability (CV) of blood levels of tacrolimus can…
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Time Trends of Induction Agent Use in Older and Younger Kidney Transplantation Recipients.
Q. Huang, X. Luo, M. McAdams-DeMarco, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Older adults are increasingly gaining access to kidney transplantation (KT) yet the use of induction agents in this population is unclear. The goal of this…
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Evolution of Donor Nephrectomy: Long-Term Outcomes with Four Different Techniques Between 1963 and 2014 at a Single Institution.
O. Serrano,¹ A. Bangdiwala,² D. Vock,³ E. Minja,¹ A. Pugalendhi,¹ K. Yadav,¹ V. Kirchner,¹ W. Payne,¹ T. Dunn,¹ S. Chinnakotla,¹ E. Finger,¹ T. Pruett,¹ A. Matas,¹ R. Kandaswamy.¹
¹Surgery, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, Masonic Cancer Center, Minneapolis, MN; ³Biostatistics, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
PURPOSE: The development of minimally-invasive approaches to donor nephrectomy (DN) has been primarily driven by the potential advantages it presents the donor. Questions remain over…
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Kidney Transplantation from Thin Basement Membrane Nephropathy Donor.
C. Choi,¹ A. Han,¹ S.-Y. Kim,¹ S. Cho,¹ M.-J. Cho,¹ C. Lee,¹ S. Ahn,¹ S.-K. Min,¹ J. Ha,¹ M. Park,² S. Kim,³ I. Jung,¹ S.-I. Min.¹
¹Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Laboratory Medicine, Korea Organ Donation Agency, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ³Surgery, Myongji Hospital, Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
PurposeThin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN) is the most common cause of persistent glomerular hematuria. Most individuals with TBMN shows benign course, but it is hard…
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Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Patients with CPRA Values >98% After Implementation of the New OPTN/UNOS Kidney Allocation System (KAS): A Single Center Study Update.
N. Kaur,¹ S. Goral,¹ J. Kearns,² P. Abt,³ A. Naji,³ P. Porrett,³ M. Levine,³ M. Kamoun.²
¹Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia; ²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia; ³Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia.
Background: Sensitized patients have had prolonged waiting times and greater incidence of death while on the waiting list. On December 4, 2014, UNOS/OPTN activated a…
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Use of Preoperative Embolization Prior to Transplant Nephrectomy.
C. Yeast, J. Riley, J. Holyoak, S. Weinstein, G. Ross, M. Wakefield.
Urology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
Introduction/Objective: After a failed transplant, management of a non-functional graft with pain or recurrent infections can be challenging. Transplant nephrectomy (TN) can be a very…
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Kinetics of Cytomegalovirus Load in Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving Everolimus or Mycophenolate Sodium and No Pharmacological Prophylaxis.
G. Basso, C. Felipe, A. Ferreira, M. Cristelli, N. Oliveira, T. Sandes-Freitas, J. Mansur, L. Viana, W. Aguiar, E. Campos, M. Gerbasi-DeLima, H. Tedesco-Silva, J. Medina-Pestana.
Hospital do Rim, São Paulo, Brazil.
The purpose of this analysis is to investigate the kinetics of cytomegalovirus (CMV) viral load in kidney transplant recipients receiving tacrolimus (TAC) plus everolimus (EVR)…
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HCV, Acute Rejection, and the New Direct-Acting Antivirals in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients.
C. Liao, A. Massie, S. Bae, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore.
The association between hepatitis C virus (HCV) seropositivity and acute rejection (AR) in kidney transplant donors and recipients is unclear, and may have changed with…
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Alloimmunity Through Non-HLA Epitopes in Kidney Transplantation.
R. Reindl-Schwaighofer,¹ A. Kainz,¹ B. Cole,² J. van Setten,² K. Jelencsics,¹ B. Keating,² R. Oberbauer.¹
¹Department of Nephrology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²Transplant Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Introduction: An unexpected diversity in the human genome has been identified including more than 2,500 nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNP) and up to 20 homozygous…
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Risk Factors for Clinical Urinary Tract Infections in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Asymptomatic Bacteriuria.
S. Medani, M. Dorais, A. Tavares-Brum, H. Mawad, A. Duclos, C. Lemieux, A. Barama, H. Cardinal.
Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
BackgroundThere is no clear consensus on whether asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) should be treated in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). We sought to identify patient or episode…