Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Watch Out for the Guy with the Low EPTS Score: Nonadherence and Kidney Allograft Failure.
A. Liu, K. Balabhadrapatruni, J. Augustine.
Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical School, Cleveland, OH.
Background: Nonadherence is a known cause of rejection and kidney allograft failure. Our aim was to define risk factors for allograft loss related to nonadherence.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Volume and Improved Survival in Solid Organ Transplantation for Amyloidosis – An Analysis of the UNOS Database.
J. Jaramillo,¹ J. Stehlik,¹ J. Fang,¹ R. Al-Dulaimi,¹ E. Gilbert,¹ S. Drakos,¹ O. Wever-Pinzon,¹ C. Selzman,¹ S. McKellar,¹ T. Kovacsovics,² J. Abraham,² M. Maurer,³ J. Nativi-Nicolau.¹
¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; ²Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT; ³New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University, New York, NY.
Background: Amyloidosis is a rare disease that results from accumulation of inappropriately folded proteins causing organ failure and poor prognosis. In the last decade several…
2016 American Transplant Congress
How Tacrolimus Variability Affects Donor Specific Antibodies, Rejection and Outcome After Kidney Transplantation.
S. Papachristos, A. John Velvet, A. Summers, A. Tavakoli, R. Dhanda, R. Pararajasingam, B. Forgacs.
Manchester Transplantation Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Purpose:To investigate the effect of tacrolimus(tac) variability on the development of Donor Specific Antibodies(DSA),rejection and outcome in relation to Age, Gender, Ethnicity and Body Mass…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit from Kidney Transplantation Using Kidneys from Deceased Donors Over 75 Years.
M. Pérez-Sáez,¹ E. Arcos,² J. Comas,² M. Crespo,¹ J. Lloveras,¹ J. Tort,² J. Pascual,¹ Catalan Renal Registry Committee.²
¹Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; ²Catalan Renal Registry, Organització Catalana de Trasplantaments, Barcelona, Spain.
Large registries have shown that end-stage renal disease patients have longer survival after kidney transplantation (KT) than remaining on dialysis. However, the outcome for kidneys…
2016 American Transplant Congress
15-Years Experience with the EUROTRANSPLANT Senior Program.
H.-M. Tautenhahn,¹ S. Brückner,¹ H.-M. Hau,¹ H. Morgül,¹ J. Broschewitz,¹ C. Pipiale,¹ F. Pankow,¹ S. Erler,² M. Bartels.¹
¹Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; ²Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Halle, Germany.
Introduction: The ESP (Eurotransplant senior program), introduced in 1999 by EUROTRANSPLANT, is supposed to shorten the waiting period for elder recipients. The aim of this…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder in First, Kidney-Only Transplant Recipients Remains Stable.
J. Molony,¹ Y. Peng,¹ N. Baker,² U. Meier-Kriesche,³ J. Snyder.¹
¹Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis; ²Brystol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS), Hopewell; ³BMS, Lawrenceville.
We estimated the incidence of and risk factors for post-transplant (TX) lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) in the 3 years post-TX for adults with first, kidney-only TX…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Glomerular Capillary C4d Staining without Evidence of Rejection Is Associated with Worse Graft Function in ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation.
D. Toki,¹ M. Inui,¹ M. Okumi,² H. Ishida,² K. Setoguchi,¹ T. Shimizu,² K. Unagami,² K. Tanabe.²
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University Yachiyo Medical Center, Chiba, Japan; ²Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Objectives: C4d staining in the peritubular capillaries (C4d-PTC) is often observed without evidence of rejection in ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation (ABOI-KTx), and this phenomenon is generally…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Induction Therapy in Low Risk African American Kidney Transplant Recipients: Donor Factors.
F. Al Ammary,¹ S. Bae,¹ A. Massie,¹ N. Dagher,¹ E. King,¹ A. Wiseman,² D. Segev.¹
¹JHU, Baltimore; ²CU, Denver.
African Americans (AA) are at a higher risk of acute rejection and graft loss compared to non-AA kidney transplant (KT) recipients. Guidelines specify induction choices…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Replacing Cold Storage with Normothermic Ex Vivo Kidney Perfusion Improves Function of Grafts Retrieved After Circulatory Death (DCD).
J. Kaths,^1,2 Y.-M. Chun,¹ D. Cen,¹ J. Echeverri,¹ I. Linares,¹ P. Yip,³ R. John,³ D. Bagli,⁴ I. Mucsi,⁵ A. Ghanekar,¹ D. Grant,¹ L. Robinson,² M. Selzner.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Nephrology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴Departments of Surgery (Urology) & Physiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁵Department of Medicine, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Normothermic ex vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP) and avoidance of static cold storage (SCS) is an attractive strategy to minimize injury of DCD kidney grafts. We…
2016 American Transplant Congress
End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients' Willingness to Accept Risks to Living Kidney Donors.
J. Gannon,¹ C. Thiessen,¹ K. Yu,¹ L. Skrip,¹ P. Reese,² E. Gordon,³ S. Kulkarni.¹
¹Yale University, New Haven; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; ³Northwestern University, Chicago.
Background: While many potential living kidney donors (LKDs) are willing to accept high levels of ESRD risk, receipt of a living donor kidney is also…