Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Eversion Endarterectomy of the Deceased Donor Renal Artery to Prevent Kidney Discard.
M. Khan, K. Jones, H. El-Hennawy, A. Farney, J. Rogers, G. Orlando, R. Stratta.
Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
Deceased donor (DD) kidneys exhibiting severe atherosclerosis with hard ulcerative occlusive plaque extending into the renal artery (RA) may represent a contraindication to utilization. Limited…
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Infections in De Novo Kidney Transplant Recipients Treated with the RANKL Inhibitor Denosumab: A Post-Hoc Analysis of the POSTOP Clinical Trial (NCT01377467).
M. Bonani,¹ D. Frey,² J. Brockmann,³ T. Fehr,¹ T. Müller,¹ N. Graf,⁴ R. Wüthrich.¹
¹Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ³Division of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ⁴Graf Biostatistics, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Background: A major cause of morbidity and mortality in kidney transplant recipients are infections. In this post-hoc analysis of the POSTOP study we assessed all…
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Baseline Donor Specific Antibody (DSA) More Predictive of Chronic Antibody Mediated Rejection (CAMR) Than the Change in DSA Over Time.
D. Mitema,¹ W. Cheungpasitporn,¹ M. Stegall,¹ F. Cosio,¹ M. Gandhi,² C. Schinstock.¹
¹Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Division of Transfusion Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Introduction: Although therapies are available to at least temporarily reduce DSA, the change in DSA naturally post-transplant remains unknown. We aim to study the serial…
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Serum Levels of Soluble Myeloid Antigens After Kidney Allograft Transplantation.
I. Striz, E. Cecrdlova, A. Sekerkova, J. Slatinska, V. Svachova, O. Viklicky.
Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM), Prague, Czech Republic.
Mononuclear phagocytes and neutrophils play a key role in early responses against the transplanted kidney allograft. It is expected that during the reperfusion of kidney…
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The Simplified EPTS Score: Who Wins and Who Loses?
J. Schold, E. Poggio, R. Fatica, S. Flechner, L. Buccini, D. Goldfarb.
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
The New Kidney Allocation System includes provisions that candidates with EPTS score in the lowest 20% (indicating best expected survival) have access to the highest…
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Pre-Emptive Kidney Transplantation with Living- Donor and Concomitant Unilateral Nephrectomy in Patients with Autosomal-Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Safe Strategy?
C. Michel,¹ F. Audenet,¹ M. Ariane,¹ C. Legendre,² D. Joly,² A. Méjean,¹ M.-O. Timsit.¹
¹Urology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; ²Nephrology and Transplantation, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France.
Objectives. Because the timing of the nephrectomy still remains unclear, we studied the complications and outcomes of unilateral nephrectomy and concomitant pre-emptive kidney transplant with…
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Associations of Perfusate Biomarkers and Pump Parameters with Delayed Graft Function and Deceased-Donor Kidney Allograft Function.
C. Parikh,¹ I. Hall,¹ R. Bhangoo,² J. Ficek,¹ P. Abt,³ H. Thiessen-Philbrook,¹ H. Lin,¹ M. Bimali,¹ P. Murray,⁴ V. Rao,¹ B. Schröppel,⁵ M. Doshi,⁶ F. Weng,⁷ P. Reese.³
¹Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; ²University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; ⁵Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; ⁶Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; ⁷Barnabas Health, Livingston, NJ.
Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) is increasingly used in deceased-donor kidney transplantation, but controversy exists regarding the value of perfusion biomarkers and pump parameters for assessing…
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Does Drain Placement Reduce the Risk of Peri-Graft Collections and Wound Complications After Kidney Transplant?
S. Cimen,¹ S. Cimen,¹ K. Tennankore,² A. Imamoglu,³ I. Alwayn.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; ²Department of Nephrology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; ³Department of Urology, Yildirim Beyazit EAH, Ankara, Turkey.
Introduction: Peri-graft collections and wound complications are common after kidney transplantation. Currently, it is unclear whether intraoperative drain placement can reduce the risk of peri-graft…
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Changes in Fatigue After Kidney Transplantation.
H. Ying, I. Olorundare, N. Dagher, B. Lonze, R. Montgomery, M. McAdams-Demarco, D. Segev.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Previous research suggests that 60 to 97% of patients on dialysis experience fatigue, or a feeling of persistent tiredness or exhaustion. ESRD patients with fatigue…
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Prophylactic Anti-Virus Therapy, Is It Necessary to Occult Hepatitis B Virus Carriers with HBsAg(-) and HBcAb(+) After Kidney Transplantation?
G. Chen, C. Wang, L. Chen, J. Qiu, C. Wang.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Background Hepatitis B virus(HBV) infection is common among uremia patients in China. Many patients received kidney transplantation are occult HBV carriers with HBsAg(-) and HBcAb(+)…