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Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Mycophenolic Acid Product Discontinuation Prior to Conception: Analysis of Pregnancies in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

    S. Constantinescu,1,2 L. Coscia,2 D. Armenti,2 M. Moritz.2,3

    1Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; 2Gift of Life Institute, National Transplantation Pregnancy Registry (NTPR), Philadelphia, PA; 3Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA.

    Mycophenolic acid (MPA) products are considered teratogenic and transplant centers report discontinuing MPA in female kidney recipients anticipating pregnancy. Data were collected by the National…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Body Mass Index > 35 on Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A Systematic Review.

    D. Walczak, E. Benedetti.

    Organ Transplant, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL.

    Background: The increased prevalence of obesity (BMI > 30) among adults in the United States over the last two decades is reflected in the number…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Donor Profile Index Trend Analyses.

    D. Vikraman, K. Ravindra, S. Sanoff, W. Irish, U. Patel, D. Sudan.

    Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.

    IntroductionIn spite of improved outcomes associated with the usage of extended criteria donor (ECD) kidneys, the number of kidney transplants (KT) using this donor population…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Significant Increase in Wait List Removals for Candidates Considered Too Sick from the US Kidney Transplant Waiting List.

    E. Poggio, L. Buccini, S. Flechner, D. Goldfarb, J. Schold.

    Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

    Approximately 59,000 kidney transplant candidates have been removed from the waiting list since 2000 for reasons other than transplantation, death, or transfers. In 2014, reasons…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Optimal Time Point for Steroid Withdrawal After Kidney Transplantation Is One Year After Engraftment.

    M. Haller,1 M. Kammer,1,2 A. Kainz,2 G. Heinze,1 R. Oberbauer.1,2

    1Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems (CeMSIIS), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2Department of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

    The optimal time of steroid withdrawal after kidney transplantation remains elusive, since RCTs can evaluate one predefined time point. Thus we analyzed all first kidney…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    U.S. Dialysis Facility Characteristics Associated with Racial Disparities in Access to the Kidney Deceased Donor Transplant Waiting List.

    J. Gander, L. Plantinga, S. Paul, S. Pastan, R. Patzer.

    Emory University, Atlanta.

    BACKGROUND Dialysis facility characteristics have been significantly associated with variation in U.S. transplant rates but facility characteristics associated with disparities in access to the kidney…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    HLA Antibody in Transplant Recipients During Transition from Paediatrics.

    S. Kaki,1 A. Lunn,2 J. Goodwin,3 T. Key,3 W. McKane.1

    1Renal, Sheffield Kidney Institute, Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2Renal, Queens Medical Centre, Sheffield, United Kingdom; 3Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, National Health Service blood and transplantation, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

    Objective:Adolescent transplant recipients in transition from paediatric to adult units are known to be at high risk of graft failure. Detection of HLA antibody is…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Mining the Human Proteome for Monitoring Renal Transplant Injury.

    T. Sigdel,1 Y. Gao,2 J. He,2 A. Wang,1 C. Nicora,2 D. Smith,2 W. Qian,2 D. Camp,2 M. Sarwal.1

    1Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco; 2Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland.

    The human urinary proteome reflects systemic and inherent renal injury perturbations and can be harnessed to define biomarkers for different kidney transplant injury states. Through…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Accumulation of Highly Sensitized Patients in a KPD Registry.

    S. Stepkowski, B. Mierzejewska, D. Bekbolsynow, M. Rees.

    University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.

    Objectives: We analyzed sensitization against HLA among patients in a kidney paired donation (KPD) registry. In particular, three groups of patients were included: 1) all…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Angiotensin II Type-1 Receptor Antibodies in Renal Transplant Recipients Associated with Ventricular and Endothelial Dysfunction: Preliminary Results.

    L. Figuerola-Chaparro,1 F. Davila-Radilla,1 E. Cuevas,2 L. Castillo-Martínez,1 A. Orea-Tejeda,1 J. Arreola-Guerra,2 J. Alberu.2

    1Cardiology, Inst Nal Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion SZ, Mexico City, Mexico; 2Transplantation, Inst Nal Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion SZ, Mexico City, Mexico.

    Previous studies demonstrated the significance of angiotensin II type-1 receptor antibodies (AT1Rabs) in processes including hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy and renal fibrosis; information regarding ventricular and…
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