Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Twenty Years of Evolving Trends in Racial Disparities for Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients.
D. Taber, M. Gebregziabher, K. Chavin, T. Srinivas, P. Baliga, L. Egede.
Med Univ of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Objective: To determine if baseline risks and post-transplant outcome disparities in African American (AA) kidney transplant recipients have evolved over time.Methods: Analysis of 20-years of…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Regional Efficiency in Deceased Donor Utilization for Kidney Transplantation
K. Schnier,¹ N. Turgeon.²
¹School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA; ²Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Background: There currently exists regional variation in the supply of deceased donors as well as the demand for kidney transplantation. This has stimulated a growing…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Outcomes of Tocilizumab Therapy for DSA+ Antibody Mediated Rejection (ABMR) Resistant to IVIG + Rituxan (I+R) Treatment
J. Choi,¹ A. Vo,¹ J. Kahwaji,¹ M. Haas,² N. Reinsmoen,³ D. Puliyanda,¹ A. Peng,¹ R. Villicana,¹ S. Jordan.¹
¹CTC, Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA; ²Pathology, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA; ³HLA Laboratory, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA.
Intro: Limited options are available for treatment of ABMR in highly-HLA sensitized patients (HS). Treatment options include I+R, PLEX+I+/- R, C5-inhibitor & bortezomib. Approximately 25%…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Post-Kidney Transplant Infections in Desensitized Patients Receiving Thymoglobulin or Daclizumab Induction: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial
B. Orandi,¹ J. Locke,² E. Kraus,³ B. Lonze,¹ N. Desai,¹ N. Dagher,¹ N. Alachkar,³ C. Simpkins,⁴ F. Naqvi,³ D. Segev,¹ R. Montgomery,¹ R. Avery.³
¹Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; ²Department of Surgery, University of Alabama--Birmingham, Birmingham; ³Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; ⁴Department of Surgery, Dartmouth, Lebanon.
Live donor kidney transplant recipients requiring desensitization for donor-specific antibody, who were enrolled in a single-center randomized trial of thymoglobulin vs. daclizumab induction, were evaluated…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Excellent Results of ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantations at Multicenter Japanese Case Series
K. Tanabe,^１ H. Ishida,^１ K. Masutani,² Y. Okabe,³ M. Okumi,¹ H. Kitada,² T. Shimizu,⁴ H. Shirakawa.⁵
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan; ²Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; ³Surgery, Harasanshin Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan; ⁴Urology, Todachuo General Hospital, Toda, Saitama, Japan; ⁵Urology, Ohkubo Hospital, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
[Background]Although kidney transplantation (KT) is the most reassuring treatment for patients with ESRD, shortage of organ donation in Japan is crucial. This issue has forced…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Kidney Transplantation With Regional Hypothermia: Results from a Prospective Two-Arm Non-Randomized Controlled Trial (Ideal Phase 2b)
R. Ahlawat,¹ A. Sood,² P. Ghosh,¹ V. Kher,¹ M. Bhandari,² M. Menon.²
¹Institute of Kidney and Urology, Medanta, the Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India; ²Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
ObjectivesMinimally-invasive approaches to kidney transplantation are up-coming. We recently developed and described a novel technique of robotic KT (RKT) using intra corporeal graft cooling. Here,…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Survival of Deceased Donor Kidneys from Children Under Ten
W. Parker, J. Thistlethwaite, L. Ross.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Background: The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has adopted a new allocation algorithm that uses a Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) based on 10…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Based Immunosuppression and Incidence of Proteinuria in Kidney Transplant Recipients
R. Villicana, A. Peng, J. Kahwaji, J. Choi, A. Vo, S. Jordan.
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Introduction: Abatacept which is a co-stimulation inhibitor has been suggested to have B7-1 mediated antiproteinuric effects. Belatacept which is another co-stimulation agent has been approved…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Combined Robotic Kidney Transplantation and Sleeve Gastrectomy in Obese Recipients: Initial Results from Prospective Randomized Study
I. Tzvetanov, G. D'Amico, G. Georgiev, H. Jeon, R. Garcia-Roca, E. Benedetti, J. Oberholzer.
Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
IntroductionIn many transplant centers, patients with a BMI above 40 kg/m2 are either completely excluded or required to lose weight before being considered for kidney…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor and Recipient BKV Serostatus and the Effect of Ciprofloxacin Prophylaxis on BK Viremia Risk After Kidney Transplant
M. Changala,¹ A. Kistler,² J. Abend,² A. Sathe,² A. Howard,¹ D. Wojciechowski.¹
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ²Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA.
Background: BK virus (BKV) is a common infection in kidney transplant recipients. Due to widespread latent BKV infection in the general population, it is possible…