Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2015 American Transplant Congress
NFAT Regulated Cytokine Gene Expression for Immune Monitoring in Kidney Transplant Recipients
V. Tatapudi, A. Webber, C. Leung, F. Vincenti.
Div. of Nephrology, Dept. of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.
Purpose of Study:To demonstrate that profiling kidney transplant recipients (KTR) on Tacrolimus (Tac) based immunosuppression based on quantitative analysis of NFAT (nuclear factor of activated…
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Prognostic Relevance of Rejection Episodes Detected Within the First 3 Weeks After Kidney Transplantation
V. Arelin,¹ H. Schrem,² F. Lehner,² W. Gwinner,¹ H. Haller,¹ M. Schiffer.¹
¹Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany; ²General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Background:The relevance of cellular rejection events detected in the early phase after kidney transplantation for graft survival and function remains to be elucidated. Especially the…
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Association of Transplant Volume and Survival in Pediatric Kidney Transplants
W. Cherikh,¹ A. Wilk,¹ C. Flavin,¹ E. Brewer.²
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ²Baylor Coll Med & Texas Children's Hosp., Houston, TX.
Background. Center specific volume has been shown to correlate with outcomes for many procedures in the adult population. The current analysis was conducted to determine…
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Racial Differences in Transplant and Waitlist Mortality Rates Among HIV+ Kidney Transplant Candidates
J. Locke,¹ S. Gustafson,² C. Durand,³ J. Snyder,² B. Shelton,¹ R. Reed,¹ P. MacLennan,¹ S. Mehta,¹ A. Nellore,¹ D. Segev.^2,3
¹University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; ²SRTR, MMRF, Minneapolis, MN; ³Johns Hopkins Univerity, Baltimore, MD.
Kidney transplant (KT) is now a viable option for select HIV+ end-stage renal disease patients. As OPTN does not collect HIV status at waitlisting, no…
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Effect of Center Volume On Kidney Transplant Outcomes- Mate Kidney Analysis
T. Klair,¹ P. Friedmann,² L. Kayler.²
¹Abdominal Organ Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; ²Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
Background- Reports of the association of center volume and outcomes in kidney transplantation (KTX) may not provide adequate adjustment for donor risk factors. This study…
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Renal Tubular Dysfunction Following Donor Nephrectomy and Its Impact On Residual Kidney Function
Z. Ahmed,¹ C. Rooney,³ C. Turner,² N. Dalton,² N. Kessaris,¹ N. Mamode.¹
¹Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom; ²Wellchild Laboratory, St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom; ³Faculty of Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Background: Recent publications have described an increasing incidence of end stage renal disease amongst kidney donors. This highlights the paucity of knowledge which exists in…
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Epidemiology of Pneumonia in a Cohort of 5,000+ Abdominal Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
A. Masica, S. Delcroix-Lopes, M. Kouznetsova, C. Spak.
Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, TX.
Study purposeWe evaluated the epidemiology of pneumonia (PNE) in a longitudinal cohort of patients with abdominal (kidney, liver, and/or pancreas) solid organ transplants (SOT).MethodsRetrospective study…
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Favorable Results of ABO Incompatible Renal Transplantation Without B Cell Targeted Therapy: Advantages and Disadvantages of Rituximab Pretreatment
M. Okada,¹ K. Futamura,¹ K. Itou,¹ T. Yamamoto,¹ T. Hiramitsu,¹ M. Tsujita,¹ N. Goto,¹ S. Narumi,¹ Y. Watarai,¹ A. Katayama,² K. Uchida,³ T. Kobayashi.⁴
¹Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; ²Masuko Memorial Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; ³Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan; ⁴Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
INTRODUCTIONThe outcome of ABO-incompatible transplantation (ABO-I) has been reported to be comparable to that of ABO-identical/compatible transplantation (ABO-Id/C), which is considered to be due to…
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A Common Gene Signature Across Multiple Studies Identifies Biomarkers and Functional Regulation in Tolerance to Renal Allograft
D. Baron,^1,2,3 G. Ramstein,⁴ M. Chesneau,^1,2,3 Y. Echasseriau,^1,2,3 A. Pallier,^1,2,3 C. Paul,^1,2,3 N. Degauque,^1,2,3 M. Hernandez-Fuentes,⁵ A. Sanchez-Fueyo,⁶ K. Newell,⁷ M. Giral,^1,2,3 J.-P. Soulillou,^1,2,3 R. Houlgatte,^8,9 S. Brouard.^1,2,3
¹UMR 1064 - CRTI, INSERM, Nantes, Loire Atlantique (44), France; ²ITUN, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, Loire Atlantique (44), France; ³Faculté de Médecine, Université de Nantes, Nantes, Loire Atlantique (44), France; ⁴UMR 6241 - LINA, Université de Nantes, Nantes, Loire Atlantique (44), France; ⁵MRC Centre for Transplantation, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; ⁶Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom; ⁷Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ⁸U954 - LNGERE, INSERM, Nancy, France; ⁹DRCI, CHU de Nancy, Nancy, France.
Patients tolerant to a kidney graft display a specific blood transcriptional pattern but reported results from five distinct studies hardly overlapped, raising the question of…
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Survival Benefit of Kidney Transplantation With Expanded Criteria Kidney from Donors After Circulatory Death
X. Luo, A. Massie, E. Chow, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
The purpose of this study was to compare the mortality risk and survival benefit of transplant with expanded criteria kidneys from donors after circulatory death…