2015 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Subclinical Rejection (SCR) and Acute Clinical (ACR) in Renal Transplant Recipients
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
The importance of diagnosing subclinical rejection and its short and long term impact remains controversial.We prospectively evaluated 296 patients who had a kidney transplant at…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Ureteral Complications After Pediatric Renal Transplantation
Introduction: The incidence of acute renal allograft rejection has declined with advances in immunosuppression, making the evaluation of other risk factors for graft failure vital.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Hepatitis B Virus Reactivation in Kidney Transplant Patients Who Received Rituximab Administration
Department of Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
OBJECTIVE:The efficacy of antiviral prophylaxis for rituximab (RIT)-associated hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation in patients with lymphoma has been recently reported. However, the immunological effect…2015 American Transplant Congress
Disparities in Death and Delisting on the Waitlist for Renal Transplant in the United States
Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Waiting time to kidney transplant varies dramatically among organ procurement organizations (OPOs) in the US. We sought to evaluate the association between death and delisting…2015 American Transplant Congress
Initial Experience With a Tailor-Made Simulation and Navigation Program Using a 3D Printer Model of Kidney Transplantation Surgery
Introduction: Three-dimensional (3D) printing systems allow for the creation of surgical models mimicking real tissue. We developed a kidney graft and pelvic cavity replica as…2015 American Transplant Congress
Toxoplasmosis Post-Kidney Or Liver Transplantation: A Serie of Cases
Toxoplasmosis is a rare complication post-SOT, occurring mostly in D+/R- mismatch. However, in highly endemic areas, the disease occurs predominantly in R+ under post-tx immunosuppressive…2015 American Transplant Congress
Early Hospital Readmissions After Kidney Transplantation
Transplantation, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Early rehospitalization after kidney transplantation is common and is considered a quality metric. Few studies have examined preventability or specific transplant/discharge factors associated with early…2015 American Transplant Congress
Non-Chimeric HLA-Identical Renal Transplant Tolerance: Regulatory Immunophenotypic/Genomic Biomarkers
Background. We previously described 3-year results of a non-chimeric tolerance protocol in HLA-identical living donor renal transplant (RT) recipients and now report on longer term,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Protecting Older Patients from Dialysis: The Survival Benefit of Preemptive Transplant With High KDPI Allografts
BACKGROUND: Mortality on dialysis remain markedly elevated in patients over 60 years old. Preemptive kidney transplantation (PreKT) represents a means of avoiding the risks of…2015 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of CMV Viremia in Obese and Morbidly Obese Kidney Transplants Under a Low Dose Valganciclovir Prophylaxis Protocol
1Pharmacy Practice, Univ of IL-Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Surgery, Univ of IL-Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Background: The rate of Cytomegalovirus infections in kidney transplant recipients drastically diminished with the advent of oral ganciclovir and subsequently valganciclovir. However it continues to…
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