2015 American Transplant Congress
Renal Resistance Measured During Pulsatile Perfusion and Long-Term Kidney Transplant Outcomes
McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Background: Pulsatile perfusion (PP) has been shown to reduce the incidence of delayed graft function (DGF) and increase short- and long-term kidney transplant (KT) survival.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donation in the Elderly: The United Kingdom Experience
Introduction: The increasing demand for organs has led many institutions to accept elderly patients onto their living donor programmes. However no large UK based datasets…2015 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Recipients Older Than 70: A Single Center Experience
Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN.
Age is no longer considered a contraindication to renal transplantation. To date, little is known in regards to the grafts and patients outcomes in elderly…2015 American Transplant Congress
Potential Urine Protein Biomarkers for Kidney Transplantation Dysfunction Through Quantitative Proteomics
Introduction: Inability to effectively monitor transplant injuries leads to immune and non-immune mediated graft dysfunction. A non-invasive tool to monitor such injuries is an unmet…2015 American Transplant Congress
Clinical and Biochemical Results of BK Virus Nephropathy in Kidney Allograft Recipients
BK virus (BKV) nephropathy has emerged as a significant cause of graft dysfuction in kidney allograft recipients after using powerful immunosupressive treatment protocols in recent…2015 American Transplant Congress
Dual Kidney Transplantation – Utilising Marginal Kidneys
Cardiff Transplant Unit, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Background: With the increasing shortage of donor kidneys a constant review of organ quality and utilisation is required. Getting any positive result from a potential…2015 American Transplant Congress
Early Hospital Readmission and Distance from Transplant Center
Background: Early hospital readmission occurs in 31% of kidney transplant (KT) recipients and may be associated with mechanistic factors not previously captured in patient-level risk…2015 American Transplant Congress
Desensitization Protocol Including Concomitant Bortezomib and Rituximab Did Not Reduce Calculated PRA Nor Mean MFI Values Among Waitlisted Patients for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
Highly sensitized (HS) patients (pts) seldom have chance to receive deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT). A desensitization (DES) program including bortezomib was employed to facilitate…2015 American Transplant Congress
Age, Race and Socioeconomic Factors Have a Strong Influence on Candidates Finding a Living Donor Kidney
Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Living donation is decreasing in the US even as the number of candidates listed for renal transplant continues to rise. We sought to evaluate the…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Discrete Choice Experiment to Explore Patients' Preferences for Kidney Transplant Monitoring by Video-Conferencing
INTRODUCTIONAn experiment to assess the clinical outcomes and the economic efficiency of a videoconferencing system for the renal transplant patient's monitoring is currently under way…
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