Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Baseline Blood Pressure on Early Graft Function in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
B. Jun Bae¹, C. Oh¹, H. Ahn²
¹Department of surgery, Ajou University Medical School, Suwon, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Anesthesiology and Pain medicine, Ajou University Medical School, Suwon, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The adequate perfusion pressure to the graft is essential for proper graft function in kidney transplantation, especially in deceased donor kidney transplantation. Therefore, the…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Ultrasound Assessing Donor Kidney Quality in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
S. Yun¹, K. Lee¹, S. Park², J. Park¹
¹Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Radiology and Center for Imaging Science, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: We evaluated the role of functional kidney volume using donor kidney ultrasound (US) alone or in combination with other donor factors and parameters appropriate…
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Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation from Donors with Acute Kidney Injury: Realities and Costs
S. Iskhagi¹, R. Shahbazov¹, A. Ball¹, S. Loerzel¹, E. Shaban², B. Gallay², R. Hod Dvorai³, J. Leggat², M. Hanlon¹, R. Saidi¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ²Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ³Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
*Purpose: The use of kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the options to expand donor pool. Several studied have…
2022 American Transplant Congress
En-Bloc Kidney Transplantation in Children Over a 33-year Period in USA – A Comparative Study
P. Gogalniceanu¹, I. D. Kostakis², P. Chandak³, G. Papadakis⁴, J. Stojanovic⁵, F. Calder⁴, I. Loukopoulos⁴, N. Kessaris⁴
¹Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Guy's Hospital, London, London, United Kingdom, ²Department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Royal Free Hospital, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³Transplantation, Guy's and St Thomas Hospitals NHS Trust and King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: En-bloc kidney transplantation is not commonly performed due to scarcity of such organs as well as due to potential technical and thrombotic problems. We…
2022 American Transplant Congress
A Large-Scale National Cohort Study Assessing the Impact of Diabetes and Obesity on Kidney Transplant Outcomes
V. Rohan¹, M. Casey¹, S. Zemin², P. Baliga², D. Taber²
¹Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is the most common cause of renal failure in patients undergoing kidney transplantation (KT) and highly correlated with obesity.…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Physician Preferences When Selecting Candidates for Marginal Quality Kidney Offers: A Discrete Choice Experiment
S. Mehrotra
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
*Purpose: This study assesses the tradeoffs that physicians make when accepting marginal-quality kidneys, and the extent to which recipient-specific factors influence the acceptability of these…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Humoral Response After a Third Dose of Sars-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine in Transplant Recipients
A. E. Woolley, N. Sharma, G. Zhou, A. Kim, E. Ryan, M. Joyce, H. Goldberg, M. Givertz, M. Mehra, E. Woodcome, V. Durney, S. Marshall, K. Townsend, A. Coppolino, S. Tullius, S. Malek, H. Mallidi, L. Baden, A. Chandraker
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Prior studies demonstrated an increased immune response post-3rd COVID-19 vaccine dose when given 1-month post-2nd dose in solid organ transplant recipients (SOT). This study…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Emptive Rituximab to Prevent Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD) in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients with EBV DNAemia: A Case Series from the Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium (PNRC)
I. Ashoor¹, S. Ranabothu², S. Al-Akash³, A. Moudgil⁴, Y. Shi⁴, S. Kizilbash⁵, D. Puliyanda⁶, V. Dharnidharka⁷
¹LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, ²Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR, ³Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christie, TX, ⁴Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, ⁵University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, ⁶Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁷Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO
*Purpose: The use of Rituximab (RTX) to prevent PTLD in patients with EBV DNAemia is an established strategy in hematopoietic stem cell transplants, but with…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Prescribing Gabapentinoids, Co-Prescribed with Opioids or Benzodiazepines Among Kidney Transplant Recipients
J. Ahn¹, S. Bae¹, J. Kim¹, M. Schnitzler², G. Hess³, K. Lentine², D. Segev¹, M. McAdams-DeMarco¹
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ³Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Gabapentinoid are commonly used to manage neuropathic pain in recipients with kidney transplantation (KT), with increasing concerns of co-prescribing with opioids and benzodiazepines leading…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Impaired Humoral Response to Second Dose of BNT162b2 Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Kidney Transplant Recipients in Japan: Prospective Observational Study
H. Sasaki¹, K. Hasegawa¹, M. Miura², H. Harada¹, D. Takamoto¹, Y. Takada¹, S. Harada¹, H. Tanaka¹
¹Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan, ²Sapporo Hokuyu Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
*Purpose: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has a major impact on solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, with mortality rate up to 22%. The…