Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Metrics of Global Health Status Signal Early Hospital Readmission Risk After Kidney Transplantation
M. Harhay,¹ A. Hill,² W. Wang,² O. Even-Shoshan,² A. Mussell,¹ J. Karlawish,³ R. Bloom,¹ H. Feldman,¹ J. Silber,² P. Reese.¹
¹Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; ³Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Background: Early (≤30 days) hospital readmission (EHR) after kidney transplantation (KT) is common, with diverse causes that likely include poor pre-KT health status. Transplant providers…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Economic Analysis of Kidney Transplant Tolerance: The Holy Grail Is Less Costly
N. Elias, S. Shao, T. Gift, B. Patel, A. Cosimi, T. Kawai.
Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Introduction: Kidney transplantation (KTx), although expensive, is a more cost effective treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) than dialysis, and provides better long term survival…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation Using Kidneys from Donation After Circulatory Death Donors: Results from the UK Experience
D. Summers,^1,2,3 R. Johnson,² D. Collett,² C. Watson,^1,3 J. Neuberger,² G. Pettigrew,^1,3 J. Bradley.^1,3
¹Department of Surgery, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; ²Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom; ³Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Reseach Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Kidneys from donation after circulatory-death donors currently make up over 40% of deceased donor kidney transplants in the UK. In addition, 34% of deceased…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Designing a KDPI to Assess Live Donors and Compare Them to Deceased Donors
A. Massie, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
The Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) is used to assess risk of deceased donor kidneys (DDKT) based on donor characteristics. No comparable index exists for…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Pregnancy Outcomes in Kidney Recipients With Longer Transplant to Conception Intervals
S. Constantinescu,^1,2 L. Coscia,² D. Armenti,² P. Axelrod,¹ M. Ghanta,¹ S. Rao,¹ M. Moritz.^2,3
¹Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia; ²National Transplantation Pregnancy Registry, Gift of Life Institute, Philadelphia; ³Lehigh Valley Heath Network, Allentown.
The purpose of this study was to analyze pregnancy outcomes in female kidney transplant recipients with transplant to conception intervals (TCI) after the recommended 2…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Deleterious Effects in Kidney Transplant Outcomes With Pre-Organ Procurement Iodine Contrast Exposure
F. Barrantes,¹ S. Stith.²
¹Renal Medicine Associates/Presbyterian Transplant Center, Albuquerque, NM; ²Department of Economics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Background: Iodine contrast exposure is well known to cause acute kidney injury. When contrast exposure is added to hemodynamic ischemic injury its adverse effects on…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Th-17 Alloimune Responses in Renal Allograft Biopsies from Recipients of Kidney Transplants Using Extended Criteria Donors During Acute T-Cell Mediated Rejection
M. Matignon,^1,2 A. Aissat,³ F. Canoui-Poitrine,⁴ C. Grondin,² D. Desvaux,⁵ D. Saadoun,⁶ P. Lang,^1,2 J. Cohen,² P. Grimbert.^1,2
¹Nephrology Transplantation, APHP, Créteil, France; ²U955 Team 21, INSERM, Créteil, France; ³U955 Team 11, INSERM, Créteil, France; ⁴Public Health, APHP, Créteil, France; ⁵Anatomopathology, APHP, Créteil, France; ⁶Internal Medicine, APHP Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
Although renal transplantation using expanded criteria donors has become a common practice, immune responses related to immunosenescence in those kidney allografts have not been studied…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Educating Hispanic ESRD Patients About Living Donation: Impact of a Brief Intervention
E. Alvaro, J. Siegel, J. Poulsen, E. O'Brien.
Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA; Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA; Transplantation, St. Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
Purpose: This study was designed to enhance Hispanic ESRD patient knowledge, norm perceptions, and efficacy regarding discussions of living kidney donation.Methods: The study was a…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Pertubations in the Urinary Exosome in Transplant Rejection
T. Sigdel,¹ Y. Ng,¹ S. Lee,² C. Nicora,³ W.-J. Qian,³ D. Camp II,³ M. Sarwal.¹
¹Surgery, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ²Nephrology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea; ³Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
Urine exosomes are small vesicles shed into the urine by exocytosis from all renal epithelial cell types under normal physiologic states and disease states, and…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Superior Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation Compared With Dialysis in Korea: A Propensity–Matched Analysis of a National Population-Based Cohort Study Between 2005 and 2008
K. Yoo,¹ C. Kim,² J. Lee,³ M.-H. Kim,⁴ H. Cho,¹ K. Kim,⁵ H. Kim,⁶ D.-R. Ryu,⁷ D. Kim,¹ C. Lim,⁸ Y. Kim,¹ J. Lee.⁸
¹Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea; ²School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; ³Internal Medicine, Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, Seoul, Korea; ⁴Dental Hygiene, College of Health Science, Eulji University, Daejeon, Korea; ⁵Public Health, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul, Korea; ⁶Internal Medicine, Wonkwang University College of Medicine Sanbon Hospital, Sanbon, Korea; ⁷Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University Hospital, Seoul, Korea; ⁸Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Background: Kidney transplantation (KT) can improve clinical outcomes in patients with end-stage renal disease. However, the data about KT outcome comparing with dialysis is rare…