Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Recipients Older Than 70: A Single Center Experience
M. Yaqub, A. Sharfuddin, M. Mujtaba, D. Mishler, T. Taber, W. Goggins, N. Kassis Akl.
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…
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Potential Urine Protein Biomarkers for Kidney Transplantation Dysfunction Through Quantitative Proteomics
T. Sigdel,¹ N. Salomonis,² C. Nicora,³ J. He,³ W.-J. Qian,³ D. Camp,³ M. Sarwal.¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; ³Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
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…
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Clinical and Biochemical Results of BK Virus Nephropathy in Kidney Allograft Recipients
B. Canbakan,¹ I. Akdağ,¹ ö. Merhametsiz,¹ ö. Yayar,² E. Oğuz,¹ M. Kiliç,³ D. Ayli.¹
¹Nephrology, Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey; ²Nephrology, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey; ³General Surgery, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
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…
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Dual Kidney Transplantation – Utilising Marginal Kidneys
T. Rana, E. Ablorsu.
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…
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Early Hospital Readmission and Distance from Transplant Center
E. King,¹ L. Kucirka,¹ M. McAdams-DeMarco,^1,2 A. Massie,^1,2 D. Segev.^1,2
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
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…
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Desensitization Protocol Including Concomitant Bortezomib and Rituximab Did Not Reduce Calculated PRA Nor Mean MFI Values Among Waitlisted Patients for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
S. Kang,¹ H. Lim,¹ J. Jeong,¹ E. Song,² I. Yun,³ C. Ahn,¹ J. Yang.¹
¹Transplantation Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea; ²Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea; ³Department of Surgery, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.
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…
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Age, Race and Socioeconomic Factors Have a Strong Influence on Candidates Finding a Living Donor Kidney
G. Vranic, A. Nishio Lucar, D. Keith.
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…
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A Discrete Choice Experiment to Explore Patients' Preferences for Kidney Transplant Monitoring by Video-Conferencing
S. Brunet-Houdard,¹ M. Giral,² S. Gaboriau,² A. Meurette,² P. Daguin,² P. Tessier.³
¹UEME, SIMEES, Tours University Hospital, Tours, France; ²Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France; ³EA 4275, Nantes University, Nantes, France.
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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Blood Gene Expression at 3 Months Post-Transplantation Predicts 1-Year Histological Features in Renal Transplantation
R. Danger,^1,2 K. Renaudin,^1,3,4 C. Paul,¹ G. Couvrat-Desvergnes,^1,3 J. Lozano,⁵ A. Sanchez-Fueyo,^2,5 V. Meas-Yedid,⁶ J. Olivo-Marin,⁶ E. Thervet,⁷ J. Dantal,^1,3,4 A. Moreau,^1,3,4 J.-P. Duong Van Huyen,⁸ J.-P. Soulillou,^1,3,4 M. Giral,^1,3,4 S. Brouard.^1,3,4
¹INSERM U1064 and ITUN, Nantes, France; ²Department of Liver Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, MRC Transplant Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; ³Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France; ⁴Universite de Nantes, Nantes, France; ⁵Liver Unit and Bioinformatic Platform, CIBEREHD, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; ⁶Unité d'Analyse d'Image Quantitative, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; ⁷Nephrology Unit, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; ⁸Service d'Anatomie Pathologique, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Histological analysis of biopsy at one year is proposed as a reliable tool for assessing renal allograft status, however, a non-invasive method for early prediction…
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Validation of a Peripheral Blood Gene Expression Profile for SubClinical Acute Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients – Findings from the CTOT 08 Study
J. Friedewald,¹ S. Kurian,² T. Gelbart,² D. Salomon,² M. Abecassis.¹
¹Northwestern University, Chicago; ²Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla.
Background: Sub-clinical acute rejection (SCAR) is histologic acute cellular rejection in the presence of a normal/stable serum creatinine, and is associated with worse graft survival.…