2015 American Transplant Congress
Predictive Value of Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Tools in Kidney Transplantation
Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality following kidney transplantation. Many cardiovascular risk screening tools have been developed, but they have never…2015 American Transplant Congress
Factors Influencing Cost Among Kidney, Liver, and Heart Transplant Patients in a Private Payer Setting
1Optum, Minneapolis; 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
The factors influencing cost in solid organ transplantation have been evaluated by many individual centers, as well as nationally for Medicare patients. However, the majority…2015 American Transplant Congress
Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) Given Post-Transplant Together With C3a and C5a Receptor Antagonists Prevent Engraftment Syndrome and Induce a Mild Not-Significant Prolongation of Graft Survival
Bone marrow (BM)-derived MSC given the day before kidney allografts localize into lymphoid organs and induce significant prolongation of graft survival in mice. By contrast,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Mitochondrial Feedback Mechanisms in Kidney Cell Senescence
BackgroundProgressive DNA damage (telomere attrition) is considered one of the key instigators of ageing. Different models for ageing where DNA damage leads to accelerated senescence…2015 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Causes of Graft Loss Among Kidney Transplant Patients Receiving Tacrolimus Vs Cyclosporine
Tacrolimus (FK) has surpassed cyclosporine (CYA) as the calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) of choice for the vast majority of kidney transplant (KTX) programs. Yet, CYA continues…2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes After Right Kidney Living Donor Transplant Are Associated With Center Volume
Surgery/Transplantation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Background: Right kidney living donor transplant (RKLDT) is a high-risk, low-volume procedure that is associated with increased risk for early graft failure. It is unclear…2015 American Transplant Congress
Elderly Transplant Recipients Have Improved Graft Survival
Background: The upper age limit to receive a kidney transplant has progressively risen, but the outcomes of elderly (ages > 70) transplant recipients remain understudied.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Improving the Predictive Value of the Virtual Crossmatch: Is the C1Q Assay Needed?
The criteria for reporting unacceptable HLA antigens of renal transplant candidates differ greatly between transplant centers. In the attempt to refine these criteria, the experience…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Association of Basiliximab and Antithymocyte Globulin Induction With Delayed Graft Function
The impact of selection of induction immunosuppression agent on incidence of delayed graft function (DGF) remains unclear. A total of 1,980 deceased donor kidney transplant…2015 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Cold Ischemia Time in Combination With Donor Ischemic Events on Kidney Transplant Outcomes
Transplantation, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Deceased-donor kidneys may be exposed to various ischemic events either from donor instability as evidenced by acute kidney injury (AKI) or donation after circulatory death…
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