Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Patient Refusals for Transplantation
A. Reeves-Daniel,¹ A. Palanisamy,¹ G. Orlando,² J. Rogers,² G. Russell,¹ A. Farney,² J. Burkart,¹ R. Stratta,² B. Freedman.¹
¹Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; ²Surgery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem.
Disparities in access to the kidney transplant wait list have been described for women, African Americans (AAs), and the elderly. However, few data are available…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of GFR Outcomes During the First Year of Transplant According to the Kidney Donor Risk Index Transplantation in México. The Experience of a Single Center
J. Aguilar-Frasco, J. Arreola-Guerra, L. Paláu, V. Visag, M. Vilatobá, A. Contreras, A. Sanchez, J. Alberu.
Transplantation, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán", México, DF, Mexico.
Several scoring systems have been proposed to evaluate the quality of kidneys from deceased donors (DD). Recently, Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) was introduced in…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Treatment Through Home Infusion as a Safe and Reasonable Alternative to Intitution-Based Treatment: A Retrospective Analysis of Medical Records
T. Kou,¹ A. Deshmukh,¹ J. Preston,¹ A. Gomez,¹ S. Rafanelli,² K. Calderon.¹
¹Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ; ²BiologicTx, Totowa, NJ.
Purpose: Belatacept is a selective T-cell costimulation blocker indicated for prophylaxis of organ rejection in adult patients receiving a kidney transplant in combination with basiliximab…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Tool to Evaluate Coercion, Pressure, and Motivation in Potential Live Kidney Donors
A. Shaffer,¹ E. King,¹ J. Kahn,² L. Erby,³ D. Segev.¹
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ²Bergman Institute for Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ³School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Live donor kidney transplantation yields improved graft survival and recipient longevity, as compared to deceased donors. However, one concern with living donation is the potential…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Clinical Outcomes Between in the Spousal Donor Kidney Tranplants: Wife-to-Husband Versus Husband-to-Wife
K. Jun,¹ H. Kim,¹ M. Kim,¹ K. Park,² S. Ahn,¹ J. Hwang,¹ S. Kim,¹ S. Park,¹ S. Kim,¹ J. Kim,¹ I. Moon.¹
¹Vascular and Transplant Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; ²Vascular Surgery, Inha University, Incheon, Korea.
Backgrounds:There is few clinical outcome data between the wife-to-husband recipients(WTHr) and husband-to-wife recipients(HTWr) kidney transplantation. This study was conducted to compare the clinical outcomes between…
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Application of the Clavien Classification of Surgical Complications to Robotic Kidney Transplantation
R. Garcia Roca, C. Martinez Parra, I. Tzvetanov, H. Jeon, E. Benedetti, J. Oberholzer.
Surgery, Transplant Division, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences, Chicago, IL.
INTRODUCTIONThe Clavien-Dindo Classification of complications after a surgical procedure is an objective measure of outcomes and serves as a comparison tool to evaluate procedure safety…
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Molecular and Functional Immune Assays as Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tools to Assess the Risk of Acute Subclinical Rejection After Kidney Transplantation
O. Bestard,^1,2 E. Crespo,¹ T. Sigdel,² S. Roedder,² Y. Ng,² J. Cruzado,¹ M. Lúcia,¹ S.-C. Hsieh,¹ T. Tran,¹ J. Grinyó,¹ M. Sarwal.¹
¹Kidney Transplant Unit, Bellvitge University Hospital, Barcelona, CAT, Spain; ²Department of Transplant Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Subclinical allograft rejection (sc-AR) is still a main cause of allograft loss that can only be assessed through invasive surveillance biopsies. We sought to investigate…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Serum Phosphorus Level Has Bidirectional Association With Graft Failure and Mortality in Kidney Transplant Recipients
H. Jeon,¹ J. An,² K. Joo,¹ C. Lim,² Y. Oh,² C. Ahn,¹ S.-K. Park,³ Y. Kim,¹ Y. Kim,⁴ J. Lee.²
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ³Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ⁴Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Hyperphosphatemia in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) is known to predict a graft and patient survival in several studies. However, studies concerned with hypophosphatemia are scarce.…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Calcineurin (CNI) Exposure Reduces the Risk of Post-Transplant DSA After Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
R. Pelletier, A. Rajab, G. Bumgardner, M. Henry.
General Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
We use ATG induction with immediate rapamune (Rapa) and delayed CNI immunosuppression following kidney transplantation. Mycophenolic acid (MPA) is substituted for CNI to avoid renal…
2015 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Cytokine Release Caused By Induction Immunosupression On Nitric Oxide in Renal transplantation
R. Johns,^1,2 M. Laftsidis,² E. Burrows,² F. Edwards,² E. Ablorsu,² P. James,¹ A. Phillips,^1,2 A. Asderakis.²
¹University of Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom; ²University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
IntroductionVarying induction immunosuppression regimens have a differential impact on the pattern of cytokine release. Pro-inflammatory cytokines stimulate endothelial cells causing secretion of NO. Serum nitrite…