Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Follow-Up of Cardiovascular Comorbidity in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients – Results from the 4C-T Study
A. Melk,¹ D. Thurn-Valsassina,¹ B. Schmidt,¹ A. Duzova,² B. Soezeri,³ A. Bayazit,⁴ S. Caliskan,⁵ U. Querfeld,⁶ K. Ažukaitis,⁷ E. Wuehl,⁷ F. Schaefer.⁷
¹Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; ²Hacettepe University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey; ³Ege University Medical Faculty, Izmir, Turkey; ⁴Cukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey; ⁵Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medial School, Istanbul, Turkey; ⁶Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; ⁷Centre for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany.
Purpose: Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) carry an increased cardiovascular risk. Cardiovascular death is the second leading cause of death in children after renal…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Post Kidney Transplant Complications by Urinary Exosomal mRNA Analysis
H. Harada,¹ T. Murakami,² C. Yamamoto,² M. Mitsuhashi.²
¹Kidney Transplant Surgery, Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan; ²Hitachi Chemical Research Center, Inc., Irvine, CA.
IntroductionMonitoring of kidney allograft status is important for the graft longevity. Conventional urinary markers are not sensitive and specific enough to diagnose graft injuries so…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Monitoring Intracellular Tacrolimus Concentration in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Stable Graft Function
E. Bae,¹ S. Han,¹ S. Yang,² J. Park,¹ H. Lee,¹ J. Lee,³ D. Kim,¹ Y. Kim.¹
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ²Kidney Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; ³Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Background: Monitoring the intracellular concentration of immunosuppressive agents can be promising to improve and individualize clinical practice in patients receiving transplantation. However, this issue remains…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Dialysis Facility Kidney Transplant Referral in Georgia: 2005-2012
S. Pastan,¹ J. Gander,¹ L. Plantinga,¹ L. Sauls,² E. Gibney,³ L. Mulloy,⁴ J. Krisher,² R. Patzer.¹
¹Emory University, Atlanta; ²Southeastern Kidney Council, Raleigh, NC; ³Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, GA; ⁴Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA.
Purpose: Significant variation exists in Standardized Transplantation Ratios (STR) at the dialysis facility level, and GA has the lowest kidney transplant (KTx) rate in the…
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Risk of Cause-Specific ESRD in Live Kidney Donors
S. Anjum, A. Muzaale, A. Massie, S. Bae, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the risk of developing cause-specific ESRD in live kidney donors over time.METHODS: We studied a cohort of…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Center-Level Experience and Kidney Transplant Outcomes in HIV-Infected Recipients
J. Locke,¹ R. Reed,¹ S. Mehta,¹ C. Durand,² R. Mannon,¹ P. MacLennan,¹ B. Shelton,¹ M. Martin,¹ H. Qu,¹ R. Shewchuk,¹ D. Segev.²
¹Comprehensive Transplant Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore.
Background: Excellent outcomes among HIV+ kidney transplant (KT) recipients have been reported by the NIH consortium, but it is unclear if experience with HIV+ KT…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Randomized Study Comparing Parathyroidectomy Versus Cinacalcet to Treat Hypercalcemia in Kidney Allograft Recipients With Persistent Hyperparathyroidism
J. Cruzado,¹ V. Torregrosa,⁵ R. Mast,³ A. García-Barrasa,² O. Bestard,¹ E. Melilli,¹ J. Francos,² J. Torras,¹ C. Polo,¹ C. Gómez-Vaquero,⁴ J. Grinyó,¹ P. Moreno.²
¹Nephrology, Hospital de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; ²Surgery, Hospital de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; ³Radiology, Hospital de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; ⁵Nephrology, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.
Purpose: Cinacalcet corrects hypercalcemia and hypophosphatemia in patients with persistent hyperparathyroidism (HPT) after kidney transplantation (KT). This study (NCT011178450) was designed to evaluate whether subtotal…
2015 American Transplant Congress
External Validation of Clinical Prediction Models of Patient and Graft Survival in a Canadian Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients
S. Singh,^1,2 D. Naimark,^1,2,3 J. Victor,² J. Kim.^1,2,4,5
¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Division of Nephrology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴Division of Nephrology and the Kidney Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁵Division of Nephrology and the Renal Transplant Program, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Background: Several clinical prediction models (CPM) of patient and graft survival in kidney transplant recipients have been developed as tools to assist physicians in identifying…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Lack of Utilization of Pre-Emptive Transplantation in Those With Living Donor Kidney Transplants
A. Sakhuja,¹ A. Naik,¹ R. Eikstadt,² P. Shrivastava,¹ D. Cibrik,¹ M. Samaniego.¹
¹Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²KECC, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Introduction: Time spent on dialysis before kidney transplantation (KTx) has been associated with worse outcomes. Pre-emptive transplants are not always possible due shortage of deceased…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Intrapatient Variability and Mean Tacrolimus Levels in Renal Transplant Patients
D. Goodall, M. Willicombe, A. McLean, D. Taube.
Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
IntroductionNonadherence (NA) to immunosuppressive medication and adherence to immunosuppressive protocols is a potent risk factor for rejection and graft loss, which can be both patient…