Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Significance of Delayed Graft Function and Slow Graft Function in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
J. Song¹, S. Jeong¹, S. Min¹, J. Ha¹, J. Lee², J. Jeong³, Y. Kim¹, Y. Kim¹, H. Lee¹
¹Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The delayed graft function (DGF) after kidney transplantation (KT) affects long-term graft and patient survival. We explored the time-trend of DGF and associated risk…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance and Risk Level of Preservation Fluid Microorganisms in Kidney Transplant Recipients
J. Li¹, X. Su¹, J. Han², Y. Huang², W. Wu¹, M. Wei², S. Yuan², C. Wu¹, J. Li¹, L. Liu¹, C. Wang¹
¹Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, ²Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: As a solution for preserving kidney during procurement and transportation, preservation fluid (PF) is the main method to detect donor-derived infection. But there are…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Prebiotic Supplementation In Kidney Transplant Recipients For Preventing Infections And Gastrointestinal Upset: A Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study
S. Chan¹, C. M. Hawley¹, E. M. Pascoe², C. Z. Cao², S. B. Campbell², K. L. Campbell³, R. S. Francis², R. Hale¹, N. M. Isbel⁴, M. Morrison⁵, D. W. Johnson²
¹Department of Nephrology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia, ²Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia, ³Menzies Health Institute - Molecular Basis of Disease Research Program, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, ⁵Diamantina Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Australia
*Purpose: Modulating the large intestinal microbiome of kidney transplant recipients (KTR) may reduce infectious complications. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility…
2022 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison of Self-Reported Physical Function to In-Person Frailty Assessments for the Prediction of Rehospitalizations After Kidney Transplantation
E. Lorenz¹, C. Kennedy¹, C. Schinstock¹, A. Kukla¹, D. Eton¹, H. Wadei², G. Mour³, P. Dean⁴, A. Rule¹, N. LeBrasseur¹, A. Cheville¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁴Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Rehospitalizations are common after kidney transplantation (KT) and associated with increased cost, allograft failure, and death. Physical frailty as defined by Fried criteria has…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA During the First Week After Surgery Predicts Renal Function Recovery After Kidney Transplantation
D. Cucchiari¹, E. Cuadrado¹, E. Gonzalez¹, J. Puig¹, M. Ramirez-Bajo¹, P. Ventura-Aguiar¹, I. Revuelta², B. Bayès¹, F. Diekmann¹
¹Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Donor-derived cell-free DNA (ddcfDNA) is usually employed starting from the second week after kidney transplantation (KT), as its earlier increase can be due to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Bariatric Surgery Pre-Transplant on Renal Transplant Outcomes
R. Zaminpeyma, S. Negi, N. Saberi, A. Andalib, S. Paraskevas, J. Tchervenkov
Surgery, McGill, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: We compared post-transplant outcomes in patients with morbid obesity undergoing pre-transplant bariatric surgery to non-obese and obese patients without bariatric surgery.*Methods: Adult recipients of…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy and Safety of a Delayed Graft Function Protocol in Kidney Transplant Recipients
V. Vu¹, S. Bhayana², H. Sweiss¹, N. Castro¹, R. Hall¹, J. Nelson¹
¹University Health, San Antonio, TX, ²University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a protocol increasing the net state of immunosuppression for adult kidney transplant recipients (KTR) with delayed graft…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Identifies the Changes of Human Normal Kidney After Transplantation
G. Huang¹, H. Zhang¹, X. Chen¹, G. Zhao¹, J. Luo¹, S. Yang², J. Qiu¹
¹Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, ²Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: We found that in all studies about kidney transplantation and single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), the native kidney rather than the transplanted kidney was…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Natural History of De Novo DSA After Kidney Transplantation
C. López del Moral¹, N. Lachmann², S. Hergovits², D. Stauch², A. Akifova³, M. Naik³, B. Osmanodja³, D. Schmidt³, K. Budde³
¹Nephrology department-IDIVAL, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Institute for Transfusion Medicine, HLA-Laboratory, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, ³Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: De novo donor-specific antibodies(dnDSA) are key in the diagnosis of antibody-mediated rejection(ABMR) and are related to graft loss(GL). Luminex® provides semi-quantitative information with the…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Heterogeneity of Alloreactive Natural Killer (NK) Cell Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients
D. Ruan, M. Fribourg, N. Chun, P. Cravedi, A. Horowitz, P. Heeger
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: Emerging evidence indicates that human NK cells are a heterogeneous population of lymphocytes that are activated upon ligation of one or more activating receptors…