Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Vitamin D Status and Sars-cov-2 Infection in a Cohort of Renal Transplanted Patients
A. Regalia, C. M. Alfieri, M. Campise, D. Cresseri, M. Gandolfo, P. Messa, G. Castellano
Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milano, Milano, Italy
*Purpose: Immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties have been hypothesized for native vitamin D (nVD). Very little is reported about nVD and risk of Sars-CoV-2 infection (COV)…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Safety and Immunogenicity of BNT-162b2 versus Chadox1 Vaccine in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Prospective Study
A. Ajlan¹, T. Ali², H. Aleid², K. Almeshari², M. Alkaff³, S. Althuwaidi⁴, L. Fajji², A. Alali⁵, D. Halabi⁶, A. Ullah⁷, K. H. Marquez⁸, B. Elmikkaoui⁹, A. Alrajhi¹⁰, A. Zidan¹¹, E. Albogumi.¹², K. Bzeizi¹³, R. Almaghrabi¹⁴, E. DeVol¹⁵, M. Al-Awwami,¹⁶, S. Alghamdi¹³, P. Broering²
¹Pharmaceutical Care Division - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC), Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ²Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ³Medical Laboratory, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁴Medical Microbiology, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁵Transplant Coordination Team - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁶Transplant Coordination Team - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁷Kidney & Pancreas Health Centre, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁸Analytics Data Centre - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁹Data Management - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹⁰Infectious Diseases - Medicine Department, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹¹Abdominal Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery Centre, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹²Data Management. - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹³Liver & Small Bowel Health Centre, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹⁴Infectious Diseases - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹⁵Biostatistics, Epidemiology &Scientific Computing, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹⁶Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory Kidney & Pa - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Data showed seroconversion after different SARS-CoV-2 vaccination platforms might yield diminished response in transplant recipients. However, it is unknown whether different vaccination platforms could…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Telemedical Surveillance and Optimized Treatment of Blood Pressure in Kidney Transplant Recipients
W. Düttmann¹, M. G. Naik¹, B. Zukunft¹, B. Osmanodja¹, G. Eleftheriadis¹, S. Ronicke², M. Choi¹, F. Bachmann¹, F. Halleck¹, K. Budde¹
¹Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: Patients with chronic kidney disease suffer often from cardiovascular diseases, especially high blood pressure and its complications such as stroke and heart attack. After…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Distinct Phenotypes of Kidney Transplant Recipients with Delayed Graft Function Identified Through Machine Learning Consensus Clustering
C. Jadlowiec¹, C. Thongprayoon², N. Leeaphorn³, W. Kaewput⁴, P. Pattharanitima⁵, M. Cooper⁶, W. Cheungpasitporn²
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ²Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, ³Renal Transplant Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine/Saint Luke's Health System, Kansas City, MO, ⁴Department of Military and Community Medicine, Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani, Thailand, ⁶Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
*Purpose: The significance of delayed graft function (DGF) and its impact on kidney transplant (KT) outcomes remains debated. We aimed to assess outcomes for KT…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation in Mentally Challenged Patients; a Single Center Experience
J. Yagan¹, T. S. Mahmoud¹, O. Gheith¹, P. Nair¹, T. Alotaibi²
¹Nephrology, Hamed Al-Essa Organ Transplant Center, Kuwait, Kuwait, ²Pathology, Hamed Al-Essa Organ Transplant Center, Kuwait, Kuwait
*Purpose: Kidney transplant is the best choice of treatment for patients with end stage kidney disease. There are medical conditions that may pose an ethical…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Syphilis in Liver and Kidney Recipients
H. Cleveland, R. Kothari, C. Niemann, P. Chin-Hong, M. Fung
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Sexually transmitted infections among solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients are understudied. We aim to analyze rates of syphilis testing and describe clinical manifestations of…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Re-Examining the Optimal Threshold for Donor Derived Cell Free DNA in Renal Allograft Rejection
H. Murad¹, M. Merzkani¹, M. Ji¹, S. Chang¹, A. Malone¹, R. Delos Santos¹, T. Alhamad²
¹Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO, ²Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO
*Purpose: Due to the invasive nature and potential complications of allograft biopsies, there is an important role for surrogate biomarkers to help identify rejection early,…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Identification Of A Novel Peripheral Blood Six-gene Signature Diagnosing Subclinical Acute Rejection After Renal Transplantation
H. Zhang, Y. Xu, Y. Wang, X. Hu
Department of Urology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
*Purpose: Given the insensitivity and nonspecificity of serum creatinine, invasive surveillance biopsies are the main way to detect subclinical acute rejection (subAR) in the absence…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Cold Ischemic Time and Kidney Graft Failure; Mediation Through Delayed Graft Function
J. Miller¹, W. Irish², D. Sawinski³, A. Massie⁴, J. Snyder¹
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN, ²Department of Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ³Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ⁴Division of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Delayed graft function (DGF) has been associated with decreased graft survival and prolonged cold ischemia time (CIT) has been proposed as a modifiable DGF…
2022 American Transplant Congress
ESRD is Increasing Faster After Living Kidney Donation Than it Does in the Unselected US Population: A New Risk Metric?
R. W. Steiner
UCSD School of Medicine, San Diego, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: ESRD rates increase exponentially both after kidney donation and as the US population ages. Increases in ESRD rates from the first to the second…