Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Conversion in Elderly Renal Transplant Recipients
M. Durst¹, D. Felix¹, M. Jorgenson¹, J. Descourouez¹, B. C. Astor², D. Mandelbrot²
¹UW Health, Madison, WI, ²University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Describe the impact of conversion from a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) based immunosuppressive regimen to belatacept in elderly renal transplant recipients.*Methods: Adult renal transplant patients…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Patient Survival After Living Donor Kidney Donation
M. G. Naik, K. Sakurayama, K. Budde, F. Halleck
Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Charité, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplantation [LDKT] is associated with best patient survival and life quality among kidney replacement therapies in case of chronic kidney disease.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Detrusor Reinforced Lich-Gregoir Ureteroneocystostomy for Kidney Transplants Recipients: Comparative Analysis of the First 100 Cases
R. H. Astolfi, J. Medina-Pestana, H. Tedesco Silva Junior, W. Aguiar
Urology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
*Purpose: In this study, we describe and compare the postoperative outcomes of our modified Lich-Gregoir ureteroneocystostomy (mLG), without DJ stent and with early bladder catheter…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Understanding Delays to Pediatric Kidney Transplant Wait-List Activation: Providers and Families Weigh in
C. M. Farkas-Skiles¹, A. Feinsinger², R. Pines³, A. D. Waterman⁴
¹Pediatric Nephrology, UCLA Mattel Children Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, ²Medicine and Philosophy, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA, ⁴Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Since timely access to kidney transplant mediates mortality of children with kidney disease, we examined which factors most commonly affect providers’ decision-making to delay…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Use of Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA for Assessment of Allograft Rejection After Change in Maintenance Immunosuppression Regimens in the First Year Post Kidney Transplant
M. Walsh, V. Peev, L. Lineberger, M. Brokhof, N. Kenyon, N. Alvey
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the use of donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) is an effective screening tool for allograft rejection…
2021 American Transplant Congress
PLA2R Status and Antibody Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplant with Membranous Nephropathy
H. S. Han¹, A. Urisman², J. Shoji¹
¹Kidney Transplant Service, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Membranous nephropathy (MN) in transplanted kidney is categorized as de novo or recurrent disease. This immune complex glomerulopathy presents with varying levels of proteinuria,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Racial/ethnic and Sex Disparities in Renal Transplant Waitlisting Accounting for Pre-Waitlist Mortality
R. Hamoda¹, R. Patzer², M. Saunders¹
¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess racial/ethnic and sex differences in access to the renal transplant deceased donor waiting list among incident…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Dynamic Forecasting of Patient-Specific Kidney Transplant Function with a Sequence-to-Sequence Deep-Learning Model
E. Van Loon¹, W. Zhang², A. Van Craenenbroeck¹, B. De Moor², M. Naesens¹
¹Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²ESAT Stadius Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
*Purpose: Alike other clinical biomarkers, eGFR trajectories are characterized by intra-individual variability, related to biological fluctuations and analytical error. These fluctuations hamper the distinction between…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Severe Covid-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients in the First and Second Waves: Analysis of the Spanish Registry
M. Crespo¹, A. Mazuecos², I. Pérez-Flores³, F. Moreso⁴, A. Andrés⁵, C. Jimenez⁶, M. Molina⁷, C. Canal⁸, L. Sánchez-Cámara⁹, S. Zárraga¹⁰, M. Ruiz Fuentes¹¹, M. Aladrén¹², E. Melilli¹³, V. López¹⁴, E. Sanchez¹⁵, J. Pascual for Spanish Nephro Society Covid-Registry¹
¹Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ²Nephrology, Hospital Puerta del Mar, Cadiz, Spain, ³Nephrology, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Nephrology, Hospital Valle Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Nephrology, Hospital 12 Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Nephrology, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Nephrology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain, ⁸Nephrology, Fundacio Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹Nephrology, Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁰Nephrology, Hospital de Cruces, Bilbao, Spain, ¹¹Nephrology, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain, ¹²Nephrology, Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain, ¹³Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Hospital de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁴Nephrology, Hospital Regional de Málaga, Malaga, Spain, ¹⁵Nephrology, Hospital de Cabueñes, Gijon, Spain
*Purpose: To better know the impact and characteristics of Covid-19 in renal patients, the Spanish Society of Nephrology set up a voluntary registry in March,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Recipient BSA Matching is Prognostically Significant in Solitary and En-bloc Kidney Transplantation from Pediatric Circulatory Death Donors
C. J. Little, A. A. Dick, J. D. Perkins, J. D. Reyes
Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pernicious effects of inadequate functional nephron mass in size disparate donation after cardiac death (DCD)…