Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Non-active Hepatitis B on Patient Survival After Renal Transplantation
A. Paschereit¹, K. Budde², M. Duerr², M. G. Naik²
¹Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Charité, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: Dialysis patients (pts) have an increased risk for hepatitis B (HB) infection and impaired response to HB vaccine compared to the general population. As…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation of Hepatitis C Positive Kidney and Pancreas Allografts Into Hepatitis C Naïve Recipients – A Single Center Experience as a Standard of Care
K. Yadav¹, A. Padiyar², K. Zhao³, J. Rabets³, A. Jittirat², S. Sclair⁴
¹Transplant Surgery, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH, ²Nephrology, University Hospitals Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, ³Transplant Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospitals Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Transplantation of Hepatitis C positive organs into Hepatitis C naïve recipients is rapidly gaining widespread acceptance. We report our experience with transplanting HCV D+/R-…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Not Quite Right: The Irony of Longer Cold Times for Higher KDPI Kidneys
H. Ghali¹, D. Won¹, S. Yoon¹, A. Friedman²
¹Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, ²LiveOnNY, New York, NY
*Purpose: To identify tactics for reduction of the kidney discard rate, we analyzed measurable, operational factors contributing to the key outcome of transplantation (TXP) or…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of High Kdpi on 1-year Post-transplant Graft Function and Survival in a Brazilian Cohort
H. Tedesco Silva Junior, R. Demarchi Foresto, M. Hazin, B. Cassão, A. Aquino, J. Taddeo, C. Rosso Felipe, L. Requião Moura, J. Medina
Núcleo de Ensino e Pesquisa, Hospital do Rim, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
*Purpose: To evaluate the impact of High Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) on 1-year post-transplant renal function and graft survival.*Methods: This retrospective cohort analyzed 3,059…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Survival After Borderline Rejection in the Setting of Denovo Dsa Formation
A. P. Bregman¹, S. Jackson², S. Riad¹
¹Department of Nephrology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Biostatistics, M-Health Fairview Analytics, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The significance of borderline cellular rejection has been questioned in the past. Data on borderline rejection with deNovo DSA (dnDSA) formation is limited. We…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Cost Savings Initiative with Idea Body Weight Dosing of Rabbit Anti-thymocyte Globulin (rATG) Induction in an Older Kidney Transplant Population: A Single Center Analysis
C. LaFratte¹, S. Witek¹, D. Sawinski², J. Trofe-Clark², C. Sammons², B. Hardek¹, R. Samudralwar¹, A. Forte¹, S. Lyle¹, J. Rashid¹, G. Malat²
¹Pharmacy, Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Penn Transplant Institute, Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Optimal dosing schemes for rATG induction are not well defined for older kidney transplant recipients (KTRs), who are at greater risk for adverse events…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Tacrolimus Variability Score Outperforms Coefficient of Variation in Predicting Clinical Outcomes of Living Kidney Transplantation
S. Yin, T. Song, Q. Zhong, T. Lin
Urology Institute and Organ Transplantation Center, West China Hospital, Chengdu, China
*Purpose: Intra-patient variability (IPV) was previously defined as coefficient of variation (CV) or standard deviation of Tacrolimus (Tac) exposure while none of them was easily…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Evaluation of Living-Related Kidney Transplantation Donors in Autosomal-Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
T. Kikuchi¹, K. Unagami², Y. Kobari³, T. Yagisawa³, T. Kanzawa³, K. Omoto³, A. Uemura¹, H. Ishida², K. Tanabe³
¹Urology, Kindai University Hospital, Osaka, Japan, ²Organ transplant medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ³Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: Autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a progressive hereditary disease caused primarily by gene mutations, leading to multiple kidney cyst occurrence, kidney function deterioration,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Kidney Transplant Strategy: The Sequence Effect
A. J. Vinson¹, B. Kiberd², P. Acott³, K. Tennankore¹
¹Nova Scotia Health Authority Division of Nephrology, Departm, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ³IWK Health Center, Halifax, NS, Canada
*Purpose: Improvements in patient survival with pediatric end stage kidney disease (ESKD) predicts needing more than one kidney transplant over a child’s lifetime. Timing of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Role of Donor-derived Cell-free DNA Testing in Detecting Subclinical Kidney Allograft Rejection
M. Dasari¹, J. Hendele², L. Sibulesky², N. Leca³
¹Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Department of Nephrology, UW Medicine Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) testing is an emerging method of non-invasive testing for graft rejection in the field of solid-organ transplantation. We describe how…