Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Creating a Culturally Sensitive Report Card for African American Kidney Transplant Candidates: Preliminary Results from Pilot Interviews and Focus Groups
W. T. McKinney¹, M. Bruin², B. Kasiske³, A. Matas⁴, A. K. Israni³
¹Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Racial disparities in kidney transplantation continue to negatively impact African American (AA) patients despite changes to deceased donor allocation practices. AA patients are overrepresented…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Systemic Venous versus Portal Venous Drainage in Simultaneous Pancreas-kidney Transplantation: A Matched-pair Analysis
B. Sharda
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC
*Purpose: Portal venous drainage of pancreatic transplant appears more physiologic compared to systemic venous drainage. However, present data does not support the superiority of one…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence and Dynamics of SARS-COV-2 IgG in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Y. Al Azzi, P. Loarte, C. Pynadath, O. Alani, L. Liriano-Ward, M. Ajaimy, R. Bartash, J. Graham, M. Le, H. Yaffe, S. Greenstein, J. Rocca, M. Kinkhabwala, E. Akalin
Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: We aimed to investigate the prevalence and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 IgG in kidney transplant recipients in the Bronx, New York, one of the epicenters…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Can Procurement Biopsy Data Tell Us Anything? The Influence of Glomerulosclerosis on Long-term Kidney Graft Survival
D. Stewart¹, L. Kamal², J. Foutz³, H. McGehee³, P. Saravanane², S. Yu², R. Yousfi², G. Gupta²
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Virginia Commonwealth University Health, Richmond, VA, ³Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Biopsy findings, particularly % glomerulosclerosis, have been shown to have a profound impact on kidney utilization decisions. Most studies of the association between procurement…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Economic and Clinical Benefit of Cmv Matching in Kidney Transplantation
D. Axelrod¹, S. Chang², A. Olyaei³, D. Malinoski³, D. Norman³, K. Lentine⁴, M. Schnitzler⁴, D. Segev⁵, J. Lockridge³
¹Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²Washington Univ, Seattle, WA, ³Oregon Health Sciences Univ, Portland, OR, ⁴Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ⁵Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Recently, kidney transplant (KTx) centers in Oregon collaborated to preferentially allocate cytomegalovirus-seronegative (CMV D-) kidneys to seronegative recipients (CMV R-), successfully reducing high-risk CMV…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Worsening Impact of Acute Kidney Rejection on Long Term Graft Survival from 2000 to 2014
D. Leeser¹, W. Irish¹, K. Ravindra², V. Villani², A. Connor², J. Tuttle¹
¹Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ²Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Acute rejection (AR) has been shown to impact graft survival after kidney transplant (KTx), however there is limited data on its impact on long…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Role of Donor-derived Cell-free DNA to Detect Subclinical Acute Rejection in Kidney Allograft
S. Park¹, K. Guo², R. Heilman³, E. Poggio⁴, D. Taber⁵, C. Marsh⁶, S. Kurian⁷, S. Kleiboeker⁸, J. Weems⁹, J. Holman¹⁰, L. Zhao², R. Sinha⁸, S. Brietigam², C. Rebello², M. Abecassis¹¹, J. Friedewald¹
¹Transplant nephrology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Transplant nephrology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁵Division of Transplant Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁶Department of Medicine and Surgery, Scripps Clinic and Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA, ⁷Scripps Health, La Jolla, CA, ⁸Eurofins US Clinical Diagnostics, Lee's Summit, MO, ⁹Eurofins US Clinical Diagnostics, Lee’s Summit, MO, ¹⁰Transplant Genomics, Inc, Mansfield, MA, ¹¹University of Arizona College of Medicine, Northwestern University, Tucson, AZ
*Purpose: We hypothesized that donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) could detect subclinical acute rejection (subAR).*Methods: 429 blood samples paired with surveillance kidney biopsies from 208 patients…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Single-Dose Basiliximab Induction Therapy in Low-Immunologic Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Hutchins, J. Schoen, J. S. McMullen
Pharmacy, Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the outcomes associated with single-dose basiliximab in low-immunologic risk kidney transplant recipients following a revision to…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Beyond Microarrays: Insights from Ncounter Transcript Analysis of Routine Archival Kidney Allograft Biopsies
I. Rosales, K. Tomaszewski, A. Milagros, T. Kawai, R. Smith, R. Colvin
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Microarray mRNA analysis of renal allograft biopsies has discovered important insights, but has limitations as a practical clinical test. Here we evaluate a new…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Association of Donor Hepatitis C Virus Infection Status and Risk of Bk Polyomavirus Viremia After Kidney Transplantation
V. S. Potluri¹, D. E. Schaubel¹, M. E. Sise², B. P. Concepcion³, R. C. Forbes¹, E. A. Blumberg¹, D. Goldberg⁴, P. P. Reese¹, R. Bloom¹, D. Shaffer³, R. Chung², D. Sawinski¹, I. Strohben², N. Elias², A. Azhar⁵, M. Shah¹, J. Eason⁵, L. A. Binari³, M. Talwar⁵, V. Balaraman⁵, A. Bhalla⁵, B. Besharatian¹, M. Z. Molnar⁵
¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁴University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, ⁵Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: Transplantation of kidneys from deceased donors with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection into HCV-negative recipients has become more common, but some studies have suggested…