Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Health Literacy on Kidney Transplant Listing
G. Chen¹, J. Siahaan², L. Leon Novelo², I. Rizvi³, A. M. De Golovine⁴, A. R. Edwards⁴, A. Pai⁴, W. A. Dar³
¹Abdominal Transplant, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ³Department of Surgery, McGovern Medical School The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Renal Diseases and Hypertension, McGovern Medical School The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Limited health literacy has long been associated with poor health outcomes in the general population, but there have been few studies investigating the association…
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Association of Delayed Graft Function with Mortality Post-kidney Transplantation
N. Eguchi¹, H. Ichii², F. J. Ferrey¹, U. G. Reddy¹, D. C. Dafoe², H. Seo³, K. Kalantar-Zadeh¹, E. Tantisattamo¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, ²Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, ³School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
*Purpose: Given the ongoing shortage of donated organs, marginal kidneys with a higher possibility of delayed graft function(DGF) have been increasingly utilized. While DGF in…
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Sirolimus (srl) versus Everolimus (evr) versus Mycophenolate (mpa) in Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving Anti-thymocyte Globulin Induction (r-atg), Tacrolimus (tac), and Prednisone
H. Tedesco Silva Junior, C. Felipe, L. Viana, M. Cristelli, N. Tenorio, V. Lima, V. Azevedo, K. Ficher, J. Rezende, R. Foresto, M. Nakamura, Y. Dreige, J. Taddeo, C. Zito, J. Medina
Hospital do Rim, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
*Purpose: The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of SRL versus EVR versus MPA in kidney transplant recipients.*Methods: This is…
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Factors Affecting Sensitization Following Kidney Allograft Failure
N. Garg, L. Hidalgo, S. Parajuli, F. Aziz, M. Mohamed, A. Djamali, D. Mandelbrot
UW Madison, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Kidney transplant (KT) recipients with failed allografts constitute nearly 12% of the current waitlist in the US. Sensitization as a result of graft failure…
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A Dynamic Markov Model to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of the Kidney Team at Home Intervention in the Netherlands
S. Redeker¹, S. Ismail¹, H. van Eeren¹, E. K. Massey², W. Weimar², M. Oppe³, J. van Busschbach¹
¹Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³Axentiva Solutions S.L., Tacoronte, Spain
*Purpose: The Kidney Team at Home program is an educational intervention aimed at patients with chronic kidney disease to assist them in their choice for…
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Longitudinal Studies of Blood Donor-derived Cell Free DNA (dd-cfDNA) Show Predictable Rise at Time of BK Viremia or Viruria in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients (PKTx)
R. Dandamudi¹, H. Gu¹, C. Goss¹, S. Federman², R. Woodward², S. Dholakia², L. Walther¹, V. Dharnidharka¹
¹Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, ²CareDx, Brisbane, CA
*Purpose: Blood levels of dd-cfDNA elevate in various forms of kidney transplant injury, most notably used for detecting potential acute rejection. A few adult studies,…
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Combined Impact of Pre-sensitization and Delayed Graft Function on Allograft Rejection in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Nationwide Cohort Study
H. Lee¹, Y. Park¹, T. Ban², S. Song³, S. Song⁴, J. Yang⁵, C. Ahn⁵, C. Yang¹, B. Chung¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Organ Transplantation Center and Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Department of Surgery, Ewha Womans University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Department of Nephrology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate whether or not delayed graft function (DGF) and pre-transplant sensitization has a synergistic adverse effect on…
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Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA as a Surrogate Marker for “Allograft Quiescence” After Kidney Transplantation
J. S. Bromberg¹, L. Bu², G. Gupta³, I. Moinuddin³, S. Anand⁴, A. Pai⁵, T. Alhamad⁶, V. Bowers⁷, S. Ghosh⁸, W. Tian⁸, E. Stites⁹
¹University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, ⁴Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT, ⁵University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ⁶Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, ⁷Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ⁸CareDx, Brisbane, CA, ⁹University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA; AlloSure®) and the association with active rejection (AR) was described by Bloom et al, however subsequent insights have suggested this…
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Donor CPR and Solid Organ Transplantation
E. Larsen¹, K. Cardoza², K. Robichaux³, A. Kumar¹, V. Bowers⁴, J. Buggs⁴
¹Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ²Honors College, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ³Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: In 2010, the American Heart Association and Emergency Cardiac Care (AHA ECC) set a 10-year impact goal of doubling cardiac arrest survival by 2020.…
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Machine Learning Approaches for Post-transplant Kidney Outcome Prediction
H. Ghali¹, D. Won¹, S. Yoon¹, A. Friedman²
¹Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, ²LiveOnNY, New York, NY
*Purpose: Determine a robust prediction model for kidney graft survival based on analyzing a combination of decisive factors such as donor and recipient characteristics, biopsy,…