Articles tagged "Kidney"

2022 American Transplant Congress
25-Year Risk of ESRD Among Living Kidney Donors
J. Wainright¹, A. Robinson¹, A. Wilk¹, D. Klassen², W. Cherikh¹, D. Stewart¹
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Office of the Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Previous research on post-donation ESRD in living kidney donors (LKDs) has been limited by short follow-up time, the small number of ESRD cases available…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Tacrolimus Metabolizer Heterogeneity within Caucasian Kidney Transplant (KT) Recipients
J. Sanchez-Garcia¹, N. Oliver¹, D. Morris¹, A. Raza¹, L. Lindberg¹, S. LeCorhick¹, T. Srinivas², S. Anand¹
¹Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT, ²CareDX, South San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Weight-based tacrolimus (T) dosing is the standard in post-transplant KT. African-Americans and Caucasians differ in their metabolizer phenotype for T. However, two morphometrically similar…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Early Experience Of 48-hour Normothermic Machine Perfusion In Human Kidneys Applying Urine Recirculation
F. Messner¹, S. Gasteiger¹, M. Pühringer-Sturmayr¹, A. Soleiman¹, D. Öfner¹, S. Schneeberger¹, A. Weissenbacher²
¹Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ²Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
*Purpose: Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) of the kidney has been studied extensively during the past decade. Short-term kidney NMP has demonstrated promising results, however currently…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Bilateral Renal Autotransplantation for Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma
S. Nagaraju¹, T. Robinson², K. P. Samy², W. Goggins², L. Koniaris²
¹Renal Transplant, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV, ²Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: We report the first case of bilateral renal autotransplantation after staged resection of a giant liposarcoma of the retroperitoneum.*Methods: A 39-year-old male presented with…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Programmatic Fidelity is Central to the Development of Virtual Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Educational Programs
A. Carter, H. Qu, R. Reed, A. C. Killian, V. Kumar, M. J. Hanaway, J. Locke
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: The Living Donor Navigator program is designed to mitigate disparities in living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), though geographic disparities in program participation were observed…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Improving Value Delivery in Compatible Living Donor Kidney (CLD) Transplant Through Zero-Low Eplet Mismatch via National Kidney Registry (NKR)
S. Anand¹, J. Sanchez-Garcia¹, W. Stapley¹, J. Browning¹, M. Egbert¹, S. Dow¹, A. Raza¹, T. Srinivas², D. Morris¹
¹Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT, ²CareDX, South San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Despite advances in diagnostics and therapeutics, kidney allograft survival rates have not increased considerably. Kidney For Life (KFL) through NKR aims to increase access…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Low Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rates at 6 and 12 Months After Living Kidney Transplantation Are Independent Risk for Graft Failure
T. Hiramitsu¹, T. Tomosugi², K. Futamura², O. Manabu¹, N. Goto², T. Ichimori², S. Narumi², Y. Watarai²
¹Japanese Red Cross Aichi Medical Center Nagoya Daini Hospital, Myokencho Showaku, Japan, ²Japanese Red Cross Aichi Medical Center Nagoya Daini Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
*Purpose: The low estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) at 1 year after kidney transplantation was demonstrated to be the risk for graft failure in the…
2022 American Transplant Congress
DCD and AKI Kidneys Experiencing DGF as a Platform for the Study of Adaptive Repair
B. Bussolati¹, S. Da Sacco², A. Asthana³, L. N. Byers³, L. Perin⁴, M. S. Garner³, B. Sharda³, A. C. Farney³, C. J. Jay³, R. J. Stratta³, S. J. Walker⁵, G. Orlando³
¹University of Turin, Turin, Italy, ²Children Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, NC, ³Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁴Children Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵WFIRM, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: AKI and DCD renal allografts are at high risk for DGF, yet the majority of these kidneys will eventually recover and attain good function…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Racial Differences in HLA Mismatch Potential Among Kidney Registrations
A. Robinson¹, K. Lindblad¹, D. Stewart¹, J. Kim², V. Casingal³, P. Lalli³, J. Lunz⁴, C. Murphey⁵, M. Pavlakis⁶
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Surgery, Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ³Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, ⁴LifeLink Foundation Transplant Immunology Lab, Tampa, FL, ⁵Southwest Immunodiagnostics, Inc., San Antonio, TX, ⁶Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr, Boston, MA
*Purpose: HLA matched kidneys are associated with better long-term post-transplant graft survival. However, prioritizing patients well-matched with an available donor has historically resulted in disparities…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Access to Pediatric Kidney Transplant: The Impact of Mental Health Diagnoses and Social Determinants of Health
E. Blanchette¹, E. Benz¹, J. Armendariz¹, K. McKinnon¹, M. Chandran², E. S. Christofferson¹, M. Bisek¹, M. Bock¹
¹Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Pharmacy, UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC
*Purpose: Limited and delayed access to kidney transplant (KT) has been associated with characteristics of adult KT candidates, including mental health (MH) diagnoses, negative social…