Articles tagged "Kidney"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Early vs. Late Heparin Administration After Declaration of Death in DCD Donors Does Not Impact Short Term Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation
A. M. Hawxby, R. Ketcham, R. Squires, J. P. Orlowski, H. Solomon, C. Hostetler
Organ Recovery, LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: Kidneys from Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) donors are well-known to have satisfactory outcomes post-transplant. In DCD donors, heparin is typically given immediately prior…
2022 American Transplant Congress
High KDPI Kidneys: Lifelong Freedom from Dialysis for Elderly Patients
M. M. Romine¹, W. Irish², H. Jones³, A. Aaron², D. Leeser⁴
¹Department of Surgery, Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ²Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ³Eastern Nephrology Associates, Greenville, NC, ⁴East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: According to national data, there is an increase in kidney transplants in patients over 65, corresponding to an overall general increase. Elderly patients continue…
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…