Articles tagged "Kidney"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Status of Kidney Allocation in Liver-kidney Transplants Before and After the UNOS/OPTN Policy
J. Oveyssi, M. Hussain, P. Homkrailas, S. Bunnapradist
Department of Internal Medicine: Division of Transplant Nephrology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: On August 10, 2017 the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) enacted policies 9.7 and 8.5G to establish medical criteria for simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK)…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Non-Invasive Measurement of Transplant Kidney Fibrosis Using Photoacoustic Imaging
E. Hysi¹, X. He¹, A. Krizova¹, M. Ordon¹, K. T. Pace¹, M. Farcas¹, M. C. Kolios², D. A. Yuen¹
¹St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: The presence of donor kidney fibrosis adversely impacts transplant outcome. Biopsy remains the only method that can assess fibrosis, despite being subjected to sampling…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Donor Nephrectomy: Advantages Offered by a Minimally Invasive Approach to Kidney Transplantation
A. Popovic¹, R. Shahbazov¹, A. Hoste¹, S. Loerzel¹, B. Gallay², J. Leggat², O. Pankewycz¹, R. Saidi¹, R. H. Dvorai³, M. J. Hanlon¹, S. Narsipur², M. R. Laftavi¹
¹Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ²Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ³Pathology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
*Purpose: Our aim was to further explore the difference in results between laparoscopic and robotic assisted techniques of living donor nephrectomies*Methods: This is a retrospective…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Injury in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant (HCT) Recipients: Urinary Biomarkers to the Rescue
T. Salinas¹, C. Snopkowski¹, C. Li¹, K. Chen¹, M. Lubetzky¹, S. Salvatore¹, K. Van Besien¹, E. Jaimes², S. Hingorani³, S. Seshan¹, T. Muthukumar¹
¹NY Presbyterian- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ²Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, ³University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Kidney injury is common in HCT recipients and can be the result of graft versus host/kidney disease. However, this has not been well characterized,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Center Provisional Yes Practices for Deceased Donor Kidneys
A. M. Placona¹, C. Martinez¹, H. McGehee¹, C. Van De Walker², J. Rosendale¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank, Portland, OR
*Purpose: Improving organ allocation efficiency has been a focus of the OPTN. While the use of provisional yes (PY) by transplant centers has received recent…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Calcineurin Inhibitor Dose and Selection, Not Antiproliferatives or Steroids, Influence Development of DSA One Year Post-kidney Transplant
M. Henderson¹, G. Morris², L. Awdishu¹, K. Fabbri¹, M. Shah³, A. Khan³, J. Kerr¹
¹Pharmacy, University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA, ²Pathology, University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA, ³Nephrology, University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: Allograft rejection is a serious complication in kidney transplantation (KT). Despite advances in immunosuppression, acute rejection remains a concern in the first year of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Donor Derived Cell Free DNA in Children to Monitor Therapy of Kidney Rejection
A. Al-Uzri, M. Wright, K. Clark, R. Jenkins
Oregon Health & Science Univ, Portland, OR
*Purpose: Elevated donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) in the presence of HLA donor-specific antibodies (DSA) are shown to correlate with acute antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in adult…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Dialysis Staff-Reported Impact of the Early Covid-19 Pandemic on Kidney Transplant Referrals and Evaluations
A. Perez¹, S. Retzloff¹, T. Browne², A. Cruz³, S. Wright³, S. Pastan⁴, R. Patzer¹
¹Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ²College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, ³IPRO ESRD Network of the South Atlantic, Morrisville, NC, ⁴Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: COVID-19 has drastically impacted healthcare systems since its declaration as a pandemic in March 2020. Evidence of this impact persists among solid organ transplant…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Association Between Environmental Determinants and High KDRI Organ Offer Acceptance Ratios
A. M. Placona, C. Martinez, M. Stuart
United Network for Organ Sharing, Henrico, VA
*Purpose: Increasing the number of transplants could be realized by increasing high KDRI organ utilization. While the impact of transplant center (TXC) aggressiveness and competition…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Non-Invasive Rejection Biomarkers to Guide Immunomodulation in Kidney Transplant Patients with Active Covid-19 Infection
J. Christensen, G. Gupta, A. Bryson, S. Paluri, R. Thompson, S. Sterling, N. Vissichelli, P. Kimball, D. Kumar
VCUHealth, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection in organ transplant recipients has involved reduction of immunosuppression (IS). It is plausible that the cytokine release…