Articles tagged "Kidney"

2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Maintenance Immunosuppression Withdrawal on Sensitization Status After Renal Graft Failure
R. Hod Dvorai, A. Almonte, C. Hubbell, M. Laftavi, R. Shahbazov, R. Saidi, O. Pankewycz, J. Leggat, M. Hanlon, B. Gallay
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
*Purpose: Maintaining immunosuppression (IS) following failed renal transplant may lead to increased risk for infections and malignancies; on the other hand, withdrawal can lead to…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Processes to Successfully Utilize Hepatitis C (HCV) Infected Donor Kidneys as Standard of Care
A. Dao¹, A. Reyad¹, J. Guiteau¹, M. Madhrira², S. Allam²
¹Transplant, Medical City Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, ²Tarrant Nephrology Associates, Premier Physicians Group Health, Fort Worth, TX
*Purpose: Despite robust evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of HCV-infected donor kidneys, great heterogeneity continues to exist regarding centers willingness to utilize these in…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Early Parathyroidectomy for Management of Post-transplant Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Series
A. Gokhale, J. Chancay, S. Johnson, R. P. Owen, F. Tedla, A. Bhansali, V. Sehgal, R. Shapiro, G. De Boccardo
Recanati Miller Transplant Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
*Purpose: Secondary hyperparathyroidism (HPT) gradually resolves after successful kidney transplantation (KT), and parathyroidectomy (PTX) is reserved for patients whose HPT persists longer than a year…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Robotic versus Open Mini-incision Living Donor Nephrectomy: Single Center Experience
S. Lee¹, S. Z. Wang², A. Khan¹, A. Sharma¹, D. Kumar³, L. Kamal³, A. Cotterell¹, V. Kumaran¹, D. Bruno¹, M. Levy¹, C. Bhati¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University hospital, Richmond, VA, ²Medical School, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, ³Transplant Nephrology, Virginia Commonwealth University hospital, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: A minimally invasive approach is the gold standard for living donor nephrectomy (LDN). While robotic surgery is commonly used for native nephrectomies and urological…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Mitigating the Adverse Impact of Broader Kidney Sharing with Hospital-based Machine Perfusion
Y. Yushkov, B. R. Schleich, T. Carrea, V. Wadhera, M. J. Goldstein
Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
*Purpose: The new UNOS kidney allocation changes effective December 2020 will be removing the geographic limits of donation service areas (DSA) and UNOS regions favoring…
2021 American Transplant Congress
White, Older Men Are Less Affected by the Changes of the Covid-19 Pandemic
R. J. Berkowitz, A. Daud, S. Brietigam, T. S. Taylor, J. Carter, M. A. Callegari, B. Borja-Cacho, J. C. Caicedo, D. Simpson, D. P. Ladner
Surgery, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: This study explores quality of life and lifestyle changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic among pre- and post- liver (LT) and kidney (KT) transplant…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Precision Medicine Tools in Kidney Transplant (KTx): Implications for Individualized Immunosupression Therapy and Downstream Cost-savings
S. Anand, J. Sanchez-Garcia, L. Dong, M. Fife, J. Krong, D. Morris, T. Srinivas
Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT
*Purpose: Kidney Tissue Transcriptomics (Tr) is an emerging adjunct to traditional histology for diagnosis of kidney rejection in KTx. The objective assessment and reliance on…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Treatment of Biopsy-Proven Pyelonephritis of the Transplanted Kidney is Associated with Better Graft Outcomes
F. Aziz, C. Saddler, J. Alstott, K. Swanson, S. Parajuli, N. Garg, A. Djamali, D. Mandelbrot
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: The outcomes of treatment of pyelonephritis of the transplant kidney is not known.*Methods: From 01/1998 to 12/2019, 101 patients were found to have pyelonephritis…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Associations of Lack of Insurance and Other Sociodemographic Traits with Deficiencies in Follow-Up After Living Kidney Donation
K. Lentine¹, R. Hays², N. Lam³, A. Tietjen⁴, A. Muiru⁵, H. Xiao¹, A. Garg⁶, C. Thomas⁷, G. McNatt⁷, R. Howey⁸, U. Lebron-Banks⁹, M. Cooper¹⁰, M. Conboy¹¹, B. Kasiske¹¹
¹Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ²Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ³Univ of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴St. Barnabas, Livingston, NJ, ⁵Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Western Univ, London, ON, Canada, ⁷Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁸Toyon Associates, Concord, CA, ⁹New York Presb Hosp, New York, NY, ¹⁰Medstar-Georgetown, Washington, DC, ¹¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Follow-up after living kidney donation in the United States has improved with recent policy mandates. We hypothesized that lack of insurance at donation may…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Reliable Non Invasive Alternative to Surveillance Renal Allograft Biopsy
R. Jain, S. Thaduri, V. Kumar, C. Kew, B. Julian, G. Towns, S. Ong, F. Ahmed, S. Mehta, G. Agarwal
Transplant Nephrology, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose:Surveillance Renal Allograft Biopsy (SAVB) is the standard of care to identify subclinical immunological injury(SCI). However fewer than 25% of transplant centers in the US…