Articles tagged "Kidney"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Induction Immunosuppression Selection on Clinical Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients During the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City
K. Khalil, S. Jonchhe, J. Stern, T. C. Lewis, N. Alnazari, B. Lonze, Z. Stewart Lewis, N. Ali
Transplant Institute, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
*Purpose: As an early epicenter in the coronavirus pandemic, our center modified induction immunosuppression strategies for transplantation. We sought to determine if changes in induction…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Experience of 1000 Hand Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
T. Hiramitsu¹, T. Tomosugi², K. Futamura², M. Okada², N. Goto², T. Ichimori², S. Narumi², Y. Watarai²
¹Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Myokencho Showaku, Japan, ²Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
*Purpose: Due to the profound organ shortage, living donor kidney transplantation becomes more necessary. Hand assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (HALDN) is widely performed to lessen…
2021 American Transplant Congress
In Search of a Better Outcome: Opting Into the Live Donor Paired Kidney Exchange Program
A. J. Vinson¹, B. Kiberd², K. J. Tennankore¹
¹Nova Scotia Health Authority Division of Nephrology, Departm, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
*Purpose: Live donor kidney transplantation is the best option for patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD), if a donor is available. However, this may not…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Panic in the Pandemic: A Medical Decision Analysis Examining When Kidney Transplant Programs Should Close
A. J. Vinson¹, B. Kiberd², K. Tennankore¹
¹Nova Scotia Health Authority Division of Nephrology, Departm, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
*Purpose: Pandemics greatly interfere with overall health care delivery as resources are diverted to combat the crisis. Kidney transplantation programs were closed temporarily during the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Survival on the Kidney Transplant Waiting List: A Thirty-Three Year Analysis
E. L. Godfrey¹, P. T. Kambhampati¹, J. A. Goss², A. Rana²
¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The shortage of available donor kidneys remains the greatest obstacle to transplantation, with many patients spending years on the transplant list. During this time,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Single Cell Analysis of Living Donor Kidneys Reveals Sex-based Diversity in Proximal Tubulargene Expression
C. M. McEvoy¹, J. M. Szusz², S. Clotet-Freixas¹, J. An², S. MacParland², G. Bader³, S. Q. Crome², A. Konvalinka¹
¹Ajmera Transplant Centre, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Donnolly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Males with chronic kidney disease (CKD) experience a more rapid decline in kidney function and progression to end-stage kidney disease than females. In vitro…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Renal Tubular-cell-specific Urinary Extracellular Vesicles: A Novel Biomarker for Diabetic Nephropathy After Kidney Transplantation
N. Eguchi¹, H. Lau¹, F. Zaldivar², U. G. Reddy³, E. Tantisattamo³, A. Ferrey³, D. Dafoe¹, H. Ichii¹
¹Surgery, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, ²Pediatric Execise and Genomics Research Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, ³Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA
*Purpose: Diabetes(DM) is a leading cause of ESRD among renal transplant recipients(RTRs). However, the kinetics of diabetic nephropathy recurrence after renal transplantation(RT) remains unclear. Currently,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
An Unusual Viral Tropism in a Solid Organ Transplant Recipient
P. Singh, A. Bentall, C. Langstraat, A. Swanson, P. Deziel, Y. Huang, R. Razonable
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) tissue-invasive disease occurs in higher proportion in CMV-mismatched kidney transplant recipients (KTxR) with no pre-existing immunity and those who are markedly immunologically-impaired.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Dosing Weight of Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin and Outcomes Among Kidney Transplant Patients Treated for Rejection
C. Patton, K. Cunningham, C. D'Agostino, A. Novak, M. Kapugi, K. Lang, C. Kane
Pharmacy, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Rabbit antithymocyte globulin (rATG) is FDA approved for kidney transplant induction therapy and treatment of T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR). While prior studies comparing dosing…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Is There a Role for Pre-Operative Angiographic Kidney Embolization Prior to Allograft Nephrectomy?
M. Jacobs¹, R. Stratta¹, D. Harriman², A. Farney¹, J. Rogers¹, G. Orlando¹, A. Reeves-Daniel¹, C. Jay¹
¹Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem, NC, ²University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: To determine if morbidity associated with allograft nephrectomy (AN) of a failed or diseased kidney transplant (KT) is improved by pre-operative angiographic kidney embolization…