2021 American Transplant Congress
Body Surface Adjusted vs Raw GFR in Predicting Long Term Outcomes of Kidney Donors. Who is Disadvantaged?
*Purpose: KDIGO and others recommend that GFR level acceptance (typically >80 ml/min) should be adjusted for body surface area (BSA) as GFR correlates highly with…2021 American Transplant Congress
Gray on the Border: A Closer Look at the Gap in Access to Kidney Transplantation for Hispanic Americans
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
*Purpose: Hispanic Americans have disproportionately reduced access to kidney transplantation that is significantly affected by longstanding cultural and geographical disparities. These disparities are multifactorial and…2021 American Transplant Congress
Status of Kidney Allocation in Liver-kidney Transplants Before and After the UNOS/OPTN Policy
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
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
*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
*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
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
*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
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
*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…
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