Articles tagged "Kidney"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function in Pediatric Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
M. MacConmara, J. Shah, L. de Gregorio, D. Desai, P. Vagefi, C. S. Hwang
Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Pediatric recipients of living donor kidneys have a low rate of delayed graft function (DGF). The aim of this study was to examine the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Change in Deceased Donor Demographics with Drug Intoxication Deaths: 2010 – 2019
D. Musgrove, D. Zaun, A. Israni, J. Snyder
SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: To understand the demographic change in deceased donor causes of death associated with drug intoxication, we explored trends over the 10-year period ending in…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Variance of Donor Derived Cell Free DNA (dd-cf DNA) in Stable Kidney Transplant (Tx) Patients are Influenced by Donor/Recipient Variables
S. Anand, F. Lopez-Verdugo, J. Sanchez-Garcia, L. Dong, M. Fife, J. Krong, D. Morris, T. Srinivas
Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT
*Purpose: The limits and cut offs of dd-cfDNA as an injury biomarker in kidney transplant (KTx) are based on coupled single event (biopsy) measurements. It…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Intensive Monitoring and Early Treatment for Urinary Infection in Renal Transplant Recipients Reduces Readmission and Sepsis
A. Patel, S. Desai, B. R. Schleich, M. Wynd, T. Carrea, Y. Yushkov, S. Geatrakas, N. White, R. Luongo, R. Sosnicki, V. Wadhera, D. Serur, M. J. Goldstein
Organ Transplant, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
*Purpose: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common renal transplant (RT) complication that is observed in up to 60-70% of RT recipients and may affect…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Information-Seeking Behavior During Covid-19: Opportunities for Communication and Care Transition Improvements
S. H. Advani¹, S. M. Advani², Y. A. Iraheta³, A. Murillo⁴, H. A. Gritsch³, A. D. Waterman³
¹Terasaki Institute, Bethesda, MD, ²National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ³UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Terasaki Institute, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: To learn more about how at-risk dialysis and transplant patients sought health information during COVID-19 and what was most helpful, we conducted a mixed-methods…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Single Center Experience in Ex Vivo Hilar Renal Artery Aneurysm Repair and Autotransplantation
A. Chang¹, K. Cederquist¹, P. Abt¹, G. Wang², B. Jackson², A. Naji¹
¹Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Vascular Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: In this study, we review our centers experience with complex renal artery aneurysms using our preferred technique of open nephrectomy, ex vivo repair, and…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Pre-Screening on OPTN Kidney Paired Donation Pilot Program Transplant and Refusal Rates
S. E. Booker¹, R. Leishman¹, J. Musick¹, M. Oley¹, T. Sandholm², J. Dickerson³, M. Pavlakis⁴, V. Casingal⁵
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁴Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁵Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
*Purpose: The OPTN Kidney Paired Donation Pilot Program (KPDPP) donor pre-screen tool allows centers to review and pre-accept or pre-refuse potential donors for individual candidates…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Attitudes Regarding Transplantation During the Pandemic: Give Me My Kidney Now!
T. Menser¹, M. Hobeika², A. Gaber², H. Ibrahim²
¹Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, ²Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The transplant community faces ongoing challenges regarding the conduct of organ transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic, and patient treatment preferences during the pandemic require…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Patient-Centered Perspective on Progress in Transplantation
B. Hickner¹, N. Galvan², R. Cotton², C. O'Mahony², J. Goss², A. Rana²
¹Department of Student Affairs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: This study aimed to provide a patient-centered perspective on change in transplantation outcomes through analysis of intent-to-treat survival, which accounted for donor shortages by…
2021 American Transplant Congress
DSA Causes Mild Molecular ABMR-like Changes in Many Biopsies Not Diagnosed as Rejection
P. F. Halloran¹, K. S. Madill-Thomsen¹, &. the INTERCOMEX Study Group²
¹Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²., ., AB, Canada
*Purpose: In the multicenter study INTERCOMEX, we developed a microarray-based system (MMDx) for diagnosing antibody-mediated and T cell-mediated rejection (ABMR, TCMR) in kidney transplant biopsies…