Articles tagged "Kidney"

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…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Does the NSQIP-Transplant Experience Demonstrate That Obese Kidney Transplant Recipients are Still at Increased Risk for Surgical Site Infections?
H. C. Yaffe¹, A. K. Belli¹, J. R. Parekh², D. L. Sudan³, N. Elias⁴, K. D. Conzen⁵, D. P. Foley⁶, R. Hirose⁷, S. M. Greenstein¹
¹Surgery, Montefiore-Einstein Center for Transplantation, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ²Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, ³Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁴Surgery, Transplant Surgery Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, ⁶Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ⁷Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program for Transplant (NSQIP-T) was designed to track surgical outcomes in adult liver and kidney transplants (KTX). The Pilot…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Is Subclinical Allograft Rejection by 2019 Banff Criteria Associated with Worse Kidney Allograft Outcomes? Comparison Between 2007 and 2019 Banff Criteria
M. T. Victor¹, S. Park², K. Guo¹, L. Zhao¹, J. Friedewald³
¹Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Transplant Nephrology, Northwestern Univeristy, Chicago, IL, ³Transplant Nephrology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: We hypothesize that Subclinical Acute Rejection (SubAR) under the new Banff 2019 criteria will be more strongly associated with a 2-year composite endpoint (2Y-CCE)…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Changes to Allocation of En Bloc Deceased Donor Kidneys to Low Epts Patients
A. Robinson¹, M. Pavlakis², V. Casingal³
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
*Purpose: The OPTN implemented a policy on September 5, 2019 standardizing en bloc deceased donor kidney allocation in order to efficiently place and utilize kidneys…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Utilization During the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
M. MacConmara, A. Shubin, D. Wojciechowski, L. de Gregorio, J. Shah, P. Vagefi, C. S. Hwang
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Transplantation, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people in the United States were urged to stay at home. Kidney transplantation continued during this…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor Use in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients: A Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium Study
R. M. Engen¹, P. L. Weng², W. Shih³, H. Patel⁴, K. Richardson⁵, S. Dowdrick⁶, I. Ashoor⁷, J. Misurac⁸, A. Z. Traum⁹, M. Semanik¹⁰, N. G. Jain¹¹, R. Sreedharan¹²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ⁵Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ⁶Penn State Health, Hershey, PA, ⁷Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, ⁸University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁹Harvard University, Boston, MA, ¹⁰University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, ¹¹Columbia University, New York, NY, ¹²Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
*Purpose: Neutropenia is common after pediatric kidney transplant and is associated with an increased risk of bacterial infection, allograft loss, and death. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Association of Obesity and Early Post Kidney Transplantation Complications
V. Sandra, N. Sanichar, D. Tsapepas, K. L. King, J. Van Bever, K. Toma, A. Hussain, S. Mohan
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Although the prevalence of obesity among kidney transplant recipients is rising, there continues to be reluctance to waitlist obese candidates. We sought to determine…