Articles tagged "Kidney"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Status of Kidney Allocation in Liver-kidney Transplants Before and After the UNOS/OPTN Policy
J. Oveyssi, M. Hussain, P. Homkrailas, S. Bunnapradist
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
E. Hysi¹, X. He¹, A. Krizova¹, M. Ordon¹, K. T. Pace¹, M. Farcas¹, M. C. Kolios², D. A. Yuen¹
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
A. Popovic¹, R. Shahbazov¹, A. Hoste¹, S. Loerzel¹, B. Gallay², J. Leggat², O. Pankewycz¹, R. Saidi¹, R. H. Dvorai³, M. J. Hanlon¹, S. Narsipur², M. R. Laftavi¹
¹Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ²Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ³Pathology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
*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
T. Salinas¹, C. Snopkowski¹, C. Li¹, K. Chen¹, M. Lubetzky¹, S. Salvatore¹, K. Van Besien¹, E. Jaimes², S. Hingorani³, S. Seshan¹, T. Muthukumar¹
¹NY Presbyterian- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ²Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, ³University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
*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
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…
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…