Articles tagged "Kidney"

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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Liver Transplantation in Patients with Renal Failure Since Implementation of Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Allocation Policy
P. J. Altshuler, O. Shaheen, A. P. Shah, J. Glorioso, A. Frank, C. Ramirez, W. Maley, A. S. Bodzin
Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: To reduce potentially unnecessary kidney utilization, as of August 10, 2017 a new allocation policy was implemented restricting Simultaneous Liver Kidney (SLK) transplant to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes and Health Care Utilization after Early Hospital Dismissal in Kidney Transplantation: An Analysis of 1001 Consecutive Cases
E. Calderon¹, Y. Chang², J. M. Chang¹, C. Velazco¹, E. Giorgakis¹, A. A. Moss¹, H. Khamash³, R. Heilman³, K. S. Reddy¹, A. K. Mathur¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, ²Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, ³Department of Nephrology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Perioperative care after kidney transplantation has improved with reduction in length of operative stay to as low as two days, but this has an…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Follow-Up of a Phase 2 Clinical Trial to Induce Tolerance in Living Donor Renal Transplant Recipients
J. Leventhal¹, J. Mathew¹, J. Galvin², L. Gallon¹, D. Belshe¹, K. Ravindra³, M. Horwitz³, J. Miller¹, S. Ildstad⁴
¹Northwestern, Chicago, IL, ²UIC, Chicago, IL, ³Duke, Durham, NC, ⁴U Louisville, Louisville, KY
*Purpose: 37 pts have been transplanted since 2009 in a phase 2 protocol to induce tolerance in recipients of living donor renal allografts (KTx). The…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Single Center Outcomes after Fully Robotic Live Donor Nephrectomy: Right versus Left
B. Ruch, C. Bhati, A. Khan, S. Lee, V. Kumaran, D. Bruno, A. Cotterell, M. Levy, A. Sharma
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Robotic assisted live donor nephrectomy (LDN) is being increasingly adopted across transplant centers worldwide. Right LDN is perceived to be difficult due to anatomical…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Call to Action: Finding the Right Kidney for All Potential Recipients
G. Guerra, L. Preczewski, A. Harshman, G. Ciancio, R. Vianna, J. Figueiro, M. Muldoon
Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL
*Purpose: The dialysis burden in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) awaiting a kidney transplant (KT) is a huge driver of morbidity, mortality, and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Enhancing Kidney Allograft Decision Making: An Organ Offer Simulation Study
J. Mansy¹, J. Case¹, D. Stewart², H. McGehee², K. Lindblad², R. Schaffer¹, J. Fisher¹, J. Rice¹, S. Kurian¹, C. Marsh¹
¹Scripps Center for Organ and Cell Transplantation, La Jolla, CA, ²United Network for Organ Sharing Research Department, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: This study was designed to identify opportunities to improve UNOS organ allocation as well as providers’ decision-making process for cadaveric kidney offers. Using its…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Level of Plasm Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Kidney Transplant Patients with Severe Pneumonia
L. Liu¹, H. Liu², F. Liu², L. Shu², L. Peng¹
¹Xiangyang Hospital No. 2 of Central South University, Changsha, China, ²AlloDx, Shanghai; Suzhou, China
*Purpose: Pulmonary infection is one of the common complications after kidney transplantation. Donor-derived cell-free DNA (ddcfDNA) is a new biomarker to diagnose allograft injury. Currently,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Active Vitamin D Prior to Transplant Affects Post-Transplant Outcomes
L. Al Dahabreh¹, C. Abou-Mitri¹, L. Negrea¹, K. Chavin², T. Srinivas¹, A. Padiyar¹
¹Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ²Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Little is known regarding optimizing waitlist management of end stage renal disease to improve post-transplant outcomes. Active vitamin D is associated with improved outcomes…