2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Pre-Screening on OPTN Kidney Paired Donation Pilot Program Transplant and Refusal Rates
*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!
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…2020 American Transplant Congress
Quantifying the Number of ESRD Patients Who Might Benefit from Bariatric Surgery to Achieve Listing for Transplant
*Purpose: Mounting evidence suggests bariatric surgery may play a role in helping obese ESRD patients achieve sufficient weight loss to be transplant-eligible. We sought to…2020 American Transplant Congress
Hematopoietic Cell Kinase Promotes Kidney Fibrosis Through Autophagy Pathway
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: In our previous studies, we identified hematopoietic cell kinase (HCK) as a key driver of renal fibrosis through TGFβ/Smad3 pathway. Here in this study,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Post- Transplant Recurrence of IgA Nephropathy: HLA as a Predictive Factor
*Purpose: Genomic studies have identified several HLA antigens to be associated with IgA Nephropathy in the native kidney. In contrast to the native kidney, there…2020 American Transplant Congress
Safety of Belatacept in HIV-Positive Kidney Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Kidney allograft survival in HIV-infected patients is lower than in the general population. Belatacept (instead of anticalcineurins (CNI)) has been shown to have a…2020 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Factors Associated with Delayed Graft Function Severity Using the OPTN Database
1Scripps Health, La Jolla, CA, 2United Network for Organ Sharing Research Department, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Delayed graft function (DGF) is a costly adverse outcome in kidney transplantation with negative implications for both graft and patient survival. Identifying factors associated…2020 American Transplant Congress
Reverse Epidemiology and the Obesity Paradox for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
*Purpose: Obesity has been associated with both increased progression of chronic kidney disease as well as with a paradoxical improvement in survival among ESRD patients…2020 American Transplant Congress
Does the Distance from the Transplant Center Impact Kidney Transplant (KT) DGF, CIT and Outcomes?
*Purpose: Currently, there is an ongoing debate regarding the efficient use of available organs (utility) versus the fair access to transplant (equity). UNOS is now…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of a De Novo Belatacept Based Immunosuppressive Regimen on Kidney Transplant Outcomes
Massachusetts General Hospital Transplant Center, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Use of anti-thymocyte globulin (rabbit) (rATG) induction with belatacept/mycophenolate (MPA)/prednisone based immunosuppression (IS) has led to a reduction in rejection compared to that seen…
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