Articles tagged "Kidney"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Has Every Possible Life Been Saved?: Rummaging Through the Discard Heap
A. L. Friedman, E. Marquez
LiveOnNY, NY, NY
*Purpose: To determine the reasons that deceased donor organs were allocated but not transplanted (TXP) in a large organ procurement organization (OPO).*Methods: All organs allocated…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Implicit Bias in Recipient Selection
Y. Sweidan¹, C. Mayuga¹, B. Daly¹, K. Chavin², T. Srinivas¹, A. Padiyar¹
¹Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ²Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: The decision to place or exclude a candidate from the waitlist is not exclusively based on medical criteria. Scant literature exists regarding the intergroup…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Decision-Making, Motivations and the Donation Experience among HLA-Identical Living Kidney Donors at UCLA – A Qualitative Study
E. L. Wood¹, S. George², N. Kogut¹, E. Lum³, J. Veale¹
¹Urology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Medicine, Nephrology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Studies on motivations and decision-making processes of living donors have previously identified recipient relationship, fear of loss and altruism as important modifying factors of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Pretransplant Serologies and Vaccination Rates in Kidney Transplant Candidates
S. Schneider, C. Truax, A. Carlson, B. Clark, B. Sirandas, L. Smith
Department of Pharmacy Services, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
*Purpose: Assessing serologic status presents opportunities to provide live vaccinations to solid organ transplant (SOT) candidates. This is especially important given the increased risk of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
High Volume, Highly Efficient, Outcome- Centric KPD Program: A Single Center Experience with Direct Exchange Based Strategies
K. Al Meshari, D. Broering, I. Alahmadi, S. Raza, T. Ali, A. Alabbassi, H. Alahdal, F. Alzayer
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: We report our three and a half year experience with direct exchange (loop) based strategy single center KPD program.*Methods: 1. Inclusion of HLA and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Hepatitis C Antibody Seroconversion in Kidney Transplant Patients from HCV Antibody Positive/NAT Negative Donors Does Not Deteriorate Renal Allograft Outcome
R. Rattanavich, M. De Vera, T. Hoang, R. Villicana
Loma Linda University, Transplant Institute, San Bernadino, CA
*Purpose: Prior studies have shown that almost 50% of kidney transplant patients from hepatitis C Ab+/NAT - donors have seroconverted but its impact on renal…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Rejection, Rejection Therapy and Renal Function in the BEST Trial
H. Kuzaro¹, A. R. Shields², A. Wiseman³, S. Tremblay¹, A. Christianson¹, D. Kaufman⁴, J. Leone⁵, A. Matas⁶, P. West-Thielke⁷, R. R. Alloway¹, E. S. Woodle¹
¹U Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ²The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ³U Colorado, Denver, CO, ⁴U Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁵Tampa General, Tampa, FL, ⁶U Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁷UIC, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The BEST Trial (Belatacept-based Early Steroid Withdrawal) compared two belatacept (BELA)-based early corticosteroid withdrawal (ESW) regimens and alemtuzumab (ALEM) or rabbit antithymocyte globulin (rATG)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Establishment of a National Kidney Exchange Program in Mexico: Pro-Renal
A. Cicero¹, L. Basagoitia², E. F. Velez³, A. Dib-Kuri⁴, A. E. Roth⁵, M. A. Rees⁶
¹Transplant Surgery, ABC Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Transplant Nephrology, Centro Mexicano Pro-Donación Renal, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico, ³Medical Director, Centro Mexicano Pro-Donación Renal, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico, ⁴Director, Centro Mexicano Pro-Donación Renal, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico, ⁵Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁶Transplant Surgery, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH
*Purpose: Expose the need of an effective kidney paired exchange program in Mexico*Methods: Describe how Pro-Renal works. Expose weaknesses of Mexican Health System. Compare our…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Once Weekly Fluconazole is Effective for the Prevention of Oral Candidiasis in Kidney Transplant Recipients
J. Lockridge, D. Roberts, K. Spence, M. Stack, S. Rehman, A. Olyaei
OHSU, Portland, OR
*Purpose: Oropharyngeal candidiasis is an infection prevalent in renal transplant recipients, with significant concerns for invasive endoscopic workup and development into invasive fungal infections. While…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Short Term Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Patients Receiving De Novo Belatacept with Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction
B. Carlson, P. Cabrera, T. Harrison, K. Tejani, A. Centeno
Pharmacy, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Mainstay immunosuppressive therapy after kidney transplant is a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) based regimen. Nephrotoxicity is a common adverse effect of CNIs which can lead…