Articles tagged "Kidney"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Utilization via Accelerating the Placement of Hard-to-Place Kidneys
S. Noreen¹, R. Brown¹, Y. Becker², M. Cooper³, K. O'Connor⁴, J. Prinz⁵, D. Klassen¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ³MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ⁴LifeCenter Northwest, Bellevue, WA, ⁵Donor Alliance, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Increasing the number of transplants by increasing utilization is a key goal of the OPTN, with a particular focus on the use of marginal…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Pilot Study of Mkidney: A Novel Mobile Health Platform to Support OPTN Living Donor Follow-Up Data Collection
C. Sidoti¹, W. Zhang¹, M. Waldram¹, A. Thomas¹, M. Levan¹, A. Massie¹, A. Bingaman², R. Forbes³, G. Edwards³, K. Warmke³, K. Centanni³, D. Segev¹, M. Henderson¹
¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²The Texas Transplant Institute, Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital, San Antonio, TX, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Transplant hospitals struggle to meet Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) requirements for LKD follow-up. In the face of barriers such as cost, LKD…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Variation in Characteristics of High-KDPI Donors
G. R. Vece¹, A. Wilk¹, N. Turgeon²
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Dell Seton Medical Center, Austin, TX
*Purpose: The kidney donor profile index (KDPI) was incorporated into kidney allocation in the United States in 2014, and discard rates for high-KDPI donors (86-100%)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Native Nephrectomy at the Time of Transplant: Risk for Adrenal Injury?
T. Salinas¹, D. Dadhania¹, J. Lee¹, M. Aull¹, S. Kapur², M. Lubetzky¹
¹Nephrology, NY Presbyterian- Weill Cornell, New York, NY, ²Surgery, NY Presbyterian- Weill Cornell, New York, NY
*Purpose: Living donor studies have demonstrated that native nephrectomy (Nx) is associated with transient but symptomatic loss of adrenal function. Although surgical complications from simultaneous…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Increased Graft Survival Following Implementation of the Kidney Allocation Score
M. L. Samoylova¹, B. I. Shaw¹, W. Irish², S. J. Kesseli¹, A. Connor¹, A. S. Barbas¹, L. McElroy¹, K. V. Ravindra¹
¹Surgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ²Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: The Kidney Allocation Score (KAS) was developed to improve matching of donor and recipients; we examine the effect of this change on transplantation practice…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Failing Native Kidney Function after Successful PTA
A. Gruessner, S. Saggi, J. Renz, R. Gruessner
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Patients with labile diabetes and good kidney function are often advised to wait until kidney function deteriorates and then undergo a SPK rather than…
2020 American Transplant Congress
ESRD Risk Prediction for Black vs. White Related Living Kidney Donors
J. Wainright¹, A. Robinson¹, A. Wilk¹, D. Klassen², W. Cherikh¹, L. Cartwright¹, D. Stewart¹
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: We studied 25-year risk of post-donation ESRD in black (n=10,214) and white (n=45,700) first-degree related living kidney donors (RLKDs) who donated in the US…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Relative Transplant Center Organ Volumes are Associated with Patient and Graft Survival
J. T. Adler, T. C. Tsai, S. K. Malek, S. G. Tullius, J. S. Weissman
Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Transplant programs differ in relative volume of kidney and liver transplants. While there is a known volume-outcome relationship for organ-specific transplantation at an institutional…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ex-Vivo Repair of Complex Hilar Renal Artery Aneurysms and Auto-Transplantation of Solidary Kidney
K. Zhao¹, A. Naji²
¹University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: We present a case of ex-vivo repair of complex renal hilar saccular aneurysm followed by auto-transplantation of the solitary kidney.*Methods: The patient was a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Graphene Quantum Dots Prevent Glomerular and Interstitial Injury in Murine Adriamycin Nephropathy Through Macrophage Depletion
Y. Kim¹, K. Kim¹, J. Lee¹, J. Moon¹, J. Kim¹, J. Lee², Y. Kim¹, S. Yang¹
¹Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Internal Medicine, Nephrology Clinic, National Cancer Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Macrophage infilatration is a key feature of the pathogenicity associated with glomerular and tubulo-interstitial injury in kidney disease. Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are considered…