Articles tagged "Kidney"

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
Improving Consent Rate for High Kidney Donor Profile Index Kidneys
L. Malinzak, A. Patel, A. Malilay, K. Dandron, A. Landrum, S. Gray, L. Lewis, K. Lord, R. Stampley, D. Kim
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Many deceased donor kidneys remain unused in this country. The UNOS formed Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Networks (COIIN) to tackle this issue, in which…
2020 American Transplant Congress
One Year of the OPTN’s SLK Allocation Policy
A. Wilk¹, R. Formica², A. Wiseman³, R. Hirose⁴, D. Mulligan², D. Stewart¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ³Univ of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ⁴UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Simultaneous Liver-Kidney (SLK) allocation policy went into effect on 8/10/17, establishing medical eligibility criteria for adult SLK candidates and creating a “Safety Net” for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Relationship between Tacrolimus Intrapatient Variability and Medication Adherence in Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. D. Leino, K. Abuls, J. L. Rodgers, K. Kuntz
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: Intrapatient variability (IPV) has been established as a risk factor for poor post-transplant outcomes. IPV is frequently proposed to be related to nonadherence but…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Intraoperative Cortical Renal Blood Flow after Reperfusion Using Laser Speckle Flowgraphy Device between Adult and Pediatric Kidney Transplants
M. Muramatsu, K. Sakurabayashi, Y. Itabashi, Y. Takahashi, T. Mizutani, K. Nishikawa, T. Yonekura, H. Oguchi, K. Shinoda, Y. Hamasaki, T. Kawamura, K. Sakai, S. Shishido
Nephrology, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: Laser speckle flowgraphy (LSFG) is a device to monitor cutaneous and ocular fundus blood flow. The aim of this study reveals that the differences…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Geographical Disparities in Transplantation: Exploring the Association between County Health Rankings and an Individual’s Access to Transplantation
A. J. Carter, R. D. Reed, D. Hendricks, K. N. Baldwin, A. C. Kale, J. E. Locke
Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Since 2004, living kidney donation has declined, with the southeastern United States disproportionately affected. Programs such as the Living Donor Navigator (LDN), designed to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Allograft Nephrectomy on Outcomes in Second Kidney Transplantation
N. Sato, Y. Kakuta, T. Kanzawa, K. Unagami, M. Okumi, H. Ishida, K. Tanabe
Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: The impact of failed allograft nephrectomy on the outcome of second kidney transplantation is not clear. We evaluated the effects of the first allograft…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transcriptomic Profiling of Paired Serum and Biopsy Samples from FSGS Patients
C. Kuscu¹, M. Kiran², A. Wolen¹, C. Kuscu¹, A. Bajwa¹, J. Eason¹, D. Maluf¹, E. Akalin³, V. Mas¹
¹Transplant Research Institute, James D. Eason Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ²Department of Systems and Computational Biology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, ³Department of Medicine and Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Pathogenesis and molecular footprints of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) after kidney transplantation whether it is primary or secondary is unknown. Herein, we studied a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Pulsatile Pump Perfusion on Hepatitis C Viremia and Transmission in Kidney Transplantation: A Prospective Pilot Study
R. Forbes¹, B. Concepcion¹, D. Clapper², B. Dubray¹, A. Miller², D. Shaffer¹, K. Johnson²
¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Tennessee Donor Services, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: With increasing utilization of hepatitis C (HCV) viremic donor organs for aviremic recipients, there may be a role for kidney pulsatile pump perfusion to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
10-Year Experience Transplanting Very Highly Sensitized Patients with End Stage Renal Disease
J. Diaz¹, J. Kennedy², S. Chinnakotla³, P. Verghese⁴
¹Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Very highly sensitized (VHS) individuals (calculated reactive antigen (cPRA) ≥ 95%) have increased rejection risk which negatively impacts kidney transplant outcomes. Multiple strategies have…