Articles tagged "Kidney"

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
Peripheral Blood RNA Sequencing Unravels a Differential Role of Coding and Non-Coding Genes by Types of Kidney Allograft Rejection
S. Sur¹, S. Pineda¹, T. Sigdel¹, M. Sirota¹, O. Bestard², M. Sarwal¹
¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Laboratory of Experimental Nephrology and Transplantation, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Peripheral blood molecular patterns characterizing the different effector immune pathways driving kidney allograft rejection remain to be fully completely elucidated, to more fully type…
2020 American Transplant Congress
microPOTS: A New Single Cell Proteomic Method for Profiling Human Kidney Transplant Biopsy Tissue
T. Sigdel¹, P. Piehowski², S. Roy¹, J. Liberto¹, A. Schroeder¹, P. Rashmi¹, S. Sur¹, I. Damm¹, W. Qian², M. M. Sarwal¹
¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to interrogate acute rejection (AR) in the renal allograft at single cell level. Despite advances in single cell…
2020 American Transplant Congress
To Fix or Not to Fix: Kidney Outcomes Requiring Renal Artery Reconstruction Due to Surgical Damage
J. Figueiro, R. Vianna, W. De Faria, S. Elizabeth, G. Ciancio, G. Guerra
Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Deceased donor kidneys damaged surgically during procurement are often discarded. Because of the critical shortage of available kidneys for waitlisted ESRD patients, our center…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluating the Effect of HCV Status on the KDPI in the Era of DAA Therapy
J. Husson¹, S. Curreli², B. Ravichandran³, E. Wilson⁴
¹Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, ³University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Institue of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: The association between KDPI and kidney graft outcomes is limited in the era of DAA therapy.*Methods: We analyzed adult renal transplants, at the University…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Increased Intra-Abdominal Pressure is Associated with Delayed Graft Function after Kidney Transplantation
A. Coca¹, C. Arias-Cabrales², M. Perez-Saez², P. Gonzalez¹, M. Crespo², M. Rollan¹, B. Toribio¹, A. Mendiluce¹, J. Pascual², J. Bustamante-Munguira³
¹Nephrology, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, Spain, ²Nephrology, Hospital Del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ³Cardiac Surgery, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Valladolid, Spain
*Purpose: Increased intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is a common complication among critically ill and post-surgical patients that can cause organ dysfunction. Its prevalence and effects after…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Machine Learning to Predict Deceased Donor Kidney Biopsy Results
C. Martinez, A. Placona
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Despite inconclusive evidence that kidney biopsy findings are associated with graft outcomes, biopsies are often cited as a key factor on whether to accept…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Kidney Transplantation on Sleep Quality in Patients Admitted in ICU: A Cross-Section Study in China
L. Long, J. Liu, J. Yan, F. J. Xie, F. L. Liu, H. Liu, H. K. Yin
Transplantation Center, Third Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, China
*Purpose: Although evidences showed that sleep disorder is common in patient with end stage renal disease (ESRD), less is known about their sleep quality after…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Assessment: Kidney Length versus Differential Function
K. J. Schumacher, J. A. Akoh
General and Transplant Surgery, Plymouth University Hospitals NHS Trust, Plymouth, United Kingdom
*Purpose: The key question in living kidney donor assessment is how best to determine the contribution of each kidney to overall renal function as a…