2020 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Living Kidney Donor Candidates
*Purpose: Pre-donation renal function is an important determinant of future development of kidney disease in live kidney donors (LKD). In 2017, the Kidney Disease Improving…2020 American Transplant Congress
De Novo DSA in the Setting of Stable Renal Allograft Function Does Not Impair Long-Term Graft Survival
*Purpose: To determine the long-term outcome of renal allograft recipients with de novo DSA (dnDSA) in the setting of stable allograft function.*Methods: A single-center review…2020 American Transplant Congress
Lack of Dj-1 Amplifies Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury and Increases Parenchymal Apoptosis
1University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: Sepsis following kidney transplantation is a frequent complication due to mandatory immunosuppression and increased infection risk. Kidney transplant recipients who develop sepsis show inferior…2020 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Molecular Phenotype of Kidney Injury
1University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2., ., AB, Canada
*Purpose: The injury status of transplanted organs is a strong predictor of graft loss. We used injury-related gene expression to explore the relationship between function,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Utilization via Accelerating the Placement of Hard-to-Place Kidneys
*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
*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
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?
*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
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
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…
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