Articles tagged "Kidney"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Is Narrative Storytelling Ethical to Use to Educate the Public about Living Donation? Transplant Professionals Weigh In
W. Balliet¹, L. Holland-Carter¹, S. N. Maurer¹, M. P. Salas¹, C. S. Anderson², O. N. Ranasinghe², A. D. Waterman²
¹Division of Bio-behavioral Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²Division of Nephrology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Recent studies suggest that integrating health information through narrative stories can improve understanding of complex health conditions in diverse populations, especially those with low…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Are Protocol Biopsies Necessary for Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients?
E. Allred, E. Ingulli
Pediatrics, UCSD, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: Renal allograft survival indirectly correlates with acute rejection episodes. Subacute rejection is also associated with decreased graft survival. Protocol biopsies (bxs) have been implemented…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Variations in Recipient and Donor Clinical Characteristics between Kidney Transplant Centers
W. T. McKinney¹, M. Bruin², S. Chu², D. Schladt³, J. Snyder³, A. Matas⁴, B. Kasiske⁵, A. K. Israni³
¹Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²College of Design, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ³Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: When a patient can choose at which kidney transplant program to establish care, prior knowledge of program acceptance practices (of candidates and donors) can…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Differences in the Cost of Kidney Organ Recovery by Organ Procurement Organization Size
P. J. Held¹, J. Bragg-Gresham², J. P. Roberts³
¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Univ of Michigan, Michigan, MI, ³Univ of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Economic theory suggests that there should be an initial decrease in costs of products as production levels increase. Using data from independent OPOs we…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Did COIIN Cohort A Maintain Graft Survival Performance While Increasing Moderate to High KDPI Transplants?
J. Foutz, R. J. Carrico, K. Sisaithong, H. Tosoc-Haskell, D. Klassen
Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The Collaborative Innovation and Improvement Network (COIIN) was a 3-year OPTN project aimed at increasing the utilization of kidneys with a kidney donor profile…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Role of CD47/SIRPα and CD47/TSP-1 Pathways in Pig-to-Baboon Kidney Transplantation Using hCD47 Transgenic Kidneys
K. Takeuchi¹, Y. Ariyoshi¹, T. Pomposelli¹, L. Boyd¹, D. Ekanayake-Alper¹, S. Arn¹, R. Hawley¹, D. Ayares², M. Lorber³, M. Sykes¹, D. Sachs¹, R. Johnson⁴, K. Yamada¹
¹CCTI/Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Revivicor Inc., Blacksburg, VA, ³Lung BioTechnology PBC, Silver Spring, MD, ⁴Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: We have recently reported that both CD80 upregulation and the degradation of SMPDL-3b on glomerular podocytes are involved in the development of post kidney…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Kidney Function Following Live Donor Nephrectomy
N. N. Lam¹, A. Lloyd¹, K. L. Lentine², R. R. Quinn³, B. R. Hemmelgarn³, S. Klarenbach¹, A. X. Garg⁴
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, LA, ³University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Western University, London, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Understanding the decline in kidney function after live donor nephrectomy can inform the counselling and selection of donor candidates and guide the follow-up care…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Improving Living Donor Follow Up
L. Aronoff, V. Nair, C. Flores, M. Bhaskaran, E. Molmenti, A. Fahmy, M. Zhou, E. Grodstein, D. Campbell, C. Literello, L. Teperman
Renal Transplant, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY
*Purpose: OPTN requires transplant centers follow living donors (LDs) at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years post donation with a minimum threshold of 95%…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Surveillance Biopsy Utilization Reported Higher In Transplant Centers Performing Over 100 Kidney Transplants Per Year.
D. M. Lee¹, R. First¹, S. Rose¹, M. Abecassis²
¹Transplant Genomics Inc, Mansfield, MA, ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: To assess the frequency of surveillance biopsies in kidney transplant patients in transplant centers performing greater than 100 transplants per year, and to compare…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Use of Anti-Vimentin Antibodies as a Possible Marker for Graft Dysfunction Following Renal Transplant, a Prospective Study
E. Acosta¹, T. Divanyan¹, D. Patel¹, F. Jourd'heuil², D. Jourd'heuil², R. Lopez-Soler³
¹Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, ²Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, ³Surgery, Section of Transplantation, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
*Purpose: In our previously published work, we showed that presence of anti-vimentin antibodies (AVA) after renal transplant correlated with early IFTA (Interstitial Fibrosis and Tubular…