Articles tagged "Kidney"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Bisphosphonates Effectively Improve the Long Term Renal Transplant Outcomes; A Single Center Retrospective Study
S. Song¹, K. Huh², H. Choi³, J. Lee², D. Kim², Y. Kim², M. Kim², S. Kim², D. Joo², B. Kim³
¹Surgery, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation (KT) is a treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease. Despite of remarkable improvement in short term graft survival, few…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes and Organ Acceptance Practice Patterns: Nationwide Analyses of the US and France
O. Aubert¹, P. P. Reese², Y. Bouatou¹, M. Raynaud¹, C. Legendre¹, D. Glotz¹, C. Lefaucheur¹, C. Jacquelinet³, A. Loupy¹
¹Paris Translational Center for Organ Transplantation, Paris, France, ²Department of Medicine, Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Agence de la Biomédecine, Paris, France
*Purpose: Approximately 3,500 donated kidneys are discarded in the US each year, drawing concern from Medicare and advocacy groups. We hypothesised that more aggressive organ…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Maternal and Pregnancy Outcomes after Living Donor Nephrectomy in a Multistate Cohort
G. S. Lee¹, R. X. Wang², D. O. Walls³, P. P. Reese⁴, D. S. Goldberg⁴, P. L. Abt¹
¹Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, ³Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, ⁴Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Studies have demonstrated increased risk of preeclampsia for pregnancies after kidney donation in homogenous populations or single-center studies. Our study aims to delineate maternal…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Renal Outcomes from Expander-1: Pilot Study of HCV+ Donor Kidneys for HCV- Kidney Recipients
S. Thaduri¹, C. Durand¹, N. Desai², D. Segev², N. Bair¹, D. Brown¹, F. F. Naqvi¹
¹Medicine, -Johns Hopkins University, -Baltimore, MD, ²Surgery, -Johns Hopkins University, -Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Direct acting antivirals (DAAs) have led to high cure rates (>95%) for hepatitis C. Utilization of HCV+ donor kidneys for patients with advanced kidney…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Transcriptome Profiling Of Renal Transplant Biopsies With Acute Cellular Rejection From Patients On Calcineurin Inhibitor-based Or Cni-avoidance Immunosuppression
D. Dobi¹, F. Vincenti², Z. G. Laszik¹
¹Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Departments of Medicine and Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Despite their suboptimal toxicity profile, calcineurin-inhibitors (CNIs) remain the cornerstone of renal transplant immunosuppression. Previous efforts to completely eliminate CNIs failed, because CNI-avoidance protocols…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Human Kidneys without an Oxygen Carrier
D. Detelich, C. Eymard, M. Aburawi, C. Carroll, K. Uygun, H. Yeh, J. F. Markmann
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) is a promising strategy for pre-transplant reconditioning and viability assessment of marginal renal grafts. All current clinical kidney NMP protocols…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Alemtuzumab versus Antithymocyte Globulin Induction Immunosuppression in Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Brueckner¹, E. Yanqui¹, C. Truong¹, R. Baliga², L. Bowman¹
¹Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²Florida Kidney Physicians, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Lymphocyte depleting agents such as rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG) and alemtuzumab are used for induction in highly sensitized (PRA ≥30%) kidney transplant recipients (KTRs).…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Comparison Of Estimating Glomerular Filtration Equations In Living Kidney Donor Candidates Prior To Donation
S. Hebert¹, J. Xu², H. Ibrahim¹
¹Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Serum creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) models have been shown to over- or underestimate measured iohexol GFR (mGFR), but it is unclear if…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Acceptability of Animated Video Medium to Educate Kidney Transplant Patients
K. Bonner, M. Cobler- Lichter, N. Crenesse-Cozien, L. Lewis, T. Feeley, L. Kayler
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: Video-based education is an emerging method to address low health literacy, a barrier to informed patient decision-making. A two-dimensional animated educational video was developed…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Anti-ebv Antibody (ebv-ab) And Ebv-specific Cytotoxic T Cell (ebv-tc) Positivity Are Essential To Control Viremia In Seronegative (sero[-]) Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients (ped Ktx Pts).
B. Shin, H. Pizzo, D. Puliyanda, A. Petrosyan, D. Lovato, S. C. Jordan, M. Toyoda
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: EBV infection represents a significant morbidity factor in KTx Pts, especially EBV sero(-) Ped as infections tend to be more severe and recurrent, increasing…