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
Outcomes in Non-A1 and Non A1 B to B Deceased Donor Renal Transplantation Are Comparable to B Donor Renal Transplants
A. Brar, L. Kwon, A. Gruessner, F. Tedla, R. Gruessner, N. Sumrani, D. John, J. Renz, M. O. Salifu
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Blood type B patients wait longer to get deceased donor (DD) renal transplants compared to other blood types. On December 2014, the US national…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Metabolic Reprogramming: Critical Features of Cyclosporine A Nephrotoxicity
A. A. Zmijewska, G. Benavides, V. Darley-Usmar, J. W. Zmijewski, R. B. Mannon
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) are potent immunosuppressants but over time contribute to allograft fibrosis. Clinical efforts to minimize or avoid CNI have not been uniformly…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Sub-Optimal Renal Recovery and Progressive Chronic Kidney Disease after Living Kidney Donation
Y. Kim¹, C. Jeong², H. Kim², J. Ha³, C. Ahn¹, Y. Kim¹, H. Lee¹
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Urology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Post-operative renal recovery after nephrectomy is a substantial problem to be addressed in living kidney donors. Herein, we explored factors associated with renal recovery…
2019 American Transplant Congress
miR-20a Inhibits Autophagy by Targeting AKT and BIM in Renal Reperfusion Injury
T. Lin, T. Song, Y. Jiang, J. Liu, Z. Wang, L. Li, Z. Huang, Y. Fan, X. Wang
Organ Transplantation Center, Urology Department, Urology Research Institute, WestChina Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
*Purpose: Previously, we found up-regulation of miR-20a after kidney ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury and may serves as a protector; however, its specific mechanism remains unclear.Autophagy…
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…