2019 American Transplant Congress
Hepatitis A Hospitalizations among Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States: A Nationwide Study
*Purpose: Hepatitis A illness severity increases in immunosuppressed patients and one of important indicators of hepatitis A illness severity is whether patients require hospitalization. This…2019 American Transplant Congress
One Study: A Consortium Model of Clinical Trials Optimized for Comparing New Immune Therapies via Centralized Immune Monitoring
*Purpose: Immune regulatory cell subpopulations can potentially control immune responses to allow immunosuppression (IS) drug minimization. In the ONE Study, an EU FP7-funded research group…2019 American Transplant Congress
Simulated Tier Variability
*Purpose: The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients semi-annually assigns transplant programs to one of five performance tiers for 1-year graft survival in its program-specific reports…2019 American Transplant Congress
Infectious Complications in Tocilizumab-Treated Kidney Transplant Recipients
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Tocilizumab blocks IL-6 signaling, inhibiting maturation of B cells to plasma cells and antibody production. We have used tocilizumab since 2012 to treat kidney…2019 American Transplant Congress
Dialysis Facility Provider Transplant Knowledge after a Randomized Multilevel Intervention to Increase Kidney Transplant Referral and Evaluation in the Southeast
*Purpose: Dialysis facility provider kidney transplantation (KTx) knowledge influences patient transplant access. The Reducing Disparities in Access to kidNey Transplantation (RaDIANT) Regional Study is a…2019 American Transplant Congress
Automated Histology Lesion Interpretation in Kidney Transplant Biopsies Shows That Pathologists Often Deviate from Banff Guidelines
*Purpose: Histologic diagnosis of kidney transplant biopsies requires an expert pathologist using Banff guidelines to interpret features. Some problematic guidelines require experts to use professional…2019 American Transplant Congress
No Plan is a Bad Plan! Results of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) Living Donor Community of Practice Mortality Workgroup Survey on Disaster Planning Following a Living Donor Death
*Purpose: The risk of perioperative mortality following living kidney and liver donation, although extremely low, must not be considered a ‘never event’. While the risks…2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Volumes in Healthy Donors – Does Size Really Matter?
*Purpose: To assess the relationship between craniocaudal renal diameters and renal volumes, as well as the frequency of appropriate renal selection for transplant using conventional…2019 American Transplant Congress
Beneficial Association between Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone-System Blockade Usage and Graft Prognosis in Allograft Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy
*Purpose: Although immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is associated with a high risk of renal allograft failure, evidences for its treatment, including renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system blockade (RAASB)…2019 American Transplant Congress
Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging with ZW800-1 Dye to Assess Donor Kidneys While on Ex-Vivo Normothermic Machine Perfusion
*Purpose: At present, more older and higher risk donor kidneys are accepted resulting in increased uncertainty about quality. This may result in unjustified discard of…
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