Articles tagged "Kidney"

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…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Registration Volume vs. Expectation: Impact of ESRD Burden and Outreach
A. Wilk, R. Urban, R. Carrico.
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
Overall trends in waiting list registrations prior to KAS have predominately monotonically increased, albeit with varied rates of growth, since 2000. However, as a result…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Hard-To-Place Kidney Offers: System- Level Predictors of Discard
L. Kayler,¹ J. Nie,² K. Noyes,² M. Leeman,³ R. Narvaez.¹
¹Dept of Surgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; ²Dept of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; ³Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
Background: Deceased-donor kidney discard rates remain high. Inefficiencies in the allocation of hard-to-place kidneys may be contributing to discard suggesting that system-level factors represent opportunities…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Patient Attitudes and Perceptions of Using Mobile Health Technology for Living Kidney Donor Follow-Up and Care Management
A. Eno,¹ A. Thomas,¹ J. Ruck,¹ S. Rasmussen,¹ S. Halpern,¹ D. Segev,^1,2,3 M. Henderson.^1,3
¹Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
Living kidney donor (LKD) follow-up is imperative to understand and monitor long-term outcomes after living donor nephrectomy, yet donor engagement with transplant hospitals post-donation remains…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Differences in Pediatric and Adult Lost to Follow-Up Events for Heart, Kidney, and Liver Recipients
A. Robinson,¹ G. Mazariegos,² S. Bartosh,³ W. Mahle.⁴
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ²Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ³University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI; ⁴Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA.
Background: Long-term follow-up data are necessary for accurate survival estimation. While the majority of heart (HR), kidney (KI), and liver (LI) transplant recipients (TxR) are…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Experience and Safety of Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Nephrectomy for Living Kidney Donors at Mexico´s General Hospital "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga"
P. Prieto-Olivares, L. Garcia-Covarrubias, A. Bahena-Portillo, A. Cicero-Lebrija, V. Visag-Castillo, H. Hinojosa-Heredia, D. Fernandez-Angel, Y. Carrión, A. Rosas, E. Pedraza, I. Castro, A. García-Covarrubias, H. Diliz-Perez.
Organ Transplantation, Hospital General de Mexico "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", Mexico City, Mexico.
Background: Hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy (HALN) is the procedure of choice for living kidney donors. Our center is a public hospital that serves low-income patients from…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Oral Vancomycin Monotherapy versus Combination Therapy in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients with Uncomplicated Clostridium difficile Infection: A Retrospective Cohort Study
G. Korayem,^1,2,4 K. Eljaaly,^2,3 K. Matthias,^2,4 T. Zangeneh.^4,5
¹Department of Pharmaceutical Practices, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, NA, Saudi Arabia; ²Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; ³Department of Clinical Pharmacy, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; ⁴Banner - University Medical Center Tucson, Tucson, AZ; ⁵Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Introduction:Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients are at high risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and CDI recurrence. A combination of metronidazole and oral vancomycin is…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Low Kidney Supply to Demand Ratio and Multi-Organ Transplant Centers Are Negatively Associated with Pediatric Renal Transplant Rates Post Kidney Allocation System Implementation: An Analysis of OPTN Data
P. Almond,¹ S. Al-Akash,¹ D. Stewart,² A. Robinson.²
¹CPSST Departments of Surgery and Renal Transplantation, Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX; ²UNOS, Richmond, VA.
Under the new kidney allocation system (KAS), pediatric (PED) renal (REN) transplant (Tx) candidates have priority to kidneys from donors with KDPI < 35%. We…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends, Predictive Factors, and Regional Differences in Discard of Increased-Risk Kidneys
J. Lipinska, D. Clark, J. Whiting.
Surgery, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME.
Purpose: Public Health Service (PHS) criteria designate certain deceased donors (DD) as entailing increased risk (IR) for disease transmission, and these constitute an expanding proportion…