Articles tagged "Kidney"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Lab Turnaround Times: A Performance Improvement Project in Post Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Clinic
M. Farrell, S. Kapadia.
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles; Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Purpose:Patients' routine labs, including immunosuppression drug levels, are drawn with each clinic visit starting at 6am.Because the drug levels are not reported by the time…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Racing to Activation: Using LEAN Principles to Effectively Manage Your Waitlist with Predicted Improved Outcomes
L. Curry, V. Rao, D. Cassidy, V. Rohan, D. Dubay, N. Pilch, S. Gray.
MUSC, Charleston.
Introduction: In July 2017, our waitlist was approximately 950 pts, 36% which were inactive. One coordinator & one program assistant managed the kidney waitlist. Review…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Greater Access to Kidney Transplantation in Competitive DSAs: Due to Improved Referral?
J. Adler,¹ D. Chang,² H. Yeh.²
¹Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI; ²Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
INTRODUCTION: For patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), access to kidney transplantation (ATT) varies across the 58 Donor Service Areas (DSAs) of the United States,…
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De Novo Donor Specific Antibodies in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients Are Highly Responsive to Therapy
V. Sigurjonsdottir, P. Grimm.
Pediatric Nephrology, Lucile Packard Children´s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA.
Background: Pediatric Kidney transplant recipients who develop dnDSAs are at increased risk of allograft loss and rapid decline in GFR. C1q+ DSA, in particular, is…
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Early Utilization of Telehealth in Kidney Transplantation
T. Young, D. Hricik, E. Sanchez, N. Sarabu.
Transplant Institute, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH.
Introduction: Telehealth is an emerging strategy to improve outcomes and decrease emergency department visits and readmissions. Utility of telehealth in kidney transplantation hasn't been much…
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GDF15 Preventing Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury
C. Zhu,^1,2 A. Patel,¹ Y. Su,^1,2 J. Jiang,¹ D. Lian,¹ A. Sener,¹ W. Min,¹ P. Luke,¹ D. Quan,¹ K. Liu,² X. Zheng.¹
¹University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; ²Jilin University, ChangChun, China.
Rationale: Ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury still remains one of main causes of early renal dysfunction in kidney transplantation. There are no effective treatments for preventing…
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Risk of ESRD in Prior Living Kidney Donors
J. Wainright, A. Robinson, A. Wilk, D. Klassen, W. Cherikh, D. Stewart.
UNOS, Richmond, VA.
We studied development of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) in living kidney donors (LKDs) who donated in the US between 1994 and 2016 (n=123,523), using…
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Comparison of Microvascular Inflammation in Renal Allograft Tissue between ABO Incompatible and ABO Compatible Kidney Transplantation
E. Ko,^1,2 B. Choi,^1,2 C. Park,^1,2 Y. Kim,^1,2 C. Yang,^1,2 B. Chung.^1,2
¹Transplant Research Center, College of Medicine, Seoul St.Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul St.Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Background: Microvascular inflammation (MVI) is considered as a pathological marker for antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in the presence of donor-specific antibody (DSA). We aimed to investigate…
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Mortality of Live Kidney Donors in the UK: 15 Year Comparative Cohort Study
N. Krishnan,¹ L. Mumford,³ G. Lipkin,⁴ S. Fletcher,¹ I. Gupta,⁵ P. Gill,⁶ R. Ryan,⁷ N. Raymond.⁸
¹Renal Unit, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom; ²Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom; ³Statistics and Clinical Studies, Organ Donation and Transplant, National Health Services Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom; ⁴Renal Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁵Renal Unit, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁶Unit of Academic Primary Care, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom; ⁷Primary Care, Primary Care, West Midlands, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁸Statistics, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom.
To investigate the all-cause mortality o LDs in comparison with healthy controls.Ethics approval was in place to accrue data from database. Protocol reviewed and passed…
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Hard-To-Place Kidney Offers: Granular Examination of Donor Risk Factors for Discard
R. Narvaez, J. Nie, K. Noyes, M. Leeman, L. Kayler.
Dept of Surgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; Dept of Epidemiology and Environmental Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
Background: Deceased-donor kidney discard rates remain high. Understanding risk factors for discard is difficult since most analyses lack granularity and sufficient sample of high disease…