Articles tagged "Kidney"

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…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Efficiency and Patient Perception of Solid Organ Transplant Medication Education after Pharmacist-Created Video Education
Y. Mitchell, J. Volpendesta, J. Vongspanich-Dray.
Pharmacy, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA.
Renal transplant is the gold standard therapy for end stage renal disease. At a large, academic medical center, a multidisciplinary approach is used to optimize…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Disparities in Re-Transplantation among Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients with Graft Failure
M. Basu,¹ R. Patzer,¹ R. George.^1,2
¹Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; ²Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA.
Background: While gender and racial disparities in access to transplantation have been reported among pediatric patients, few studies have investigated if these disparities exist in…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends in Living Kidney Donor Candidates
S. Singh,^1,2 V. DiCecco,² M. Luo,² Y. Li,² O. Famure.²
¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Nephrology and the Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Living kidney donor transplantation is the preferred treatment option for end-stage renal disease. However, living kidney donation rates have plateaued in North America. Existing studies…
2018 American Transplant Congress
How Evaluation for Living Kidney Donation Saved My Life
M. Guthoff,¹ T. Mühlbacher,¹ S. Nadalin,² N. Heyne.¹
¹Dept. of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; ²Dept. of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Purpose:In order to ensure eligibility for living kidney donation, donor candidates undergo a thorough medical evaluation. This evaluation process might reveal previously unknown medical conditions,…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Liver and Combined Liver-Kidney Retransplantation
D. Sonnier, D. Bruce, H. Bohorquez, E. Bugeaud, I. Carmody, A. Cohen, A. Mathur, J. Seal, G. Loss.
Department of Surgery/Transplantat, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, LA.
Many centers consider liver retransplantation controversial due to poor outcomes and high resource requirement. In the setting of renal failure and high MELD, many are…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Increasing the Donor Pool for Highly Sensitized Patients with Allele Specific Antibodies: Optimizing the Virtual Crossmatch (vXM)
A. Zhang,¹ Z. Zaky,² J. Africa,³ D. Good,¹ R. Bray,⁴ H. Gebel.⁴
¹Allogen Laboratories, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; ²Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; ³Transplant Surgery, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston; ⁴Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta.
Background:Since implementation of the current Kidney Allocation System, highly sensitized patients with 98-100% cPRA (HSPs) are receiving ~10% of deceased donor kidneys compared to <2%…