Articles tagged "Kidney"

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…
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…