Articles tagged "Kidney"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Multiparametric MRI for Assessment of Renal Transplant Fibrosis: A Pilot
M. Menon, O. Bane, S. Lewis, R. Khaim, S. Florman, P. Kennedy, S. Hectors, V. Delaney, F. Salem, B. Taouli.
Recanati Miller Transplant Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
Fibrosis in renal allografts confers risk of progression to allograft loss. The gold standard for evaluating renal fibrosis remains allograft biopsy, which is invasive, prone…
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In Vivo Imaging and Function of Renal Tertiary Lymphoid Organs
K. Abou-Daya, D. Zhao, A. Williams, M. Oberbarnscheidt.
Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh.
Tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs) are ectopic lymphoid structures that arise in non-lymphoid tissues in the setting of chronic inflammation such as organ transplantation. The function…
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Estimated Impact of the Number of Simultaneous Offers on Kidney Delay and Discard
M. Mankowski,¹ S. Raghavan,³ C. Holscher,² M. Kosztowski,² D. Segev,² S. Gentry.⁴
¹King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; ³University of Maryland, College Park; ⁴US Naval Academy, Annapolis.
Following local decline of a recovered kidney, making regional and national offers in larger simultaneous batches might decrease discards. We simulated varying batch sizes for…
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SGLT2 Inhibition in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Diabetes
M. Guthoff,¹ M. Mahling,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: Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibition has been shown to reduce cardiovascular mortality and preserve kidney function in patients with type 2 diabetes. Kidney transplant…
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Long-Term Follow Up of Living Kidney Donors with CKD at 1 Year after Nephrectomy
J. Na,¹ J. Park,¹ M-.G. Yoon,¹ H. Lee,² Y. Yoon,³ K. Huh,⁴ M. Kim,⁴ S. Kim,⁴ Y. Kim,⁴ W. Han.¹
¹Department of Urology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Urological Science Institute, Seoul, Korea; ²Department of Urology, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang-si, Korea; ³Department of Urology, Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea; ⁴Department of Surgery-Transplantation, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Introduction:Many kidney donors show poor recovery after donation and the long-term prognosis of those patients has not been well studied. In this study we explored…
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Positive Implications of an Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Protocol Using Liposomal Bupivacaine for Transverse Abdominis Plane Block in the Perioperative Phase of Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy
A. Nickkholgh,¹ A. Agarwal,¹ B. Sarosiek,² A. Sites,³ A. Nishio Lucar,⁴ J. Oberholzer,¹ P. Amato.⁵
¹Dept. of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ²ERAS Program, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ³Strickler Transplant Institute, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ⁴Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ⁵Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA.
Introduction. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols aim to mitigate the physical and psychological stress response to surgery. Postop pain can increase the need for…
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High Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) Donor Kidneys: Use Them, Don't Lose Them!
D. Harriman, A. Farney, J. Rogers, G. Orlando, A. Reeves-Daniel, M. Gautreaux, W. Doares, S. Kaczmorski, R. Stratta.
Surgery, Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacy, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.
Introduction: With the development of the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) and a new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) implemented on 12/4/14, the expanded criteria donor…
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Geographic Variation in Deceased Donor Kidney Waitlist Deaths after Declining an Organ Offer
F. Winterhalter,¹ S. Husain,¹ R. Patzer,² S. Pastan,² S. Mohan.¹
¹Department of Medicine/Nephrology, Columbia University, New York, NY; ²Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ³Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Introduction: Despite the severe organ shortage, nearly 20% of all deceased donor kidneys procured in the United States are discarded annually. Wait times for kidney…
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The Advantage of Utilizing ABO and HLA Compatible Pairs in Kidney Paired Donation
A. Basu,¹ C. Kosberg,¹ H. Khamash,² M. Mai,³ M. Prieto,¹ C. Schinstock.¹
¹Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; ³Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
BACKGROUND: Kidney paired donation (KPD) programs are mainly used to facilitate transplantation for candidates with ABO or HLA incompatible living donors. However, the benefit of…
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Race/Ethnicity and Hypertension Self-Care Behaviors among US Living Kidney Donors
M. Johnson, T. Purnell, X. Luo, L. Cooper, M. Waldram, D. Crews, M. Henderson, A. Massie, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.
Purpose: Despite the success of live donor kidney transplantation as an optimal treatment for ESRD, some living kidney donors may be at increased risk of…