Articles tagged "Kidney"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Short Term Renal Allograft Outcomes Following Treatment of Early Subclinical Borderline Changes on Surveillance Biopsies.
C. James, K. Woodside, J. Park, A. Naik, E. Farkash, R. Sung, M. Samaniego, Y. Huang.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
There is no consensus on treating subclinical borderline changes on surveillance biopsy in kidney transplant (KT) recipients. We examined whether treatment with pulsed corticosteroids led…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Performance Comparison of Barcoded Oligos and Standard qPCR on Matched FFPE and RNAlater-Submerged Human Kidney Allograft Samples.
T. Sigdel, M. Nguyen, D. Dobi, J. Liberto, S.-C. Hsieh, F. Vincenti, M. Sarwal, Z. Laszik.
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
Background: Gene expression profiling can improve the diagnostic ability of kidney allograft injury. Fresh tissue is the favored study material for transcriptomic analysis due to…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Prioritization for Kidney Transplant Due to Medical Urgency: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes After Transplantation.
J. Oliveira,¹ T. Sandes-Freitas,^1,2 M. Oliveira,¹ L. Mesquita,² G. Dantas,² E. Daher,² R. Esmeraldo.¹
¹Transplant Division, Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil; ²Department of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
Background: Kidney allocation in Brazil is mainly based on HLA compatibility. However, since 2002, patients who are no longer effectively dialyzed because hemodialysis (HD) and…
2017 American Transplant Congress
BK Polyomavirus-Specific 9mer T-Cell Responses Predict Control of Viremia in Kidney Transplant Recipients: First Report from the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study.
H. Hirsch,¹ C. Leboeuf,¹ S. Wilk,¹ R. Achermann,² I. Binet,³ D. Golshayan,² K. Hadaya,² C. Hirzel,² M. Hoffmann,² U. Huynh-Do,² M. Koller,² O. Manuel,² N. Mueller,² T. Mueller,² S. Schaub,² C. Van Delden,² F. Weissbach.¹
¹University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; ²Swiss Transplant Cohort Study, Basel, Switzerland; ³Cantonal Hospital St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
BK polyomavirus (BKPyV) causes premature kidney transplant (KT) failure in 1-15% of patients. Since antivirals are lacking, most programs screen KT patients for BKPyV viremia…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Pharmaceutical Care Needs Identified Through Linked Transplant Registry and Pharmacy Claims Data.
K. Lentine,¹ S. Gustafson,² M. Schnitzler,¹ G. Hess,³ D. Segev,⁴ A. Garg,⁵ N. Lam,⁶ D. Axelrod,⁷ D. Brennan,⁸ H. Randall,¹ B. Kasiske.⁹
¹St Louis Univ, St Louis, MO; ²SRTR, Minneapolis, MN; ³Symphony Health, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; ⁵Western Univ, London, Canada; ⁶Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; ⁷E Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC; ⁸Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO
Limited data are available on pharmaceutical care needs of living kidney donors (LKD).We integrated 1) national US Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data for LKD…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Short- and Long-Term Graft Survival After Kidney Transplantation in Western Europe.
M. Coemans,¹ G. Verbeke, D. Anglicheau, O. Bestard, M. Giral, M. Naesens.^1,2
¹Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ²Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Background: Improvement of kidney survival after transplantation has mainly been studied in the American population. There, it was found that improvement mostly occurred on the…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Model to Predict Prolonged Delayed Graft Function (DGF) Following Kidney Transplantation from Deceased Donor with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI Tx).
R. Heilman,¹ B. Smith,² C. Johnson,¹ H. Khamash,¹ K. Reddy,¹ W. Kremers,² B. Kaplan.¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background Our aim is to develop a model to predict prolonged DGF following AKI Tx.Methods AKI Tx (donor terminal Cr>/=2) from 2003 to 2016 were…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Lipid Catabolism Provides Alternative Energy Source and Compensates for Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Reperfused Rat Kidneys After Ischaemia.
H. Huang,^1,2 L. van Dullemen,³ M. Akhtar,¹ M. Lo Faro,^1,2 A. Dona,⁴ M. Kaisar,^1,2 H. Leuvenink,³ B. Kessler,² R. Ploeg.¹
¹Oxford Transplant Centre, NDS, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; ²Target Discovery Institute, NDM, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; ³Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ⁴Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Introduction: To reduce morbidity and mortality on the wait list for kidney transplantation, centres are required to use older and higher risk organs including unstable…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Urinary Retention Associated with Polyomavirus (BK) Viruria and Higher Peak Blood BK Following Kidney Transplant (KTx).
W. Cheungpasitporn,¹ H. Amer,² F. Cosio,² C. Schinstock.²
¹Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²The William J von Liebig Center for Transplantation and Clinical Regeneration, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
BACKGROUND: BK nephropathy is a major risk factor for allograft dysfunction and loss. BK viruria and viremia are early markers of BK nephropathy in KTx…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Financial Burden and Time to Returning to Work Among Living Kidney Donors.
D. Larson, D. Berglund, D. Vock, A. Roman, J. Wiseman, H. Ibrahim, A. Matas.
U of MN, Mpls
Surveying our living kidney donor (LKD) population we learned (and reported) that: a) more than a quarter of our LKDs experienced substantial financial burden due…