2017 American Transplant Congress
A Novel KPD Mechanism to Increase Transplants When Some Candidates Have Multiple Willing Donors.
1Carnegie Mellon U, Pittsburgh; 2U of Maryland, College Park; 3UNOS, Richmond; 4Yale U, New Haven
Purpose: Current kidney exchanges such as the OPTN Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) program allow candidates to list multiple willing donors, but only one will donate…2017 American Transplant Congress
Genomic Analysis of Gene Expression in Human Kidney Transplants Identifies Moxd1 as a Key Driver for Renal Fibrosis.
Chronic allograft injury (CAI), characterized histologically by high chronic allograft dysfunction index (CADI) score on biopsy, is known to be a major determinant of graft…2017 American Transplant Congress
Time to Kidney Transplantation Following Live Donor Candidate Referral.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Kidney transplant candidates have utilized novel methods to identify and refer willing donors; however, delays or barriers to actually achieving live donor kidney transplantation are…2017 American Transplant Congress
Accepting a High-KDPI Kidney versus Waiting for Another Offer Can Improve Chances of a Functioning Graft.
1Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Less than 50% of waitlisted candidates undergo a first deceased donor transplant within 5 years. Yet approximately 20% of recovered kidneys and >50% of kidneys…2017 American Transplant Congress
Short Term Renal Allograft Outcomes Following Treatment of Early Subclinical Borderline Changes on Surveillance Biopsies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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