2017 American Transplant Congress
Financial Burden and Time to Returning to Work Among Living Kidney Donors.
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…2017 American Transplant Congress
Novel Therapies for Diabetic Kidney Disease.
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Introduction: The development and progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is thought to involve a combination of hemodynamic, metabolic, ischemic, and inflammatory factors; however, the…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Adoption of Generic Immunosuppressant Medications Among Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients Using the Colorado All Payer Claims Database.
Background: Substitution of generic for brand-name immunosuppressants has increased in solid organ transplantation following the expiration of brand patents. Our aim was to describe the…2017 American Transplant Congress
Deciphering the Mechanism of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning and Its Potential Benefits in Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury by Metabolomics.
Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
IntroductionRemote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is a strategy inducing resistance against ischemia and reperfusion(IR) injury. But the mechanism and the time window of protection representing RIPC…2017 American Transplant Congress
Prescription Opioid Use Before and After Kidney Transplant: Implications for Post-Transplant Outcomes.
We previously identified associations of opioid use before kidney transplant (KTx) with post-KTx complications.To confirm and extend these findings, we examined a novel database wherein…2017 American Transplant Congress
Left-Sided Donor Nephrectomy Predisposes Living Kidney Donors to Latent Adrenal Insufficiency with Symptoms of Fatigue and Inferior Quality of Life.
The rising prevalence of end-stage renal disease and chronic organ shortage calls more people upon to consider living kidney donation. The benefits for recipients and…2017 American Transplant Congress
Twelve Hour Ex Vivo Normothermic Perfusion for the Assessment of High-Risk Discarded Deceased Donor Kidneys.
Department of Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Ex-Vivo Normothermic Perfusion (EVNP) has been shown to be useful to assess viability of high-risk deceased donor kidneys, with high renal blood flow and immediate…2017 American Transplant Congress
Immunosuppressant Costs for Medicare Part D and Kidney Transplant Recipients Since the Introduction of Generic Formulations in an Incident Kidney Transplant Population.
Background: Substitution of generics (GEN) for brand name (BN) immunosuppressants (IS) has increased in kidney transplant recipients (KTR) since the introduction of GEN mycophenolate mofetil…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Associations Between Immunosuppression Use, Loss of Medicare and Kidney Allograft Outcomes.
Medicare coverage for kidney transplant recipients aged <65 years in the US ends 3 years posttransplant, but a significant proportion of recipients remain on Medicare…2016 American Transplant Congress
c-Kit+ Cells Are Kidney-Specific Progenitor/Stem Cells with Regenerative Potential.
Introduction: Identification of progenitor/stem cell populations in mammalian tissues is important for therapeutic applications and for understanding biological processes. We recently reported that c-Kit+ cells…
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