Articles tagged "Kidney"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Use of Small (<10kg) Kidney Donors in the US.
J. Smith,^1,2 J. Snyder,¹ A. Israni,¹ B. Kasiske,¹ R. Perez.³
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; ²Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle; ³UC Davis Medical Center, Sacremento.
The supply of kidneys for transplant continues to exceed the demand. Efforts to expand the donor pool have led to interest in small pediatric kidney…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Should Renin Angiotensin Blockade Be the Mainstay of Hypertension Treatment in Kidney Donors?
O. Sanchez, L. Ferrara, D. Berglund, S. Reule, R. Spong, N. Issa, A. Kukla, A. Matas, H. Ibrahim.
U of MN, Mpls.
Introduction: The prevalence of hypertension (HTN) in kidney donors is comparable to what is seen in the general population. How HTN in donors is treated…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function Is an Independent Risk Factor for Renal Allograft Rejection.
T. Dienemann, S. Weber, J. Jacobi, K.-U. Eckardt, A. Weidemann.
Nephrology and Hypertension, Universitaetsklinikum Erlangen, Universiaet Erlangen Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Background: Numerous risk factors for delayed graft function (DGF) after kidney transplantation (KTx) have been identified. However the effect of DGF as an independent risk…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Do All cPRA 100% Candidates Have Equal Access to Organ Allocation?
H. Gebel,^1,2 S. Gustafson,¹ D. Segev,^1,3 B. Kasiske,¹ A. Israni.¹
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; ²Pathology, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta; ³Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Renal transplant candidates with cPRA values of 98%, 99%, and 100% received local, regional, and national priority, respectively, for deceased donor kidneys with the new…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Prospective Investigation of the Reliability and Validity of the Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT).
D. LaPointe Rudow, A. Shenoy, J. Hunt, Z. Filipovic-Jewell, B. Haydel, B. Iacoviello.
Recanati Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
Purpose: The LDAT was the first psychosocial assessment instrument developed to standardize the live donor (LD) psychosocial evaluation (PsychE). Previously, it was found to be…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Following Inguinal Hernia Repair in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
S. DiBrito, I. Olorundare, C. Landazabal, D. Segev, N. Dagher.
Transplant Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
It is assumed that kidney transplant (KT) recipients have more complications, longer length of stay (LOS) and higher hospital cost associated with general surgery procedures,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor-Recipient Relationship on Development of CKD.
A. Matas, D. Vock, H. Ibrahim.
UMN, Mpls, MN.
Two studies have reported a small increase of ESRD in LDs compared to healthy matched controls. However, the majority of ESRD has been in relatives…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Virtual Crossmatch Algorithm That Mimics the Sensitivity of Flow Cytometric Crossmatch.
P. Rao, D. Deo, C. Rhodes, D. King, P. Bowe, J. Napoleon, I. Okere.
NJ Sharing Network, New Providence, NJ.
Aim: The new Kidney Allocation System has increased requests for virtual crossmatches (VXM) to predict the possibility of a negative donor specific crossmatch. This study…
2016 American Transplant Congress
5-Year Follow-Up After Live Donor Nephrectomy – A Prospective Cohort Study.
S. Janki,¹ E. Mulder,¹ L. Dols,¹ M. Betjes,² I. Dooper,³ J. IJzermans.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of HPB and Transplant Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Department of Nephrology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ³Department of Nephrology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
BackgroundRecently some studies have reported less favorable results after live kidney donation. We investigated therefore which donors will possibly be at risk for chronic kidney…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Treg-Rich Organized Lymphoid Structures (TOLS) in Spontaneously Accepted Mouse Kidney Allografts.
C. Yang,¹ E. Farkash,² D. Ndishabandi,¹ R. White,¹ B. Jiang,¹ I. Aljabban,¹ P. Russell,¹ J. Madsen,¹ R. Colvin,¹ A. Alessandrini.¹
¹Center for Transplantation Sciences, Dept. of Surgery, Dept. of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI.
Background: In many MHC mismatched strain combinations (e.g., DBA/2 to B6) kidney allografts are spontaneously accepted without immunosuppression. This tolerance is regulatory, initially dependent Foxp3+…