2016 American Transplant Congress
Survey Results Show Strong Support for Allowing Patients Undergoing Desensitization to Keep Their Pre-Desensitization CPRA Allocation Priority.
1UNOS, Richmond; 2Emory Univ Hosp, Atlanta; 3Stanford Univ, Palo Alto.
Background: On the waitlist, highly sensitized kidney (KI) candidates who undergo desensitization (DS) lose allocation priority associated with pre-DS CPRA value if some unacceptable antigens…2016 American Transplant Congress
Live Related Kidney Transplant Experience in Abuja, Nigeria – First Eight Cases Ever.
Background;Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for individuals with end stage renal disease (ESRD).Method; This is a retrospective review of eight live related renal…2016 American Transplant Congress
Quality Assessment and Process Improvement of Thymoglobulin Dosing.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Thymoglobulin (Thymo) induction is given to prevent early rejection while initiating maintenance immunosuppression. Modification of dosing is common for multiple reasons. Our center recently underwent…2016 American Transplant Congress
Retroperitoneal versus Intraperitoneal Hand Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: A Case Matched Study.
Abdominal Transplant Unit, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Although hand assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (HALDN) has become a standard of care for living kidney procurement in most centres it is not clear if…2016 American Transplant Congress
Real Time Assessment of Kidney Transplant Indication Biopsies by Microarrays: First Results of the INTERCOMEX Study.
1University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 2ATAGC, Edmonton, Canada.
Oncology uses central molecular tissue assessment (MTA) to guide management but the potential of this approach in transplantation is not known. We undertook a prospective…2016 American Transplant Congress
Risk Prediction of End-Stage Renal Disease in Living Kidney Donors.
Recent studies have shown inreased risk of end stage renal disease (ESRD) in living kidney donors compared to healthy nondonors. Donors must understand the risk…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Prevailing Preference for Left Nephrectomy in Living Donor Transplantation Does Not Adversely Affect Long Term Donor Outcome.
Background: There is a world-wide prevailing clinical bias for removing the left kidney for living donor renal transplant. Both the retrieval and implantation of the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Negative Impact of Anticardiolipid Antibodies on 1-Year Renal Allograft Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate: A Cohort Study.
In kidney transplant recipients, antiphospholipid positive tests without antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) were described up to 38% of patients and seem to be associated with thrombotic…2016 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Dynamics of a Suddenly Plateauing Kidney Waiting List.
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
Background: The number of candidates on the kidney (KI) wait list (WL) abruptly flattened around the time the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) was implemented…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Safety and Efficacy of Suspended Gasless Laparoscopy Living-Donor Nephrectomy in Renal Transplantation.
Organ Transplantation Center, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.
BACKGROUNDS: To develop a minimally invasive surgery for the kidney transplant donor and get the no CO2 pressure condition harvested kidney, we have developed suspended…
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