Articles tagged "Kidney"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Gender Differences in Longitudinal eGFR of Living Kidney Donors in a Health Information Exchange.
M. Henderson,¹ T. McFarlane,¹ A. Massie,² D. Segev,² B. Dixon.^1,3
¹Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ³Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN.
Background: The trajectory of post-donation eGFR in living donors is poorly described. Our objective was to explore the association between baseline donor characteristics and post-donation…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Utility of a Scoring Tool for Living Kidney Donor Volunteers.
S. Lien,¹ L. Willey,² A. Lecuyer-Koich,² M. Voges,² T. Dunn.²
¹Marian University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; ²Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
A comprehensive yet efficient evaluation of living kidney donor volunteers (LKDV) is key to a successful transplant program. Donor selection is complex and must balance…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Ex-Vivo Normothermic Perfusion (EVNP) Attenuation of Kidney Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury (IRI): A Proposed Mechanism.
I. Palma,¹ S. Kabagambe,¹ Y. Smolin,¹ T. Boyer,¹ I. Palma,¹ O. Fiehn,² Y.-J. Chen,¹ J. Sageshima,¹ C. Santhanakrishnan,¹ C. Troppmann,¹ R. Perez.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA; ²Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Genome Center, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA.
Introduction: EVNP has the potential to repair deceased donor renal IRI. We hypothesize that EVNP may attenuate renal IRI via alteration of lipid metabolism.Methods: Eight…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Single Center Study of the Implementation Costs of the New Kidney Allocation System
C. Bostic, T. Stern, S. Niederhaus, J. Bromberg, D. Leeser.
Transplantation, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.
Background: Changes to the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) required transplant programs to utilize resources to prepare for its implementation. A complex strategy was developed which…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Financial Burden of Laparoscopic Living Kidney Donation
J. Wiseman, D. Larson, D. Berglund, C. Jacobs, C. Garvey, H. Ibrahim, A. Matas.
U of MN, Mpls.
Living kidney donation rates are declining; one cause may be the extent of the unreimbursed expenses associated with donation. We studied financial burden in a…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Non-Inferiority of Graft Survival of Living Unrelated Kidney Transplant compared to Living Related Kidney Transplant as Analyzed by First Degree Relative
A. Patel, M. Goggins, D. Kim, P. Rohini, L. Malinzak.
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI.
The perceived advantage of donating a kidney directly to a family member is difficult to uncouple in the setting of voluntary exchange or other kidney…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Mental Health After Living Kidney Donation: The Importance of Donors' and Recipients' Medical Process
L. Timmerman,¹ M. Laging,¹ R. Timman,² W. Zuidema,¹ D. Beck,¹ J. IJzermans,³ M. Betjes,¹ J. Busschbach,² W. Weimar,¹ E. Massey.¹
¹Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ³General Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
A minority of living kidney donors have poor psychological outcomes after donation. There is mixed evidence as to the influence of the medical process on…
2015 American Transplant Congress
DSA MFI Does Not Predict Late Antibody-Mediated Rejection Lesions Or Gene Expression Changes in Kidney Transplants
L. Hidalgo,¹ J. Venner,² P. Halloran.²
¹Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; ²Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether donor-specific HLA antibody (DSA) levels at the time of a clinically-indicated biopsy can be predictive of the degree of antibody-mediated…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Lack of Utilization of Pre-Emptive Transplantation in Those With Living Donor Kidney Transplants
A. Sakhuja,¹ A. Naik,¹ R. Eikstadt,² P. Shrivastava,¹ D. Cibrik,¹ M. Samaniego.¹
¹Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²KECC, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Introduction: Time spent on dialysis before kidney transplantation (KTx) has been associated with worse outcomes. Pre-emptive transplants are not always possible due shortage of deceased…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of Urinary Albumin Excretion in a Large Cohort of Kidney Donors: No Evidence of Progression
H. Ibrahim, D. Berglund, A. Matas.
U of MN, Mpls.
We have previously shown that the prevalence of albuminuria in donors is similar to age, gender and ethnicity matched NHANES controls. This cohort of 259…