Articles tagged "Kidney"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Dynamics of a Suddenly Plateauing Kidney Waiting List.
A. Wilk, D. Stewart, E. Edwards.
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.
J. Tian.
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…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Conversion from Tacrolimus to Belatacept in Pancreas Transplant Alone Recipients with Chronic Kidney Disease.
A. Sharfuddin, J. Chen, M. Yaqub, T. Taber, J. Powelson, D. Mishler, M. Goble, J. Fridell, O. Adebiyi, M. Mujtaba.
Medicine/Nephrology & Surgery/Transplant, Indiana University, Indianapolis.
Background: CNI toxicity is a well known risk factor for chronic kidney disease and ESRD in organ transplants. We report our experience in converting Pancreas…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Recovery After Living Donor Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
D. Larson, J. Wiseman, D. Berglund, C. Jacobs, C. Garvey, H. Ibrahim, A. Matas.
U of MN, Mpls.
Living donors (LDs) require time away from daily activities and work for the surgery and recovery. In general, LDs are counselled that they should be…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease After Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Overall Incidence and Comparisons to Deceased Donor Recipients
D. Goldberg,¹ R. Ruebner,² P. Abt.³
¹Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; ³Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Introduction: Since initiation of MELD-based allocation for liver transplants, the risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) post-liver transplantation has increased. Recent US data demonstrated comparable,…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Medication Non-Adherence in Those Waiting for a Transplant
M. Wakefield,¹ D. Murillo,² C. Russell,³ C. Ashbaugh,¹ S. Potts,² L. Blakley,² A. Deere.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; ²Transplant Institute, Research Hospital, Kansas City, MO; ³School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO.
Purpose: Though poor medication adherence among adult kidney transplant patients is alarmingly high with distressing consequences, no one has systematically examined medication non-adherence in those…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Concerted T-Cell Activity Against Early and Late BKV-Antigens Is Necessary for Viral Clearance
B. Weist,^1,2 M. Schmueck,² M. Dziubianau,² P. Reinke,^1,2 N. Babel.^1,2
¹Department of Nephrology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany; ²BCRT, Charite Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
Polyomavirus-BK (BKV) associated nephropathy is a known cause of graft failure. No specific therapy is established so far and viral load monitoring accompanied by adjustment…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Liver Transplant Urinary Proteome Analysis Does Not Predict Development of Chronic Kidney Disease After Transplantation
D. Milongo,^1,3 J. Bascands,^2,3,4 L. Esposito,^1,3 L. Lavayssière,^1,3 A. Del Bello,^1,3 L. Rostaing,^1,3,5 J. Schanstra,^2,3,4 N. Kamar.^1,3,5
¹Department of Nephrology and Organ Transplantation, CHU Rangueil, Toulouse, France; ²Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Toulouse, France; ³Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse, France; ⁴Plateau de Protéomique des Liquides Biologiques, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Toulouse, France; ⁵INSERM U1043, IFR–BMT, Toulouse, France.
Background and aims: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common complication after liver transplantation. Kidney biopsies cannot be easily performed before liver transplantation to predict…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Recreational Marijuana Use Is Not Associated With Worse Kidney Allograft Outcomes
G. Greenan, M. Anders, A. Leeser, J. Bromberg, S. Niederhaus.
Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
Background: As marijuana (MJ) legalization is ongoing, kidney transplant programs need to develop listing criteria for MJ users. No data exist on whether recreational MJ…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Is Electron Microscopy Adding a Diagnostic Advantage in the Evaluation of Renal Allograft Biopsies for Antibody Mediated Rejection (AMR)?
J. Papadimitriou, M. Chaudhry, C. Drachenberg, R. Ugarte, D. Klassen, E. Ramos, C. Cangro, B. Thomas, M. Mavanur, A. Haririan.
Pathology and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Some electron microscopy (EM) findings have been consistently associated with antibody mediated microvascular injury; however, no large studies have been performed examining the concrete advantage…