2015 American Transplant Congress
APOL1 Risk Alleles in Live and Deceased Kidney Donors Are Associated With Shorter Renal Allograft Survival
Kidneys from African American (AA) donors with two Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) risk alleles may be at higher risk of allograft loss after transplant. We sought…2015 American Transplant Congress
Down-Regulation of Autophagy Correlates With Increased Apoptosis in the Kidney, But Not in the Liver, of Brain Dead Rats
Organs from brain dead donors have inferior quality and show higher rejection rates after transplantation compared to living donors. Brain death (BD) in the donor…2015 American Transplant Congress
Infectious Complications With Plasmapheresis in Combination With Antithymocyte Globulin Compared to Antithymocyte Globulin Alone in the Treatment of Acute Rejection
The Comprehensive Transplant Center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
Background: Due to the complex nature of acute rejection (AR), multiple therapeutic modalities are necessary to prevent graft loss. The combination of prolonged cell depletion…2015 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics and Outcomes of Kidneys Procured from Donors With KDPI > 80%
TRIBE Consortium, New Haven, CT.
Kidneys procured from donors with KDPI>80% are often biopsied and pumped, yet frequently discarded. The accuracy of these quality assessment tools remain controversial but contribute…2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation of ABO- and Crossmatch-Incompatible Recipient-Donor Pairs Entered in Kidney Paired Donation Program
Transplantation Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY.
Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) enables ABO-incompatible (ABOI) and crossmatch-incompatible (XMI) patients to undergo transplantation using a 'more compatible' donor. Identification of factors that predict early…2015 American Transplant Congress
Native Kidney Biopsy Does Not Predict Post Liver Transplant Renal Outcomes
Liver transplant (LT) recipients are at high risk of posttransplant renal disease but the extent of renal disease is often unrecognized in the pretransplant setting.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Renal Retransplantation in Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant Recipients
National Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation Unit, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Introduction:Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplantation(SPK) is standard of care in selected patients with end stage renal failure secondary to diabetes mellitus. There is little literature examining…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Single Center Study of the Implementation Costs of the New Kidney Allocation System
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
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
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…
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