Articles tagged "Kidney"

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…
2015 American Transplant Congress
APOL1 Risk Alleles in Live and Deceased Kidney Donors Are Associated With Shorter Renal Allograft Survival
M. Doshi,¹ M. Goggins,² S. Norman,³ S. Ho,⁴ C. Winkler,⁵ J. Kopp.⁶
¹Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; ²Medicine, Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI; ³Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ⁴Gift of Life, Ann Arbor, MI; ⁵NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD; ⁶NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
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
A. van Erp,¹ R. Rebolledo,³ P. Ottens,¹ J. Pirenne,² H. Leuvenink,¹ J.-P. Decuypere.²
¹Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ³Department of Surgery, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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
A. Leino, A. Hulbert, A. Delahunty, A. Rajab, J. Von Visger, H. Winters.
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%
M. Doshi, I. Hall, F. Weng, B. Schroppel, J. Ficek, R. Hasz, H. Thiessen-Philbrook, R. Formica, P. Reese, C. Parikh.
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
D. Dadhania, M. Charlton, M. Aull, R. Friedlander, T. Muthukumar, J. Lee, M. Goris, D. Serur, S. Kapur, V. Sharma.
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
D. Sawinski,¹ A. Ganguli,¹ M. Palmer, R. Bloom,¹ P. Abt.
¹Renal Division, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA; ²Dept of Pathology, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA; ³Dept of Surgery, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA.
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
W. Shields, J. Zimmerman, P. Mohan, F. Nooh, D. Hickey.
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…