Articles tagged "Kidney"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Acute Kidney Injury in the Early Post Kidney Transplant Period: Frequency, Etiology and Significance
B. Kiberd,¹ S. Cimen,¹ K. Tennankore.²
¹Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; ²Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Acute kidney injury (AKI) post kidney transplant has not been well described using current diagnostic criteria. The frequency and etiology of AKI in the first…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Quantifying Altruism in Kidney Donors: How Good Are the Current Scales?
M. McLaughlin, D. Berglund, A. Matas, H. Ibrahim.
U of MN, Mpls.
The decision to become a living kidney donor is complicated and altruism is certainly what drives the majority of organ donors. Unfortunately, there are no…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Cultural Domains Affecting Organ Donation in Indian Country
T. Bongiovanni,^1,3,4 J. Rawlings,² J. Trompeta,³ M. Nunez-Smith.¹
¹Dept of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco; ²Tribal Council, New Haven, CT; ³Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; ⁴Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven.
Background: The prevalence of end-stage renal disease is 3.5 times greater among the >2.5 million Native Americans or Alaskan Natives (NAs) in the US than…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Characteristics Associated With Changes in Post-Donation GFR
E. Poggio,¹ D. Mandelbrot,⁴ P. Reese,⁵ D. Goldfarb,³ S. Flechner,³ J. Schold.²
¹Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²Qualitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ³Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ⁴Division of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; ⁵Nephrology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Living donor transplantation is the preferred modality for treatment of ESRD because it confers excellent outcomes for recipients and poses reasonable risks to most donors.…
2015 American Transplant Congress
The Outcomes of Second Transplantation in Recurrent IgA Nephropathy
C. Baek,¹ H. Kim,¹ W. Yang,¹ W. Huh,² Y. Kim,³ J. Yang,⁴ D. Han,⁵ S.-K. Park.¹
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Department of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ³Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ⁴Transplantation Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ⁵Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
BackgroundRecurrence of original glomerulonephritis is an important cause of graft loss. In some studies, histologic recurrence of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) occurs in 60% after 1st…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Ten-Year Follow-Up After Live Kidney Donation – A Prospective Cohort Study
S. Janki,¹ K. Klop,¹ I. Dooper,² W. Weimar,³ J. IJzermans,¹ N. Kok.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of HPB and Transplant Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Department of Nephrology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands; ³Department of Nephrology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
BACKGROUNDPreviously reported short-term results after live kidney donation, show no negative consequences for the donor. The occurrence of e.g. cardiovascular diseases takes years to emerge,…
2015 American Transplant Congress
CHBP in Preservation Solution and Autologous Blood Perfusate Ameliorates Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Isolated Porcine Kidneys
C. Yang,¹ S. Hosgood,² H. Carly,² P. Meeta,² Y. Long,³ T. Zhu,¹ M. Nicholson,² B. Yang.²
¹Urology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; ²Transplant Group, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, China; ³Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Background. There is an imperative need to better preserve isolated organs before transplantation. A non-erythropoiesis cyclic helix B peptide (CHBP) derived from erythropoietin was newly…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Association Between Histological Abnormalities in Time-Zero Renal Biopsies and Post-Donation eGFR in Live Donors
L. Fahmy, A. Massie, B. Orandi, S. Bagnasco, J. Alejo, B. Boyarsky, S. Anjum, R. Montgomery, N. Dagher, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Time-zero biopsies (T0-RBx) of live-donor kidneys may reveal histological abnormalities at the time of organ recovery. The association between T0-RBx and subsequent kidney function in…
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Speed of Onset of Donor Brain Death Leads to Differences in Renal Function and Expression of Inflammatory and Oxidative Stress Markers in Rat Kidneys
D. Hoeksma,¹ R. Rebolledo,² M. Hottenrott,³ Y. Bodar,¹ H. Leuvenink.¹
¹Abdominal Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; ³Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
IntroductionDonor brain death (BD) is an independent risk factor for primary and delayed renal graft function. Furthermore, the speed of onset of brain death, traumatic…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of the Clinical Outcome and Surgical Invasiveness for Living Donor Nephrectomy Between Conventional Laparoscopic Surgery and Single-Port Surgery
M. Saito, S. Satoh, R. Yamamoto, H. Tsuruta, S. Akihama, T. Inoue, S. Narita, N. Tsuchiya, T. Habuchi.
Urology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES:Single-port surgery (SPS) for living donor nephrectomy (LDN) is challenging. Whether SPS is less invasive compared to conventional laparoscopic surgery (CLS) using several…