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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Mental Health After Living Kidney Donation: The Importance of Donors' and Recipients' Medical Process
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
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
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
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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Combination of Clinical and Genetic Factors for Delayed Kidney Graft Function Prediction
In this study we sought to determine the risk for delayed graft function (DGF) in kidney transplants (Tx) with deceased donors (DD) through the analysis…2015 American Transplant Congress
Trajectory of Measured GFR Decades After Kidney Donation: Hyperfiltration Never Seems to End!
While the effect of uninephrectomy on loss of GFR is a cardinal issue for potential kidney donors, current information relies on surrogates of unknown validity,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Quality of Life, Financial, and Mental Health Outcomes for Individuals Turned Down for Live Kidney Donation
1UPenn, Philadelphia, PA; 2Harvard, Cambridge, MA.
Introduction: Individuals considering live kidney donation should have a thorough understanding of the risks and benefits. Regulations focus exclusively on donation risks. However, no data…
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