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  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Ex-Vivo Normothermic Perfusion for Assessment of High Risk Deceased Donor Kidneys for Transplantation.

    S. Kabagambe, I. Palma, Y. Smolin, T. Boyer, I. Palma, J. Sageshima, C. Santhanakrishnan, C. Troppmann, J. McVicar, R. Perez.

    Surgery, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA.

    Despite the organ shortage, many procured deceased donor kidneys are deemed too high risk for failure and discarded. Ex-vivo normothermic perfusion (EVNP) may be useful…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    A Risk Quantification Score for Heart Transplants: A Heart Donor Risk Index.

    A. Israni,1,2 D. Zaun,1 J. Snyder,1 N. Salkowski,1 H. Xiong,1 B. Kasiske,1,2 M. Colvin,1,3 M. Colvin.1,3

    1Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; 2Hennepin County Medical Center, Univ of MN, Minneapolis; 3Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

    Background: To better risk stratify heart transplants, we developed a continuous heart donor risk index (HDRI) based on heart donors to quantify heart allograft failure.Methods:…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Factors Associated with Acute Rejections in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Time for HLA-DR Matching in Elderly Recipients?

    D. Khadzhynov, F. Halleck, L. Lehner, M. Duerrr, A. Kleinsteuber, D. Schmidt, K. Budde, O. Staeck.

    Nephrology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

    Background. Within the Eurotransplant Senior Allocation Program (ESP) HLA-matching is neglected,potentially causing inferior outcomes. There is a lack of data analysing the long-term immunologic outcomes…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Inferior Outcomes in Hepatitis C Virus Positive Donors to Hepatitis C Virus Negative Kidney Recipients: Analysis of National Data.

    H. Fattah, L. Kang, H. Dave, D. Kumar, A. King, C. Bhati, A. Sharma, G. Gupta.

    Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

    Background: Kidney transplantation (KTxp)with HCV kidneys (HCV D+)may represent a safe resource to expand the donor pool, and to reduce waiting time in patients with…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Influence of Cold Ischemia Time in Kidney Transplants from Small Pediatric Donors.

    L. Kayler,1 M. Lubetzky,2 P. Friedman.3

    1Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo; 2Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx; 3Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx.

    Clinicians may be reluctant to transplant small pediatric kidneys that also have prolonged cold ischemia time (CIT) for fear of an additional deleterious effect since…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    SLPI in the Perfusion Liquid: A Predictor Marker of Short and Long Term Clinical Outcomes.

    A. Dotta,1 F. Caro,2 K. Peña Ponce,1 N. Ambrosi,2 J. Salaberry,2 X. García,1 E. Minué,1 L. León,1 F. Sánchez,2 F. Togniolo,1 C. Incardona,3 E. Chuluyan,2 D. Casadei.1

    1Instituto de Nefrología, Caba, Argentina; 2CEFYBO-UBA, Caba, Argentina; 3Fundación GADOR, Caba, Argentina.

    A lot of efforts have been done to identify the risk factors that tend to diminish the incidence of delayed graft function (DGF). Recently, the…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Relationship Between Kidney Donor Profile Index and Six Month eGFR in Deceased Donor Recipients.

    D. Keith, A. Nishio Lucar, G. Vranic.

    Division of Nephrology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

    Kidney function, as measured by GFR, at 6 months post-kidney transplant is a powerful predictor of long-term post-transplant outcomes. This study sought to understand the…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Simultaneous En-Bloc Dual Transplantation: A New Approach.

    D. Nghiem.

    Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Purpose: Most techniques of Dual Transplantation are based on the sequential placement of each kidney. This requires more dissection, anesthesia time, and exposes the recipient…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Total Ischaemic Time, Donor Age and the Pathway of Donor Death on Graft Outcomes After Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation.

    G. Wong,1 A. Teixeira-Pinto,1 C. Jeremy,1 C. Jonathan,1 M. Stephen,2 L. Wai.3

    1University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; 2University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; 3University of Western Sydney, Perth, Australia.

    Prolonged ischaemia is a known risk factor for delayed graft function and its interaction with donor characteristics, the pathways of donor death and graft outcomes…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Everolimus (EVR) versus Mycophenolate Sodium (MPS) for Recipients of Kidney Transplants from Expanded Criteria Donors (ECD) Receiving Anti-Thymocyte Globulin (r-ATG) and Tacrolimus (TAC).

    H. Tedesco-Silva,1 C. Felipe,1 A. Brigido,1 A. Bessa,1 M. Paula,1 P. Ruppel,1 M. Cristelli,1 L. Viana,1 G. Basso,1 M. Franco,2 W. Aguiar,1 J. Medina-Pestana.1

    1Nephrology Division, Hospital do Rim - UNIFESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2Pathology Division, UNIFESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    Introduction: There is no standard of care immunosuppressive regimen for recipients of kidneys recovered from expanded criteria donors. Several centers use r-ATG induction due to…
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