Articles tagged "Metabolic disease"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Diabetes Mellitus and Prediabetes On Kidney Transplant Waiting List – Prevalence, Metabolic Phenotyping and Risk Stratification Approach
M. Guthoff,¹ D. Vosseler,¹ J. Langanke,¹ S. Nadalin,² A. Königsrainer,² H.-U. Häring,¹ A. Fritsche,¹ N. Heyne.¹
¹Dept. of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; ²Dept. of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Purpose: Diabetes mellitus (DM), the most common cause of ESRD, limits access to transplantation and impairs patient and allograft outcome. Prediabetes is an independent risk…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Exercise Therapy Improves Body Composition Change After Kidney Transplantation
M. Miura, H. Higashiyama.
Department of Renal Transplantation Surgery, Sapporo Hokuyu Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.
Objectives: Long-term graft and patient survival after kidney transplant is affected by metabolic disorders such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes. The aim of this study…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Correlates and Consequences of Gout Among Living Kidney Donors
N. Lam,¹ A. Garg,¹ D. Segev,² M. Schnitzler,³ H. Xiao,³ D. Axelrod,⁴ J. Tuttle-Newhall,³ D. Brennan,⁵ B. Kasiske,⁶ K. Lentine.³
¹Western Uni., London, Canada; ²John Hopkins Uni., Baltimore; ³Saint Louis Uni., St. Louis; ⁴Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover; ⁵Washington Uni., St. Louis; ⁶Uni. of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Background: Currently, the demographic correlates and consequences of gout in living kidney donors are understudied.Methods: We examined a novel database that linked national U.S. identifiers…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Assessment of Endothelial Function Following Kidney Transplantation
C. Kensinger,¹ G. Chen,² A. Bian,² T. Ikizler,³ K. Birdwell.³
¹Department of General Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; ²Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; ³Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
Purpose:Evaluate the progression of endothelial function as a marker of cardiovascular disease following kidney transplant.Background:Endothelial dysfunction is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in end stage…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Diabetes Mellitus Predicts Outcome in Obesity After Kidney Transplantation
T. Schachtner,^1,2 P. Reinke.^1,2
¹Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charité Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ²Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany.
Obesity has been associated with an increased risk of graft loss and death after kidney transplantation. The role of cellular immunity in obese kidney transplant…