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Articles tagged "Obesity"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Elevated BMI on Allograft Outcomes: A Competing Risks Regression Analysis

    A. Naik, A. Sakhuja, M. Samaniego, P. Shrivastava, D. Cibrik.

    Section of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

    INTRODUCTION: Extremes of BMI has been associated with an increased risk of death censored allograft failure. Traditionally the KM product limit estimate has been used…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Obesity Impact on Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation Outcomes

    T. Alhamad,1 A. Malone,1 H. Chakkera.2

    1Transplantation Nephrology, Renal Division, Washington University, St Louis; 2Renal Division, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ.

    Background: Donor obesity has been reported as a risk factor for early pancreas allograft failure. The relationship between donor obesity and long-term pancreas allograft survival…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Combined Robotic Kidney Transplantation and Sleeve Gastrectomy in Obese Recipients: Initial Results from Prospective Randomized Study

    I. Tzvetanov, G. D'Amico, G. Georgiev, H. Jeon, R. Garcia-Roca, E. Benedetti, J. Oberholzer.

    Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.

    IntroductionIn many transplant centers, patients with a BMI above 40 kg/m2 are either completely excluded or required to lose weight before being considered for kidney…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Excessive Weight Gain After Pancreas Transplant: Transitioning from Type 1 to Type 2 Diabetes?

    A. Islam,1 A. Lawless,1 L. Teeter,3 E. Graviss,3 D. Victor,4 A. Sadhu,4 S. Patel,6 A. Gaber,1 R. Knight.1

    1Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 2Department of Pathology & Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 3Department of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 4Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX.

    AIM:Excessive weight gain (EWG) after pancreas transplantation may increase the risk of post-transplant diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome. This study aimed to define the incidence,…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Patients With Severe and Morbid Obesity Benefit from Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant

    A. Nishio Lucar,1 J. Ma,2 G. Vranic,1 D. Keith.1

    1Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; 2Biostatistics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

    More than one in three Americans are obese yet obesity is considered a relative and sometimes absolute contraindication to kidney transplant. Previous studies suggest that…
  • 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…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Risk of ESRD Attributable to Live Kidney Donation in Various Subgroups of Donors

    A. Muzaale, A. Massie, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

    Risk of ESRD attributable to live donation in male, older, obese, related donors, and donors with high predonation eGFR remains uncharacterized.Methods: Various subgroups of individuals…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Activated Protein C Treatment Protects Steatotic and Non-Steatotic Livers Under Ischemia–Reperfusion Injury in Different Manner

    A. Matsuda, N. Kuriyama, H. Kato, Y. Azumi, M. Kishiwada, S. Mizuno, M. Usui, S. Isaji.

    Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan.

    Activated protein C (APC) is known to have the cytoprotective effect on liver ischemia–reperfusion injury (IRI) in rat models. However, it is unclear that whether…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Bariatric Surgery Prolongs Allograft Survival by Promoting Th2 Conditions

    M. Quante, A. ElKhal, H. Rodriguez, R. Abdi, F. Krenzien, H. Uehara, S. Tullius.

    Division of Transplant Surgery and Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

    Background: Obesity is linked to chronic low-grade inflammation. We hypothesized that I) obesity will accelerate allograft rejection linked to pro-inflammatory immune responses and that II)…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Body Mass Index (BMI) Mismatch in Deceased Kidney Donation Is an Independent Risk Factor for Graft Failure

    O. Staeck,1 D. Khadzhynov,1 M. Mahn,2 K. Budde,1 F. Fuller,2 F. Halleck.1

    1Nephrology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany; 2Urology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

    IntroductionThe influence of this BMI-mismatch in deceased kidney donors and their recipients on graft survival is so far not well characterized.MethodsRetrospective long-term observational study of…
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