Articles tagged "Outcome"

2016 American Transplant Congress
C1q Donor Specific Antibody Associates with Post Transplant Biopsy Findings in Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Recipients.
S. Kuppachi,¹ D. Holanda,² S. Gallegos,³ E. Field.^3,4
¹Nephrology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; ²Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; ³Iowa Regional Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, IA; ⁴Immunology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA.
We performed monitoring of conventional donor specific antibodies (DSA) and C1q binding DSA (C1q DSA) to correlate levels with pathology findings in protocol kidney biopsies…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Prostate Cancer Characteristics and Outcome in Renal Transplant Recipients: Results from a Contemporary Monocentric Study.
C. Pettenati,¹ A.-S. Jannot,² V. Verkarre,³ S. Hurel,¹ H. Kreis,⁴ M. Housset,⁵ C. Legendre,⁴ A. Méjean,¹ M.-O. Timsit.¹
¹Department of Urology and Transplant surgery, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France; ²Department of Statistics, Computing and Public Health, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France; ³Department of Pathology, Hôpital Necker, AP-HP, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France; ⁴Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Hôpital Necker, AP-HP, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France; ⁵Department of Onco-Radiotherapy, Hôpital Necker, AP-HP, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
Objective To analyze prostate cancer characteristics in a contemporary monocentric renal transplant recipients (RTR) population and to compare oncological outcome after radical prostatectomy (RP) with…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Non-adherence is associated with increased risk of rejection and graft loss.
R. Pullalarevu,¹ D. Taber,² A. Chokkalingam,² R. Browning,¹ M. Kamel,¹ M. Salazar,¹ T. Srinivas,¹ M. Posadas Salas.¹
¹Medicine, MUSC, Charleston, SC; ²Surgery, MUSC, Charleston, SC.
Non-adherence is common among kidney transplant recipients. However, data on the impact of appointment and medication non-adherence on kidney transplant outcomes are scarce. This study…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics and Outcomes of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus Bacteremia After Liver Transplant.
R. Odrobina,¹ C. Kovacs,¹ R. Butler,² C. Koval.¹
¹Department of Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infection is reported in 5-20% of liver transplant (LT) recipients and is associated with decreased survival. Published data includes infections of…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Three-Year Graft Loss Risk in Kidney Transplants: Dynamic Patient Level Data Improve Predictive Efficacy.
T. Srinivas, J. Zhang, Z. Su, D. Taber, J. Marsden, K. Reilly, D. Northrup, J. Long, L. Lenert, W. Moran, P. Mauldin.
MUSC, Charleston, SC.
Background: Predictive models in kidney transplantation using national data (UNOS, SRTR) lack longitudinal patient level data, limiting accuracy. Adding patient level data capturing dynamic clinical…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Local versus Imported Expanded Criteria Donor (ECD) Kidneys: A Single Center Experience with 497 ECD Kidney Transplants.
M. Khan,¹ H. El-Hennawy,¹ A. Farney,¹ J. Rogers,¹ G. Orlando,¹ A. Reeves-Daniel,² A. Palanisamy,² M. Gautreaux,³ S. Iskandar,³ W. Doares,⁴ S. Kaczmorski,⁴ R. Stratta.¹
¹Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ²Internal Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ³Pathology, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ⁴Pharmacy, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
With the new Kidney Allocation System, broader sharing of expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys may occur, which may influence discard rates and survival outcomes. To…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Early Hospital Readmission Among Immunologically Vulnerable Kidney Transplantation Recipients.
E. King, B. Orandi, S. Bae, X. Luo, D. Segev.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
BACKGROUND: We previously established that 31% of all kidney transplant (KT) recipients experience early hospital readmission (EHR), or readmission within 30 days of discharge following…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Super Obese Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplantation: A Propensity Match Analysis from the UNOS Dataset.
R. Gedaly, P. Kanthawar, X. Mei, M. Daily, M. Shah, J. Berger, A. Castellanos, F. Marti.
Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Background: We evaluate outcomes of super obese patients (BMI>50) undergoing kidney transplantation in the US. Method: We performed a review of 190 super obese patients…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Does Social Support Predict Clinical Outcomes Post-Transplantation? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
K. Ladin,¹ A. Daniels,¹ M. Osani,² R. Bannuru.²
¹Occupational Therapy, Tufts University, Medford, MA; ²Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Background: Although social support is used to determine eligibility, the relationship between social support and medication nonadherence remains unclear. We examined the predictive value of…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Eversion Endarterectomy of the Deceased Donor Renal Artery to Prevent Kidney Discard.
M. Khan, K. Jones, H. El-Hennawy, A. Farney, J. Rogers, G. Orlando, R. Stratta.
Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
Deceased donor (DD) kidneys exhibiting severe atherosclerosis with hard ulcerative occlusive plaque extending into the renal artery (RA) may represent a contraindication to utilization. Limited…