Articles tagged "Outcome"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Elevated Initial Donor Creatinine on Outcomes After Transplanting Kidney from Deceased Donor with Severe AKI
L. Kodali, K. Reddy, P. Budhiraja, S. Nair, G. Mour, J. Huskey, C. Jadloweic, H. Khamash, H. Chakkera, R. Heilman
Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Several studies have shown good outcomes with transplanting kidneys from deceased donors with AKI; however, the impact of having elevated initial donor creatinine has…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Utilization During the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
M. MacConmara, A. Shubin, D. Wojciechowski, L. de Gregorio, J. Shah, P. Vagefi, C. S. Hwang
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Transplantation, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people in the United States were urged to stay at home. Kidney transplantation continued during this…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Food Insecurity and Impact on Transplant Outcomes in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Moin, P. Verghese, R. Engen, D. Matossian
Pediatric Nephrology, Lurie Children's Hospital, chicago, IL
*Purpose: Food insecurity (FI), defined as inconsistent access to food or worry over shortage of food that prevents an active and healthy life, has not…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Outcomes of Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Biliary Atresia Patients with and without Kasai Portoenterostomy
T. Kanmaz¹, O. Andacoglu¹, Y. Yankol², C. Karatas¹, N. Mecit¹, K. Acarli³, M. Kalayoglu¹
¹Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, ²University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ³Memorial Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
*Purpose: We evaluated 10 year outcomes and the potential predictors of outcomes after living donor liver transplant (LT) for biliary atresia (BA) patients with and…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Induction in Pancreas Transplantation: T-Cell Depletion vs. Il-2 Receptor Blockade
F. Aziz, S. Parajuli, D. Kaufman, J. Odorico, D. Mandelbrot
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: There are limited data comparing outcomes with different induction agents in pancreas transplantation. In this study, we compare T-cell depletion to IL-2 receptor (IL2R)…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of 4-weeks of Supervised Exercise on Frailty and Lower Extremity (LE) Function in Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
E. Lorenz, L. Hickson, R. Weatherly, K. Thompson, M. Hogan, C. Kennedy
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Although frailty is a modifiable risk factor for morbidity and mortality among kidney transplant (KT) candidates, the optimal duration of effective prehabilitation interventions is…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid-19 in Solid Organ Transplantation (SOT): Results of the National Covid Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
G. Agarwal¹, A. Vinson², R. Dai³, E. French⁴, S. Lee⁵, A. Olex⁴, A. Anzalone⁶, V. Madhira⁷, R. B. Mannon⁸
¹Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Medicine/Nephrology, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS, Canada, ³Biostatistics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research, VIrginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, ⁵Medicine/Infectious Disease, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ⁶Neurology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁷Palia Software, Not sure, OR, ⁸Medicine/Nephrology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
*Purpose: SARS-CoV-2 infection has resulted in significant mortality in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients based on reports from single centers or voluntary registries. The N3C…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Response to a Pandemic: The Fall and Rise of Kidney Transplantation in the US
S. Bisen¹, B. Boyarsky¹, W. Werbel¹, J. Snyder², J. Garonzik-Wang¹, D. Segev¹, A. Massie¹
¹JHU, Baltimore, MD, ²SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: During the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in March-April 2020, waitlist registrations and living/deceased donor kidney transplants (LDKT/DDKT) dropped substantially. A second wave…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Centre Variation in Emergency Hospital Readmissions Following Renal Transplantation in England
J. Peracha¹, D. Pitcher¹, R. Steenkamp¹, J. Medcalf², G. Lipkin³, D. Nitsch⁴, W. McKane⁵
¹UK Renal Registry, Bristol, United Kingdom, ²John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, ³University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁴London School of Hygiene and Trpoical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Sheffield Kidney Institute, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Emergency hospital readmissions (EHR) following surgery are associated with significant patient distress, morbidity and costs to healthcare providers. In this study we aim to…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Recipient and Kidney Allograft Outcomes from Hypertensive Live-Donor in the United States
S. Riad¹, S. Jackson², D. Vock³, A. Matas⁴
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Complex Care Analytics, M-Health Fairview, Minneapolis, MN, ³School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Controlled hypertension in select prospective kidney donors is no longer an exclusion criterion for donation. We examined the association between pre-donation hypertension (HTN) and…