Articles tagged "Outcome"

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…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Death and Loss to Follow-up in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients Transferred to Adult Care: Who is at Risk?
J. P. Stevens¹, S. Gillespie¹, M. Katz¹, L. Hall², V. Kolachala¹, R. Ford³, N. A. Gupta¹
¹Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ²Transplant Services, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, ³Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: With improvements in surgical technique and immunosuppressive regimens, many pediatric liver transplant recipients are surviving to adulthood. Successful transition to an adult provider is…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Older Recipients Receiving Kidneys from Donors with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
S. Nair, K. Reddy, L. Kodali, P. Budhiraja, J. Ninan, C. Jadlowiec, A. Mathur, J. Harbell, H. Khamash, M. Smith, R. Heilman
Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Older patients are perceived to tolerate delayed graft function (DGF) poorly and there is a reluctance to transplant a kidney from an AKI donor…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Frailty Component Trajectories Among Kidney Transplant Recipients
N. Chu, X. Chen, D. Segev, M. McAdams-DeMarco
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Frailty is associated with decreased access to kidney transplantation (KT) and poor post-KT outcomes. Little is known about how an acute stressor, like KT,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Characterization of Chronic Renal Allograft Dysfunction at Single Cell Resolution
C. Kuscu¹, C. Kuscu², A. Shetty³, M. Talwar⁴, J. Eason², D. G. Maluf⁵, V. Mas⁶
¹Surgery, James D Eason Transplant Institute, UTHSC, Memphis, TN, ²Surgery, James D Eason Transplant Institute, Memphis, TN, ³Institute for Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Nephrology, James D Eason Transplant Institute, Memphis, TN, ⁵Surgery, Program in Transplantation - University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Surgery, Division of Surgical Science - University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Chronic allograft dysfunction (CAD) is one of the major complications after kidney transplantation. Hereby, we aim to assess the molecular and cellular mechanism of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Renal Outcomes in Lung Transplant Recipients- A Single-Center Five-Year Experience
M. Doraiswamy, E. Obole, P. Singh, T. Pesavento
Comprehensive Transplant Center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: The increased longevity in Lung transplant (LTx) has led to an upsurge in chronic medical comorbidities, including Acute kidney injury (AKI), Chronic kidney disease…
2021 American Transplant Congress
TPIAT Outcomes in Diabetic and Non-diabetic Patients
M. A. Kanak, J. B. Spriggs, P. Coughenour, J. Kalivarathan, P. Saravanan, M. Levy
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Total pancreatectomy with islet auto-transplant (TPIAT) has become a mainstay treatment for patients who suffer from refractory chronic pancreatitis. It has consistently been shown…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Intensive Blood Pressure Control Preserves Kidney Allograft Function
K. A. Agarwal¹, U. K. Agarwal², G. S. Silva³, K. J. Pollick³, M. Pavlakis¹
¹Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Biostatistics consultant, Boston, MA, ³Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) are at higher risk of major adverse cardiovascular events compared to the general population, with HTN being a crucial risk…