2018 American Transplant Congress
Can Immunosuppression Maintenance after Renal Allograft Failure Prevent Further Sensitization?
University of Florida, Gainesville.
After renal graft failure, retransplantation(ReTx) becomes more difficult due to sensitization to alloantigens. In 2013, our center opened a specialty clinic to maintain immunosuppression(IS) after…2018 American Transplant Congress
Parsing the 100% CPRA Kidney Transplant Candidates, Who Gets Transplanted?
Medicine, Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL.
Currently the United States kidney allocation system gives priority to candidates with a CPRA of 100% by giving them additional allocation points and providing national…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of KDPI and CPRA on Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Introduction: The new KAS has led to a marked increase in kidney transplants among highly sensitized recipients, mostly attributable to higher allocation of low KDPI…2018 American Transplant Congress
400 Kidney Paired Donor Transplants at a Single Center; The Methodist San Antonio Experience
Background: Kidney paired donation (KPD) has become the standard of care for incompatible living donor pairs. Several mature national KPD programs exist yet KPD transplants…2018 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Bortezomib in Addition to Rituximab Based Treatment of Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation
Purpose:The optimal treatment strategy of acute antibody mediated rejection (AMR) in renal allograft recipients remains undefined. The aim of our study was to compare the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Many Highly Sensitized Candidates Still Waiting for Transplant Despite the Kidney Allocation System Change: Making the Case for Incompatible Transplantation
Introduction: The rate of kidney transplantation in highly sensitized individuals has increased since the kidney allocation system (KAS) change, but it remains unclear who has…2018 American Transplant Congress
Generation of Calculated Panel-Reactive Antibody Values Using a Reference Panel of Bone Marrow Donors
Introduction: Calculated panel-reactive antibody (CPRA) is the official metric of sensitization used by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) for kidney allocation. The reference…2017 American Transplant Congress
Timing of HLA Testing as a Means of Reducing Cost and Increasing Efficiency of Living Kidney Donation.
Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Purpose: Creating an effective living kidney donor process can be a challenge for transplant centers. There needs to be a balance between efficiency, resources, patient…2017 American Transplant Congress
Unintended Consequence of the New Kidney Allocation System – Disproportionate Allocation of High Quality Kidneys to Highly Sensitized Recipients.
Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Purpose: We hypothesize that improving access to highly sensitized candidates in new KAS would compromise the prime objective of matching the best kidney allografts and…2017 American Transplant Congress
C3d-Binding Anti-DQ DSA Is Associated with a High Risk for Late ABMR and Graft Failure in Stable Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Introduction:Donor specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) are a major cause of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) and poor graft outcome in kidney transplant recipients (KTR). Critical issue is…
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