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Articles tagged "Renal dysfunction"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Tuberculosis among Kidney Transplant Patients Compared to Dialysis and Non-Dialysis CKD Patients over a Decade Period

    A. Metry, I. Al Salmi, F. Al Ismaili, A. Hola, F. Shaheen, I. Al Salmi.

    The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman; SCOT, SCOT, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; The Renal Medicine, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman.

    USRDS showed that 1.2% & 1.6% incidences of tuberculosis-TB in patients on peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis-HD, respectively. Kidney transplant-KTX patients have higher rates.We studied the…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Pediatric Kidney Allograft Outcomes Following Identification of Transplant Glomerulopathy by Electron Microscopy

    J. Grodsky, R. Craver, I. Ashoor.

    LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA.

    We have previously shown that electron microscopy (EM) can facilitate early diagnosis of transplant glomerulopathy (TG) in pediatric kidney transplant biopsies (Bx) with normal light…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Role of Calcium/Calmodulin Kinase IV on Podocyte Function in Transplant Glomerulopathy

    R. Bhargava, K. Maeda, A. Ferreti, M. Pavlakis, G. Tsokos.

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston.

    Background : Transplant glomerulopathy(TG) a histological manifestation of chronic antibody mediated rejection and a major cause of late allograft loss. It is well accepted that…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Plasma Mitochondrial DNA Predicts Post-Transplant Renal Allograft Outcomes

    F. Han,1 S. Wan,2 N. Chen,2 L. Zheng,3 N. Zhang,4 Q. Sun,1 H. Li,1 Z. Huang,1 L. Hong,1 Q. Sun.1

    1Kidney Transplantation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; 2Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers and Liquid Biopsy, Henan University, Henan, China; 3Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; 4Department of Pathology, Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen, China.

    The lack of an accurate biomarker makes it difficult to determine whether an organ is acceptable for transplantation. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) correlates with tissue damage…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Late Conversion from Calcineurin Inhibitors to Belatacept is Associated with a Sustained Improvement in Kidney Allograft Function

    S. Sethi, J. Choi, A. Vo, R. Najjar, A. Peng, S. Jordan, E. Huang.

    Medicine/Nephrology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

    Introduction: Belatacept was shown to have longer kidney graft survival and higher eGFR at 7 years than a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-based regimen in the BENEFIT…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Effects of the Addition of Mycophenolate Mofetil on Renal Outcomes in Liver Transplant Recipients: A Single Center Review

    M. Henry, M. Vacha.

    Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE.

    Purpose: To evaluate the use of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and its effects on renal outcomes in liver transplant recipientsMethods: Adult liver transplant recipients from September…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Donation After Brain Death Followed by Circulatory Death Confers Comparable Outcomes with Kidney Donation After Brain Death.

    Q. Sun,1 Q. Sun,1 H. Zhou,2 R. Cao,3 M. Lin,4 X. Hua,1 L. Hong,1 Z. Huang,1 N. Na,1 R. Cai,4 G. Wang,2 F. Meng.3

    1Renal Transplantation, Lingnan Hospital, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; 2Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China; 3Renal Transplantation, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine University, Guangzhou, China; 4Renal Transplantation, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

    The shortage of donor organs is an obstacle to meet the growing need of grafts. Although using DBD donors is the best available strategy, brain…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Technical Characteristics, Optimization and Outcomes of Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy Performed on Kidney Transplant Patients.

    J. Juega, M. Perez, L. Cañas, M. Troya, I. Bancu, J. Bonet, R. Lauzurica.

    Nephrology Service, Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital, Badalona, Spain

    MATERIAL AND METHODS:From Januray 2014 to August 2016, 183 US-guided renal graft biopsies were performed in our institution.We decided to optimize our biopsy protocol, from…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Urine Biomarkers (UBio) Correlate Poorly with Pre-Liver Transplant (LT) Kidney Biopsy Findings and Post-LT Kidney Function.

    H. Wadei,1 J. Belcher,2 C. Parikh,2 T. Gonwa,1 M. Mai,1 J. Lieske.3

    1Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; 2Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Yale University, New Haven, CT; 3Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    UBio might be valuable in determining the etiology of renal dysfunction in LT candidates.Aim: Correlate UBio with pre-LT kidney biopsy and post-LT kidney function.Methods:78 LT…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Pre-OLT CKD-3 Increases Post-OLT ESRD and AKI Impacts Early Post-OLT Survival.

    G. Faddoul, L. Liriano-Ward, P. Chang, Y. Azzi, K. Chauhan, G. Nadkarni, V. Nair, R. Kent, S. Lerner, S. Coca, P. Heeger, S. Florman, S. Thomas, M. Menon.

    Recanati Miller Transplant Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Irvington, NY

    Current combined Liver-kidney allocation protocols allocate dual organs based on sustained glomerular filtration rates (eGFR) of 30ml/min or less. It is unclear whether milder renal…
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