2017 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Donation After Brain Death Followed by Circulatory Death Confers Comparable Outcomes with Kidney Donation After Brain Death.
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.
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.
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.
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…2017 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Calcineurin Inhibitor Introduction and Long Term Renal Outcomes in Liver Transplant Recipients Receiving Basiliximab Induction.
BACKGROUND Basiliximab may be used to delay the initation of calcineurin inhibitors (CNI) in patients with renal injury after liver transplantation (LT). The optimal time…2017 American Transplant Congress
Direct Acting Antiviral Drugs Are Highly Effective in Hepatitis C (HCV) Patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESKD) and Advanced Liver Disease (ALD).
Multi Transplant Organ Center, St Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Reports of efficacy of Direct Acting Antiviral drugs (DAA) > 90% in treatment of chronic HCV genotype 1, [GT1, 12 wk Sustained Viral Response (SVR12)]…2017 American Transplant Congress
Renal Function After Liver Transplantation Alone in Patients Meeting the Proposed UNOS Simultaneous Liver-Kidney (SLK) Criteria.
Background & Aim: The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has proposed criteria for simultaneous liver and kidney transplantation (SLK) incorporating strict definitions for eligibility…2017 American Transplant Congress
Proteomic Profiles of Deceased Donor Kidney Biopsies Obtained Prior to Transplantation Correlate with Allograft Function at One Year.
Introduction:Cerebral injury during Donation after Brain Death (DBD) will induce a systemic inflammatory response affecting immediate kidney function and survival posttransplantation. Assessment of donor organ…2016 American Transplant Congress
Renal Risk Index and Acute Kidney Injury in Liver Transplant Patients.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Purpose: Renal risk index (RRI) has been validated in liver transplant (LT) to predict post-transplant ESRD. We examined the clinical utility of RRI as a…2016 American Transplant Congress
Renal Function Decline Is Higher in the First Year After Liver Transplantation: Final Results from the Italian Observational Study SURF.
SURF registry was designed to investigate the evolution of renal function in Italian adult liver transplant (LT) recipients by: exploring the prevalence of chronic kidney…
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