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Articles tagged "Renal failure"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Preemptive Plasma Therapy and Eculizumab (ECU) Rescue for Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS) Relapse Following Kidney Transplantation (KTX)

    C. Aigner,1,2 G. Böhmig,1 F. Eskandary,1 M. Gaggl,1 R. Kain,2 R. Sunder-Plassmann,3 Z. Prohaszka,4 A. Schmidt,1 G. Sunder-Plassmann.1

    1Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2Clinical Institute of Pathology, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 3Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 43rd Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

    Introduction: KTX in aHUS patients is associated with a high rate of relapse and graft loss. Here, we report on seven aHUS cases with end-stage…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Attitudes of African Canadian Patients with End Stage Kidney Disease toward Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

    V. Gupta, C. Richardson, D. Belenko, N. Singh, A. Xu, P. Thiagalingam, D. Wong, H. Ford, M. Novak, I. Mucsi.

    University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Background:African Canadian patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) are less likely to receive a living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) compared to Caucasian Canadians. We…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Torsion and Inversion of Intraperitoneal Kidneys Manifesting as Acute Allograft Dysfunction – A Case Series

    P. Kandula, A. Patel, S. Bains, H. Sun.

    Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ.

    Torsion (rotation of kidney allograft around its vascular pedicle) or inversion (rotation of kidney graft around ureter) of intraperitoneal transplant kidney is a rare complication.…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Factors Associated with the Development of Chronic Kidney Disease after Liver Transplantation

    M. Kalisvaart, A. Schlegel, P. Trivedi, K. Roberts, D. Mirza, T. Perera, J. Isaac, J. Ferguson, P. Muiesan.

    Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

    BackgroundRenal dysfunction is a common complication after liver transplantation. The increased use of DCD livers has been associated with postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI). However,…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Activation Requirements of Costimulation Blockade-Resistant CD4 T Cells

    J. Espinosa, B. Adams, J. Kearns, F. Shaw, R. Osborne, T. Woody, M. Ellis, J. Cheeseman, A. Kirk.

    Duke University, Durham.

    T cells lose costimulation dependence following primary activation and many phenotypes of terminally differentiated cells have been identified as contributing to costimulation blockade (CoB)-resistant rejection…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Quality Influences Patient and Graft Survival in Liver Transplant Recipients with End Stage Renal Disease

    J. Reyes, M. Eerhart, J. Danobeita, P. Chlebeck, L. Zitur, L. Fernandez.

    Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

    Background: Recent changes in the allocation policy established by UNOS created a competitive algorithm that facilitates the placement of kidneys in liver transplant recipients that…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Participation in Paid Work across the Transplant Trajectory from the Perspective of End-Stage-Kidney-Disease Patients

    K. Gaudet, M. Achille.

    Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.

    Purpose: To explore end-stage-kidney-disease patients' experiences of labour participation, from the kidney failure diagnosis to the post-transplant recovery period.Methods: A qualitative research design was adopted.…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Pre-Transplant Dialysis on ESRD-Free and Patient Survival in Heart Transplant Alone and in Simultaneous Heart/Kidney Transplant Recipients: UNOS Data Analysis

    S. Akkina, A. Desai, J. Yoo, S. Hou, R. Parasuraman.

    Medicine, Loyola University, Maywood, IL.

    It is well known that chronic kidney disease has significant negative impact on post-transplant survival in heart transplant (HTx) recipients. Here we wanted to evaluate…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    How Safe is Immunosuppression Maintenance 1 Year after Renal Allograft Failure?

    A. Mena-Gutierrez, K. Alquadan, A. Santos, K. Womer, M. Casey.

    University of Florida, Gainesville.

    In 2013, our center opened a specialty clinic to maintain immunosuppression (IS) after renal graft failure in an attempt to minimize further sensitization in retransplant…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    End Stage Renal Disease after Face Transplant

    N. Shockcor,1 B. Buckingham,1 W. Hassanein,1 A. Haririan,1 S. Roberts,2 A. Nam,1 E. Rodriguez,3 S. Bartlett,1 R. Barth.1

    1University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; 2Ochsner Health Center, Covington, LA; 3New York University, New York, NY.

    Purpose Renal failure as an outcome of chronic immunosuppression is a known complication of organ transplantation. We report the first case of end stage renal…
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