Articles tagged "Renal failure"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Etiologies and Long-Term Outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients
R. Rodriguez, P. Amechi, V. Rao, D. Taber, M. Posadas Salas.
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Older kidney transplant recipients face challenges of post-transplant complications related to frailty and comorbidity burden. They are particularly vulnerable to acute kidney injury (AKI) due…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Kidney Transplant Survival after Deceased-Donor Acute Kidney Injury
I. Hall, E. Akalin, J. Bromberg, M. Doshi, M. Harhay, Y. Jia, S. Mansour, S. Mohan, T. Muthumkumar, P. Reese, B. Schröppel, P. Singh, H. Thiessen-Philbrook, F. Weng, C. Parikh.
Deceased Donor Study Consortium, New Haven, CT.
Purpose: Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs frequently in deceased donors and is associated with organ discard. Prior studies indicate an association between donor AKI and…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Renal Parenchymal Calcifications in a Cohort of Renal Transplanted Patients and Their Correlations with Long Term Graft Outcome
C. Alfieri,¹ G. Moroni,¹ D. Cresseri,¹ A. Regalia,¹ F. Zanoni,¹ V. Binda,¹ M. Gandolfo,¹ M. Campise,¹ M. Meneghini,¹ M. Ikehata,¹ P. Messa.^1,2
¹Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy; ²Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, University School of Medicinw, Milan, Italy.
Background: Renal calcifications(RC) have been described in kidney transplantation(KTx), but the aetiologyand significance of this finding are still unclear. Our aim is to evaluate the…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Familial Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease in Healthy Live Kidney Donors
A. Muzaale,¹ A. Massie,¹ F. Al Ammary,¹ K. Lentine,² D. Segev.¹
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
Kidney donor candidates are rigorously evaluated so that only the lowest risk are cleared for donation; however, it is not standard practice to exclude candidates…
2018 American Transplant Congress
End Stage Kidney Disease Risk Profile in Living Kidney Donors for Pediatric versus Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients in Australia and New Zealand
D. Lee,^1,2 J. Whitlam,² N. Cook,² A. Walker,³ F. Ierino,⁴ M. Roberts,¹ J. Kausman.³
¹Department of Renal Medicine, Eastern Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; ²Department of Nephrology, Austin Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; ³Department of Nephrology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; ⁴Department of Nephrology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Background: Living kidney donors (LKD) for pediatric kidney transplant recipients (KTR) have a high motivation to donate due to the clear benefits to the KTR…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Using the Explore Transplant Ontario Program to Increase Transplant Knowledge and Readiness among Patients on Maintenance Dialysis
D. Belenko,¹ C. Richardson,¹ V. Gupta,¹ T. Ahmed, N. Edwards, M. Novak,² J. Peipert,³ A. Waterman, I. Mucsi.
¹Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Department of Surgery, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
IntroductionKidney transplantation (KT) is the preferred treatment for patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD), yet many potentially eligible patients do not act to pursue KT.…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Risk of ESRD in Prior Living Kidney Donors
J. Wainright, A. Robinson, A. Wilk, D. Klassen, W. Cherikh, D. Stewart.
UNOS, Richmond, VA.
We studied development of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) in living kidney donors (LKDs) who donated in the US between 1994 and 2016 (n=123,523), using…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Retransplantation and Renal Failure: The Benefit of Simultaneous Kidney Transplant
J. Berumen,¹ V. Irine,² S. Mita,² S. Gabriel,¹ M. Kristin.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA; ²Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.
Liver retransplantation has poor survival compared to primary liver transplant. Renal failure is a proven negative risk factor for survival with retransplant. Our aim was…
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Enhancement of Endogenous omega-3 Protect against Ischemia-Reperfusion Renal Injury in Fat-1 Mice
D. Choi,¹ Y. Ham,¹ K. Na,¹ K. Lee,¹ J-.J. Kim,^1,2 J. Jeong.^1,3
¹Nephrology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea; ²Biomedical Science, Jungwon University, Chungbuk, Korea; ³Medical Science, Chungnam National University, Daejeong, Korea.
Introduction : Fat-1 transgenic mice produce [omega]3-Polyunsaturated fatty acids ([omega]3-PUFAs) from [omega]6-Polyunsaturated fatty acids ([omega]6-PUFAs) without a dietary [omega]3-PUFAs supplement, leading to a high accumulation…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Pre-Transplant Non-Dialysis Renal Dysfunction in Heart Transplant Recipients on Post-Transplant ESRD: A UNOS Database Analysis
S. Akkina, A. Desai, J. Yoo, S. Hou, R. Parasuraman.
Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL.
Dialysis prior to heart transplant (HTx) is a strong predictor of patient death and is a common indication for simultaneous heart/kidney transplantation (SHK). The association…

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