Articles tagged "Renal function"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Endovascular Repair Of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms In Kidney Transplant Recipients
S. Kwon¹, D. Jung¹, Y. Kim¹, S. Park², S. Yoon²
¹Department of Vascular and Transplant Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Vascular and Transplant Surgery, The Catholic Universtiy of Korea, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The possibility to diagnosis abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in patients who underwent kidney transplantation (KT) is increasing. Immunosuppressive agents may effect on AAA progression.…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Renal Function Following Islet Transplantation in the Clinical Islet Transplantation Consortium
L. G. Hunsicker¹, T. L. Eggerman², M. R. Rickels³, t. Clinical Islet Transplantation (CIT) Consortium⁴
¹Internal Medicine, U. Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²NIDDK/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ³Internal Medicine, U. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: Islet transplantation (IsletTp) is safe and effective treatment of Type 1 diabetes complicated by severe hypoglycemia (Diabetes Care 2016, 39:1230). But the requirement for…
2019 American Transplant Congress
GFR Outcomes for Recipients and Donors with IgA, FSGS, Alports and Thin Basement Membrane Disease: A Comparison of Living Related to Unrelated Donors
D. Keys, S. Jackson, S. Riad, R. Spong, V. Vakil, A. Matas, P. Nachman
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Prior studies have shown an increase rate of graft loss in patients that receive living donor kidney transplants from relatives in IgA, FSGS, and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Early Everolimus Conversion For Renal Protection In Liver Transplantation: The Sooner The Better?
M. Tomeczkowicz, N. Sulejmani, A. Jantz, B. Summers, T. Larson, R. Salgia
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Calcineurin inhibitors (CNI) are the mainstay of immunosuppressive therapy in transplantation; however, a major side effect limiting CNI use is nephrotoxicity. Mammalian target of…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Replication of Diagnostic Biomarkers Using Orthogonal State-of-the-Art Technologies
M. Cassidy, B. Dooley, A. Verma, H. Yang, T. Muthukumar, R. Ding, C. Li, C. Snopkowski, B. Botticelli, S. Albakry, E. Edusei, M. Lubetzky, D. Dadhania, J. Lee, O. Elemento, M. Suthanthiran
WCM, New York, NY
*Purpose: The failure to reproduce scientific findings (McNutt M. Science 2014;343:229, Baker M. Nature 2016;53:452) has brought to the forefront the need for replication studies…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Donor Profile Index Significantly Correlates With Reperfusion Biopsy Findings
A. Perez-Gutierrez¹, P. Witkowski¹, J. Fung¹, D. N. Danz², R. Cummings¹, A. Chang³
¹Transplantation Institute, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Pathology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The kidney donor profile index (KDPI) includes donor factors that are associated with graft survival, and estimates the quality of the kidney graft. Suboptimal…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Does Ethnicity Impact Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipient Outcomes?
I. Bajjoka, A. Yaldo, S. Serra, S. Foley, C. Crombez, M. Abouljoud
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Elderly patients represent a growing proportion of the kidney transplant population. In order to address the needs of this special group, risk factors for…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Population-Based Modeling of Prototypes and Determinants of Allograft Function Trajectories after Kidney Transplantation: Impact for Patient Monitoring and Risk Stratification
M. Raynaud¹, O. Aubert¹, M. Naesens², I. Juric³, N. Basic³, N. Kamar⁴, E. Huang⁵, S. Jordan⁵, B. Orandi⁶, D. Segev⁶, M. Stegall⁷, E. Morelon⁸, M. Giral⁹, E. Bailly¹⁰, E. Akalin¹¹, G. Gupta¹², M. Ladrière¹³, M. Buchler¹⁰, P. Reese¹⁴, C. Lefaucheur¹, A. Loupy¹
¹Paris, ., France, ²Leuven, ., Belgium, ³Zagreb, ., Croatia, ⁴Toulouse, ., France, ⁵Los Angeles, ., CA, ⁶Baltimore, ., MD, ⁷Rochester, ., MN, ⁸Lyon, ., France, ⁹Nantes, ., France, ¹⁰Tours, ., France, ¹¹New York, ., NY, ¹²Richmond, ., VA, ¹³Nancy, ., France, ¹⁴Philadelphia, ., PA
*Purpose: Although the current gold standard of kidney allograft patients monitoring relies on GFR assessment, little is known about long-term GFR trajectories prototypes and their…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney-Intrinsic Innate Immunity and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Pathways are Key Determinants of Severity of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Following Transplantation
L. Qiu¹, J. Wang¹, X. Yeap¹, C. Lin¹, Y. S. Kanwar², D. Fang², M. M. Abecassis¹, Z. J. Zhang¹
¹Comprehensive Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) following kidney transplantation (KTx) frequently leads to delayed graft function and is detrimental to graft longevity. Causes and susceptibilities of KTx…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Usefulness of the Assessment of CT-Based Donor Kidney Function Compared with Radionuclide Scintigraphy
K. Park, J. Yoon, H. Kim, C. Baek, S. Park, H. Kim
Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, SEOUL, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Pretransplant graft volume and function has been demonstrated to be an important factor in subsequent allograft outcomes. Most transplant centers underwent renal split function…