2017 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Conversion for Calcineurin Inhibitor (CNI) Toxicity: Our First 100 Patients.
Intro: CNIs improve kidney transplant (KT) survival, but have significant toxicities, including graft dysfunction (GD), neurotoxicity (NT), or thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). Belatacept is an alternative…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Value of Protocol Biopsy at Third Month After Kidney Transplant: A Single-Center Cohort Analysis.
Introduction: In spite of publications reporting higher detection of subclinical rejection (SR) with protocol biopsies in kidney transplant (KT) recipients there is no recommendation with…2017 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of the Estimated and Measured Glomerular Filtration Rate in Kidney Donor Candidates.
Nephrology, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Background and objectivesThe assessment of GFR in kidney donor candidates is necessary for the appropriate allocation of donor kidneys to recipients. This assessment can be…2017 American Transplant Congress
Donor/Recipient Matching Using the Creatinine Clearance Match Ratio (CCMR) Is Superior to the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) Predicting Early but Not Late Outcomes for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation.
A Creatinine Clearance based Donor/Recipient matching strategy (CCMR) was developed to better optimize metabolic demand of the recipient with donor kidney function. Prior work in…2017 American Transplant Congress
Time to First Therapeutic Tacrolimus Level: What Impact Does It Have After Heart Transplantation?
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Purpose: Appropriate time to therapeutic immunosuppression levels is not well defined. The purpose of this study is to investigate outcomes related to time to therapeutic…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Retrospective Study on the Impact of Abdominal Surgical Histories on Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy for Living Donor Adult Kidney Transplant.
Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Background This study investigated the impact of hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (HALDN) for living donors with surgical histories.Methods During January 2009–May 2015, 555 living kidney…2017 American Transplant Congress
New Approach for Targeted Immunotherapy in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation.
Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) have highly immunogenic skin component mandates high doses of systemic immunosuppressive drugs. Oral dosing leads to fluctuating, unpredictable blood levels that…2017 American Transplant Congress
Renal Secretion of Organic Anionic Drugs Is Compromised in Renal Transplant Patients.
Renal transplantation(Tx) is the treatment of choice for patients with ESRD. Transplanted kidneys undergo numerous insults including cold ischemia & warm reperfusion injury and are…2017 American Transplant Congress
Usefulness of Multi-Detector Computed Tomography (MDCT) Scanning as a Replacement for Diethylenetriamine Pentaacetic Acid (DTPA).
Objective: Diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA) and multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) can predict postoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in a live kidney donor. Accordingly, we…2017 American Transplant Congress
Results of Stem Cell and Renal Transplantation in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease After Plasma Cell Dyscrasias.
Introduction: Plasma cell dyscrasias (PCD) are a cause of end stage renal disease (ESRD). Traditionally, renal transplantation (RT) has been avoided in these patients due…
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