Articles tagged "Risk factors"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Self-reported Marijuana Use In Kidney Transplant Candidates And Its Association With Access To Transplantation
S. Rodriguez Ramirez, E. Tang, O. Famure, A. Bansal, J. Kim, I. Mucsi
Kidney Transplant, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: In light of the current legislative changes in Canada, and the variable approach to marijuana use in the United States, it is important to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Identifying the Proverbial “Needle in the Arm” with Natural Language Processing
G. R. Vece, J. Foutz, A. Placona
Department of Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Donors with a history of IVDU are associated with increased disease transmission risk; However, OPTN forms only request broad historical details relating to donor…
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
Keeping Patients Lifetime Perspective in Focus: Modest Rates and Wide Variation in Preemptive Re-Listing for Kidney Transplantation in the US
J. Schold, J. Augustine, A. Huml, J. O'Toole, J. Sedor, E. Poggio
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Success of transplantation is not limited to initial receipt of a donor organ. Many patients experience graft loss within their lifetime and the benefits…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Prognostic Biomarker to Estimate the Likelihood of Developing De Novo Donor Specific Antibody in Kidney Transplant Recipients
S. Kawakita¹, L. M. Rebellato², K. P. Briley², A. Q. Maldonado³, C. E. Haisch², P. Bolin², S. A. Kendrick⁴, H. Jones⁴, K. McLawhorn⁴, D. Leeser², V. Jucaud¹, V. Burnett¹, M. J. Everly¹
¹Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ²East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ³Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC, ⁴Eastern Nephrology Associates, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: Evaluation of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) mismatch at antibody epitope level rather than antigen level may explain better the impact of HLA mismatch on…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function as a Survival Prognostic Factor in Elderly Recipients of Kidney Transplantation
G. J. Piñeiro, E. Guillen, P. Ventura, J. V. Torregrosa, R. Gelpi, I. Revuelta, F. Cofan, E. De Sousa, D. Cucchiari, J. Ugalde, F. Oppenheimer, F. Diekmann, N. Esforzado
Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation (KT) provides advantages in terms of survival compared with dialysis. However, in elderly recipients, despite a better long-term survival, a high mortality…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Speckle Echo Pre and Post Kidney Transplant: A Pilot Study
M. Olivares-Perez¹, Y. Gao¹, A. Webber¹, F. Ghahghaie¹, M. Lassen², A. Qasim¹, M. Park¹
¹University California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
*Purpose: Relative to dialysis, cardiovascular (CV) mortality improves with transplantation. Nevertheless, CV disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for kidney transplant recipients (KTR),…
2019 American Transplant Congress
CXCL12-CXCR4-Mediated Chemotaxis is a Potential Mechanism for Monocyte Recruitment in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Orthotopic Liver Transplant Patients
A. Q. Terry¹, R. A. Sosa¹, B. V. Naini¹, V. Groysberg¹, F. M. Kaldas², R. W. Busuttil², D. Gjertson¹, J. Kupiec-Weglinski², E. F. Reed¹
¹Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) elicits cellular damage which lowers allograft survival in orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) patients. Damage-associated molecular patterns, such as high-mobility group box…
2019 American Transplant Congress
CMV Risk Status Remains a Relevant Risk Factor for Long-Term Outcomes
G. Karadkhele, W. Zhang, C. P. Larsen
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Intensification of immunosuppression using T cell depleting induction has reduced rates of acute cellular rejection after kidney transplantation. Belatacept, a first in class T…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Quantifying Donor Effects on Transplant Outcomes Using Kidney Pairs from Deceased Donors
K. F. Kerr¹, E. R. Morenz¹, H. Thiessen Philbrook², S. G. Coca³, F. P. Wilson⁴, P. P. Reese⁵, C. R. Parikh²
¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁴Yale University, New Haven, CT, ⁵University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: In kidney transplantation, the relative contribution of donor versus other factors on clinical outcomes is unknown.*Methods: For paired donations from deceased donors resulting in…