Articles tagged "Risk factors"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Recipients with Physical Impairments
A. G. Thomas¹, J. Ruck², N. Chu², D. Agoons², A. Shaffer², C. Haugen², H. Ying², B. Swenor², S. Norman³, J. Garonzik-Wang², D. Segev², M. McAdams-DeMarco²
¹Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Disability in general has been associated with poor outcomes in KT recipients. However, disability can be derived from various components, specifically visual, hearing, physical,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
How Do We Choose? Predicting Utilization Of Cardiac Donors And The Effect Of Era
D. A. Baran¹, J. T. Lansinger², A. Long², J. Philpott³, H. Copeland⁴, W. Old³, G. Zeevi³, C. Barreiro³, C. Kemp³, B. H. Smith³, K. Stelling³, A. Ingemi³, P. Bourassa³, J. M. Herre³
¹Sentara Heart Hospital, Virginia Beach, VA, ²Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, ³Sentara Heart Hospital, Norfolk, VA, ⁴University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
*Purpose: The number of patients on the heart transplant waitlist continues to rise. However, the rate of organ acceptance is only about 1/3 of all…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Model For Predicting eGFR At A Year After Donation In Living Related Kidney Transplant Donors
K. Shinoda, K. Sakurabayashi, T. Mizutani, Y. Takahashi, Y. Hyodo, Y. Itabashi, M. Muramatsu, T. Kawamura, S. Shishido, K. Sakai
Nephrology, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: Predicting post-donation kidney function precisely is considerably beneficial for both candidates of living-related kidney donors and their physicians when judging the feasibility of kidney…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Cholecystitis in High-Acuity Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation: A Five-Year Analysis of Incidence, Causes and Impact
D. S. Graham, T. Ito, M. M. Lu, J. DiNorcia, V. G. Agopian, H. Yersiz, D. G. Farmer, R. W. Busuttil, F. M. Kaldas
Dumont-UCLA Liver Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: While the incidence of gallbladder pathology is well described in the general population, there is almost no data on cholecystitis in liver transplant candidates…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Recipient and Donor Factors at the Time of Transplant as Predictors of Graft Outcomes
K. Soliman¹, V. Rohan², S. Zemin¹, A. Price¹, A. P. Salas¹, D. Lazarus¹, M. Casey³, D. J. Taber², V. Rao³
¹Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ³Medicine and Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: As the ESRD population ages and the impetus to increase utilization of donor organs grows, we aimed to evaluate the impact of donor and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The C-Statistic Provides No Information on the Accuracy of Program Evaluations or the Presence of Unmeasured Confounders
A. Wey, N. Salkowski, B. Kasiske, M. Skeans, S. Gustafson, A. Israni, J. Snyder
SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The C-statistic of risk-adjustment models is regularly used to assess accuracy of program evaluations or determine presence of unmeasured confounding. However, the C-statistic depends…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Factor Analysis (FA) Identifies 5 Major Axes of Kidney Transplant Biopsy (KTxBx) Pathology
L. Hunsicker,¹ J. Grande,² J. Cecka,³ A. Matas,⁴ The DeKaf Consortium.
¹Int. Med., U. Iowa, Iowa City, IA; ²Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ³Immunogenetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ⁴Surgery, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Definitions for acute rejection (ACR) and antibody mediated rejection (AMR) in KTxBx exist, but no data driven methods exist for quantitative analysis of all Banff,…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Time in Therapeutic Range Predicts DSA Development and Acute Rejection in Kidney Recipients with High Tacrolimus Coefficient of Variation
S. Davis, J. Gralla, P. Klem, A. Wiseman, J. Cooper.
University of Colorado, Aurora, CO.
High tacrolimus trough coefficient of variation (TAC CV) has been associated with an increased risk of de novo donor-specific antibody (dnDSA) and acute rejection (AR).…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Racial Differences in Rates of Malignant and Infectious Cutaneous Genital Disease after Solid Organ Transplantation
M. Larijani,¹ K. Nadhan,¹ J. Abbott,¹ A. Doyle,² C. Chung.¹
¹Department of Dermatology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; ²Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Purpose: To describe the prevalence and types of genital lesions observed in OTRsMethods: This retrospective review included 496 OTRs who underwent full skin examination at…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends in Living Kidney Donor Candidates
S. Singh,^1,2 V. DiCecco,² M. Luo,² Y. Li,² O. Famure.²
¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Nephrology and the Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Living kidney donor transplantation is the preferred treatment option for end-stage renal disease. However, living kidney donation rates have plateaued in North America. Existing studies…