Articles tagged "Screening"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Positron Emission Tomography (PET-CT) Global Coronary Flow Reserve (CFR) Stratifies Cardiovascular Risk among Renal Transplant (RTx) Candidates
M. Minder, S. Mason, J. Ethington, R. McCubrey, D. Min, N. Sekaran, J. Orford, D. Morris, S. Anand, T. Srinivas
Intermountain Healthcare, Murray, UT
*Purpose: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetes (DM) are both associated with increased risk of coronary artery disease and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE). The…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Improving Pre-Kidney Transplantion Laboratory Utilization in an Era of Increasing Waitlist Size
G. K. Mahowald¹, B. Kimball², N. Elias², E. Heher³, T. Girouard¹, S. L. Saidman¹, V. Pattanayak¹
¹Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Nephrology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Beginning on March 25, 2015, our institution’s kidney transplant program has implemented a “readiness” protocol, whereby patients are listed after limited workup and comprehensive…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Care of International Living Kidney Donor Candidates in the U.S.: A Survey of Contemporary Experience, Practice & Challenges
K. Lentine¹, M. Henderson², S. Rasmussen², E. Shukhman³, J. Hunt⁴, F. Al Ammary², V. Kumar⁵, D. Lapointe-Rudow⁴, H. Schaefer⁶, M. Cooper⁷, R. Hays⁸, M. Dunbar-Forrest⁹, A. Nishio-Lucar¹⁰, D. Mandelbrot⁸
¹Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ³Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁵Univ Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, ⁷Georgetown, Washington, DC, ⁸Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁰Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: The evaluation and care of non-U.S. citizen, non-U.S. residents who wish to come to the U.S. to serve as living kidney donors (LKD) can…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Potential Role of IL-33/ST2 Pathway in Renal Allograft Rejection
M. Yu¹, Y. Kim², J. Moon², S. Lee², H. Lee², D. Kim², C. Lee³, Y. Kim², S. Yang²
¹Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, Korea, Republic of, ²Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Cheju Halla General Hospital, Jeju, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Interleukin (IL)-33 is one of IL-1 family cytokine that has pleiotropic effects, such as inflammation promotion and immune response regulation. Recent studies showed that…
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Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate at Donor Screening to Predict Measured Glomerular Filtration Rate after Living Kidney Donation
J. van der Weijden, M. van Londen, M. Y. Said, S. J. Bakker, S. P. Berger, G. Navis, M. H. de Borst
Nephrology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
*Purpose: Accurate post-donation renal function prediction is important to minimize the risk of future severe renal function impairment in living kidney donors. Recent studies focused…
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Exploration of the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant with Psychosocial and Medical Outcomes in Kidney/Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipients
G. Chen¹, C. Bell², P. Loughhead¹, B. Ibeche², J. S. Bynon², D. R. Hall², A. M. De Golovine², A. Edwards², W. A. Dar²
¹Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, ²The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant (SIPAT) is a psychometric instrument designed to improve organ transplant patient selection. However, limited studies have been…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Uterus Transplantation: Recipient Surgery
L. Johannesson, A. Wall, J. Bayer, G. J. McKenna, G. Testa
Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: The field of uterus transplantation, since the first birth to a uterus transplanted woman in 2014, continues to grow rapidly. As of today at…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Lower Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment (SIPAT) for Transplantation Score is Predictive of Successful Listing for Kidney Transplant Candidates
A. Kumar¹, J. Salaway², M. Dorris², J. Newman³, A. Doyle¹, S. Rao¹
¹Nephrology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ²Transplant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ³University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Psychosocial evaluation is an integral part of transplant recipient evaluation. SIPAT is a tool designed to assess psychological health of transplant candidates. Lower SIPAT…
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Liquid Biopsy for Chronic Rejection after Kidney Transplantation. A Novel Non-Invasive Biomarker Involved in Inflammatory Amplifier
Y. Takada¹, D. Kamimura², H. Higuchi¹, D. Iwami¹, K. Hotta¹, N. Iwahara¹, N. Shinohara¹, M. Murakami²
¹Renal and Genitourinary Surgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan, ²Molecular Psychoimmunology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
*Purpose: In kidney transplantation (KTx), despite recent advances of medical technology, chronic rejection accounts for 25% of the graft loss. Chronic active antibody-mediated rejection (CAAMR)…
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Outcomes for Lung Transplantation Recipients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
A. J. Trindade¹, P. Burkett¹, S. El-Chemaly¹, N. Hashemi², T. Thaniyavarn¹, H. R. Mallidi³, H. J. Goldberg¹
¹Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) afflicts ~20-40% people in the western world and is a risk factor for comorbidities prevalent in the lung transplant…

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