Articles tagged "Survival"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Livers from Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Offer – Accept or Decline?
T. Ishaque, M. G. Bowring, J. D. Motter, Y. Yu, S. Yu, A. B. Kernodle, J. G. Wang, S. Getsin, D. L. Segev, A. B. Massie
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Given the shortage of deceased-donor livers, donation after cardiac death (DCD) provides an opportunity to expand the donor pool. Due to concern over the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-Center Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Clinical Trial of a Home-Based Exercise Program for Patients with Cirrhosis: The Strength Training Intervention
J. C. Lai¹, M. R. Kappus², J. L. Dodge¹, R. Wong¹, Y. Mohamad¹, D. L. Segev³, M. A. McAdams-DeMarco⁴
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Duke University, San Francisco, NC, ³Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Patients with cirrhosis experience progressive physical frailty and functional decline that may ultimately lead to an increased risk of death. We developed the Strength…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Uremic Symptoms: A Patient-Reported Outcome That is Associated with Access to Kidney Transplantation and Waitlist Mortality among Kidney Transplant Candidates
K. Taylor¹, N. Chu², Z. Shi², E. Rosello³, S. Kunwar², P. Butz³, S. Norman⁴, D. Crews⁵, K. Greenberg⁵, D. Segev³, T. Shafi⁶, M. McAdams-DeMarco³
¹Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁵Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Division of Nephrology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
*Purpose: Patient-reported symptoms of uremia - pruritis, anorexia and fatigue - reflect incomplete removal of uremic toxins by dialysis and are likely one of the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney vs. Kidney Alone Transplants in Type 2 Diabetic Recipients: A Multivariate Analysis of U.S. Transplants
S. M. Riad¹, S. Jackson², D. Keys¹, V. Humphereville³, L. Caramori¹, R. Kandaswamy³
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The impact of simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplants in uremic, non-obese, insulin-treated type 2 diabetic (T2DM) recipients is not well described. We analyzed the SRTR…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin versus Anti-T Lymphocyte Globulin Rescue Therapies in Delayed Graft Function after Kidney Transplantation from Donors after Cardiac Death
H. Yang¹, Y. Shi², X. Li¹, C. Long¹, H. Li³, Z. Wang³
¹Department of Organ Transplantation, Jiangxi Provincial People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, ²Department of Pathology, Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, ³Department of Urologic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
*Purpose: Delayed graft function (DGF) is common in recipients of kidney transplants from donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors, induction therapy with monoclonal or polyclonal…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Intra-Lymph Node Injection of Microparticles Reprograms the Laminin Stromal Network to Prolong Allograft Survival
C. M. Paluskievicz¹, Y. Xiong¹, W. Piao¹, M. Willson-Shirkey¹, H. Eppler², C. M. Jewell², J. S. Bromberg¹
¹U Maryland, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, MD, ²U Maryland, College Park, MD, College Park, MD
*Purpose: Microparticles (MPs) carrying peptide antigen with immune signals can be directly delivered to lymph nodes (LNs) to induce pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory responses. We hypothesized…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes for Living Kidney Donors: A Japanese Single-Center Experience
K. Hotta, D. Iwami, N. Iwahara, N. Shinohara
Urology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
*Purpose: Previous studies suggested that live kidney donors do not have a higher risk of death or end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) than the general population.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Frailty Attenuates the Gender Gap in Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates: A Multi-Center Study with 1,240 Patients with Cirrhosis
J. C. Lai¹, D. R. Ganger², M. L. Volk³, J. L. Dodge¹, M. A. Dunn⁴, A. Duarte-Rojo⁵, M. R. Kappus⁶, R. S. Rahimi⁷, D. Ladner², B. Boyarsky⁸, M. McAdams-DeMarco⁸, D. L. Segev⁸, C. E. McCulloch¹, E. Verna⁹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²NW, Chicago, IL, ³Loma Linda Univ, Loma Linda, CA, ⁴UPMC, Pittsburgh, CA, ⁵UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Duke, Durham, NC, ⁷Baylor, Dallas, TX, ⁸JHMI, Baltimore, MD, ⁹Columbia, New York, NY
*Purpose: Women LT candidates experience higher rates of waitlist mortality than men. Frailty is a critical determinant of mortality in patients with cirrhosis but it…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Does the Type of Procurement and Preservation Influence the Results after Non-Heart-Beating Kidney Transplant from a Maastricht III Donor?
V. López, C. Casas, J. Alonso, M. Cabello, D. Hernández
Nephrology Services, Regional University Hospital, University of Malaga, IBIMA, REDinREN (RD16/0009/0006), Málaga, Spain
*Purpose: The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) systems for the preservation of organs from a controlled non-heart-beating donor has greatly increased over recent years.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Non-Active Hepatitis B after Renal Transplantation
M. G. Naik, W. Duettmann, M. Mayrdorfer, F. Halleck, K. Budde, M. Duerr
Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Charité, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: Hepatitis B (HB) is more frequent in dialysis patients (pts) than in the general population. Patient and graft survival in pts with chronic HB…