Articles tagged "Survival"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Metabolic Acidosis after Kidney Transplantation: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Graft Outcome in a French Cohort
F. Garo, I. Szwarc, G. Mourad, M. Le Quintrec, J-.E. Serre.
Nephrology, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
Background: Metabolic acidosis (MA) lead to several complications in more advanced stages of chronic kidney diseases (CKD) and promotes CKD progression. Acidosis is a common…
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Impact of Elevated PSA, and Prostate Cancer in ESRD on Time to Transplant, and Survival
N. Sarabu,¹ N. Schiltz,² D. Hricik.¹
¹University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; ²Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
Introduction: Despite concerns for over-diagnosis and over-treatment from prostate cancer screeening, transplant centers perform it. We studied effect of Elevated PSA, and Prostate cancer on…
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Natural History and Determinants of Infectious Complications after Kidney Transplantation: A Nationwide Prospective Population Based Cohort
A. Scelma, M. Perrier, O. Lortholary, S. Girerd, C. Kerleau, V. Garrigues, F. Buron, N. Kamar, C. Legendre, Y. Bouatou, C. Lefaucheur, M. Giral, A. Loupy.
Paris Transplant Group, Paris, France.
Background: Although Infectious complications are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in KTR, little is known about their natural history and determinants at a…
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Does Biliary Duct Reconstruction Technique Impact Liver Transplantation Outcomes?
R. Shahbazov,¹ M. Kessel,² K. Knapp,² F. Azari,² S. Tsutsui,³ A. Nickkholgh,¹ D. Maluf,¹ S. Pelletier.¹
¹Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ²School of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ³Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Introduction: The rate of biliary complication after liver transplantation remains high. The choice of biliary reconstruction technique may depend on the patient's primary disease, possible…
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Pancreas Retransplantation: Outcomes of This Technical and Immunological Challenge over 38 Patients
F. Paret,¹ D. Cantarovich,² G. Karam,³ T. Batard,⁴ M. Nedelec,⁵ J. Branchereau.⁶
¹Urology and Transplantation, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France; ²Nephrology and Transplantation, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France.
IntroductionPancreas transplantation is now a mastered technique for patients suffering from severe diabetes. However, a significant number of grafts are lost for technical and immunological…
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Objective Markers of Frailty Predict Successful Listing and Survival for Renal Transplant
A. Tevar, K. Lemon, C. Wu, N. Shah, R. Mehta, C. Puttarajappa, P. Sood, S. Hariharan, A. Ganoza, M. Wijkstrom, M. Molinari, A. Humar, Y. Wang, J. Steel.
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Background: Across all medical specialties, frailty has been shown to be a predictor of poor health outcomes. Previous studies have shown that gait speed and…
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Impact of Lymphoceles after Kidney Transplantation on Long-Term Outcomes
L. Lehner, A. Hohberger, F. Halleck, E. Schrezenmeier, D. Khadzhynov, K. Budde, O. Staeck.
Dept. of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Introduction: Despite preventive methods, lymphoceles are common complications occurring in up to a third of kidney transplant recipients (KTR). A variety of risk factors (surgical,…
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Urinary Sulfate Excretion and Late Graft Failure in Renal Transplant Recipients
M. Said,¹ A. Post,¹ I. Minovic,¹ M. van Londen,¹ H. van Goor,² D. Postmus,³ M. Heiner-Fokkema,⁴ E. van den Berg,¹ A. Pasch,⁵ G. Navis,¹ S. Bakker.¹
¹Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ³Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ⁴Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ⁵Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
BackgroundHydrogen sulfide (H2S), produced from the metabolism of dietary sulfur-containing amino acids, is allegedly a potential renoprotective compound. High 24h urinary excretion of pathway intermediate…
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Delayed Graft Function in Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation
S. Weeks,¹ X. Luo,¹ S. Ottmann,¹ A. Gurakar,² F. Naqvi,² B. Philosophe,¹ A. Cameron,¹ N. Desai,¹ D. Segev,¹ J. Garonzik Wang.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Purpose: Increased rates of delayed graft function (DGF) after simultaneous liver kidney (SLK) transplantation have been described, as well as inferior graft survival in patients…
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A Calculator for Kidney Transplant Waitlist Outcomes under the New Kidney Allocation System
A. Hart,^1,2 N. Salkowski,² A. Matas,³ B. Kasiske,² J. Snyder,² A. Israni.²
¹HCMC, Minneapolis; ²SRTR, Minneapolis; ³Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
BACKGROUND: Outcomes on the kidney transplant waiting list vary markedly by region and patient characteristics, and the new kidney allocation system (KAS) changed the probability…