2015 American Transplant Congress
High Mortality in Diabetic Recipients of High KDPI Deceased Donor Kidneys
Deceased donor (DD) kidney quality is determined using the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI). How best to allocate the high KDPI kidneys (KDPI ≥ 85%)…2015 American Transplant Congress
High Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) Correlates With Calculated Pulsatile Perfusion (PP) Resistance Index (RI) and Delayed Graft Function (DGF)
Surgery/Transplant, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
Background: Deceased donor (DD) kidney quality is now being determined by calculating the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI). Calculated kidney vascular resistance index (RI) during…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Liver Transplantation from Living Donors in Cali – Colombia
Transplant Unit, Fundacion Valle del Lili, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Introduction. Starting a pediatric liver transplant program in a developing country, is a great challenge, due to technical difficulties and increased morbidity and mortality, and…2015 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Kidney Transplant in Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation Improves GFR and Patient Survival
Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis.
Background: Patients requiring combined liver-kidney transplantation (LKTx) are at risk for worse outcomes compared to LTx and KTx alone due to severity of illness and…2015 American Transplant Congress
APOL1 Risk Alleles in Live and Deceased Kidney Donors Are Associated With Shorter Renal Allograft Survival
Kidneys from African American (AA) donors with two Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) risk alleles may be at higher risk of allograft loss after transplant. We sought…2015 American Transplant Congress
Alemtuzumab in Elderly Renal Transplant Recipients Is Not Associated With a Poor Outcome
Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
The use and choice of induction immunosuppression in elderly kidney recipients remains unresolved. Alemtuzumab has been associated with a higher risk of death and graft…2015 American Transplant Congress
Survival Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients from Expanded Criteria Donors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Background: In 2002, UNOS proposed the use of Expanded Criteria Donors (ECD=brain dead donor > 60 years, or 50-59 years with two criteria: CVA as…2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcome of Adult Kidney Transplant Candidates With Previous Malignancy: Analysis of 14-Year Waiting List Data in the United States
College of Medicine, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Purpose: We aimed to study the difference in patient survival and transplantation probability rates of adult kidney transplant (KT) candidates with and without history of…2015 American Transplant Congress
Preservation Solution Impacts Short- and Long-Term Survival in Orthotopic Heart Transplant Recipients
Objectives: To examine the effect of three commonly used preservation solutions on short- and long-term survival after orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) using a large national…2015 American Transplant Congress
Glomerular Disease (GD) After Kidney Transplant (KTx): Etiologies, Risk Factors and Consequences
1Nephrology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 2Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Introduction. Recipients who develop KTx GD may have reduced function and higher risk of graft loss. Using protocol and clinical biopsies we sought to determine…
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