Search Results - "Gaston, R.S."

Inflammation in Areas of Tubular Atrophy in Kidney Allograft Biopsies: A Potent Predictor of Allograft Failure by Mannon, R. B., Matas, A. J., Grande, J., Leduc, R., Connett, J., Kasiske, B., Cecka, J. M., Gaston, R. S., Cosio, F., Gourishankar, S., Halloran, P. F., Hunsicker, L., Rush, D.

“…The Banff scoring schema provides a common ground to analyze kidney transplant biopsies. Interstitial inflammation (i) and tubulitis (t) in areas of viable…”
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Report of a National Conference on Donation after Cardiac Death by Bernat, J.L., D'Alessandro, A.M., Port, F.K., Bleck, T.P., Heard, S.O., Medina, J., Rosenbaum, S.H., DeVita, M.A., Gaston, R.S., Merion, R.M., Barr, M.L., Marks, W.H., Nathan, H., O'Connor, K., Rudow, D.L., Leichtman, A.B., Schwab, P., Ascher, N.L., Metzger, R.A., Mc Bride, V., Graham, W., Wagner, D., Warren, J., Delmonico, F.L.

“…A national conference on organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) was convened to expand the practice of DCD in the continuum of quality end‐of‐life care. This…”
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Use of Cardioprotective Medications in Kidney Transplant Recipients by Gaston, R. S., Kasiske, B. L., Fieberg, A. M., Leduc, R., Cosio, F. C., Gourishankar, S., Halloran, P., Hunsicker, L., Rush, D., Matas, A. J.

“…Death with function causes half of late kidney transplant failures, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death in these patients. We…”
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Apolipoprotein L1 Gene Variants in Deceased Organ Donors Are Associated With Renal Allograft Failure by Freedman, B. I., Julian, B. A., Pastan, S. O., Israni, A. K., Schladt, D., Gautreaux, M. D., Hauptfeld, V., Bray, R. A., Gebel, H. M., Kirk, A. D., Gaston, R. S., Rogers, J., Farney, A. C., Orlando, G., Stratta, R. J., Mohan, S., Ma, L., Langefeld, C. D., Hicks, P. J., Palmer, N. D., Adams, P. L., Palanisamy, A., Reeves‐Daniel, A. M., Divers, J.

“…Apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1) nephropathy variants in African American deceased kidney donors were associated with shorter renal allograft survival in a prior…”
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Effect of Replacing Race With Apolipoprotein L1 Genotype in Calculation of Kidney Donor Risk Index by Julian, B. A., Gaston, R. S., Brown, W. M., Reeves‐Daniel, A. M., Israni, A. K., Schladt, D. P., Pastan, S. O., Mohan, S., Freedman, B. I., Divers, J.

“…Renal allografts from deceased African American donors with two apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1) renal‐risk variants fail sooner than kidneys from donors with…”
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AST/ASTS Workshop on Increasing Organ Donation in the United States: Creating an “Arc of Change” From Removing Disincentives to Testing Incentives by Salomon, D. R., Langnas, A. N., Reed, A. I., Bloom, R. D., Magee, J. C., Gaston, R. S.

“…The American Society of Transplantation (AST) and American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) convened a workshop on June 2–3, 2014, to explore increasing…”
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Kidneys at Higher Risk of Discard: Expanding the Role of Dual Kidney Transplantation by Tanriover, B., Mohan, S., Cohen, D. J., Radhakrishnan, J., Nickolas, T. L., Stone, P. W., Tsapepas, D. S., Crew, R. J., Dube, G. K., Sandoval, P. R., Samstein, B., Dogan, E., Gaston, R. S., Tanriover, J. N., Ratner, L. E., Hardy, M. A.

“…Half of the recovered expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys are discarded in the United States. A new kidney allocation system offers kidneys at higher risk of…”
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Fixed‐ or Controlled‐Dose Mycophenolate Mofetil with Standard‐ or Reduced‐Dose Calcineurin Inhibitors: The Opticept Trial by Gaston, R. S., Kaplan, B., Shah, T., Cibrik, D., Shaw, L. M., Angelis, M., Mulgaonkar, S., Meier‐Kriesche, H.‐U., Patel, D., Bloom, R. D.

“…Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) was developed with cyclosporine as a fixed‐dose immunosuppressant. More recent data indicate a relationship between mycophenolic…”
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Report of a Consensus Conference on Transplant Program Quality and Surveillance by Kasiske, B. L., McBride, M. A., Cornell, D. L., Gaston, R. S., Henry, M. L., Irwin, F. D., Israni, A. K., Metzler, N. W., Murphy, K. W., Reed, A. I., Roberts, J. P., Salkowski, N., Snyder, J. J., Sweet, S. C.

“…Public reports of organ transplant program outcomes by the US Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients have been both groundbreaking and controversial. The…”
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Counseling Patients for Kidney Transplantation: Awkward Conversations? by Abbott, K. C., Gaston, R. S.

“…Patients who start dialysis without documentation of receiving counseling about kidney transplantation are significantly less likely to receive a subsequent…”
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Living Donor Nephrectomy: Understanding Long‐Term Risk in Minority Populations by Gaston, R. S., Young, C. J.

“…An important study by Lentine and colleagues (NEJM 363: 724, 2010) informs the ongoing debate regarding evaluation and follow‐up of living kidney donors…”
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Report of a Joint ESOT and AST Meeting: Highlights in Biologic Agents and Transplantation by Baan, C. C., Gaston, R. S.

“…A joint meeting organized by the European (ESOT) and American (AST) Societies of Transplantation occurred in Nice, France, October 1–3, 2010. Focused on…”
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Limiting Financial Disincentives in Live Organ Donation: A Rational Solution to the Kidney Shortage by Gaston, R. S., Danovitch, G. M., Epstein, R. A., Kahn, J. P., Matas, A. J., Schnitzler, M. A.

“…Availability of kidney transplantation is limited by an inadequate supply of organs, with no apparent remedy on the immediate horizon and increasing reliance…”
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The Conspicuous Costs of More of the Same by Hippen, B. E., Gaston, R. S.

“…Regardless of our discomfort about hidden costs, and our reluctance to consider uncomfortable moral choices, “more of the same” is increasingly unacceptable as…”
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Late renal allograft loss: noncompliance masquerading as chronic rejection by Gaston, R.S, Hudson, S.L, Ward, M, Jones, P, Macon, R

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Photovoltaic reliability model development and validation by Kuznetsova, V.A., Gaston, R.S., Bury, S.J., Strand, S.R.

“…The 3D simulation of moisture ingress into a photovoltaic module was performed in FlexPDE, employing a finite element approach with restriction to bulk Fickian…”
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Potential utility of rapamycin and tacrolimus in long-term, low-toxicity regimens by Gaston, R.S

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Influence of surface pretreatment and electrocoating parameters on the adhesion of cathodic electrocoat to the Al alloy surfaces by Reddy, C.M, Gaston, R.S, Weikart, C.M, Yasuda, H.K

“…Adhesion of cathodic electrocoat films to the aluminum alloys 2024-T3 bare and Alclad 2024-T3 with different pretreatments and with different cathodic…”
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The living donor process in kidney transplantation: Influence of race and comorbidity by Tankersley, M.R., Gaston, R.S., Curtis, J.J., Julian, B.A., Deierhoi, M.H., Rhynes, V.K., Zeigler, S., Diethelm, A.G.

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Renal transplantation in African-American recipients: Three decades at a single center by Zeigler, S.T., Gaston, R.S., Rhynes, V.K., Hudson, S.L., Julian, B.A., Curtis, J.J., Deierhoi, M.H., Diethelm, A.G.

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