Publications by authors named "Kelly A Noon"
Background: As patients with chronic kidney disease become older, there is greater need to identify who will most benefit from kidney transplantation. Analytic morphomics has emerged as an objective risk assessment tool distinct from chronologic age. We hypothesize that morphometric age is a significant predictor of survival following transplantation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Better risk assessment tools are needed to predict post-transplantation diabetes mellitus (PTDM). Using analytic morphomic measurements from computed tomography (CT) scans, we aimed to identify specific measures of body composition associated with PTDM.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 99 non-diabetic kidney transplant recipients who received pre-transplant CT scans at a single institution between 1/2005 and 5/2014.
Background/purpose: Although graft loss remains the biggest challenge for all pediatric kidney transplant (KT) recipients, unique challenges exist within different age groups. We aim to evaluate the different characteristics and graft survival outcomes of young children and adolescents undergoing KT.
Methods: Children who underwent isolated KT between 2000 and 2013 at our institution were included in this retrospective analysis.
Background: Patients returning to dialysis therapy after renal transplant failure have high morbidity and retransplant rates. After observing frequent hospitalizations with fever after failure, it was hypothesized that maintaining immunosuppression for the failed allograft increases the risk of infection, while weaning immunosuppression can lead to symptomatic rejection mimicking infection.
Methods: One hundred eighty-six patients with failed kidney transplants were analyzed for rates of hospitalization with fever within 6 months of allograft failure.