2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Receiving a Donation After Cardiac Death Liver Graft
Background: Recent data suggests that patients with Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who receive a donation after cardiac death (DCD) graft have inferior graft and patient survival…2015 American Transplant Congress
Controlled DCD Pancreas Transplantation : A Single Centre Experience
Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Background: The use of DCD pancreata are gaining popularity in the UK. Isolated pancreas transplantation (IP) is known to have inferior outcomes in comparison to…2015 American Transplant Congress
Risk Associated With DCD Kidney Transplantation Varies by Donor Characteristics
Studies have shown that comparable kidney graft survival between donors after brain death (DBD) and donors after circulatory death (DCD) overall. However, the differential risk…2015 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal eGFR Modelling to Understand Rates of eGFR Decline in Renal Transplantation in the United Kingdom
Background: The rate of decline in eGFR (slope) has been independently associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events and all cause mortality in kidney…2015 American Transplant Congress
Detriemental Impact of DGF and CIT On Longterm Survival After Kidney Transplantation in Elderly Recipients
Background: In kidney transplantation, the association of cold ischemia time (CIT) and delayed graft function (DGF) is particularly detriemental in grafts from marginal donors. In…2015 American Transplant Congress
Lessons Learned from the Clinical Use of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (nRP) in Uncontrolled Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD)
The national protocol for the uDCD program restricts donor age < 55 y, no flow period < 30 min and total warm ischemia time (WIT)…2015 American Transplant Congress
National Outcomes of Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) Liver Transplantation Are Equivalent to Donation After Brain Death (DBD) Liver Transplantation Using Older (DBD) Donor Livers
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Background: Multiple studies have demonstrated that outcomes of DCD liver transplantation (LTx) are inferior to DBD LTx. Thus DCD liver transplantation represents only 7% of…2015 American Transplant Congress
Do Community-Solicited NDDs Experience More Coercion to Donate a Kidney Than Traditional NDD Donors?
New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY.
BACKGROUND:Studies of non-directed donors (NDDs) have shown comparable psychosocial functioning to traditional donors. Within NDDs there are some that come forward in response to community…2015 American Transplant Congress
National Outcomes of Kidney Tranplantation from Diabetic Donors: A Mate-Kidney Analysis
Utilization of diabetic donor kidneys has increased, though scarce patient and allograft survival data are available for recipients of these organs. Using United Network for…2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation of ABO- and Crossmatch-Incompatible Recipient-Donor Pairs Entered in Kidney Paired Donation Program
Transplantation Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY.
Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) enables ABO-incompatible (ABOI) and crossmatch-incompatible (XMI) patients to undergo transplantation using a 'more compatible' donor. Identification of factors that predict early…