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Really Old (>84 Years) Deceased Donor Livers Can Save Lives.
A. Friedman, E. Marquez, K. DelliCarpini.
LiveOnNY, New York, NY.
Avoiding death of the liver transplant candidate who depends on the inadequate organ supply requires careful strategy. Nevertheless, transplantation of livers from potential donors older…
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Impact of the National Overdose Death Epidemic on the Deceased-Donor Pool.
M. Bowring, A. Massie, L. Kucirka, E. Chow, M. Sulkowski, D. Segev, C. Durand.
JHU, Baltimore.
Beginning in 2010, there was a dramatic increase in heroin and other opioid overdose(OD) deaths in several regions across the country, primarily among young Caucasians.…
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Effect of Modifying Life Support Withdrawal Practices on Outcomes of Donation After Circulatory Death in Liver Transplantation: A Meta-Analysis.
Y. Cao,^1,2 S. Shahrestani,³ H. Chew,^2,4 M. Crawford,⁵ P. Macdonald,^1,2,4 J. Laurence,^3,5,7 W. Hawthorne,^3,6 K. Dhital,^1,2,4 H. Pleass.^3,5,6
¹Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ²Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ³Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ⁴Cardiac Transplant Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ⁵Australian National Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ⁶The Department of Surgery, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ⁷Institute of Academic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Aim. Donor warm ischaemic time is identified as the main risk factor for poor outcomes in liver transplantation using donation after circulatory death (DCD) compared…
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Missed Opportunities After Cardiac Death: Should Every Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) Referral Be Pursued? A Large Single US Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) Experience.
S. Rudich, R. Messer, R. Pietroski, P. Lange.
Medical Division, Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
We wished to evaluate in detail those DCD cases in which our OPO did not pursue organ donation but the potential DCD candidate expired within…
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Deceased Organ Donor Factors Influencing Pancreatic Graft Transplantation and Survival.
M. Sally, M. Ellis, T. Groat, X. Gao, S. De la Cruz, M. Patel, D. Malinoski.
Section of Critical Care, Portland VA Health Care System, Portland, OR.
Criteria for organ acceptance remain inconsistent in pancreatic transplantation. The lack of predictive criteria limits the ability to standardize critical care practices in management of…
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A Multi-Modular Approach for Training in Liver Procurement Accelerates Proficiency Gain.
I. Al Hasan,^1,2 H. Sharma,^1,2 M. Tun-Abraham,¹ D. Quan.^1,2
¹Department of Surgery, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; ²Multi-Organ Transplant Program, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada.
BACKGROUND: Modular training has been established as an educational tool in colorectal and urology surgery for the last 5 years. This modular operative approach is…
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The Immunologic Profile of Brain Death in Humans: A Whole-Body Analysis.
D. Carpenter,^1,2 N. Matsuoka,¹ J. Thome,^1,3 T. Granot,^1,3 C. Gordon,^1,3 B. Kumar,^1,3 T. Senda,^1,3 M. Miron,^1,3 J. Weiner,² A. Griesemer,^1,2 D. Farber.^1,2,3
¹Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ²Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ³Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY.
Transplantation outcomes are believed to be influenced by a generalized inflammatory state caused by brain death itself or events in the peri-transplant period. Studies on…
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Rapid Withdrawal of Donation After Cardiac Death Donors.
K. Mekeel,¹ J. Trageser,² W. Garrison,² J. Berumen,¹ L. Stocks,² A. Hemming.¹
¹Surgery, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA; ²Lifesharing, San Diego, CA.
Purpose: Potential organ donors may be lost if procurement needs to occur emergently due to hemodynamic instability or family request, in particular if serologies and…
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Multiorgan Procurement a Learning Tool in General Surgical Resident Education.
J. Bayer, R. Goldstein, G. McKenna, G. Testa, R. Ruiz, T. Anthony, N. Onaca, G. Klintmalm, P. Kim.
Transplant Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
IntroductionRestricted duty hours and the growing use of minimally invasive techniques, is limiting the open surgical experience for general surgery (GS) residents. Multiorgan procurement (MP)…
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Deceased Organ Donors with Zero Organs Transplanted: Why and How Can We Improve?
P. Lange,¹ S. Rudich,¹ N. Obaseki,¹ J. Punch.²
¹Medical Division, Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Organ recovery professionals and donor hospitals are under intense pressure to go to whatever lengths necessary to provide transplantable organs. However, such a mentality can…