2016 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Outcomes of Kidney Allograft Recipients with Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) Risk Alleles from Living Kidney Donors.
Background:Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) alleles G1 and G2 in deceased donors are associated with poor kidney allograft survival. However, the effect of these alleles in living…2016 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Baseline Co-Morbidity on Mortality in Living Kidney Donors – 10 Year UK Cohort Study.
Living kidney donation has significantly improved recipient and graft survival world wide. With a move to increase these numbers further, it becomes mandatory to have…2016 American Transplant Congress
Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy with Transvaginal Extraction of the Kidney.
Minimally invasive surgery aims to the reduction of complications, pain and scars. Thus, vaginal extraction of the donor's kidney has been reported as an option…2016 American Transplant Congress
Improving Donor Comfort: Perioperative Dexamethasone Decreases Nausea, Vomiting, and Pain After Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy.
Introduction: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) and pain are common adverse events after laparoscopic surgery. Perioperative dexamethasone (8-10mg) has been reported to decrease PONV and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Preferences: A Novel Use of a Visual Instrument to Quantify ESRD Risk Acceptance.
1Yale U, New Haven; 2U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia; 3Northwestern U, Chicago.
BackgroundGiven new data about the estimated lifetime risk of ESRD among living kidney donors (LKD) (Muzaale 2014), we elicited their willingness to accept the risk…2016 American Transplant Congress
Altruistic Kidney Donation: A Single US Transplant Center Experience.
Background: Altruistic donors (ADs) continue to make rising contributions to the donor pool. Increasing efforts have been made to assess ADs to understand the motivations…2016 American Transplant Congress
Post-Donation eGFR and Hypertension in Living Kidney Donors.
1JHU, Baltimore; 2University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham.
Donor eGFR declines sharply after living kidney donation, but long-term eGFR trajectories and their relationship to post-donation hypertension are poorly understood.METHODS: We retrospectively obtained 7805…2016 American Transplant Congress
Renal Efficiency: A New Metric for Evaluating Kidneys in Living Donors.
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Donor age, quality of the graft, and the size/weight of the donated kidney are factors that may affect subsequent transplant outcomes. Morphological renal measurements may…2016 American Transplant Congress
What Are the Benefits of Transvaginal Route for Kidney Extraction in Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy ?
1Hôpital Européen Georges Pomidou, Paris, France; 2Hôpital Necker, Paris, France.
Rationale and objectivesTransvaginal route for kidney extraction (TVE) emerged as new surgical option during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy to minimize scar and presumably to offer donors…2016 American Transplant Congress
Ineligible: Attitudes and Follow-Up of Individuals Ruled Out of Living Kidney Donation.
1Yale U, New Haven; 2Northwestern U, Chicago; 3U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Background: Little is known about the experiences of individuals who begin living kidney donor (LKD) evaluation but are turned down due to ineligibility. We assessed…
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