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2016 American Transplant Congress
Measured Glomerular Filtration Rate of the Remaining Kidney Divided by Its Volume Prior to Donation Is a Predictor of the Long-Term Gain of Function in Living Kidney Donors.
M. Courbebaisse,¹ F. Gaillard,² A. Le Nestour,⁴ J.-M. Correas,³ H. Slimani-Thevenet,⁵ C. Leon,² D. Eladari,¹ M.-O. Timsit,⁶ P. Otal,⁷ G. Friedlander,¹ P. Houillier,¹ N. Kamar,⁸ C. Legendre.²
¹AP-HP, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Physiology department, Paris Descartes University, and INSERM, Unit 1151, Paris, France; ²AP-HP, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Renal Transplantation Department, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; ³AP-HP, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Radiology Department, and Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; ⁴University of Otago, Biostastistic department, Otago, New Zealand; ⁵AP-HP, Georges Pompidou European Hospital , Nuclear Medicine department, Paris Descartes University, and INSERM, Unit 1151, Paris, France; ⁶AP-HP, Georges Pompidou European Hospital , Nuclear Medicine department, Paris Descartes University, and INSERM, Unit 1151, Paris, France; ⁷Toulouse University Hospital, CHU Rangueil, Department of Radiology, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France; ⁸Toulouse University Hospital, CHU Rangueil, Department of Nephrology and Organ Transplantation, Paul Sabatier University, INSERM U1043, IFR–BMT, CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France.
Predictors of long-term renal function in living kidney donors are a matter of debate. To describe the predictors of remaining kidney functional gain, we conducted…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Peri-Operative Events and Complications in Minimally-Invasive Live Donor Nephrectomy: What Should We Tell Potential Donors?
K. Kortram, J. Ijzermans, F. Dor.
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
PURPOSE: To systematically assess perioperative events in minimally-invasive live donor nephrectomy, and to compare different techniques currently employed for this procedure.METHODS: A literature search was…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Families on Organ Donation Among Native Americans.
T. Bongiovanni,^1,3 J. Rawlings,² J. Trompeta.¹
¹Dept of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ²CT Native American Tribal Council, New Haven, CT; ³Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CSP, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Background: Prevalence of end-stage renal disease is 3.5 times greater among the >2.5 million Native Americans (NAs) in the US than in Caucasians, due to…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Text Messaging Facilitates Follow-Up Communication with Live Donors.
J. Moore, A. Massie, J. Berger, J. Montgomery, S. Dorry.
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Close live kidney donor follow-up requires new methods of communicating with donors. Text messaging offers a low-cost method of contacting live organ donors and may…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Pilot Study of Donor: A Smart Phone Application for Identifying Live Kidney and Liver Donors.
K. Kumar,¹ E. King,¹ A. Muzaale,¹ J. Konel,¹ G. Segal,³ J. Arnold,³ K. Bramstedt,⁴ D. Segev,^1,2 A. Cameron.¹
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; ³ORGANIZE, New York, NY; ⁴Bond University School of Medicine, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
Background: With over 100,000 candidates waiting, rates of deceased donation stagnant, and only 17,000 Kidney and liver transplants a year, live donor transplantation may represent…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Can Qrisk Be Useful to Predict Future Cardiovascular Co-Morbidites and Type II Diabetes in Living Kidney Donors Prior to Donation?
S. Bhutani, R. Chinnadurai, G. Bernal-Blanco, B. Patel, A. Summers, D. Van Dellen, M. Morton, P. Michael.
Department of Renal & Transplant Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Introduction:Living kidney donor transplantation has demonstrated significant survival benefits to individuals with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). However, The long term cardiovascular risks associated with…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Retroperitoneal versus Intraperitoneal Hand Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: A Case Matched Study.
Z. Ahmed, M. Sait, R. Tamburrini, R. Uwechue, P. Chandak, N. Kessaris, N. Mamode.
Abdominal Transplant Unit, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Although hand assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (HALDN) has become a standard of care for living kidney procurement in most centres it is not clear if…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Safety and Efficacy of Suspended Gasless Laparoscopy Living-Donor Nephrectomy in Renal Transplantation.
J. Tian.
Organ Transplantation Center, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.
BACKGROUNDS: To develop a minimally invasive surgery for the kidney transplant donor and get the no CO2 pressure condition harvested kidney, we have developed suspended…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Emptive Kidney Transplantation with Living- Donor and Concomitant Unilateral Nephrectomy in Patients with Autosomal-Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Safe Strategy?
C. Michel,¹ F. Audenet,¹ M. Ariane,¹ C. Legendre,² D. Joly,² A. Méjean,¹ M.-O. Timsit.¹
¹Urology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; ²Nephrology and Transplantation, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France.
Objectives. Because the timing of the nephrectomy still remains unclear, we studied the complications and outcomes of unilateral nephrectomy and concomitant pre-emptive kidney transplant with…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Prospective Investigation of the Reliability and Validity of the Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT).
D. LaPointe Rudow, A. Shenoy, J. Hunt, Z. Filipovic-Jewell, B. Haydel, B. Iacoviello.
Recanati Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
Purpose: The LDAT was the first psychosocial assessment instrument developed to standardize the live donor (LD) psychosocial evaluation (PsychE). Previously, it was found to be…