- 2015 American Transplant Congress - Patients With Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP) Experience Survival Benefit After Live Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT)- Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Diseases, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA. Background: SBP is a life threatening complication of end stage liver disease. Reports indicate a 40-50% one year mortality rate in patients who experience SBP…
- 2015 American Transplant Congress - Systematic Medical Record Review to Identify Safety Risks in Living Liver DonorsBACKGROUNDPrevention of adverse events (AEs) is important in Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT), as these are healthy volunteers who undergo a major procedure with no…
- 2015 American Transplant Congress - Why Patients Are Unwilling to Ask for a Living Donor: A Mixed Methods StudyMultiple studies find that kidney patients are uncomfortable asking potential living donors to donate, but less is known about the specific reasons why not. This…
- 2015 American Transplant Congress - Prehypertension and Abnormal Fasting Glucose Are the Main Factors Associated With Progressive Deterioration of Renal Function in Kidney DonorsBackground: For reasons unclarified, some kidney donors (KD) are patients (pts) that throughout its evolution remain with the same renal function (RF) or even continue…
- 2015 American Transplant Congress - Hispanic/Latino Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation  Role of a Culturally Competent Transplant Program- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Background and objectives: Hispanic Americans face disparities in access to kidney transplantation, particularly living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT).Design, setting, participants, and measurements: Northwestern Medicine's® (NM)…
- 2015 American Transplant Congress - Quantifying Risk of ESRD in Live Kidney DonorsAmong live kidney donors higher overall risk of ESRD has been shown in African-Americans and men. However, individual risk of ESRD has not been quantified.METHODS:…
- 2015 American Transplant Congress - How Long Is Too Long? The Impact of Bridge Donor Waiting Time on Paired Donation Transplants- 1University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH; 2Alliance for Paired Donation, Maumee, OH. Non-simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor (NEAD) chains and bridge donors (BD) are increasingly utilized in the field of Kidney Paired Donation (KPD), but remain controversial due…
- 2015 American Transplant Congress - Paired Match Power and Challenges for O-Patients in Kidney Paired Donation- Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Introduction: In kidney paired donation (KPD), Paired Match Power (PMP), defined as Probability{Donor Compatible}×Probability{Patient Compatible}, can be used to prioritize difficult to match pairs. However,…
- 2015 American Transplant Congress - Live Donor Kidney Transplantation: Recipient Outcomes When the Donor Developed ESRD- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Recipient outcomes when the donor developed ESRD remain uncharacterized.Method: A cohort of 99 LDKT recipients between 04/1994-11/2011, whose donors subsequently developed ESRD, was compared with…
- 2015 American Transplant Congress - Immunologic Long-Term Outcome of Living Kidney Transplantation Depending On the Donor-Recipient Relationship- Nephrology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Background. Only few data is available about long-term immunologic outcomes of living kidney transplantation (KTx) depending on the donor-recepient relationship.Patients and methods. This single center…
