2015 American Transplant Congress
Educating the Less Prepared: Transplant Knowledge and Decision-Making Differences by Race at Onset of Evaluation
Racial minorities have higher rates of kidney failure than Whites but are less likely to receive kidney transplants. This study described each race/ethnic groups' level…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
Influence of Cold Ischemia Time in Combination With Donor Ischemic Events on Kidney Transplant Outcomes
Transplantation, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Deceased-donor kidneys may be exposed to various ischemic events either from donor instability as evidenced by acute kidney injury (AKI) or donation after circulatory death…2015 American Transplant Congress
Local Expansion in DCD Kidney Transplant Activity Improves Waiting List Outcomes and Addresses Inequities of Access to Transplantation
1Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2NHSBT, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Following expansion in our circulatory death (DCD) transplant program, our center now performs twice as many DCD as brain-death (DBD) kidney transplants. Here, we…2015 American Transplant Congress
High Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) Correlates With Calculated Pulsatile Perfusion (PP) Resistance Index (RI) and Delayed Graft Function (DGF)
Surgery/Transplant, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
Background: Deceased donor (DD) kidney quality is now being determined by calculating the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI). Calculated kidney vascular resistance index (RI) during…2015 American Transplant Congress
Dual Kidney Transplantation – Utilising Marginal Kidneys
Cardiff Transplant Unit, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Background: With the increasing shortage of donor kidneys a constant review of organ quality and utilisation is required. Getting any positive result from a potential…2015 American Transplant Congress
Emerging Strategies to Screen Kidney Offers Based on the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI)
Background: In the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network's (OPTN) new kidney allocation system, kidney offers are screened by setting for each candidate a maximum acceptable…2015 American Transplant Congress
Moderate KDPI (35-85) and High KDPI (>85) Grafts Yield Similar Graft Function and Survival
Purpose – To study the impact of donor KDPI on post-transplant kidney function and survival.Methods – We reviewed the records of 309 deceased donor kidney…2015 American Transplant Congress
Parameters of Machine Perfusion Evaluating Quality of Kidneys from DCD/ECD Donors
Background Donors from donation after cardiac death(DCD) and expanded criteria donors(ECD) have poorer outcomes compared to standard deceased donors(SCD). It is important to evaluate quality…2015 American Transplant Congress
Utilization and Characteristics of Kidney Donors in the US by OPTN-Defined Increased Risk Donor Status
Background: The number of candidates in need of kidney transplantation is far larger than the number of organ donors. To expand the organ pool, there…
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