Articles tagged "Brain death"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function (DGF) Doesn't Affect Adversely the Long-Term Survival of Renal Transplantations (RT) from Uncontrolled Donation After Cardiac Death (UDCD) as Compared with RT from Standard Criteria Donor (SCD).
M. Molina,¹ J. Cabrera,² E. Gonzalez,¹ E. Gutierrez,¹ E. Morales,¹ E. Hernandez,¹ M. Praga,¹ A. Andres.¹
¹Nephrology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; ²Nephrology, Hospital de Clínicas, Montevideo, Uruguay.
INTRODUCTION: DGF is a well-known risk factor for long-term kidney survival in RT. DGF hasn't been evaluated in RT from SCD and from UDCD donors.AIM:…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Urologic Complications After Pediatric En-Bloc Donor Kidney Transplantation.
S. Kabagambe,¹ A. De Mattos,² R. Perez,¹ C. Santhanakrishnan,¹ J. Sageshima,¹ C. Troppmann,¹ J. McVicar.¹
¹Surgery, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA; ²Transplant Nephrology, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA.
Pediatric en-bloc kidney transplant (PEBKT) has expanded the donor pool. Association of donor characteristics and urologic complications is not well described. The objective of this…
2016 American Transplant Congress
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…
2016 American Transplant Congress
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…
2016 American Transplant Congress
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…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Effects of Brain Death and Ischemia on Tolerance Induction Are Organ-Specific.
S. Michel,^1,2 M. Madariaga,¹ G. LaMuraglia II,¹ R. Colvin,³ E. Farkash,³ J. Allan,^1,4 D. Sachs,¹ K. Yamada,¹ J. Madsen.^1,5
¹Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ²Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; ³Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ⁴Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ⁵Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Background. We have previously shown that 12 days of high-dose calcineurin inhibition induced tolerance in miniature swine transplanted with MHC mismatched lung or cotransplanted heart…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Enhanced Production of Macrophage Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) Within the Kidney in Brain Death Donors Predicts Recipient Allograft Function
J. Chen, S. Antipenko, A. Zmijewska, R. Reed, J. Locke, R. Mannon.
Medicine/Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Brain death (BD) induces an intense pro-inflammatory state, which may impact recipient immunity and graft function after kidney transplantation. The identification of biomarkers predictive of…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Remote Ischemic Preconditioning Increases Transplantation of Abdominal Organs in Standard Criteria Neurological Death Donors
A. Bongu,¹ W. Washburn,² J. Oliver,¹ J. Nespral,³ A. Davidow,⁴ C. Kadric,³ G. Dikdan,¹ J. Lewis,² U. Pandit,¹ A.-K. Beidas,¹ C. Tourtellot,³ L. Brown,¹ B. Koneru.¹
¹Surgery, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ; ²Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX; ³Texas Organ Sharing Alliance, San Antonio, TX; ⁴Preventive Medicine, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ.
Background: Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) induces innate protective mechanisms in remote organs. We hypothesized RIPC soon after neurological death (ND) would improve donor organ function…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Speed of Onset of Donor Brain Death Leads to Differences in Renal Function and Expression of Inflammatory and Oxidative Stress Markers in Rat Kidneys
D. Hoeksma,¹ R. Rebolledo,² M. Hottenrott,³ Y. Bodar,¹ H. Leuvenink.¹
¹Abdominal Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; ³Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
IntroductionDonor brain death (BD) is an independent risk factor for primary and delayed renal graft function. Furthermore, the speed of onset of brain death, traumatic…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Anti-Apoptotic But Not Mitotic Effects of 3,3',5-triiodo-l-thyronine in the Liver of Brain Dead Rats
A. van Erp,¹ R. Rebolledo,² J. Wiersema-Buist,¹ P. Ottens,¹ H. Leuvenink,¹ P. Romanque.²
¹Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Department of Surgery, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Thyroid hormone treatment in brain dead organ donors has been extensively studied and applied in the clinical setting. However, its effectiveness remains controversial due to…