Articles tagged "Cadaveric organs"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Low Diagnostic Yield of Protocol Allograft Biopsy Performed During DGF in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients Treated with Induction and Standard-Dose CNI-Based Maintenance
E. Favi¹, A. James², M. Ferraresso¹, R. Cacciola³
¹Renal Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy, ²Renal Transplantation, Royal London Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ³HBP and Transplant Unit, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy
*Purpose: DGF after kidney transplantation (KTx) has been associated with an increased risk of rejection. For this reason, clinical guideline recommends weekly allograft biospy (Bx)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Discordant Kidney Function at Transplant: A Single Center Analysis of Deceased Donor Paired Kidneys
E. Abuhelaiqa¹, M. Alkadi¹, S. Mansour², L. Mathew¹, F. Makableh¹, A. Nauman¹, O. Fituri¹, M. Asim¹, R. Fadhil³, H. A. Al-Malki¹
¹Nephrology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, ²Internal Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, ³Transplant Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
*Purpose: Analysis of paired kidneys from deceased donors has the advantage of eliminating donor and center related biases seen in previous studies that evaluated kidney…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Migration of Passenger Leukocytes During Ex Vivo Warm Perfusion
L. Brasile¹, B. Stubenitsky²
¹Research and Development, BREONICS Inc., Watervliet, NY, ²Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht, Netherlands
*Purpose: Organ transplantation is a unique immunologic situation in which donor and recipient antigen presenting cells (APCs) are present upon reperfusion. Passenger leukocytes (PL) are…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlisted Patients’ Preferences for Accepting and Consenting to Transplantation with Experimentally Manipulated Organs
E. J. Gordon¹, P. Abt², C. Phillips², F. Bermudez², B. Knopf¹, J. Lee¹, R. Veatch³, R. Knight⁴, P. T. Conway⁴, J. Goldstein⁵, S. Dunn⁶, P. Reese²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Georgetown University, Washington, DC, ⁴American Association of Kidney Patients, Tampa, FL, ⁵Lung Transplant Foundation, Raleigh, NC, ⁶Donor Alliance, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Organ donor intervention research (“intervention research”) aims to increase organ quality and quantity for transplantation by protecting against organ injury and enhancing functionality. Given…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Cadaveric Uterus Transplant Outcomes: Cleveland Experience
C. Quintini¹, G. D’Amico¹, B. Eghtesad¹, E. Richards¹, C. Kwon¹, K. Hashimoto¹, S. Ricci¹, R. Flyckt², C. Ferrando¹, A. Simioni¹, L. Del Angel Diaz¹, C. Miller¹, T. Falcone¹, A. Tzakis³
¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, ³Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL
*Purpose: Uterus transplantation (UTx) is a novel treatment modality for women with absolute uterine factor infertility. The majority of uterine transplants performed in the world…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Estimating the Potential Pool of Uncontrolled DCD Donors in the United States
B. J. Boyarsky, K. R. Jackson, A. B. Kernodle, J. V. Sakran, J. M. Garonzik Wang, S. E. Ottmann, D. L. Segev
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In contrast to donation after brain death (DBD), donation after circulatory death (DCD) involves recovery of organs from people with devastating neurologic injury who…
2020 American Transplant Congress
To Fix or Not to Fix: Kidney Outcomes Requiring Renal Artery Reconstruction Due to Surgical Damage
J. Figueiro, R. Vianna, W. De Faria, S. Elizabeth, G. Ciancio, G. Guerra
Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Deceased donor kidneys damaged surgically during procurement are often discarded. Because of the critical shortage of available kidneys for waitlisted ESRD patients, our center…
2020 American Transplant Congress
First U.S. DCD Heart Procured/Transplanted after Normothermic Regional Perfusion
A. L. Friedman¹, Z. N. Kon², D. E. Smith², B. Sullivan³, J. Carillo², N. Moazami²
¹LiveOnNY, New York, NY, ²Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY, ³NYU Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY
*Purpose: We successfully planned, procured and transplanted a heart after a Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) protocol with post-declaration implementation of in vivo cardiopulmonary bypass…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Inactive Status Changes Disproportionately Impacts the Probability of Obtaining a Deceased Donor Liver Transplant in Donation Service Areas with Higher MMaT
D. Haakinson¹, S. Noreen², D. Stewart², R. Batra¹, G. Gan¹, Y. Deng¹, S. Kulkarni¹
¹Yale, New Haven, CT, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Liver transplant (LT) rate is typically calculated by including both active and inactive patients, despite the fact that inactive patients are unable to receive…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Potential to Regenerate Damaged Allografts
L. Brasile¹, B. Stubentisky²
¹Research and Development, Breonics Inc., Watervliet, NY, ²Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht, Netherlands
*Purpose: The chronic shortage of allografts has generated intense interest in the field of regenerative medicine. Given the limited regeneration that can be accomplished in…

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