Articles tagged "Cadaveric organs"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Non-A1 and Non A1 B to B Deceased Donor Renal Transplantation Are Comparable to B Donor Renal Transplants
A. Brar, L. Kwon, A. Gruessner, F. Tedla, R. Gruessner, N. Sumrani, D. John, J. Renz, M. O. Salifu
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Blood type B patients wait longer to get deceased donor (DD) renal transplants compared to other blood types. On December 2014, the US national…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Twin Epidemics: Drug Overdoses And Suicides Are Increasingly Fueling The United States Donor Liver Supply
M. Goss¹, M. Kueht¹, N. Galvan¹, J. Reece², A. Rana¹
¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: In 2010, 6893 donor livers were procured for United States (U.S.) transplant. A reduction from the former pinnacle of U.S. liver transplant in 2006,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Increase in Deceased Donor Acceptance Rate After Implementing Uniform Acceptance Criteria
C. Klein, T. Ommert, J. Hundley, J. Lizcano, A. Ray, R. Cross, K. Payne
Piedmont Transplant Institute, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Over 100,000 candidates are listed for kidney transplant in the United States, yet less than 20,000 patients are transplanted annually. In 2013, over 2,500…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Waitlist Management – A Tiered System Approach
H. L. Busch
Transplant, UCI Health, Orange, CA
*Purpose: Developed and implemented an innovative kidney & pancreas transplant waitlist management system in order to more effectively and efficiently re-evaluate patients on a transplant…
2019 American Transplant Congress
External Validation of the DCD-N Score and a Linear Prediction Model to Identify Potential Candidates for Donation after Circulatory Death: A Nation-Wide Cohort Study
M. F. Nijhoff¹, R. A. Pol¹, M. Volbeda¹, A. M. Kotsopoulos², J. P. Sonneveld³, J. van Dongen⁴, W. F. Abdo⁵, V. Silderhuis⁶, C. Moers¹
¹Surgery – Organ Donation and Transplantation, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²Department of Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Elisabeth Twee Steden Hospital, Tilburg, Netherlands, ³Department of ICU, Isala, Zwolle, Netherlands, ⁴Department of ICU, Catharina hospital, Eindhoven, Netherlands, ⁵Department of ICU, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ⁶Department of ICU, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) is most often a controlled procedure after planned withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (WLST) at an intensive care unit. In…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Impact of Intraoperative Autologous Blood Transfusion on HCC Recurrence in Liver Transplantation
G. Kelly¹, J. L. Pasko¹, E. Dewey², E. Maynard¹, S. L. Orloff¹, C. Enestvedt¹
¹Division of Abdominal Transplant, OHSU, Portland, OR, ²Department of General Surgery, OHSU, Portland, OR
*Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine whether intraoperative autologous transfusion in liver transplant patients with HCC affects the rate of recurrence.*Methods: We…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Organ Donation Survey among Health Care Professionals in Argentina
V. R. Ruiz¹, A. D. Midley¹, P. E. Rodriguez², S. Bauque², V. Morozovsky¹, A. G. Da lozzo³
¹Respiratory Care, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Organ Procurement, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Lung Trasplant Surgery, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
*Purpose: Our objective was to survey health care professionals (HCPs) responsible for the care of potential organ donors (PODs) on attitude toward organ donation, knowledge…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Video Intervention to Increase Organ Donor Registration (ODR) at the Department of Motorized Vehicles (DMV)
D. A. DuBay¹, T. Morinelli¹, D. Redden², N. Ivankova², I. Herbey³, C. L. Holt⁴, L. Siminoff⁵, M. Fouad², Z. Su⁶, M. Martin⁷
¹Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁵Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ⁷University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: To implement a sustainable, low cost DMV-based intervention that increased ODR of DMV patrons, and secondarily, increase ODR in African Americans (AAs).*Methods: Results from…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Effect Of Exclusive Virtual Crossmatch To Allocate Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant On Cold Ischemia Time And Acute Rejection
E. Abuhelaiqa¹, M. Alkadi¹, S. Thappy¹, S. Saleh², J. Mahmoud³, M. Jarman³, O. Fituri¹, M. Elkhalifa⁴, J. Wadström³, H. Al-Malki¹
¹Medicine-Nephrology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, ²Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory,, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, ³Surgery-Transplant, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, ⁴Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
*Purpose: Virtual crossmatch (VXM) using Luminex single antigen bead has significantly improved prediction of an actual negative crossmatch. A negative crossmatch is typically required for…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Apparatus and Method to Facilitate In-Situ Cold Perfusion of Abdominal Organs in DCD Donors
M. Jendrisak
Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Itasca, IL
*Purpose: Rapid, effective in-situ cold perfusion of the abdominal organs in the setting of donation after circulatory death (DCD) is a critical surgical task to…