Articles tagged "Cadaveric organs"

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…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Cryopreserved Human Iliac Arteries Allografts: Different Thawing Rates Affect on Their Structural Changes and Mechanical Properties
R. Novotny¹, J. Chlupac¹, R. Matejka², T. Marada¹, P. Mericka³, L. Sterba³, L. Janousek¹, J. Fronek¹
¹Transplant Surgery Department, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Department of Biomedical Engineerin, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, ³Tissue Bank, Faculty Hospital Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
*Purpose: The rate of thawing of cryopreserved human iliac arteries allografts (CHIAA) directly affects the severeness of structural changes that occur during this process. This…
2019 American Transplant Congress
C1 Esterase Inhibitor (C1INH) Treatment at Kidney Transplant Improves Long-Term Outcomes in Patients at Risk for Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury & Delayed Graft Function
S. Jordan¹, E. Huang², N. Ammerman¹, J. Choi¹, O. Aubert³, S. Kumar¹, A. Loupy⁴, A. Peng¹, I. Kim¹, R. Najjar¹, D. Puliyanda¹, T. Brennan¹, S. Sethi¹, A. Vo¹
¹Cedars Sinai Medical Ctr, West Hollywood, CA, ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Ctr, West Hollywood, CA, ³Biostatistics Department, Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, Paris, France, ⁴Biostatistics, Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, Paris, France
*Purpose: Delayed graft function(DGF) is defined as need for dialysis early post-transplant. DGF is related to ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) that diminishes allograft function and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Perfluorocarbon (PFC) Solutions for Organ Preservation
N. Battula, T. Parsons, J. Zhu, C. Giordano, A. Esnakula, B. Spiess, M. Johnson, A. Zarrinpar, K. Andreoni
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: The current status of organ transplantation demands consideration of extended criteria (ECD) brain dead donors (DBD) as well as donation after circulatory death (DCD)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Risk Predictive Strategy to Expand Pancreas Donor Selection
J. W. Mensink¹, K. M. Ooms - de Vries², V. A. Huurman¹, R. A. Pol³, I. P. Alwayn¹, A. E. Braat¹
¹Department of Surgery; Division of Transplantation, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Dutch Transplant Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Department of Surgery; Division of Transplantation, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
*Purpose: The discrepancy between the number of patients on the waiting list and the number of donor pancreata for transplantation needs extension of accepting criteria…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Urine Uromodulin Associates with Deceased Donor Acute Kidney Injury and Allograft Failure
S. G. Mansour¹, I. Hall², P. Reese³, T. Ashkar⁴, Y. Jia⁴, H. Thiessen-Philbrook⁴, M. Doshi⁵, C. R. Parikh⁴
¹Yale, New Haven, CT, ²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Produced exclusively by renal epithelial cells of the thick ascending limb, Uromodulin (UMOD, also known as Tamm-Horsfall protein) is the major component of hyaline…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Organ Vigilance in Germany: Malignancy Transmission from Organ Donor to Recipient
K. Moench, A. Rahmel, A. P. Barreiros
German Foundation for Organtransplantation, Frankfurt, Germany
*Purpose: Vigilance monitoring after organ transplantation includes Serious Adverse Events (SAE) and Serious Adverse Reactions (SAR). SAE describe findings in the donor after transplant that…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Cold Ischemia Time in Kidney Transplantation. The Role of Hypothermic Machine Perfusion
G. ADANI¹, U. Baccarani¹, P. Tulissi², C. Vallone², A. Risaliti¹
¹General Surgery and Transplantation, Academic Hospital P. le S.M. della Misericordia, 33100 Udine, Italy, Udine, Italy, ²Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation, Academic Hospital P. le S.M. della Misericordia, 33100 Udine, Italy, Udine, Italy
*Purpose: Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) of deceased donor kidneys is associated with a better outcome than static cold storage (SCS). Aim of this prospective study…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Organ Procurement Organization Performance is Not Related to Educational Spending
J. P. Roberts¹, J. Bragg-Gresham², P. Held³
¹Univ of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: We examined the educational spending by OPOs in relationship to OPO performance metrics.*Methods: Data sources: OPO Cost Reports (CMS 216-94 Form), SRTR OPO Specific…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Utilization of Deceased Donor Kidneys Based on Donor Hep C Antibody and Nucleic Acid Status
V. Ariyamuthu¹, R. M. LaHoz¹, N. AbdulRahim¹, S. Levea¹, M. MacConmara², C. Hwang², B. Sandikci³, B. Tanriover¹
¹Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: HCV nucleic acid testing (NAT) testing for deceased donors (DD) has been routine since 2015. We intended to look at utilization/discard rates based on…

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