Articles tagged "Donation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Estimated GFR at Donor Screening and Achieved Measured GFR after Living Kidney Donation
M. van Londen, J. van der Weijden, S. Bakker, S. Berger, J. Sanders, G. Navis, M. de Borst.
Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Study Purpose: Accurate pre-donation renal function estimation is important to minimize the risk of future severe renal function impairment in living kidney donors. Recent studies…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Renal and Patient Risks for Living Kidney Donors
Y. Kim, M. Yu, Y. Kim, H. Lee.
Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Purpose:Recent studies have issued that living kidney donor (LKD) might be exposed to higher risk for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and death, compared with healthy…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The First 9 Years of KPD through the National Kidney Registry: Characteristics of Donors and Recipients Compared to National Transplant Registries
S. Flechner,¹ A. Thomas,² M. Ronin,³ J. Veale,⁴ D. Leeser,⁵ S. Kapur,⁶ J. Piepert,⁴ D. Segev,² G. Hil,³ A. Waterman.⁴
¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; ³National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY; ⁴UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ⁵East Carolina, Greenville, NC; ⁶Cornell, New York, NY.
Purpose: The NKR is a voluntary network of 75 transplant centers in 28 States in the USA focused on the facilitation of live donor kidney…
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Interactive Software for Simulation and Management of a Kidney Paired Donation Program
M. Bray,¹ W. Wang,¹ M. Rees,² P. Song,¹ A. Leichtman,³ V. Ashby,¹ J. Kalbfleisch.¹
¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²Alliance for Paired Donation, Maumee, OH; ³Arbor Research, Ann Arbor, MI.
In kidney paired donation (KPD), candidates with willing but incompatible donors are pooled together with the goal of finding new transplant opportunities by exchanging donors.…
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Development of a Predictive Model for Deceased Donor Organ Yield
W. Marrero Colon,¹ M. Lavieri,¹ S. Guikema,¹ D. Hutton,² N. Parikh.³
¹Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ³Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Organ transplantation is a lifesaving intervention for patients with organ failure. However, there is a gap between the supply and demand of organs in the…
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Long-Term Follow Up of Living Kidney Donors with CKD at 1 Year after Nephrectomy
J. Na,¹ J. Park,¹ M-.G. Yoon,¹ H. Lee,² Y. Yoon,³ K. Huh,⁴ M. Kim,⁴ S. Kim,⁴ Y. Kim,⁴ W. Han.¹
¹Department of Urology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Urological Science Institute, Seoul, Korea; ²Department of Urology, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang-si, Korea; ³Department of Urology, Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea; ⁴Department of Surgery-Transplantation, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Introduction:Many kidney donors show poor recovery after donation and the long-term prognosis of those patients has not been well studied. In this study we explored…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (5): Role of the Chinese State
D. Li,¹ Y. Xia,² M. Li,¹ G. Yin.¹
¹China Organ Harvest Research Center, Middletown, NY; ²Human Rights Law Foundation, Washington, DC.
PurposeThis report identifies the role of the Chinese state in organ transplant abuses in China, including the harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience as…
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Chronic Changes on Time Zero Living Donor Allograft Biopsy Portraits Worse Donor Renal Function
A. Nishio-Lucar,¹ J. Murphy,² A. Sites,³ H. Cathro,² A. Doyle,¹ K. Warburton,¹ A. Agarwal.⁴
¹Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ²Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ³Transplant Services, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ⁴Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
The prognostic ability of zero hour biopsy (ZHB) in renal allografts has not been fully elucidated. ZHB utility predicting living kidney donor (LKD) renal recovery…
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Exenatide Reduces Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Donation after Cardiac Death Rat Kidney Transplantation
H. Yang,¹ Y. Shi,² X. Li,¹ C. Long,¹ Z. Xu,¹ L. Luo,¹ W. Luo,¹ Y. Zhang,¹ T. Zeng,³ M. Chen,⁴ H. Li,⁵ Z. Wang.⁵
¹Department of Organ Transplantation, People's Hospital of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China; ²Department of Pathology, Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China; ³Department of Urologic Surgery, People's Hospital of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China; ⁴Department of Vascular Surgery, People's Hospital of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China; ⁵Department of Urologic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Background: Exenatide provide protection against warm Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury (IRI) in the rat heart and kidney. We hypothesized that Exenatide reduces IRI in a rat donation…
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Living Liver Donation is Safe in Donors Heterozygous for an alpha-1 Antitrypsin Gene Mutation
T. Bittermann,¹ L. Wood,² P. Abt,² A. Shaked,² K. Olthoff,² D. Goldberg.^1,3
¹Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ³Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Patients homozygous for an alpha-1 antitrypsin mutation, particularly the Pi*ZZ phenotype, develop cirrhosis and pulmonary emphysema. Those with a heterozygous phenotype are thought to have…