Articles tagged "Donation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Comprehensive Utilization of HCV Viremic and Non-Viremic Donor Livers and Kidneys into HCV-negative Patients
M. E. de Vera, J. Woloszyn, J. Sterris, M. Robinson, R. Evans, S. Blais, B. Elhazin, C. Amador, c. Berk, M. Volk, R. Villicana
Transplant Institute, Loma Linda University Health, San Bernardino, CA
*Purpose: We report our experience on virologic and graft outcomes of HCV-negative patients transplanted with HCV NAT+ (viremic) and HCV Ab+/NAT- (non-viremic) livers and kidneys…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Lung Transplantation with Multi Drug Resistant Colonized Grafts, Retrospective Cohort Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital
N. Al-Ashi
Pharmacy, King Fahad Specialist Hospital -Dammam, Khobar, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Infections are the primary cause of morbidity and mortality after solid organ transplantation. Due to high incidence of lung graft colonization with multi drug…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Assisted Donor Nephrectomy: A Single Center Experience
A. Khan, A. Sharma, S. Lee, A. Cotterell, D. Kumar, L. Kamal, I. Moinuddin, D. Bruno, V. Kumaran, M. Levy, C. Bhati
Transplant Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Robotic donor nephrectomy (RLDN) is an emerging procedure of choice for living kidney donors at many programs. This approach has benefit of minimal invasive…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Hospital-Level Metrics and Interventions to Increase Deceased Organ Donation: A Systematic Review
M. Castillo-Angeles¹, G. Li², P. Bain³, A. Salim¹, J. T. Adler¹
¹Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, ³Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: The shortage of transplantable organs available for the ever-growing transplant waiting list is well-described. Efforts to ameliorate this have predominantly focused on improving processes…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Calculated Panel of Incompatible Epitopes (cPIE) in the Service of Equitable Access to Transplantation
J. Lamsatfi¹, B. Bingfan Liu¹, S. Parto², A. Lewin³, K. Oualkacha¹, F. Claas⁴, P. Keown⁵, R. Sapir-Pichhadze⁶
¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Hema-Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Leiden University Medical Centre, Albinusdreef, Netherlands, ⁵University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁶Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: To inform on feasibility of eplet matching, we developed the calculated Panel of Incompatible Epitopes (cPIE), an algorithm informing on the likelihood of identifying…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Community- Targeted Educational Campaign on Living Donor Transplants
S. Ganesh, A. Humar
Transplant, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: There is an urgent need to expand access to living donor liver transplants due to a wide gap in the availability of deceased donor…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Change in Deceased Donor Demographics with Drug Intoxication Deaths: 2010 – 2019
D. Musgrove, D. Zaun, A. Israni, J. Snyder
SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: To understand the demographic change in deceased donor causes of death associated with drug intoxication, we explored trends over the 10-year period ending in…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid Studies in 208 Patients with Consent for Donation
A. L. Friedman, C. Ezzell, K. Delli Carpini
LiveOnNY, New York, NY
*Purpose: To prevent transmission of SARS CoV 2 via solid organ donation from deceased donors.*Methods: Comprehensive medical and psychosocial evaluation of potential deceased organ donors…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Robotic versus Open Mini-incision Living Donor Nephrectomy: Single Center Experience
S. Lee¹, S. Z. Wang², A. Khan¹, A. Sharma¹, D. Kumar³, L. Kamal³, A. Cotterell¹, V. Kumaran¹, D. Bruno¹, M. Levy¹, C. Bhati¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University hospital, Richmond, VA, ²Medical School, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, ³Transplant Nephrology, Virginia Commonwealth University hospital, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: A minimally invasive approach is the gold standard for living donor nephrectomy (LDN). While robotic surgery is commonly used for native nephrectomies and urological…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Public Perceptions of Presumed Consent for Organ Donation in Canada: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Public Comments from News Articles
D. E. Fox¹, M. Donald², C. Chong¹, R. R. Quinn³, P. E. Ronksley¹, M. J. Elliott³, N. N. Lam³
¹The Department of Community Health Sciences, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²Cumming School of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³The Cumming School of Medicine and Department of Community Health Sciences, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
*Purpose: In 2019, two Canadian provinces (Alberta and Nova Scotia) became the first jurisdictions in North America to pass presumed consent legislation to increase deceased…