Articles tagged "Donation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Criteria and Practice Patterns for Accepting Living Donors with Prior Covid-19: A National Survey
A. Jawed¹, M. Y. Jan², N. Barros², O. Adebiyi², A. Diez³, J. Fridell², W. Goggins², M. Yaqub², M. A. Mujtaba⁴, T. Taber², V. Kumar⁵, K. Lentine⁶, A. Sharfuddin²
¹Wayne State University, Detroit, IN, ²Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ³The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁴UTMB Galveston, Galveston, TX, ⁵University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁶St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: A critical question facing transplant programs is if, when and how to safely accept living kidney donors (LKD) who have a history and recovered…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Next of Kin Authorization for Research in Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation: Experience at One Organ Procurement Organization
K. L. Lentine¹, C. Jones¹, W. Cheungpasitporn², R. Rothweiler³, H. Xiao¹, M. Ortigosa-Goggins⁴, G. Marklin³, R. B. Mannon⁵
¹Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Mid-America Transplant, St. Louis, MO, ⁴University of Miami, Miami, FL, ⁵University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
*Purpose: Research related to deceased donor interventions seeks to address diverse questions to improve the use and outcomes of organ gifts for transplantation. Consent for…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Delphi Panel to Develop Public Educational Materials About Vascular Composite Allotransplantation (VCA)
C. Sidoti¹, A. Ferzola², H. Sung², S. Rasmussen², E. Gordon³, N. Anderson³, J. Uriarte³, C. Cooney⁴, G. Brandacher⁴, M. Levan²
¹Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, East Islip, NY, ²Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁴Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: As the field of Vascular Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) grows, so does the demand for VCA donations. The education materials about VCA and VCA donation…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Pre- Kidney Donation Pregnancy Complications and Long-Term Outcomes
E. Helgeson¹, E. F. Palzer¹, D. Vock¹, A. Matas²
¹University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, ²University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: In general, hypertension (HTN), proteinuria, or diabetes (DM) are exclusion criteria for living kidney donation in young candidates. Exceptions are made for conditions only…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Organ Decline Rate and Outcomes of Shared Kidneys from OneLegacy OPO Donation Service Area in Los Angeles
M. Hussain¹, P. Homkalrias¹, K. Wheeler², G. Danovitch¹, S. Bunnapradist¹
¹UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²OneLegacy, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Background: 20% recovered kidneys are discarded in the US. Southern California has a high number of End-Stage Kidney Disease patients and the waitlist time…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation from Offspring to Mothers is Not Associated with Adverse Outcomes
S. Parajuli, N. Garg, A. Djamali, D. Mandelbrot
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Due to concerns of donor-specific alloimmunization during pregnancy, some have suggested avoiding living donor kidney transplants (LDKT) from offspring to biological mothers. Published analyses…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Are Liver Transplant Center Websites Accessible to All?
C. E. Jacobson¹, R. Olmeda Barrientos², M. A. Anderson³, M. J. Englesbe³, S. A. Waits³, V. S. Valbuena³
¹University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University Of California – Riverside, School of Medicine, Riverside, CA, ³Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Ensuring equitable access to transplant center information is an important step in combating health disparities in liver transplantation. This study aimed to assess liver…
2021 American Transplant Congress
COVID-19 Potential Donor Derived Transmission Events Investigations: Early DTAC Experience
R. La Hoz, A. Agarwal, S. Aslam, K. Dunn, J. Goldman, D. Levine, C. Marboe, G. F. Marklin, S. M. Pouch, M. Rana, R. Razonable, H. L. Stevenson, H. Te, A. E. Woolley, M. Michaels, L. Danziger-Isakov
OPTN DTAC, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: US Solid organ transplantation rates significantly decreased during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The concern for potential donor derived COVID-19 was one…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Launching a National Living Donor Registry
J. E. Milton¹, M. Cooper², B. Hippen³
¹Transplant Center, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, ²MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, Colombia, ³Metrolina Nephrology Associates, PA, Charlotte, NC
*Purpose: The National Donate Life Living Donor Registry launching in 2021 will allow 4000 persons a day the opportunity to become a living donor offering…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Is Equitable Access to Transplantation Possible in the Era of HLA Epitope Compatibility?
S. Parto¹, J. Lamsatfi², B. Liu², A. Bourdiec², B. Foster², K. Oualkacha², F. Claas³, P. Keown⁴, R. Sapir-Pichhadze⁵
¹Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Leiden University Medical Centre, Albinusdreef, Netherlands, ⁴University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁵Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: We applied the calculated Panel of Incompatible Epitopes (cPIE), an algorithm informing on the likelihood of identifying blood group and eplet-compatible donors, to study…