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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donors in Kidney Paired Donation
J. D. Kalbfleisch¹, W. Wang¹, M. A. Rees², A. B. Leichtman³, P. X. Song¹, V. Ashby¹, T. Shearon¹
¹Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: A kidney paired donation pool (KPDP) consists of transplant candidates and their incompatible living donors along with nondirected living donors (NDDs). In a match…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Living Donor Collective Pilot Evaluations of Living Kidney Donor Candidates at 10 Programs
B. Kasiske, M. Conboy, Y. Ahn, A. Israni, J. Snyder
SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Much remains to learn regarding long-term effects of living organ donation on donors. Rare events are important, and long-term follow-up with appropriate contemporaneous controls…
2020 American Transplant Congress
African American Patient Perceptions of Live Kidney Donation and Educational Health Animations
R. E. Seibert¹, M. Keller², B. Dolph³, T. H. Feeley⁴, L. K. Kayler³
¹Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ²Department of Community Health and Health Behavior, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ³Transplant and Kidney Care Regional Center of Excellence, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY, ⁴Department of Communication, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: Disparities in pursuit of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among African Americans remain challenging to overcome. Animation-based education is a promising approach to increasing…