Articles tagged "Donation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Families and Authorization for Research: Differences among Ethnic Groups
M. Ortigosa-Goggins, J. J. Gaynor, E. Shipman, L. Preczewski, G. Guerra
Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Clinical research in transplantation is key to advancement of the field. NIH-sponsored trials such as HOPE in Action and APOLLO network require deceased donor…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Discard Disparities of Liver Allografts
P. I. Kenny Jr¹, A. Rana², J. Vierling²
¹Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The aim of this study is to demonstrate the significant geographic disparity in liver allograft discard.*Methods: Using the OPTN Diseased Donor Network database, we…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Non- Superior Patient and Death-Censored Graft Survival with Controlled after Cardiac Death Donors Than Expanded Criteria Brain Death Donors in Older Recipients Over 60 Years, with Better Outcomes with Living Kidney Donors
I. Revuelta¹, D. Cucchiari¹, A. Ruiz², E. De Sousa-Amorim¹, D. Paredes², L. Peri³, P. Ventura-Aguiar¹, M. Musquera³, N. Esforzado¹, F. Cofan¹, J. V. Torregrosa¹, G. J. Piñeiro¹, J. Ugalde-Altamirano¹, J. M. Campistol¹, F. Oppenheimer¹, F. Diekmann¹
¹Renal Transplant Unit, Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ²Donation and Transplant Coordination Section, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ³Department of Urology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Each time transplant candidates are older, and the allocation of suitable donors is a real challenge. Controlled Donors after Cardiac Death (cDCD) are using…
2020 American Transplant Congress
What’s Lung Got to Do with It?: The Impact of the 2017 Lung Allocation Policy at a Single Organ Procurement Organization
A. J. Boyer, J. B. Nave, C. A. Hostetler, C. C. Muse, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski
LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: To describe the impact of the lung allocation change on a single organ procurement organization (OPO). The allocation change took place on 11/24/2017 and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Association between Donor Hypothermia and Allograft Outcomes in Liver and Kidney Transplantation
S. Karhadkar, B. Kaplunov, A. Di Carlo
Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Traumatic brain injury patients benefit from mild to moderate hypothermia (32-35 °C); and in patients with cardiac arrest, stroke, and asphyxia, hypothermia is and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Assisted Living Donor Nephrectomies: A Safe Alternative to Laparoscopic Technique for Kidney Transplant Donation
M. Spaggiari¹, R. Garcia-Roca², J. Oberholzer³, K. Tulla¹, O. Okoye¹, C. Di Bella¹, H. Jeon⁴, I. G. Tzvetanov¹, E. Benedetti¹
¹Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Surgery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, ³Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ⁴Surgery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: To review outcomes after laparoscopic, robotic-assisted living donor nephrectomy (RLDN) in the first, and largest series reported to date.*Methods: Retrospective chart review of 1084…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Altruistic Liver Donors at Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute: Impact of the Educational Campaign: Gift of Life
S. Ganesh, M. Molinari, L. Tubb, A. Tevar, C. Hughes, J. Behari, A. Humar
Transplant Surgery, UPMC Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Background and aims: There is an urgent need to expand access to living donor liver transplants due to a wide gap in the availability…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Intravenous Acetaminophen on Opioid Use in Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy Patients
C. Makosiej, A. Eisenhart
Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if intravenous acetaminophen (IV APAP) use affects the daily and cumulative opioid requirements of patients undergoing…
2020 American Transplant Congress
From Nudge to Nudges: Organizational Factors Explaining Different Incentives but Similarly Low Kidney Donation Outcomes in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
W. Lu
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The research asks why global living and deceased donor rates of the past 15 years in advanced economies far exceed those occurring in Singapore,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
MY-ATLAS: A Novel Simulation Algorithm for Liver Transplant Allocation
C. G. Rickert¹, H. Zhao², Z. Leung², M. Akan³, J. F. Markmann¹, S. Tayur³, H. Yeh¹
¹Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, ³Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Currently, the primary tool for modeling expected outcomes from changes in allocation policy is the SRTR-run Liver Simulated Allocation Model (LSAM), which is neither…