Articles tagged "Donation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
A Single-Center Experience in Transfusion-Free Liver Transplantation: Referrals and Outcomes from 2005 to 2019
B. H. Horwich¹, A. Mulgaonkar¹, B. Kim², N. Kaur¹, J. Kahn², Y. Genyk³, A. Ahearn³, H. Han²
¹Internal Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²GI & Liver Diseases, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The Jehovah’s Witnesses is a religious group known to the medical community for its non-acceptance of blood products. This poses a significant challenge in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Successful Heart Utilization and Outcomes with Long-Distance Transport of Deceased Donor Hearts: One Large Organ Procurement Organization’s Five-Year Experience
D. Adorno, C. Wells, K. O'Connor
LifeCenter Northwest, Bellevue, WA
*Purpose: Long-distance transport of deceased donor hearts has been associated with reduced organ utilization rates and risk of inferior outcomes. One U.S. Organ Procurement Organization’s…
2020 American Transplant Congress
New and Unknown: VCA Acceptability to the General Public
L. A. Siminoff, D. B. Sarwer, G. P. Alolod, E. Davis, H. McGregor, H. M. Gardiner
Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Despite the promise of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) as a viable alternative to available reconstructive procedures or prosthetics, its future relies heavily on families’…
2020 American Transplant Congress
High Rate of Positive Cultures from Deceased Donors, A Review of 500 Deceased Donors and More Than 700 Recipients from a Single Center in Saudi Arabia
R. S. Almaghrabi¹, R. Alameer¹, O. Zeitoni², M. Ahmed³, I. Nizami³, J. Alburaiki⁴, T. Aljurf¹, R. Alyamany¹, A. Abed², D. Broering³
¹Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ³Organ Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ⁴Heart Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Limited organ supply is one of the major challenges facing organ transplantation. Donor-derived multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria have been documented with variable outcomes. In Saudi…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Telehealth Medicine: A Novel Tool to Make Living Donation Simple and Financially Neutral
A. Yadav, M. Cantarin Martinez, P. Singh
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Live kidney donation can be an overwhelming process even for the highly motivated individuals. Live donors may have to spend up to $5000 for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Donor Lung Travel Distance and Time
C. Lehr¹, M. Skeans², M. Valapour¹, E. Lease³
¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ³University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: With the policy change from donation service area (DSA) to 250 nautical miles (NM) as the first unit of US lung allocation, distances between…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Living Kidney Donor Candidates
Y. Lu¹, A. Naik¹, K. Woodside², R. Sung², R. Doshi³, R. Parasuraman¹, S. Norman¹, M. Doshi¹
¹Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Pre-donation renal function is an important determinant of future development of kidney disease in live kidney donors (LKD). In 2017, the Kidney Disease Improving…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Live Donor Champion: Advocacy Training to Facilitate Identification of Live Liver Donors
A. D. Love¹, L. R. Herbst¹, D. R. Helfer¹, L. Kurman², M. G. Bowring¹, S. R. Weeks¹, E. King¹, D. L. Segev¹, J. Garonzik Wang¹
¹Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Although live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) may help address organ shortage, patients lack knowledge about living donation and are reluctant to speak to potential…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Proposed Metrics for Recertification of Organ Procurement Organizations: Evaluation by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
J. Snyder¹, D. Musgrove¹, D. Zaun¹, A. Wey¹, N. Salkowski¹, J. Rosendale², A. Israni¹, R. Hirose³, B. Kasiske¹
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Department of Surgery, Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: On December 23, 2019, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed two new standards that organ procurement organizations (OPOs) must meet for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Pilot Study of Mkidney: A Novel Mobile Health Platform to Support OPTN Living Donor Follow-Up Data Collection
C. Sidoti¹, W. Zhang¹, M. Waldram¹, A. Thomas¹, M. Levan¹, A. Massie¹, A. Bingaman², R. Forbes³, G. Edwards³, K. Warmke³, K. Centanni³, D. Segev¹, M. Henderson¹
¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²The Texas Transplant Institute, Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital, San Antonio, TX, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Transplant hospitals struggle to meet Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) requirements for LKD follow-up. In the face of barriers such as cost, LKD…