2020 American Transplant Congress
Public Information Needs about VCA Donation and Transplantation in the United States
1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
*Purpose: Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) involves transplantation of multiple tissues (e.g., skin, muscle, bone, nerves, blood vessels, etc.) as a structural unit from a donor…2020 American Transplant Congress
Testing Deceased Organ Donors for Infections: An Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) Survey
*Purpose: We surveyed the 58 U.S. OPOs to update our knowledge about the current methods of infectious disease testing in deceased organ donors.*Methods: An IRB…2020 American Transplant Congress
Using Trajectory Analysis to Characterize Trends in OPO Performance with Population-Based Metrics
1Emory University, Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA, 2University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Identifying the organ procurement organizations (OPOs) with the greatest opportunity to improve donation rates may help increase the number of transplants in the United…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Protocols on Robotic Living Kidney Donor Outcomes: A Single Center Experience
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Traditional management of living donor nephrectomies includes intraoperative volume loading to maintain renal perfusion and urine output. Recently our center initiated fluid restriction as…2020 American Transplant Congress
Allotransplantation of Ligated Arteriovenous Fistula as a Novel Strategy for Patients with Multiple Vascular Access Failures
*Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of allotransplantation of a ligated arteriovenous fistula*Methods: We report the first case of allotransplantation of a mature working arterialized cephalic…2020 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of the Quality of Lung Transplantation in Mainland China During 2015- 2018
*Purpose: Lung Transplantation(LT)has been demonstrated as the only effective therapy for patients with end-stage lung diseases. This study aimed to summarize and analyze the data…2020 American Transplant Congress
Cigarette Smoking and Long-Term Renal Function and Cardiovascular Disease in Living Kidney Donors
*Purpose: Since cigarette smoking is a major risk factor for kidney and cardiovascular disease in the general population, many programs advise living kidney donor candidates…2020 American Transplant Congress
Can Organ Donor Potential Be Determined from Death Certificates? A Case Report
*Purpose: The 12/17/19 CMS proposed rule revises outcome measures for OPOs using CDC Multiple Cause of Death to determine donation potential defined as the number…2020 American Transplant Congress
Ex-Vivo Perfusion with UW Cold Storage Solution Improves DCD Rat Liver Preservation
Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The donor pool of livers can be expanded by the successful use of donor livers recovered under DCD conditions. It is assumed that perfusion…2020 American Transplant Congress
Proposed New Kidney Allocation Policy: Moving to Concentric Circles as the First Unit of Allocation
*Purpose: The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) proposed a new national deceased donor kidney allocation policy that removes donor service area and OPTN region…
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