2020 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Living Kidney Donation in the United States
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: After peaking in 2014, the number of LKDTs per year dropped substantially in the US despite an increasing waitlist. However, trends in the KAS…2020 American Transplant Congress
Change in the Willingness of Transplant Candidates to Accept Hepatitis C Virus Positive Deceased Donor Organs in the Era of Direct-Acting Antivirals
Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital，Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medications’ advent in 2014 very effectively changed the hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment landscape and allowed post-transplant HCV therapy. We aimed…2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Liver Donation in Previous Kidney Donors – A Valuable Resource for Hepatic Allografts without Compromising Donor Safety
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Living liver donation in Western nations permits a valuable expansion of the donor pool beyond the majority of deceased donors, whilst conversely providing the…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison Study of Liver Regeneration in Laparoscopic versus Open Right Hemihepatectomy for Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: This study aims to compare differences between laparoscopic donor right hemihepatectomy (LDRH) and open donor right hemihepatectomy (ODRH) in the quality of the operation,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Ethical and Financial Consequences of Incidental Radiological Findings During Living Kidney Donor Evaluation
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
*Purpose: Living kidney donation (LKD) provides a unique situation in that diagnostic studies are ordered on a presumably healthy individual. Literature has shown that preoperative…2020 American Transplant Congress
Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Organ Donation among Asian American Physicians
Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Asian Americans have the lowest organ donation registration rates in the United States (US). Physicians in Asian communities are often sought out for advice…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Surge in Deceased Liver Donors Due to the Opioid Epidemic: Is it Time to Split the Difference?
*Purpose: The opioid epidemic afflicting our nation has led to a surge in the number of adult deceased donors from drug overdose. We hypothesized that…2020 American Transplant Congress
Effects of Kidney Transplantation on Cystogenesis in Kidneys Procured from a Deceased Donor with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
*Purpose: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) patients are not routinely considered as kidney donors for renal transplantation. This is partially due to a concern…2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of DSA-Free Heart Allocation
1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, 3UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Currently, donation service area (DSA) is the first geographic unit for heart allocation, which creates discrepancies in access for high-urgency candidates. We studied the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Deceased Organ Donor Rates Over Time in the United States
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Historically, deceased organ donation rates have varied across racial/ethnic groups within the US. To address these differences, the transplant community has investigated select minority…
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