Articles tagged "Donation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Attitudes Toward Organ, Tissue, and Vascularized Composite Allograft Donation and Transplantation: A Survey of United States Military Veterans
J. R. Rodrigue¹, S. Ward¹, M. Boger², A. Fleishman¹, J. Shenkel¹, A. Calvo¹, R. Zwolak³, N. Krishnan⁴, B. Pomahac⁵
¹Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²New England Donor Services, Waltham, MA, ³Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, ⁴Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, CT, ⁵Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: There are nearly 20 million living US armed forces veterans; however, the veteran community has not been the focus of any studies on organ…
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
Health Professional Level Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Mixed Methods Study
R. Iskander¹, M. Cantarovich¹, N. Dendukuri¹, M. Fortin², S. Sandal¹
¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Despite the benefits of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), rates have stagnated. Efforts to increase LDKT have focused on patient level barriers. Health professionals…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Automated Electronic Donor Referrals Have Increased Donation
J. Piano
Transplant Connect, Santa Monica, CA
*Purpose: It is broadly understood and supported by previous studies that disruptive inefficiencies exist in the hospital to Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) donor referral process,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Centennial Allograft – Can an Organ Function for Over 100 Years in 2 Different Individuals?
A. Gruessner, J. Renz, S. Saggi, R. Gruessner
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: We investigated the occurrence of deceased-donor liver (DDOLT), deceased-donor renal (DDRT), and living-donor renal allografts (LDRT) that have achieved or come close to 100…
2020 American Transplant Congress
ESRD Risk Prediction for Black vs. White Related Living Kidney Donors
J. Wainright¹, A. Robinson¹, A. Wilk¹, D. Klassen², W. Cherikh¹, L. Cartwright¹, D. Stewart¹
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: We studied 25-year risk of post-donation ESRD in black (n=10,214) and white (n=45,700) first-degree related living kidney donors (RLKDs) who donated in the US…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Making History, Saving Lives: One OPOs Experience Making History by Being the First in the Nation to Successfully Allocate Seven Organs for Transplant from a Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) Donor
J. B. Nave, A. J. Boyer, C. A. Hostetler, C. C. Muse, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski
LifeShare Transplant Donors Services, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: At the time of this recovery, our OPO’s percentage of DCD donors was 41%. Continuing to maximize the gift successfully by increasing the percentage…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Who Says Yes to Vascularized Composite Allografts (VCA) Donation?
M. S. Gharibdousti¹, C. Martucciello², M. T. Khasawneh¹, A. L. Friedman³
¹Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, ²Quality Assurance and Process Improvement, Live On NY, New York, NY, ³Preservation, Live On NY, New York, NY
*Purpose: To analyze psychosocial factors associated with affirmative authorization for VCA donation.*Methods: In an IRB approved protocol, individuals (authorized parties, AP) who previously authorized both…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Donor Derived Transmissions 2018: Analysis of the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)
M. Michaels¹, B. Plucinski², E. Ward², L. Strasfeld¹, M. Malinis¹, C. Ho¹, L. Danziger-Isakov¹, J. Bucio¹, G. Berry¹, M. Rana¹, C. Marboe¹, S. Aslam¹, R. Razonable¹, S. Pouch¹, G. F. Marklin¹, J. Levitsky¹, D. Levine¹, A. Agarwal¹, R. LaHoz¹
¹OPTN DTAC, Richmond, VA, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The OPTN DTAC, a multidisciplinary group, evaluates potential donor derived transmission events (PDDTE), mostly infections (I) & malignancies (M), to assess the likelihood of…