Articles tagged "Donation"

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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function Predicts High Risk of Allograft Loss Following Living and Deceased Donor Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
M. MacConmara¹, J. Gattineni¹, D. Desai¹, J. Parekh², P. Vagefi¹, C. S. Hwang¹
¹UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ²UC San Diego, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: Pediatric kidney recipients receive high quality living and deceased donor kidneys for transplantation, and as such, these kidneys have a low rate of delayed…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characterization of Donor/Recipient Citizenship Status in Adult Heart Transplantation: A UNOS Registry Analysis
K. Yang¹, D. Miklin¹, J. Pizula¹, P. Genyk¹, G. Liu², A. Lee¹, S. Nuno¹, S. Hashmi¹, J. Nattiv², A. Kiankhooy³, L. Grazette², M. Fong², J. Rahman², K. Pandya², D. Vucicevic⁴, J. Li¹, P. Kingsford¹, P. Banankhah², R. Chand⁵, A. Wolfson⁶, S. Shah¹, A. Salimbangon⁷, C. Lum⁸, E. C. Depasquale², A. S. Vaidya²
¹Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²Cardiology, Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ³Cardiothoracic Surgery, Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Newark Beth-Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, ⁵Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ⁶University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, AZ, ⁷UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁸The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
*Purpose: There is a paucity of data describing heart transplant donor and recipient status. We therefore sought to examine the medical and demographic characteristics, and…
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
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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Nursing Education on Organ Donation
J. Yeh¹, M. Corcoran², M. Jarrett², V. Nair¹, L. Teperman¹
¹Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, ²Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, NY
*Purpose: Organ transplantation is the gold-standard for patients with end-stage organ disease. For organ donation to occur, potential donors need to be identified and referred…
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…