Articles tagged "Donation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Trends in Drug Intoxicated Deceased Donor Recovery and Utilization
R. Urban, D. Klassen, J. Rosendale
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The impact of the current opioid epidemic has been felt throughout the nation, and has seen significant geographic variation in the impact on decease…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The End of Non-Directed Living Kidney Donation: The National Kidney Registry’s Family Voucher Program
M. Cooper¹, D. Leeser², S. Flechner³, J. Verbesey¹, M. Ronin⁴, G. Hil⁴, A. Waterman⁵, J. Veale⁵
¹Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ²East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁴National Kidney Registry, New York, NY, ⁵UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The continued growth of the National Kidney Registry’s (NKR) Voucher program has extended Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) to include chronological incompatibility which is facilitating…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Uterine Graft Procurement in a Living Donor
L. Johannesson, A. Wall, J. Bayer, G. J. McKenna, G. Testa
Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Uterus transplantation is a new treatment option for females with uterine factor infertility and a rapidly evolving field of organ transplantation. Proof-of-concept, i.e., birth…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Organ Procurement Organization Surgeon on Utilization of High KDPI Kidneys
C. S. Hwang¹, J. Reese², T. Anthony², P. Vagefi¹, B. Tanriover³, V. Ariyamuthu³, S. Levea³, M. MacConmara¹
¹Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX, ³Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: In 2014, TXSB organ procurement organization (OPO) employed a full-time donor surgeon. We previously demonstrated that presence of a donor surgeon had a beneficial…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing the Live Donor Champion Program
A. D. Love¹, D. R. Helfer¹, S. Rasmussen¹, M. Johnson¹, J. M. Konel¹, J. R. Wellen², S. M. Nazarian³, E. King¹, D. L. Segev¹, T. Hwee¹, A. M. Cameron¹, M. L. Henderson¹, E. J. Gordon⁴, J. M. Garonzik Wang¹
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ³Surgery, Penn Transplant Institute, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Surgery, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The Live Donor Champion (LDC) Program is an intervention designed to increase kidney transplant candidate knowledge about living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) and ability…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Comparison Of Estimating Glomerular Filtration Equations In Living Kidney Donor Candidates Prior To Donation
S. Hebert¹, J. Xu², H. Ibrahim¹
¹Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Serum creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) models have been shown to over- or underestimate measured iohexol GFR (mGFR), but it is unclear if…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Video Intervention to Increase Organ Donor Registration (ODR) at the Department of Motorized Vehicles (DMV)
D. A. DuBay¹, T. Morinelli¹, D. Redden², N. Ivankova², I. Herbey³, C. L. Holt⁴, L. Siminoff⁵, M. Fouad², Z. Su⁶, M. Martin⁷
¹Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁵Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ⁷University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: To implement a sustainable, low cost DMV-based intervention that increased ODR of DMV patrons, and secondarily, increase ODR in African Americans (AAs).*Methods: Results from…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Longer-Term Outcomes for Hepatitis C Virus Negative Recipients of Kidneys from Hepatitis C Virus Nucleic Acid Test Positive Donors: The THINKER Trial
P. Reese¹, P. Abt¹, E. Blumberg¹, R. Bloom¹, D. Sawinski¹, P. Porrett¹, A. Woodards¹, K. Reddy¹, V. van Deerlin¹, R. Hasz², M. Levine¹, R. McLean¹, A. Sicilia¹, D. Goldberg¹
¹University of Penn, Philadelphia, PA, ²Gift of Life, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Two trials of transplanting hepatitis C virus (HCV) nucleic acid test (NAT) positive kidneys into HCV-negative recipients have been published, both with 100% HCV…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Intra-abdominal Hypertension And Abdominal Compartment Syndrome: An Organ Procurement Organization’S Experience
J. Stefek¹, L. E. Markham¹, M. Ott¹, S. S. Johnson², J. C. Olson³, H. Sangha⁴, D. G. Vasquez⁵, S. P. Whitt⁶, H. E. Wilkins¹, P. A. Webster¹, M. Iliakova⁷, M. Moncure⁷
¹Midwest Transplant Network, Westwood, KS, ²Via Christi St Francis, Wichita, KS, ³University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, ⁴Lake Regional Health System, Osage Beach, MO, ⁵Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS, ⁶University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia, MO, ⁷University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
*Purpose: Because of a shortage of available organs, an average of 22 people die each day waiting for a transplant. There has been significant research…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Paired Donation Transplant Outcomes: Experiences from the First Ten Years of the National Kidney Registry
D. B. Leeser¹, A. G. Thomas², A. A. Shaffer², J. Veale³, A. B. Massie², M. Cooper⁴, S. Kapur⁵, S. Kapur⁵, S. Kapur⁵, N. Turgeon⁶, D. Segev², A. Waterman³, S. Flechner⁷
¹East Carolina Univ Sch of Med, Greenville, NC, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ³UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Georgetown, Washington, DC, ⁵Weill Cornell Medical School, New York, NY, ⁶Emory, Atlanta, GA, ⁷Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: In the United States (US), kidney paired donation (KPD) networks have facilitated an increasing proportion of KTs annually, but longer-term transplant outcomes and differences…