Articles tagged "Donation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Prospective Evaluation of Living Kidney Donor Anxiety: Concerns, Anxiety Mitigation, and Realized Negative Experiences
A. A. Krause, R. S. Mangus, M. French, V. Martine, J. Powelson, W. C. Goggins
Medicine, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplantation provides a critical source of high quality grafts for patients with end stage renal disease. Detailed understanding of specific sources…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Renal Pathological Findings in Living Kidney Donor Candidates with Minimal Urinary Abnormalities
H. Ahmed¹, C. Drachenberg², R. Ugarte¹, N. Costa¹, C. Cangro¹, R. N. Barth³, M. Weir¹, A. Harirain¹
¹Medicine-Nephrology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, ²Pathology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, ³Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: With the increasing number of ESRD patients requiring transplantation and stagnant number of deceased-donor organs available, minimizing the exclusion of living donor candidates with…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Discards for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Center Transplant Program
H. Villafuerte¹, E. De Sousa-Amorim², L. Peri³, M. Musquera³, E. Palou⁴, M. Lozano⁵, J. Cid⁵, J. Martorell⁴, J. M. Campistol², F. Oppenheimer², F. Diekmann², I. Revuelta²
¹Department of Nephrology, Hospital Clinic Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, Spain, ²Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ³Department of Urology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Department of Immunology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Department of Apheresis, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: New and coming information about the risk of living kidney donors make the effort to study very carefully the option of living kidney donor…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Liver Circle-Based Allocation: LSAM Modeling Results
D. Schladt¹, T. Weaver¹, J. Pyke¹, A. Herreid¹, B. Thompson¹, B. Kasiske¹, J. Snyder¹, W. Kim², J. Lake³, A. Israni¹, J. Heimbach⁴
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, ³Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: On June 25, 2018, the OPTN Board of Directors (BOD) directed the Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee to propose changes to policy removing…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The First Human Organ Transported by Drone and Steps Forward to Large Scale Organ Drone Use in the USA
J. R. Scalea¹, M. Scassero², N. Wereley³
¹Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ²UAS Test Site, University of Maryland, California, MD, ³Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
*Purpose: Organ transportation has yet to be substantially innovated. Cold ischemia times (CIT) for kidneys are too long, and prolongation of CIT leads to delayed…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Nothing Lasts Forever, So Of The Donor Risk Index For Liver Transplant
K. Okubo, K. Sasaki, A. Moro, J. McBey, M. Fujiki, T. Diago Uso, B. Eghtesad, D. Kwon, C. Miller, C. Quintini, K. Hashimoto, F. Aucejo
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: The donor risk index (DRI) is one of the most established risk indices in liver transplant (LT). DRI, which was reported in 2006, was…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of the Global Practice of Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Comparison of U.S. and International Programs
J. Emamaullee¹, M. Kim¹, C. Conrad¹, C. Lane¹, P. Singh¹, C. Niemann², L. Sher¹, Y. Genyk¹
¹University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: As programs have become more experienced with living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), technical hurdles have been overcome and superior graft and patient survival has…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Scope and Limitations of Current Public Education Materials on Vascular Composite Allotransplantation and Donation in the United States
M. Henderson¹, S. Rasmussen¹, J. Uriarte², N. Anderson², B. Doby¹, C. Cooney¹, G. Brandacher¹, D. Segev¹, E. Gordon²
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: As the field of Vascular Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) evolves and more VCAs are performed, the demand for VCA donations will increase. However, the public…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Predictive Value Of Pre-transplant Biopsies For Short-term And Long-term Graft Function In Kidney Transplantation
H. Zhang¹, L. Liu¹, S. Yang², W. Chen², X. Chen¹, Y. Li², C. Wang¹
¹Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, ²Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: The predictive capacity of previous pre-transplant histologic scoring systems for short-term and long-term graft function in kidney transplantation has not been adequately validated.*Methods: Deceased…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Use of Opioids and NSAIDs in Living Kidney Donors: Clinical Correlates and Early Outcomes
K. Lentine¹, L. Vest¹, Z. Zhang¹, F. Koraishy¹, M. Schnitzler¹, A. Garg², D. Axelrod³, B. Kasiske⁴, G. Hess⁵, A. Naik⁶, D. Segev⁷, M. Henderson⁷, A. Massie⁷, N. Lamm⁸
¹Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO, ²Western Univ, London, ON, Canada, ³Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁴SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁷Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ⁸Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
*Purpose: Data are limited regarding pain medication use in living kidney donors (LKD). Concerns relate to opioid use, and to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) use in…