Articles tagged "Donation"

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…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Optimizing a Protocol for Extended Ex-Vivo Extremity Perfusion
C. J. Stewart¹, M. T. Buchko², X. Wang¹, G. Brandacher³, A. Ladak⁴, D. H. Freed², J. Nagendran²
¹Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Cardiac Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Plastic Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
*Purpose: Our objective is to demonstrate that Ex-Vivo Extremity Perfusion (EVEP) of a Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) is as effective, or superior, to standard cold…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Aborted Live Donor Organ Recovery Procedures in the United States
M. Henderson, M. Waldram, A. Thomas, N. Desai, S. Ottman, J. Garonzik Wang, A. Massie, D. Segev, J. Bannon, F. Al Ammary, D. Brennan
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Although live organ donation is a carefully and meticulously planned surgical procedure, live donor organ recovery procedures are occasionally aborted. These include procedures which…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Trapezoidal Area Under Curve (AUC) Based Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) Measurement Using Non Radioactive Iohexol Plasma Clearance in Potential Kidney Donors
V. Ariyamuthu¹, L. Anderson², N. AbdulRahim¹, S. Levea³, M. MacConmara⁴, C. Hwang⁴, K. Fankhauser⁵, I. Hashim⁵, B. Tanriover¹
¹UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Internal Medicine/Nephrology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁴Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁵Clinical Chemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Plasma Iohexol clearance based GFR measurement is considered an accurate measure of renal function. We compared performance of a novel trapezoidal AUC method of…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Mitigating Racial and Gender Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Impact of the Nation’s Longest Single-Center Kidney Chain
M. N. Mustian, V. Kumar, K. Stegner, D. Mompoint-Williams, M. Hanaway, M. H. Deierhoi, C. Young, B. Orandi, D. Anderson, P. A. MacLennan, R. D. Reed, B. A. Shelton, D. Eckhoff, J. E. Locke
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Disparities in access to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) exist among minorities and women and may be partially explained by antigen sensitization secondary to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Focus Groups to Explore the Public Attitudes on the Use of Imminent Death Donation
P. Moolchandani¹, R. Ackah², L. Washburn¹, D. O'Connor¹, E. L. Godfrey¹, T. Galván¹, A. Rana¹, J. A. Goss¹
¹Division Of Abdominal Transplantation, Michael E. DeBakey Department Of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Department of Surgery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: The aim of this study is to inform the development of a questionnaire to explore the feelings, attitudes, and values the public has towards…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes Following Uncontrolled Donation after Cardiac Death Kidney Transplantation: Opportunity for Increasing Donor Pool?
R. A. Choudhury, K. Prins, D. Yoeli, H. B. Moore, T. L. Nydam
Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Uncontrolled donation after cardiac death (uDCD) represents an underutilized source of donors in the United States. However, controversy surrounding the long-term durability of uDCD…