2020 American Transplant Congress
African American Patient Perceptions of Live Kidney Donation and Educational Health Animations
*Purpose: Disparities in pursuit of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among African Americans remain challenging to overcome. Animation-based education is a promising approach to increasing…2020 American Transplant Congress
An OPO’s Experience in Increasing Transplantation with the Hope Project
*Purpose: The purpose of this report is to describe one OPO’s experience in participating in the Hope Project. This research project is designed to evaluate…2020 American Transplant Congress
Higher Body Mass Index Before Living Kidney Donation Can Increase Wound Infection after Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomies
Kidney Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: According to the CDC (2015-2016), 71.6% of the adult population in the United States has a BMI equal or higher than 25kg/m2, and the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Green Channel of Human Organ Transport (GCHOT) Improved the Utilization Rate of Chinese Citizens’ Donated Lungs: A Single-Center Data Analysis
Wuxi Lung Transplant Center, Wuxi, China
*Purpose: Lung transplantation in China has been developing for over forty years. Wuxi lung transplant center has the largest lung transplant (LT) volume nationwide. It…2020 American Transplant Congress
Inactive Status Change is an Independent Predictor of Waitlist Mortality and Disproportionately Impacts Patients in Donor Service Areas with a Higher Median MELD at Transplant
*Purpose: Liver waitlist mortality is calculated by including both active and inactive patients. As inactive patients are unable to receive organ offers, models that adjust…2020 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Factors Affecting Postoperative Hepatic Volume Increase in Liver Donor
Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: In living donor liver transplantation, donor safety is the top priority.Thus, the debate over how much a donor’s liver can be taken to recipient…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Stroke Volume-Based Fluid Resuscitation Protocol Decreases Vasopressor Support and Increases Organ Yield in Brain-Dead Donors
Mid-America Transplant, St Louis, MO
*Purpose: Brain-dead donors are frequently hypovolemic and hypotensive requiring vasopressor support. The goal of fluid resuscitation is to increase perfusion and oxygen delivery and avoid…2020 American Transplant Congress
Recipient and Donor Factors Associated with Post-Donation ESRD in Related White Living Kidney Donors
1Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, 2Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: We studied post-donation ESRD in white first-degree related living kidney donors (RLKDs) in the US between 1994 and 2018 (n=45700); this study is the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Can Predonation Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Predict Postdonation Renal Function?
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Data on living kidney donor outcomes are of topical interest to the transplant community. Despite thorough pre-donation screening and risk assessment, a minority of…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Follow-Up Over Time to the Impact of Reactive Anti-HCV and HCV NAT
LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: A previous review from one U.S. organ procurement organization (OPO) concluded positive HCV test results yielded high rates of authorized/not recovered donors (ANR), low…
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