Articles tagged "Donation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Organ Donation is an Indication for Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT)
A. L. Friedman, E. Marquez, J. A. Lewis
LiveOnNY, New York, NY
*Purpose: A retrospective review of cases from one large organ procurement organization (OPO) was performed to determine whether the delivery of RRT as a component…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Opening the Doors of Hope: HIV-Positive Living Kidney Donation
S. Rusch, L. Fieldman, M. Hemmersbach-Miller, C. R. Wolfe
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Living donation (LD) has been allowed under the HOPE Act since 2013, yet to date there have been no HIV+ LD organ transplants performed…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of the Relationship between Inflammation and Glomerular Filtration Rate
J. B. Ramirez-Gonzalez¹, L. E. Morales-BuenRostro², J. Furuzawa-Carballeda³, L. Garcia-Covarrubias⁴, R. L. Pacheco-Domínguez⁵, R. Durazo-Arvizu⁶, J. Alberu³, E. N. Cuevas-Medina⁷, M. López-Cervantes⁵, R. A. Osorio-Juárez⁵
¹Faculty of Medicine, Public Health Department, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, Mexico, ²Department of Nephrology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico, ³Department of Transplantation, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico, ⁴Department of Transplantation, Hospital General de México Doctor Eduardo Liceaga, Mexico, Mexico, ⁵Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, Mexico, ⁶Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁷Department of Cardiology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico, Mexico
*Purpose: Since the inflammatory phenomena that occur after transplantation are decisive factors for developing renal rejection, we decided to study how the elevation of some…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Can Financial Incentives Improve Patient Compliance with Optn Live Kidney Donor Follow-Up Policy? Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
M. Henderson, M. Waldram, S. DiBrito, A. Thomas, F. Al Ammary, S. Ottman, A. Massie, J. Garonzik Wang, D. Segev
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) requires transplant hospitals to monitor live kidney donors (LKDs) for 2 years post-donation. However, the majority (57%)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Unhinged or Unselfish: A Deep Dive into Non-Directed Donors
J. Verbesey¹, M. Williams², S. Ghasemian¹, A. Bacigalupo¹, A. Gilbert¹, G. Vranic¹, B. Javaid¹, M. Cooper¹, A. Marsh²
¹MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ²Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Non-directed donors (NDDs) bring great excitement to living donor centers. However, evaluating NDD motivation can be challenging. Our group compared the altruist (NDD) with…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Patient Response to a Formal Living Donor Liver Transplant Educational Program
P. Narayanan, C. Palumbo, K. Ventura, R. Tomlin, L. Hammers, M. Joyce, D. Wuerth, D. Haakinson, S. Kulkarni, D. Mulligan, S. Emre, A. Liapakis
Transplantation Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Informed consent for liver waitlist candidates is required and includes discussion of donor graft options. Living donor liver transplant (LDLT) is an established option…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Organ Donation Rates And Transplantation Activity Comparing Opt-out Versus Opt-in Systems: A Cross-sectional Study Of Oecd Countries
A. Arshad¹, M. Babiker², B. Anderson², A. Sharif²
¹University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ²Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Birmingham, United Kingdom
*Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare organ donation and transplantation rates between opt-out versus opt-in countries to investigate for any significant difference…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Recipient Outcomes Following Transplantation Of Allografts From Older Live Kidney Donors With Hypertension
F. Al Ammary¹, S. Yu², A. D. Muzaale³, D. C. Brennan⁴, A. C. Wiseman⁵, D. L. Segev³, A. B. Massie³
¹Johns Hopkins Medicine, Greenbelt, MD, ²Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Healthy older live kidney donor candidates with hypertension may provide an opportunity to increase live kidney donation. However, the impact of this practice on…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Organ Donation Survey among Health Care Professionals in Argentina
V. R. Ruiz¹, A. D. Midley¹, P. E. Rodriguez², S. Bauque², V. Morozovsky¹, A. G. Da lozzo³
¹Respiratory Care, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Organ Procurement, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Lung Trasplant Surgery, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
*Purpose: Our objective was to survey health care professionals (HCPs) responsible for the care of potential organ donors (PODs) on attitude toward organ donation, knowledge…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Care of International Living Kidney Donor Candidates in the U.S.: A Survey of Contemporary Experience, Practice & Challenges
K. Lentine¹, M. Henderson², S. Rasmussen², E. Shukhman³, J. Hunt⁴, F. Al Ammary², V. Kumar⁵, D. Lapointe-Rudow⁴, H. Schaefer⁶, M. Cooper⁷, R. Hays⁸, M. Dunbar-Forrest⁹, A. Nishio-Lucar¹⁰, D. Mandelbrot⁸
¹Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ³Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁵Univ Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, ⁷Georgetown, Washington, DC, ⁸Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁰Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: The evaluation and care of non-U.S. citizen, non-U.S. residents who wish to come to the U.S. to serve as living kidney donors (LKD) can…