Articles tagged "Donation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
VCA Deceased Donor Solid Organ Yield
J. Wainright¹, G. Vece¹, C. Wholley², J. Rosendale¹, W. Cherikh¹, C. Curran³, A. Robinson¹, D. Di Battista⁴, D. Klassen⁵
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Policy and Community Relations, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³New England Donor Services, Waltham, MA, ⁴Professional Education, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ⁵Office of Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: VCA provides life-changing transplants, but the perception exists that VCA procurement complicates the donation process and impedes solid organ donation. This study examined the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Cold Ischemia Time on DCD Kidney Transplant Outcomes
J. Narvaez, L. Kayler
Transplant Surgery Division, Dept of Surgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation (KTX) from Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) donors is associated with high rates of delayed graft function (DGF) and potential worse graft…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Innovations in Transplant Education: 360⁰ Virtual Reality Videos of a Live Kidney Donation and Transplantation
V. A. Huurman¹, A. D. Pieterse², F. Luk², M. E. Reinders²
¹Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
*Purpose: 360⁰ degree Virtual Reality (VR) is a digital technology where learners are able to "look around" in an artificial world. The VR experience gives…
2019 American Transplant Congress
How Challenging Will Be My Living Donor? CT Scan and Clinical Evaluation Can Predict Technical Difficulty of Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
V. Bianchi¹, G. Spagnoletti¹, R. Iezzi², F. E. Rossini¹, A. Posa², A. E. Rossini¹, M. P. Salerno¹, F. Citterio¹, J. Romagnoli¹
¹Renal Transplant Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy, ²Radiology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy
*Purpose: There are no objective parameters for predicting the difficulty of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN). Our aim was to identify the correlation between demographic and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Mobile Software for Real-Time, Secure, Team-Based Procurement and Transplantation Team Communication to Improve the Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation Process
E. Pahl
HealthTech Solutions, Inc., Coralville, IA
*Purpose: Deceased donor organ (DDO) transplantation is an effective cure for patients suffering from organ failure. Organ transplantation is cost-effective, provides a significant survival benefit,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Regional Disparities In The Transplant Rates Across Unos Regions Pre- And Post-kidney Allocation System Policy Implementation
A. C. Perez-Ortiz, E. Heher, N. Elias
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Geographic distribution of organs for transplant is a critical component of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) policies. However, there is no single…
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…