Articles tagged "Donation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Trends and Geographic Variation in the Recovery of Organs from Drug-Overdose Deaths with Donor Potential
V. Garcia, D. Stewart, J. Rosendale
Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The opioid crisis in the US and related increase in donors that died from drug-intoxication are well-documented. We set-out to estimate the proportion of…
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
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
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…