Articles tagged "Donation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Analgesia and Control of Pain Following Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
J. Hedvat¹, N. W. Lange¹, P. Sandoval², L. E. Ratner², D. S. Tsapepas²
¹Pharmacy, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, ²Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy (LapDNx) for renal transplantation is a standard surgical practice. Effective pain management following this operation is essential. The purpose of…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of a Liver Waitlist Candidate LDLT Educational Outreach Program on Referrals and Outcomes of Donor Evaluation
C. Saroli Palumbo, J. Batisti, R. Batra, J. Dopico, D. Haakinson, L. Hughes, M. Joyce, S. Klein, S. Kulkarni, D. Mulligan, P. Narayanan, M. Schilsky, R. Tomlin, K. Ventura, S. Emre, A. Liapakis
Yale, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Challenges to identify suitable candidates for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) include low donor acceptance, recipient & provider team reluctance to pursue LDLT. A…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Do Reimbursement Programs Increase The Number Of Living Organ Donations?
A. Siddique¹, J. Ortiz², S. Fry-Revere², V. Apte², Y. Jin³, N. Koizumi¹
¹Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, ²University of Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH, ³The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
*Purpose: Living-donor kidney transplantation is the gold standard treatment for the end-stage renal disease. However, living donors worldwide face significant financial and logistic barriers. To…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Potential Living Kidney Donors’ Interest in Kidney Paired and Non-Directed Donation
D. R. Helfer¹, A. D. Love¹, J. M. Konel¹, J. Stanton², M. G. Bowring¹, K. Kumar¹, S. R. Weeks¹, M. L. Henderson¹, D. L. Segev¹, A. M. Cameron¹, J. M. Garonzik Wang¹
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: Kidney Paired (KPD) and Non-Directed Donation (NDD) are avenues to increase living donation and address organ shortage. We investigated interest in KPD and NDD…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Maternal and Pregnancy Outcomes after Living Donor Nephrectomy in a Multistate Cohort
G. S. Lee¹, R. X. Wang², D. O. Walls³, P. P. Reese⁴, D. S. Goldberg⁴, P. L. Abt¹
¹Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, ³Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, ⁴Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Studies have demonstrated increased risk of preeclampsia for pregnancies after kidney donation in homogenous populations or single-center studies. Our study aims to delineate maternal…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Evaluation in Living Kidney Donors: Survey of US Transplant Centers 2018
N. Garg¹, K. L. Lentine², L. Inker³, A. X. Garg⁴, J. Rodrigue⁵, D. Segev⁶, D. A. Mandelbrot¹
¹UW Madison, Madison, WI, ²SLU, St. Louis, MO, ³Tufts, Boston, MA, ⁴Western University, London, ON, Canada, ⁵BIDMC, Boston, MA, ⁶JHU, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In recent years, a great deal of new data has emerged on outcomes after living donation. We surveyed US transplant centers to assess current…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor Derived Strongyloidiasis, a Preventable Event
R. M. La Hoz¹, G. Vece², L. Danziger-Isakov¹, D. Florescu¹, M. Malinis¹, K. Lilly¹, L. Strasfeld¹, R. P. Wood¹, S. Tlusty², C. R. Wolfe¹, M. G. Michaels¹
¹DTAC, Richmond, VA, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: In the US, deceased donor screening for Strongyloides started in 2010. By 2013 10% of the OPOs had implemented screening practices. Recipients of sero-positive…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor Source of Kidney Transplantation in New Zealand by Ethnicity: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
S. Donnellan¹, N. Cross¹, J. Williman², S. C. Palmer³
¹Nephrology, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand, ²Biostatistics and Computational Biology Unit, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand, ³Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand
*Purpose: Our aim was to explore whether donor source for kidney transplantation in New Zealand was associated with recipient ethnicity adjusting for socioeconomic and clinical…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation and the Impact of Medicaid Expansion
T. A. Melanson¹, S. Pastan², R. Patzer¹
¹Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²SOM: Medicine: Nephrology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplant (LDKTx) is the preferred treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Medicaid Expansion increased insurance coverage and this influx of insured…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor Exclusions and Shifting Trends in Living Liver Donor Evaluations: A Single Center Experience
S. Ganesh, M. Molinari, A. Tevar, C. Hughes, A. Humar
Transplant Surgery, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Not many studies have reported the donor exclusion rates and reason for their decline in US. We aim to report the breakdown of donor…