Articles tagged "Donation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Using the Explore Transplant Ontario Program to Increase Transplant Knowledge and Readiness among Patients on Maintenance Dialysis
D. Belenko,¹ C. Richardson,¹ V. Gupta,¹ T. Ahmed, N. Edwards, M. Novak,² J. Peipert,³ A. Waterman, I. Mucsi.
¹Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Department of Surgery, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
IntroductionKidney transplantation (KT) is the preferred treatment for patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD), yet many potentially eligible patients do not act to pursue KT.…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Few Gender Differences in Attitudes and Experiences after Live Kidney Donation, with Minor Changes over Time
J. Wadström,^1,2 B. von Zur-Mühlen,³ S. Yamamoto.³
¹Department of Transplantation Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden; ²Department of Surgery/Transplantation, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar; ³Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Background: We sought to study gender differences and differences over time with respect to demographics, relation to recipient, donor motives, and experiences of live kidney…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor Hepatectomy Time in Donation after Circulatory Death Donors is an Independent Risk Factor for the Development of Biliary Strictures and Early Graft Loss after Transplantation
O. van Leeuwen,¹ M. van Reeven,² M. Fujiyoshi,¹ V. de Meijer,¹ R. de Kleine,¹ M. de Boer,¹ J. de Jonge,² J. Ijzermans,² W. Polak,² R. Porte.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Introduction: Liver transplantation (LT) from donors after circulatory death (DCD) is associated with an increased risk of non-anastomotic biliary strictures (NAS) and early graft loss…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Four Eyes Are Better Than Two: Improving Laboratory Report Quality Control
S. Dionne,² K. Klama,² H. Rashid,² A. Niedzinski.²
¹Quality Assurance, LABS, Inc., Centennial, CO; ²Infectious Disease, LABS, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.
Background: Our STAT donor-screening lab implemented a new LIMS that is used to manage patient orders, testing and reporting. We intentionally customized the LIMS to…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Why the Low Usage of HIV Positive Donors? A Survey of the Transplant Community
S. Nazarian,¹ C. Watts,² D. Sawinski,² P. Reese,² D. Goldberg,² P. Abt,¹ S. Halpern,² J. Shea,² E. Blumberg.²
¹Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
BackgroundSince the HIV Policy Equity Act of 2013, 22 programs have been approved to use HIV+ kidneys and livers, yet these transplants remain uncommon. It…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Maternal and Fetal Outcomes in Living Kidney Donors in Korea
H. Lee,¹ K. Yoo,² M. Yu,¹ Y. Kim.¹
¹Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; ²Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju, Korea.
Background. Mild elevation of blood pressure after unilateral nephrectomy may contribute to elevate gestational hypertension or preeclampsia in women donors. To date, impact of kidney…
2018 American Transplant Congress
HOPE Act Deceased Organ Donors: True and False Positive Donors
C. Durand,¹ S. Seaman,¹ M. Bowring,¹ B. Doby,¹ D. Ostrander,¹ A. Redd,¹ M. Waldram,¹ S. Huprikar,² B. Haydel,² S. Lerner,² S. Florman,² N. Turgeon,³ R. Friedman-Moraco,³ A. Massie,¹ D. Segev.¹
¹JHU, Baltimore; ²Mount Sinai, New York; ³Emory, Atlanta.
HOPE in Action is a multicenter trial designed to evaluate the safety of HIV+ to HIV+ transplantation (NCT02602262). In this trial, organs from donors with…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Cigarette Smoking on Living Kidney Donor
Y. Yoon,¹ H. Lee,² J. Na,³ K. Huh,⁴ M. Kim,⁴ S. Kim,⁴ Y. Kim,⁴ W. Han.³
¹Urology, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ²Urology, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Korea; ³Urology, Urological Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ⁴Transplantation Surgery, Research Institute for Transplantation, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Introduction: Smoking is known to result in the decline of renal allograft function and survival of recipients. However, effect of smoking on living kidney donor…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Probability of Developing Chronic Kidney Disease 1 Year after Living Donor Nephrectomy Correlates with Baseline Kidney Volume and Function
I. Hall, A. Shaaban, S. Beddhu, F. Shihab.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Purpose: Living kidney donor outcomes are tremendously important, especially given expanding donor eligibility. Relative to other predictors, the relationship between remaining kidney volume and post-donation…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Initiated Kidney Transplant Exchanges and the Forgotten Incompatible Directed Donor Recipients
E. Molmenti,¹ C. Molmenti,² E. Grodstein,¹ H. Rilo,¹ L. Teperman.¹
¹Surgery, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY; ²Feinstein Institute, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY.
Although incompatibility is usually viewed as affecting potential recipients of live donors, it is also encountered in instances of directed donation of deceased donors. In…