2018 American Transplant Congress
Morbidity Outcomes in Live Kidney Donors in the UK: 15 Year Compartive Cohort Study
Understanding risks and long-term outcomes of live kidney donation is essential.To investigate longer-term morbidity outcomes of live kidney donors (LD) compared to healthy controls.Ethics approval…2018 American Transplant Congress
Causes of Death among Deceased Donors
Numbers of deceased organ donors changed little from 2006 to 2010, with an average of 7486 donors per year, but have been increasing since 2010.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Despite the Growing Impact of the American Opioid Epidemic on Organ Donation, a Small Percentage of Drug Intoxication Deaths Result in Organ Donation
Purpose: This study seeks to understand the regional variation in donations after drug overdose (DO) and quantify the proportion of DO deaths that go on…2018 American Transplant Congress
Race/Ethnicity and Hypertension Self-Care Behaviors among US Living Kidney Donors
Purpose: Despite the success of live donor kidney transplantation as an optimal treatment for ESRD, some living kidney donors may be at increased risk of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Follow-Up Care of Living Kidney Donors
The 2017 KDIGO guidelines recommend that living kidney donors receive lifelong annual follow-up care to assess renal health, including serum creatinine measurements with glomerular filtration…2018 American Transplant Congress
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (2): Continued Growth after Gaining International Attention
PurposeThe government of China has responded to allegations that China has been harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience in extrajudicial killings on a large scale…2018 American Transplant Congress
Liposomal Bupivacaine: Friend or Foe in Kidney Donation?
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Background: Pain following nephrectomy and concerns for opioid dependence are disincentives to living kidney donors (LKD). Efficacy of liposomal bupivacaine (LB) in post-operative care of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Variation in Drug Overdose as Donor Cause of Death
Numbers of deceased organ donors have increased steadily since 2012, with large increases 2015-2016. The opioid epidemic has been speculated to drive these increases, differentially…2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Liver Donors Face Substantial Out-of-Pocket Donation-Related Costs
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
While financial barriers to living kidney donation have been recognized, and the associated costs have been characterized limited data exist on the costs incurred by…2018 American Transplant Congress
Potential Living Donors Identified through Social Media
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Purpose: We previously described a smartphone application that harnesses social media to increase potential living donors among kidney and liver transplant candidates. We compared potential…
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