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Articles tagged "Donation"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Radioisotopic Evaluation of Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) before and 1 Year after Kindey Donation for Transplantation: The Concept of Estimated Renal Functional Reserve (eRFR)

    V. Cantaluppi,1 G. Guglielmetti,1 M. Mora,1 A. Airoldi,1 F. Orsini,2 M. Quaglia,1 G. Sacchetti,2 C. Ronco.3

    1Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Unit, University of Piemonte Orientale (UPO), Novara, Italy; 2Nuclear Medicine Unit, Maggiore della Carità University Hospital, Novara, Italy; 3Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Unit, International Renal Research Institute (IRRIV), Vicenza, Italy.

    Kidney donors (KD) develop a partial loss of renal function defined as Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). Recovery from AKI is due to renal functional reserve…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    What Happened When the 'Soft Opt-Out' to Organ Donation Was Implemented in Wales? Family and Professional Views and Experiences, and Consent Rates for the First 18 Months

    L. Mc Laughlin, J. Noyes, K. Morgan, P. Walton, A. Roberts, M. Stephens.

    Social Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom; Major Health Conditions Policy Team, Welsh Government, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom; Organ Donation, NHS Blood and Transplant, Cardiff and Liverpool, Wales, United Kingdom; Nephrology and Transplantation, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

    On 01.12.15 Wales introduced a 'soft opt-out' system of organ donation.Co-productive, mixed-methods study partnered with NHS Blood and Transplant and patient and public representatives. Data…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    National Survey of Living Donor Program Educational Components and Resources

    D. Moore,1 M. Dietrich,1 P. Buerhaus,2 J. Rodrigue,3 A. Minnick.1

    1Vanderbilt University, Nashville; 2Montana State University, Bozeman; 3Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston.

    Purpose: Education about living donation (LD) has been identified as a significant barrier to increasing living donation. Little is known about how donors and transplant…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Positive Donor Blood Cultures in Liver Transplant Recipients

    D. Bley, D. Lo, G. Lyon III, R. Subramanian, S. Todd.

    Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA.

    The purpose of this study was to describe the bacteremia transmission rate of transplanting livers from donors with positive bacterial blood cultures into liver transplant…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Outcomes after Living Liver Donation: Analysis of National Data Base

    S. Hong, N-.J. Yi, K. Yoon, J-.H. Cho, J-.M. Lee, H. Kim, K. Lee, K. Suh.

    Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

    Background: Every year, more than 800 healthy people undergo hepatic resection for living liver donation in Korea. Although 27 years has passed since the first…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Transplantation of Kidneys from Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Antibody (Ab) Positive, NAT Negative Donors to HCV Negative Patients Results in Seroconversion but Not Viral Transmission

    M. de Vera, M. Volk, Z. Ncube, A. Kore, M. Robinson, P. Wai, S. Blais, P. Baron, R. Villicana.

    Transplant Surgery, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA.

    Anecdotal reports have suggested that transplantation of HCV Ab+/NAT- donor kidneys into HCV negative recipients is safe and not associated with HCV transmission. With the…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Morbidity Outcomes in Live Kidney Donors in the UK: 15 Year Compartive Cohort Study

    N. Krishnan,1 L. Mumford,3 G. Lipkin,4 S. Fletcher,1 I. Dasgupta,5 P. Gill,6 R. Ryan,7 N. Raymond.8

    1Renal Unit, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom; 2Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom; 3Statistics and Clinical Studies, Organ Donation and Transplant, National Health Services Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom; 4Renal Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 5Renal Unit, Heart of England Hospitals, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 6Academic Unit of Primary Care, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom; 7Primary Care, West Midlands, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 8Statistics, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom.

    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

    M. Skeans, D. Zaun, B. Kasiske.

    SRTR, Minneapolis.

    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

    L. Hickman,1 J. Killian,1 S. Windham.1,2

    1Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; 2Alabama Organ Center, Birmingham, AL.

    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

    M. Johnson, T. Purnell, X. Luo, L. Cooper, M. Waldram, D. Crews, M. Henderson, A. Massie, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.

    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…
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