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…2018 American Transplant Congress
Familial Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease in Healthy Live Kidney Donors
1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
Kidney donor candidates are rigorously evaluated so that only the lowest risk are cleared for donation; however, it is not standard practice to exclude candidates…2018 American Transplant Congress
Unraveling the Neuroimmunological Pathways Surrounding Brain Death: Systematic Study of Clinically Relevant Serum Biomarker Changes during Donor Management from Admission to Procurement
Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Donation after brain death (BD) remains an important source of transplanted organs worldwide and it has been shown that BD causes a hostile environment with…2018 American Transplant Congress
Early Results from USHER: A Pilot Trial of Transplanting HCV-Infected Hearts into HCV-Negative Recipients Followed by Anti-Viral Therapy
Background: In 2016, over 600 hearts from deceased donors with active or prior hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were discarded; most were otherwise good quality,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Qualitative Analysis of Facebook Posts Created via the Donor Application
The Donor App is a smartphone app that helps transplant candidates create a Facebook (FB) post telling their story about organ failure and their need…
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