2018 American Transplant Congress
Mortality of Live Kidney Donors in the UK: 15 Year Comparative Cohort Study
To investigate the all-cause mortality o LDs in comparison with healthy controls.Ethics approval was in place to accrue data from database. Protocol reviewed and passed…2018 American Transplant Congress
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (3): Transplants Conducted on Demand
PurposeBased on allegations that China has been harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience in extrajudicial killings on a large scale, this report examines the extent…2018 American Transplant Congress
Making Right Donor Nephrectomy Great Again: Evaluating Right Hand Assisted Retroperitoneal Donor Nephrectomy
Background: Living kidney transplant offers ideal therapy of end stage renal disease patients. A variety of minimal invasive techniques for donor nephrectomy have been described…2018 American Transplant Congress
Pharmacologic Donor Management Influences Liver Transplant Graft Survival and Transplant Admission Length of Stay: An Update
In liver transplantation, donor management is an area that can be modified to improve survival and lower cost. We reviewed the UNOS Standard Transplant Analysis…2018 American Transplant Congress
Pregnancy Outcomes after Living Liver Donation
Introduction: Women who have previously donated a kidney are at increased risk of pre-eclampsia. Nearly half of living liver donors are women of child-bearing age.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Renal Function, Blood Pressure, and Histologic Changes in Living Kidney Transplant Recipients from Hypertensive Donors
Little is known if a kidney from a hypertensive donor performs equally compared to a kidney from a non-hypertensive donor. The present study examines the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Mortality and ESRD in Older Live Kidney Donors with Hypertension
1Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; 2University of Colorado, Aurora; 3SRTR, Minneapolis.
Hypertension in otherwise healthy screened older kidney donor candidates is viewed as relatively benign, yet the long-term outcome of older donors with hypertension is unclear.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Skeletons in the Closet? An Insight into Donor Liver Discards in the US
Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, NY.
Background Liver discards are poorly investigated. Among these discarded livers are potentially useable grafts that could save the lives of many of the 2500-3000 who…2018 American Transplant Congress
Offspring Living Kidney Donors Should Not Be Ruled Out
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
A recent study (AJT, January 2018) suggested that kidneys from offspring live donors conferred worse post-transplant outcomes than non-offspring live donors, and advocated selecting non-offspring…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hispanics' Perceptions of a Culturally Targeted Transplant Program: A Mixed Methods Study
1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Background: Although Hispanics have a disproportionally higher prevalence of end-stage renal disease than non-Hispanic whites, fewer waitlisted Hispanics receive living donor kidney transplants (LDKTs). Northwestern…
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