2018 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Donation eGFR, Early Post-Donation eGFR, and Subsequent ESRD Risk in Living Kidney Donors
1Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; 2SRTR, Minneapolis.
The relationship between predonation eGFR and long-term risk of postdonation ESRD has not been characterized. Moreover, while transplant centers are required to collect postdonation serum…2018 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends, Predictive Factors, and Regional Differences in Discard of Increased-Risk Kidneys
Surgery, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME.
Purpose: Public Health Service (PHS) criteria designate certain deceased donors (DD) as entailing increased risk (IR) for disease transmission, and these constitute an expanding proportion…2018 American Transplant Congress
Compatible Donor and Recipient Pairs' Perspectives on Participation in Kidney Paired Donation Programs: The Emotional Implications of Indirect Donation and Transplantation
1CHUM, Montreal, Canada; 2UBC, Vancouver, Canada.
The inclusion of compatible pairs in kidney paired donation (KPD) may be a strategy to increase the chance of transplantation for incompatible pairs in KPD…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hospitality Houses and Transplant Patients: Assessing the Impact of a Hospitality House Dedicated to Transplant Patients and Their Families
Hospitality houses exclusively for transplant patients and their families are a relatively new concept and their connection to medical outcomes is untested. One hospitality house…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Donor Nephrectomy in the Older Living Kidney Donor: Single Centre Experience
West Lodnon Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Background. Living kidney donor transplantation is the best treatment for ESRD and considered safe for the donor. We aimed to investigate short and medium-term outcomes…2018 American Transplant Congress
Upper Limb and Craniofacial VCA Donors in the US
Life changing VCA transplants are made possible by deceased VCA donors. This study provides the first description of all known upper limb and craniofacial donors…2018 American Transplant Congress
Shortening Length of Post-Operative In-Patient Stay for Living Kidney Donors
Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Purpose. The study analyzes the impact of psychiatric history on postoperative length of hospital stay (LOS) of living kidney donors (LD) and initial assessment of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Kidney Transplant Recipient Readmissions
Glickman Urology and Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland.
Introduction: Readmission rates for kidney transplant recipients is high and widely variable with a range of 18-47% nationwide. We aimed to characterize kidney transplant patients…2018 American Transplant Congress
Weight Changes before and after Kidney Donation
IntroductionLiving kidney donors remain at low risk of end stage kidney disease but obese and overweight donors' risk is increased. We aimed to describe the…2018 American Transplant Congress
A Medical Decision Analysis for the Use of Donation after Cardiac Death Donors for Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
For patients on the simultaneous liver-kidney transplant (SLKT) waitlist, acceptance of donation after cardiac death (DCD) organs may facilitate earlier transplantation thereby reducing waitlist mortality,…
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