2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Renal Function in Living Kidney Donors with Renal Cysts
Renal cysts found during the evaluation of living kidney donor (LKD) candidates are often regarded as benign. However, it is possible that these structural abnormalities…2018 American Transplant Congress
Critical Care Management of Organ Donors with Uncertain Consent Status
Department of Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ.
Introduction: Donor management is a foundation of organ transplantation. It requires professionalism, compassion, and collaboration between intensive care unit (ICU) staff, organ procurement organizations (OPOs),…2018 American Transplant Congress
How Old is Too Old? Expanding Living Kidney Organ Transplantation from Donors above 60 Years of Age with Associated Comorbidity.
Transplant Surgery, St Georges University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Background: Worldwide the population is ageing. In UK there are more people above 60 than under 16 years of age. Hence there are more elderly…2018 American Transplant Congress
New Factors Predicting Delayed Graft Function: A Multi-Center Cohort Study Based on Kidney Donation after Brain Death Followed by Circulatory Death
Background. Delayed graft function (DGF) is a common complication following kidney transplantation that exerts an adverse impact on graft outcomes. Donation after brain death followed…2018 American Transplant Congress
Living-Donor Preemptive Kidney Transplant Timing Calculator: An Online Decision Support Tool
Purpose: Optimal glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and timing for living preemptive kidney transplantation (PKT) is not well studied.Method: We developed an online engine to calculate…2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor Derived Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) Transmission Events 2008-2016: A Report of the OPTN Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)
Background: RCC is the most common renal tumor reported to the OPTN and reviewed by DTAC for assessment of potential donor transmission. Organs with concern…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…
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