Articles tagged "Donation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Preoperative Patient Education to Improve the Inpatient Experience for Living Donors
K. Ventura, K. Sigafus.
Transplant Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Purpose: Although the number of living organ donors is small, their altruistic sacrifice requires a dedicated approach to meet their unique needs. Living donors (LD)…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Influence Factors of DCD Donors' Family Members' Willingness in Chinese Current Status (Hunan Province Experience)
B. Tu, C. Li, C. Li, S. Liu, Y. Zhao, X. She, Y. Ming.
Transplantation Center of the 3rd Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changssha, Hunan, China.
Background: Organ donation after citizen death (DCD) in China has developed gradually since the government promotes it powerfully from 2012, but the donation rate in…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Opting out and Offers of 'Alibis' for Potential Living Kidney Donors in the US
R. Iskander,¹ S. Kulkarni,² C. Thiessen.²
¹McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; ²Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Purpose: To delineate rates of and reasons for opting out of living kidney donation, to determine if and how transplant centers offer alibis, to assess…
2018 American Transplant Congress
How the Spouses (Husbands) of Living Kidney Donors View Kidney Donation: A Grounded Theory Study
J. Kieffer.
Division of Nursing, University of Mount Olive, Mount Olive, NC.
The purpose of this study was to explore the question: What is the process of experiencing living kidney transplant by the spouse of a living…
2018 American Transplant Congress
End Stage Kidney Disease Risk Profile in Living Kidney Donors for Pediatric versus Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients in Australia and New Zealand
D. Lee,^1,2 J. Whitlam,² N. Cook,² A. Walker,³ F. Ierino,⁴ M. Roberts,¹ J. Kausman.³
¹Department of Renal Medicine, Eastern Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; ²Department of Nephrology, Austin Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; ³Department of Nephrology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; ⁴Department of Nephrology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Background: Living kidney donors (LKD) for pediatric kidney transplant recipients (KTR) have a high motivation to donate due to the clear benefits to the KTR…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Trends, Patterns, and Recipient Outcomes of Kidney Transplants from Older (>60) Living Donors. A UNOS Database Analysis
A. Riaz, O. Adebiyi, M. Yaqub, D. Mishler, T. Taber, A. Sharfuddin.
Indiana University, Indianapolis.
Backgroud: The selection of older donors (>60 years) has become more common. Our aim was to analyze the recent national trends of such donors and…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Using the Explore Transplant Ontario Program to Increase Transplant Knowledge and Readiness among Patients on Maintenance Dialysis
D. Belenko,¹ C. Richardson,¹ V. Gupta,¹ T. Ahmed, N. Edwards, M. Novak,² J. Peipert,³ A. Waterman, I. Mucsi.
¹Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Department of Surgery, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
IntroductionKidney transplantation (KT) is the preferred treatment for patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD), yet many potentially eligible patients do not act to pursue KT.…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Few Gender Differences in Attitudes and Experiences after Live Kidney Donation, with Minor Changes over Time
J. Wadström,^1,2 B. von Zur-Mühlen,³ S. Yamamoto.³
¹Department of Transplantation Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden; ²Department of Surgery/Transplantation, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar; ³Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Background: We sought to study gender differences and differences over time with respect to demographics, relation to recipient, donor motives, and experiences of live kidney…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor Hepatectomy Time in Donation after Circulatory Death Donors is an Independent Risk Factor for the Development of Biliary Strictures and Early Graft Loss after Transplantation
O. van Leeuwen,¹ M. van Reeven,² M. Fujiyoshi,¹ V. de Meijer,¹ R. de Kleine,¹ M. de Boer,¹ J. de Jonge,² J. Ijzermans,² W. Polak,² R. Porte.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Introduction: Liver transplantation (LT) from donors after circulatory death (DCD) is associated with an increased risk of non-anastomotic biliary strictures (NAS) and early graft loss…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Four Eyes Are Better Than Two: Improving Laboratory Report Quality Control
S. Dionne,² K. Klama,² H. Rashid,² A. Niedzinski.²
¹Quality Assurance, LABS, Inc., Centennial, CO; ²Infectious Disease, LABS, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.
Background: Our STAT donor-screening lab implemented a new LIMS that is used to manage patient orders, testing and reporting. We intentionally customized the LIMS to…