Articles tagged "Donation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Ex-Vivo Subnormothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion of Rodent Hindlimb: Feasibility Study to Elongate Preservation Time of Vascularized Composite Allograft
L. Burlage,^1,2 A. Lellouch,^3,4 S. Tessier,¹ C. Pendexter,¹ S. Cronin,¹ M. Schol,³ M. Randolph,³ R. Porte,² L. Lantieri,⁴ C. Cetrulo,³ K. Uygun.¹
¹Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston; ²Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ³Plastic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston; ⁴Plastic Surgery, European George Pompidou Hospital, Paris, France.
PURPOSE: A pressing challenge in the field of VCA is adequate tissue preservation. Static cold preservation, successfully used in field of solid organ transplantation, greatly…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation of Restored Kidneys from Living Related Donors after Small Renal Tumor Resection: Report of 5 Cases
Y. Ogawa,¹ S. Shiroma,² K. Kojima,² R. Mannami,² M. Mannami,² N. Mitsuhata,² M. Nishi,⁴ H. Afuso.³
¹Urology, Tokyo-West Tokushukai Hospital, Akishima, Tokyo, Japan; ²Urology, Uwajima Toikushukai Hospital, Uwajima, Ehime, Japan; ³Urology, Okinawa Chubu Tokushukai Hospital, Okinawa, Japan; ⁴Urology, Saint Martin's Hospital, Sakaide, Kagawa, Japan.
Purpose: We launched a clinical trial registered at ClinicalTrials.gov that aimed to study the utility and safety of restored kidney transplantation between family members using…
2018 American Transplant Congress
APOL1 Long-Term Kidney Transplantation Outcomes Network (APOLLO)
G. Guerra,¹ E. Poggio,² M. Ortigosa-Goggins,¹ M. Doshi,³ B. Freedman,⁴ D. Reboussin,⁴ P. Kimmel,⁵ APOLLO Investigators.
¹Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL; ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ⁴Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; ⁵NIDDK, Bethesda, MD.
Two renal-risk variants in the apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1) are powerfully associated with a spectrum of non-diabetic chronic kidney diseases in populations with recent African…
2018 American Transplant Congress
A Medical Decision Analysis for the Use of Donation after Cardiac Death Donors for Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant
A. Miller, K. Tennankore, B. Kiberd.
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,…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Stunning Rise in Organ Donors Deceased from Drug Overdose
N. Agrawal,¹ S. Rhazouani,¹ D. Reino,¹ D. McMichael,² C. McClenney,³ D. Sears,¹ K. Al Khalloufi,¹ S. Gebreselassie,¹ S. Ebaid,¹ M. Berho,⁴ X. Zervos,¹ C. Sheffield,¹ A. Tzakis.¹
¹Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL; ²Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ³Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, University of Miami, Miami, FL; ⁴Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL.
In the recent years we noticed an increase in the number of local deceased organ donors who had died of drug overdose. This coincides with…
2018 American Transplant Congress
National Study of Living Donor Program Protocols, Processes, and Resources within U.S. Transplant Centers
D. Moore,¹ M. Dietrich,¹ P. Buerhaus,² J. Rodrigue,³ A. Minnick.¹
¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville; ²Montana State University, Bonzeman; ³Beth Israel Deaconess MC, Boston.
Purpose: There is limited research that describes living donor (LD) program processes and protocols. This study aimed to describe LD program protocols, processes, and resources…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Liver Allograft Discard: The Discard Risk Index
A. Rana, M. Kueht, N. Galvan, R. Cotton, T. Miloh, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss.
Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Background: An index that predicts liver allograft discard can effectively grade allografts and can be used to preferentially allocate marginal allografts to aggressive centers. Aim:…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Patient Attitudes and Perceptions of Using Mobile Health Technology for Living Kidney Donor Follow-Up and Care Management
A. Eno,¹ A. Thomas,¹ J. Ruck,¹ S. Rasmussen,¹ S. Halpern,¹ D. Segev,^1,2,3 M. Henderson.^1,3
¹Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
Living kidney donor (LKD) follow-up is imperative to understand and monitor long-term outcomes after living donor nephrectomy, yet donor engagement with transplant hospitals post-donation remains…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Equivalent Post-Donation eGFR after Robotic Assisted versus Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy
R. Cross, H. Pollinger, M. Tan, M. Mulloy, T. Ommert, A. Ray, C. Klein.
Piedmont Transplant Institute, Atlanta, GA.
Robotic assisted donor nephrectomy (RADN) has gained popularity in recent years as a minimally invasive alternative to traditional laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN). RADN offers advantages…
2018 American Transplant Congress
High GFR in Kidney Donors is Associated with Increased Risk of Proteinuria and Diabetes
D. Keys, S. Riad, V. Vakil, S. Jackson, D. Berglund, A. Matas.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Background: Measured glomerular filtration rate (GFR) has been part of the donor evaluation to rule out low GFR donors from taking undue risk for ESRD.…