2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes after Living Liver Donation: Analysis of National Data Base
Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Background: Every year, more than 800 healthy people undergo hepatic resection for living liver donation in Korea. Although 27 years has passed since the first…2018 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation of Kidneys from Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Antibody (Ab) Positive, NAT Negative Donors to HCV Negative Patients Results in Seroconversion but Not Viral Transmission
Transplant Surgery, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA.
Anecdotal reports have suggested that transplantation of HCV Ab+/NAT- donor kidneys into HCV negative recipients is safe and not associated with HCV transmission. With the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Morbidity Outcomes in Live Kidney Donors in the UK: 15 Year Compartive Cohort Study
Understanding risks and long-term outcomes of live kidney donation is essential.To investigate longer-term morbidity outcomes of live kidney donors (LD) compared to healthy controls.Ethics approval…2018 American Transplant Congress
Causes of Death among Deceased Donors
Numbers of deceased organ donors changed little from 2006 to 2010, with an average of 7486 donors per year, but have been increasing since 2010.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Despite the Growing Impact of the American Opioid Epidemic on Organ Donation, a Small Percentage of Drug Intoxication Deaths Result in Organ Donation
Purpose: This study seeks to understand the regional variation in donations after drug overdose (DO) and quantify the proportion of DO deaths that go on…2018 American Transplant Congress
Race/Ethnicity and Hypertension Self-Care Behaviors among US Living Kidney Donors
Purpose: Despite the success of live donor kidney transplantation as an optimal treatment for ESRD, some living kidney donors may be at increased risk of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Follow-Up Care of Living Kidney Donors
The 2017 KDIGO guidelines recommend that living kidney donors receive lifelong annual follow-up care to assess renal health, including serum creatinine measurements with glomerular filtration…2018 American Transplant Congress
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (2): Continued Growth after Gaining International Attention
PurposeThe government of China has responded to allegations that China has been harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience in extrajudicial killings on a large scale…2018 American Transplant Congress
Liposomal Bupivacaine: Friend or Foe in Kidney Donation?
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Background: Pain following nephrectomy and concerns for opioid dependence are disincentives to living kidney donors (LKD). Efficacy of liposomal bupivacaine (LB) in post-operative care of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Variation in Drug Overdose as Donor Cause of Death
Numbers of deceased organ donors have increased steadily since 2012, with large increases 2015-2016. The opioid epidemic has been speculated to drive these increases, differentially…
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