2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Liver Donors Face Substantial Out-of-Pocket Donation-Related Costs
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
While financial barriers to living kidney donation have been recognized, and the associated costs have been characterized limited data exist on the costs incurred by…2018 American Transplant Congress
Potential Living Donors Identified through Social Media
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Purpose: We previously described a smartphone application that harnesses social media to increase potential living donors among kidney and liver transplant candidates. We compared potential…2018 American Transplant Congress
Familial Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease in Healthy Live Kidney Donors
1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
Kidney donor candidates are rigorously evaluated so that only the lowest risk are cleared for donation; however, it is not standard practice to exclude candidates…2018 American Transplant Congress
Unraveling the Neuroimmunological Pathways Surrounding Brain Death: Systematic Study of Clinically Relevant Serum Biomarker Changes during Donor Management from Admission to Procurement
Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Donation after brain death (BD) remains an important source of transplanted organs worldwide and it has been shown that BD causes a hostile environment with…2018 American Transplant Congress
Early Results from USHER: A Pilot Trial of Transplanting HCV-Infected Hearts into HCV-Negative Recipients Followed by Anti-Viral Therapy
Background: In 2016, over 600 hearts from deceased donors with active or prior hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were discarded; most were otherwise good quality,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Qualitative Analysis of Facebook Posts Created via the Donor Application
The Donor App is a smartphone app that helps transplant candidates create a Facebook (FB) post telling their story about organ failure and their need…2018 American Transplant Congress
Mortality of Live Kidney Donors in the UK: 15 Year Comparative Cohort Study
To investigate the all-cause mortality o LDs in comparison with healthy controls.Ethics approval was in place to accrue data from database. Protocol reviewed and passed…2018 American Transplant Congress
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (3): Transplants Conducted on Demand
PurposeBased on allegations that China has been harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience in extrajudicial killings on a large scale, this report examines the extent…2018 American Transplant Congress
Making Right Donor Nephrectomy Great Again: Evaluating Right Hand Assisted Retroperitoneal Donor Nephrectomy
Background: Living kidney transplant offers ideal therapy of end stage renal disease patients. A variety of minimal invasive techniques for donor nephrectomy have been described…2018 American Transplant Congress
Pharmacologic Donor Management Influences Liver Transplant Graft Survival and Transplant Admission Length of Stay: An Update
In liver transplantation, donor management is an area that can be modified to improve survival and lower cost. We reviewed the UNOS Standard Transplant Analysis…
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