Articles tagged "Donation"

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.…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends in Living Kidney Donor Candidates
S. Singh,^1,2 V. DiCecco,² M. Luo,² Y. Li,² O. Famure.²
¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Nephrology and the Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Living kidney donor transplantation is the preferred treatment option for end-stage renal disease. However, living kidney donation rates have plateaued in North America. Existing studies…
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Impact of Glomerular Filtration Rate Normalization to Body Surface Area on Donor Selection and Outcome in over 4000 Living Kidney Donors
S. Riad,¹ D. Keys,¹ D. Vock,¹ S. Jackson,¹ D. Berglund,¹ V. Vakil,¹ A. Matas,¹ H. Ibrahim.³
¹U of MN, Minneapolis; ²Houston Methodist, Houston.
Introduction: A donor GFR of ≥ 80 mL/min is a selection criterion. KDIGO recommends that GFR indexed to BSA should be used. Herein, we tested…
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Nephrosclerosis beyond That Expected for Age is Predictive of Early New-Onset Hypertension (HTN) in Living Kidney Donors (LKD)
N. Issa,¹ L. Vaughan,¹ A. Denic,¹ V. Nagineni,¹ H. Chakkera,² J. Lieske,¹ L. Lerman,¹ S. Taler,¹ M. Stegall,¹ W. Kremers,¹ E. Poggio,³ A. Rule.¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Background: Nephrosclerosis on biopsy (bx) of LKD is associated with older age & HTN. We studied whether nephrosclerosis is predictive of adverse changes early after…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Cost Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Positive Donor Kidney Transplantation for Hepatitis C Negative Recipients with Concomitant Direct-Acting Anti-Viral Therapy
G. Gupta, Y. Zhang, H. Kale, N. Carroll, R. Sterling.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
Background: The development of direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) could allow for safe and effective treatment following renal transplantation (RT).…
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Donor Safety in Obese Patients: 1038 Consecutive Robotic Living Donor Nephrectomies
C. Di Bella,¹ M. Spaggiari,¹ K. Tulla,¹ P. Di Cocco,¹ J. Oberholzer,² I. Tzvetanov,¹ E. Benedetti.¹
¹Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; ²Surgery, University of Virginia, Virginia, VA.
Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy has been a widely accepted technical improvement in kidney transplantation. Since 2000, we have introduced robotic living donor nephrectomy (RLDN) in our…
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When Does Donor Age Matter? A Review of over 70,000 Liver Transplants
D. Yoeli, E. Pan, M. Kueht, N. Galvan, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana.
Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Background: Past studies on donor age in liver transplantation have largely relied on binary groups (i.e., young vs. old) with arbitrarily defined cut-offs. The aim…
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Improving and Delivering Medical Education about Organ Donation and Transplantation to Medical Students Could Play a Fundamental Role in Organ Donation Expansion: Its Time to Get the Basics Right.
A. Ghazanfar, E. Vyra.
Transplant Surgery, St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Background: Education and knowledge about organ donation and transplantation are the most important tools required by all doctors to become ambassador for it irrespective of…
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Change of Bone and Mineral Metabolism in Kidney Donors after Uninephrectomy; Prospective Observational Study
E. Ko,^1,2 H. Cho,^1,3 B. Choi,^1,2 C. Park,^1,2 Y. Kim,^1,2 C. Yang,^1,2 B. Chung.^1,2
¹Transplant Research Center, Seoul St.Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St.Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ³Department of Urology, Seoul St.Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
ackground: The aim of this study is to investigate whether uninephrectomy for kidney donation cause change of bone and mineral metabolism and also investigate factors…
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Living Donor Nephrectomy: Is It as Safe as It Can Be? Analysis of Living Donor Deaths in the United States
D. Keith,¹ J. Brown,² K. Andreoni.³
¹Medicine, Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL; ²President, Clinical Integration Solutions, LLC, Health Safety Consultancy Company, New York, NY; ³Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
The reported rate of death from living donor nephrectomy is 3 in 10,000 donations. Although this risk is low, the important question is how many…