Articles tagged "Donation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Positive Implications of an Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Protocol Using Liposomal Bupivacaine for Transverse Abdominis Plane Block in the Perioperative Phase of Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy
A. Nickkholgh,¹ A. Agarwal,¹ B. Sarosiek,² A. Sites,³ A. Nishio Lucar,⁴ J. Oberholzer,¹ P. Amato.⁵
¹Dept. of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ²ERAS Program, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ³Strickler Transplant Institute, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ⁴Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ⁵Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA.
Introduction. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols aim to mitigate the physical and psychological stress response to surgery. Postop pain can increase the need for…
2018 American Transplant Congress
HIV-Positive Donors to HIV-Positive Transplant Recipients: The Italian Experience
P. Grossi,¹ D. Dalla Gasperina,¹ A. Petrolo,¹ D. Lombardi,¹ M. Balsamo,¹ M. Moioli,² G. Travi,² M. Merli,² F. Ferla,² M. Tozzi,¹ L. De Carlis,² G. Carcano,¹ M. Puoti,² A. Nanni Costa.³
¹Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria-ASST Sette Laghi, Varese, Italy; ²ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milano, Italy; ³Centro Nazionale Trapianti-ISS, Roma, Italy.
In order to expand the availability of organs for HIV-positive patients, successful transplantation of kidneys and livers from HIV-positive donors into selected HIV-positive recipients was…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Recipient Outcomes in Age Mismatched Living Kidney Transplants from Donors > 60 Years: A UNOS Database Analysis
O. Adebiyi, A. Riaz, M. Yaqub, D. Mishler, T. Taber, A. Sharfuddin.
Indiana University, Indianapolis.
Background: Donor and recipient age mismatch kidney transplantation are known to affect graft survival. We examined the impact of age mismatching on graft survival after…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Analyzing Geographic Disparity in the US Heart Allocation System
F. Karami,¹ M. Nayebpour,² M. Gentili,¹ N. Koizumi,² A. Rivard.³
¹Industrial Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; ²Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington; ³Department of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Introduction: In the United States, the system to allocate solid organs for transplantation is regulated and maintained by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Ethical Turmoil of Imminent Death Donation
N. Galvan, J. Geha, R. Ackah, M. Kueht, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, A. Rana, J. Goss.
Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
A. Imminent Death Donation (IDD) is a term to describe organ procurement from a live donor before withdrawal of ventilator support and/or from a patient…
2018 American Transplant Congress
HIV, HBV, and HCV Screening with NAT and Serology in the OPO Setting
N. Theodoropoulos,¹ M. Ison.²
¹UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA; ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Background:In December 2014, the Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network updated policy to mandate screening with nucleic acid tests (NAT) for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Cumulative United States Experience in Domino Liver Transplants
K. Barrera, S. Sharma, A. Gruessner, R. Gruessner.
Surgery, State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, CA.
Background/Purpose: The ongoing shortage of livers in the setting of growing waiting lists remains a challenge in transplantation. First introduced in 1995, sequential or domino…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Exploring the Impact of Recipient Age with Kidney Donor Risk Index and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate at One Year Following Kidney Transplant
S. Chan,^1,2,3 M. Chatfield,⁴ K. Baboolal.^2,3
¹Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; ²Kidney Health Service, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ³Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ⁴Statistics Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Background: Various kidney donor risk indexes (KDRI) have been developed to predict graft survival with various combinations of donor and recipient characteristics. The aim of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Informed Clustering of Donor Service Areas for Better Benchmarking
S. Noreen, R. Carrico, J. Rosendale.
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
The 58 Donor Service Areas (DSA) represent territories of varying geographic sizes, densities and populations. The intention of this project is to group DSA based…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Financial Well-Being of Living Kidney Donor Candidates
S. Singh,^1,2 G. Bannerman,² A. Yantsis,² M. Liu,² F. Gumabay,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.
Despite the known benefits of living donor kidney transplantation, the rate of living kidney donation in Canada has not increased. Potential reasons include the lack…