2018 American Transplant Congress
An Initial Experience with the Endowrist Robotic Endostapling Device for Renal Donor Nephrectomy
Piedmont Transplant Institute, Atlanta.
Introduction:Robot assisted donor nephrectomy has been used an advancement to standard laparoscopic techniques. However, limitations in available instrumentation reduce the efficiency of the procedure especially…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Related Issues Leads the Medical Reasons to Exclude Potential Living Kidney Donors from Donation ; Prospective Study
Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Living kidney donors provide the best therapeutic option for patients with kidney failure going for kidney transplantation; however significant numbers of them are out for…2018 American Transplant Congress
Prospective, Double Blind, Randomized Trial Comparing the Use of Ketorolac and Lyrica versus SOC+placebo during Live Donor Nephrectomy for Transplant
Opioid exposure is a concern after live donation (LD) for transplant. We theorized that a protocol using pregablin pre-operation to desensitize nerves followed by ketorolac…2018 American Transplant Congress
Improved OPO Performance Drives Broader Organ Sharing in the United States
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond.
Background: OPTN allocation policies in the United States include both local geographic priority and broader sharing. Local allocation priority varies by organ type. For example,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donation: Impact of Transplant Center Labor, Organization, and Resources
Purpose: Impact of transplant center program size, staffing, and organization on LKD outcomes is unknown. This study describes the labor inputs, organization, and resources available…2018 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Candidates Who Travel for Liver Transplantation and the Donor Organs They Receive
Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Background:Geographic disparities in access to liver transplantation (LT) has led to candidates seeking LT outside their home UNOS region (“Travelers”). Little is known about their…2018 American Transplant Congress
Preoperative Patient Education to Improve the Inpatient Experience for Living Donors
Transplant Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Purpose: Although the number of living organ donors is small, their altruistic sacrifice requires a dedicated approach to meet their unique needs. Living donors (LD)…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Influence Factors of DCD Donors' Family Members' Willingness in Chinese Current Status (Hunan Province Experience)
Background: Organ donation after citizen death (DCD) in China has developed gradually since the government promotes it powerfully from 2012, but the donation rate in…2018 American Transplant Congress
Opting out and Offers of 'Alibis' for Potential Living Kidney Donors in the US
1McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; 2Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Purpose: To delineate rates of and reasons for opting out of living kidney donation, to determine if and how transplant centers offer alibis, to assess…2018 American Transplant Congress
How the Spouses (Husbands) of Living Kidney Donors View Kidney Donation: A Grounded Theory Study
Division of Nursing, University of Mount Olive, Mount Olive, NC.
The purpose of this study was to explore the question: What is the process of experiencing living kidney transplant by the spouse of a living…
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