2018 American Transplant Congress
Pregnancy Outcomes after Living Liver Donation
Introduction: Women who have previously donated a kidney are at increased risk of pre-eclampsia. Nearly half of living liver donors are women of child-bearing age.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Renal Function, Blood Pressure, and Histologic Changes in Living Kidney Transplant Recipients from Hypertensive Donors
Little is known if a kidney from a hypertensive donor performs equally compared to a kidney from a non-hypertensive donor. The present study examines the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Mortality and ESRD in Older Live Kidney Donors with Hypertension
1Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; 2University of Colorado, Aurora; 3SRTR, Minneapolis.
Hypertension in otherwise healthy screened older kidney donor candidates is viewed as relatively benign, yet the long-term outcome of older donors with hypertension is unclear.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Skeletons in the Closet? An Insight into Donor Liver Discards in the US
Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, NY.
Background Liver discards are poorly investigated. Among these discarded livers are potentially useable grafts that could save the lives of many of the 2500-3000 who…2018 American Transplant Congress
Offspring Living Kidney Donors Should Not Be Ruled Out
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
A recent study (AJT, January 2018) suggested that kidneys from offspring live donors conferred worse post-transplant outcomes than non-offspring live donors, and advocated selecting non-offspring…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hispanics' Perceptions of a Culturally Targeted Transplant Program: A Mixed Methods Study
1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Background: Although Hispanics have a disproportionally higher prevalence of end-stage renal disease than non-Hispanic whites, fewer waitlisted Hispanics receive living donor kidney transplants (LDKTs). Northwestern…2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Effect of BMI on Renal Function in Asian Living Kidney Donors
One of the targets of expanding criteria for kidney donation is BMI. As the impact of BMI differs in Asians, we studied the long-term effect…2018 American Transplant Congress
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (4): Organ Sources
China Organ Harvest Research Center, Middletown, NY.
PurposeBased on allegations that China has harvested organs from prisoners of conscience in extrajudicial killings on a large scale, this report evaluates China's official organ…2018 American Transplant Congress
Self-Reported Post-Surgical Pain Following Living Kidney Donation
The Kidney Donor Outcomes Cohort (KDOC) is an NIH-funded observational cohort study evaluating outcomes in living kidney donors (LKDs) at 6 US centers. LKDs completed…2018 American Transplant Congress
UPMC Living Donor Champion Program
Transplant Services, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
Aims: Living donation is a good option to address organ shortage and waitlist mortality, but finding a living donor can be a challenge. The goal…
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