2017 American Transplant Congress
Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Common Feature of Injury in Donor Kidneys After Brain and Circulatory Death.
The pro-coagulatory and pro-inflammatory environment in donors after brain death (DBD) and warm ischemia in donors after circulatory death (DCD) can cause injury to target…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Outcome of Kidney Grafts from Living Donors with Pyelo-Ureteric Junction Dysfunction.
Introduction: There is a wide gap between number of patients seeking renal transplants and potential kidney donors. Living kidney donation seems a reasonable source to…2017 American Transplant Congress
Post-Donation Remaining Donor Kidney Function as Measured by CKD-EPI Formula at 2 Years Correlates and Is Predicted by Remaining Donor Kidney Volume.
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis
Aim: The aim of our study was to evaluate whether preserved kidney volume correlates with and can predict donor renal function at 2-years post-donation using…2017 American Transplant Congress
Largest US Series of Minimally Invasive Full and Laparoscopy-Assisted Living Donor Hepatectomy.
Surgery, New York Presbyterian/Columbia University, New York, NY
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) has offered minimally invasive donor hepatectomies since 2008. Donor hepatectomies have been performed using 3 access routes (1) hybrid technique;…2017 American Transplant Congress
KDPI Obscures Trends in Absolute Donor Risk.
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN
The kidney donor profile index (KDPI) is commonly used to measure deceased donor kidney quality based on the kidney donor risk index (KDRI) (Rao, et…2017 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors and 2 Year Outcomes of Low Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in the Immediate Post-Operative Period for Living Kidney Donors.
1Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit; 2Wayne State University, Detroit
Background: While long-term risk of end-stage renal disease in living kidney donors is considered less than 0.25% at 15 years, an association between the immediate…2017 American Transplant Congress
Accuracy of Computed Tomography for Detecting Hepatic Steatosis in Donors for Liver Transplantation.
The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Background: The accuracy of computed tomography (CT) for detecting donor hepatic steatosis (HS) before liver transplantation is not well established.Methods: A meta-analysis was performed to…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Decade of Paediatric Kidney Transplantation in Children Weighing <20kg.
Introduction: Renal transplantation is the gold standard treatment for end-stage kidney disease. There are increased challenges in paediatric renal transplant recipients under 20kg, especially when…2017 American Transplant Congress
Challenges for the Travelling Donor: Variability Between Donor Work-Up and Donor Surgery in the Canadian Kidney Paired Donation Program.
Background: A primary obstacle to providing renal transplantation is limited access to donated kidneys. The living donor pool for renal allografts was greatly expanded through…2017 American Transplant Congress
Current Practice and Ethical Dimensions of Implementing APOL1 Testing into Living Donor Evaluation: A National Survey.
1Northwestern University, Chicago; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester
BackgroundAfrican American (AA) live kidney donors (LKDs) have an even greater risk of kidney failure than European American live donors. Apolipoprotein 1 (APOL1) gene variants…
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