2017 American Transplant Congress
Implementing a Successful DCD Heart Programme to the United Kingdom.
Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom
The UK has the most successful DCD heart programme in the world which has primarily been developed in one region in England. Due to a…2017 American Transplant Congress
Strategies to Economize Dialysis and Transplantation in Low Resource Settings.
Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan
Background: Pakistan in an emerging economy where 50% of the population live below the poverty line on <$2 a day. The government spend 1.3% of…2017 American Transplant Congress
African American Living Kidney Donors' Attitudes About APOL1 Genetic Testing: Implications for Evaluation and Informed Consent.
1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester
BackgroundAfrican American (AA) live kidney donors (LKDs) have a greater risk than European American live donors of kidney failure. Apolipoprotein 1 (APOL1) gene variants in…2017 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation of Organs from Donors with Hepatitis C: The Potential to Substantially Increase Transplant Activity.
Introduction. Organs from hepatitis C virus positive (HCV+ve) donors are commonly declined for transplantation because of the risk of disease transmission, but new direct acting…2017 American Transplant Congress
Time to Kidney Transplantation Following Live Donor Candidate Referral.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Kidney transplant candidates have utilized novel methods to identify and refer willing donors; however, delays or barriers to actually achieving live donor kidney transplantation are…2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Pre-Donation eGFR on Long-Term Post-Donation eGFR in Younger Living Kidney Donors.
Objective: Most transplant centers require living kidney donors (LKDs) to have a minimum estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) to ensure adequate kidney reserve to withstand…2017 American Transplant Congress
Reasons for Racial Disparities in Living Donor Liver Transplants (LDLT).
1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Introduction: End-stage liver disease patients who receive transplants from living donors have post-transplant outcomes as good or better than those transplanted with livers from deceased…2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Type 2 Surgical Injuries in Postmortem Donor Kidneys on the Post-Transplant Outcomes When Compared to Mate Non-Injured Kidney from the Same Donor.
Introduction - While damage to the procured organ is rare with organ loss being approximately 0.3% of procured organs, loss of potential transplantable organs does…2017 American Transplant Congress
Risk Prediction Models for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation to Predict Donor and Recipient Mortality and Graft Loss.
The purpose of this study was to develop linked risk prediction models for potential donors for and their respective recipients of a kidney transplantation at…2017 American Transplant Congress
Live Donor (LDTx) HIV(+) Kidney Transplantation Improves Allograft Survival vs. Deceased Donor (CRD) Transplantation.
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia
Hahnemann University Hospital has performed 113 kidney transplants in HIV(+) recipients. We sought to analyze the impact of HIV(+) LDTx on allograft survival.Methods: The HIV(+)…
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