Articles tagged "Donation"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Apolipoprotein L1 & Chronic Kidney Disease Risk in Young Potential Living Kidney Donors.
J. Locke,¹ D. Sawinski,² R. Reed,¹ B. Shelton,¹ P. MacLennan,¹ V. Kumar,¹ S. Mehta,¹ R. Mannon,¹ R. Gaston,¹ B. Julian,¹ J. Carr,³ J. Terry,³ M. Kilgore,¹ A. Massie,⁴ D. Segev,⁴ C. Lewis.¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; ³Vanderbilt University, Nashville; ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Background: Living kidney donor selection practices have evolved from examining individual risk factors to a risk calculator incorporating multiple characteristics. Due to limited long-term data…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Pharmaceutical Care Needs Identified Through Linked Transplant Registry and Pharmacy Claims Data.
K. Lentine,¹ S. Gustafson,² M. Schnitzler,¹ G. Hess,³ D. Segev,⁴ A. Garg,⁵ N. Lam,⁶ D. Axelrod,⁷ D. Brennan,⁸ H. Randall,¹ B. Kasiske.⁹
¹St Louis Univ, St Louis, MO; ²SRTR, Minneapolis, MN; ³Symphony Health, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; ⁵Western Univ, London, Canada; ⁶Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; ⁷E Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC; ⁸Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO
Limited data are available on pharmaceutical care needs of living kidney donors (LKD).We integrated 1) national US Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data for LKD…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Cross-sectional and Serial Evolution of Quality of Life in Elderly Kidney Donors.
S. Ake,¹ D. Berglund,² S. Jackson,³ A. Matas,² C. Gross,² H. Ibrahim.²
¹Saint Catherine University, St. Paul; ²U of MN, Mpls; ³M Health, Mpls
Little is known regarding long-term health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in elderly (those donating when ≥65 yrs) living kidney donors (LKDs). Using the SF-36, we…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Review of UK-Wide Practice of Pancreas Transplantation: Donor Selection, Back-Bench Preparation & Implantation Technique.
H. Sharma,¹ S. Bhutani,³ D. Vandellen,² T. Campbell,² R. Pararajasingham,² B. Forgacs,² A. Tavakoli,² P. Friend,⁴ T. Augustine,² R. Dhanda.²
¹Multi Organ Transplant Unit, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada; ²Kidney Pancreas Transplant Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom; ³Multi Organ Transplant Unit, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada; ⁴Multi Organ Transplant Unit, Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom
Background: Experience of Centers for simultaneous pancreas and kidney (SPK) transplantation is not uniform. Variability in operative steps may explain inconsistent surgical outcomes.Methods: A web…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Variables Associated with Liver Graft Utilization and 30-Day Failure: A Liver Graft Quality Index.
J. Tang,¹ M. Esfandiari,¹ A. Zarrinpar.²
¹Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; ²Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
The quantitative evaluation of liver graft quality remains one of the most understudied clinical problems in transplantation. A few scoring systems have been proposed, but…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Sexual Dysfunction Among Living Kidney Donors.
S. Halpern,¹ A. Thomas,¹ C. Holscher,¹ A. Massie,¹ M. Henderson,¹ S. Anjum,¹ J. Locke,² D. Segev.¹
¹JHU, Baltimore, MD; ²UAB, Birmingham, AL
Ensuring high post-donation quality of life among living kidney donors (LKDs) is a critical component of making living donation worthwhile for both recipients and donors.…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor-Initiated Non-Simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor Chains Through the Military Share Program.
M. Rees,^1,2 O. Ekwenna,¹ E. Elster,³ A. Patel,³ D. Murtagh, Jr,¹ A. Roth,⁴ K. Krawiec,⁵ J. Arrington,⁶ I. Ashlagi,⁴ J. Hawksworth.³
¹U Toledo, Toledo, OH; ²Alliance for Paired Donation, Perrysburg, OH; ³Walter Reed National Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; ⁴Stanford U, Palo Alto, CA; ⁵Duke U, Durham, NC; ⁶Buckeye Transplant, Findlay, OH
Introduction: At a recent White House Summit on organ transplantation, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced that they would direct some Military Share deceased donor…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Increased Long-Term Mortality 20 years After Living Kidney Donation.
G. Mjoen,¹ S. Hallan,² H. Holdaas.¹
¹Dpt of Transplantation, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway; ²Dpt of Nephrology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
Living kidney donors are healthy at the time of donation. Consequently, a long observation period is necessary to detect possible detrimental effects of donation. Most…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donors: Battling High Attrition Rates During Evaluation Process.
J. Verbesey, A. Bacigalupo, A. Gilbert, A. Li, C. Zuttermeister, M. Grafals, J. Moore, B. Javaid, P. Abrams, S. Ghasemian, M. Cooper.
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington DC
With an ever increasing kidney waiting list, a major goal is to expand living donor transplantation (LD). LD increases volume and provides higher quality, longer…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Post Kidney Donation Gout on eGFR and Kidney Stones.
B. Sengupta, J. Menk, A. Matas.
Surg, Biostats, UMN, Mpls, MN
Compared to matched non donor controls, living kidney donors have a higher rate of hyperuricemia early post donation (Kasiske,Am J Kidney Dis,2016) and a higher…