2017 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donors with a History of IV Drug Use and Donor Derived Hepatitis C Virus.
1OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee, Richmond, VA; 2UNOS, Richmond
Introduction:In 2015, the CDC reported a 172% increase in heroin-related deaths from 2010 to 2013. Deceased donors with IV drug use (IVDU) are at increased…2017 American Transplant Congress
Socioeconomic Status and Perceived Donation-Related Financial Burden Among Living Kidney Donors.
Perceptions of donation-related financial burden by living kidney donor candidates may contribute to declines in living kidney donation. The association between donation-related financial burden and…2017 American Transplant Congress
Prediction of Delayed Graft Function in Chinese Kidney Allograft Recipients.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Background and Objective: Delay graft function (DGF) is most commonly defined as post-operative dialysis requirement in the first week after renal transplantation. It has a…2017 American Transplant Congress
Classification of Fibromuscular Dysplasia in Kidney Donors Based on Severity and Extent of Lesion.
Introduction: Selection of living kidney donors (LKD) with renal artery (RA) fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is controversial, as traditional diagnostic classifications lack estimates on FMD severity.…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…
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