Articles tagged "Donation"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Reasons for Racial Disparities in Living Donor Liver Transplants (LDLT).
M. McCauley,¹ D. Goldberg,¹ L. Nephew,¹ R. Kalman,¹ K. Forde.¹
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.
M. Mujtaba,¹ A. Gamilla-Crudo,¹ K. Gugliuzza,² O. Aleter,¹ S. Shah,¹ Y. Chapman,³ J. Reese,³ S. Masood,¹ T. Taber.⁴
¹Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; ²Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; ³Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX; ⁴Division of Nephrology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
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.
M. Haller,¹ G. Mjøen,² H. Holdaas,³ G. Heinze,⁴ R. Oberbauer.⁵
¹Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems (CeMSIIS), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²Department of Transplant Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; ³Department of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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.
G. Malat, D. Lee, K. Ranganna, S. Talluri, L. Levin Mizrahi, M. Harhay, C. Culkin, S. Guy.
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(+)…
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.…