2017 American Transplant Congress
Minor Degree of Persistent Microscopic Hematuria in Potential Living Kidney Donors Is Associated with Pathology.
Purpose: A threshold of ≥3 rbc/hpf (red blood cells/high power field) or higher prompts additional testing when evaluating potential living kidney donors at most centers…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Nationwide Global Strategy for Kidney Transplantation with Controlled Cardiac Death Donor (cDCD) Has Improved Global Results. Spanish Multicentre SENTRA-GEODAS Group.
Background: Controlled donation after cardiac death (cDCD) programs are running in US for years and some European countries has recently started on it. National transplant…2017 American Transplant Congress
Insulin Therapy in Pancreas Donors as a Predictor of Subsequent Transplant Outcome.
Introduction: Brain stem death causes high levels of systemic catecholamines and inflammation affecting all organs. These changes, and the routine use of high-dose corticosteroids in…2017 American Transplant Congress
Timing of HLA Testing as a Means of Reducing Cost and Increasing Efficiency of Living Kidney Donation.
Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Purpose: Creating an effective living kidney donor process can be a challenge for transplant centers. There needs to be a balance between efficiency, resources, patient…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Novel KPD Mechanism to Increase Transplants When Some Candidates Have Multiple Willing Donors.
1Carnegie Mellon U, Pittsburgh; 2U of Maryland, College Park; 3UNOS, Richmond; 4Yale U, New Haven
Purpose: Current kidney exchanges such as the OPTN Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) program allow candidates to list multiple willing donors, but only one will donate…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Unfunded OPTN/UNOS Mandate of Living Kidney Donor Follow-Up: Fewer Than 50% of Centers in Compliance.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
OPTN/UNOS began requiring 2-year living donor follow-up (LDF) in 2013. Current LDF, and changes associated with the new guidelines, have not been evaluated.METHODS: Using SRTR…2017 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends and Variation in BMI Thresholds for Living Donation Across the US.
1U Michigan, Ann Arbor; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester; 3St. Louis U, St Louis
The acceptable BMI threshold for living kidney donation is controversial. We examined the variability in center acceptance of living donors with high Body Mass Index…2017 American Transplant Congress
Functional Gain in eGFR Among Living Kidney Donors and Its Association with Remaining Kidney Volume.
Indiana University Health, Indianapolis
Background:CT volumes have good correlation with nuclear imaging to measure split renal function. Kidney volume can be a surrogate marker for nephron mass. Our objectives…2017 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Donation After Brain Death Followed by Circulatory Death Confers Comparable Outcomes with Kidney Donation After Brain Death.
The shortage of donor organs is an obstacle to meet the growing need of grafts. Although using DBD donors is the best available strategy, brain…2017 American Transplant Congress
Send Diabetes on a Long Trip: The Pancreas Travels Well.
Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Pancreas transplantation (PTx) has been on a dramatic decline in the last decade. Numerous factors have contributed to the waning momentum seen in the early…
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