2017 American Transplant Congress
How Potential Living Kidney Donors (LKDs) View ESRD Risk: A Multi-Center Study.
1Yale U, New Haven; 2U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 3Northwestern U, Chicago
PurposeTo determine how kidney donors view ESRD risk at initial donor evaluation.MethodsWe conducted a longitudinal, prospective study of LKDs at three centers and report results…2017 American Transplant Congress
Transplanting Hepatitis C Kidneys into Negative KidnEy Recipients [THINKER] Trial.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Background: More than 500 kidneys from HCV+ deceased donors are discarded each year, even though direct acting antiviral therapies have cure rates exceeding 95%. We…2017 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Recipient Intermediate and Long Term Outcomes for Living Donor Gifted Lithiasis.
Indiana University Health, Indianapolis
BACKGROUND: Nephrolithiasis is considered at least a relative contraindication to living donor nephrectomy due to the potential for adverse outcomes of recurrence, obstruction and infection.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Etiology and Timing of ESRD After Kidney Donation.
ESRD after kidney donation may occur because of nephrectomy-induced decreased GFR followed by normal age-related decline, by onset of kidney or systemic disease (e.g., HTN),…2017 American Transplant Congress
Integration of Kidney-Exchange, (Un)Specified Living Donor Transplantation, ABO Incompatible and Desensitisation Programs in a Computerized Allocation Program: A Simulation.
Introduction: Our national kidney-exchange allocation program is established in 2004. Though kidney-exchange is intertwined with (un)specified donation and domino-paired procedures, the latter still operates by…2017 American Transplant Congress
Hepatitis C Genotypes Among Deceased Organ Donors in the United States.
1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Gift of Life, Philadelphia, PA
Background: HCV is one of the leading causes of liver disease in the US. 5% of deceased organ donors are HCV+ and HCV infection is…2017 American Transplant Congress
Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Common Feature of Injury in Donor Kidneys After Brain and Circulatory Death.
The pro-coagulatory and pro-inflammatory environment in donors after brain death (DBD) and warm ischemia in donors after circulatory death (DCD) can cause injury to target…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Outcome of Kidney Grafts from Living Donors with Pyelo-Ureteric Junction Dysfunction.
Introduction: There is a wide gap between number of patients seeking renal transplants and potential kidney donors. Living kidney donation seems a reasonable source to…2017 American Transplant Congress
Post-Donation Remaining Donor Kidney Function as Measured by CKD-EPI Formula at 2 Years Correlates and Is Predicted by Remaining Donor Kidney Volume.
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis
Aim: The aim of our study was to evaluate whether preserved kidney volume correlates with and can predict donor renal function at 2-years post-donation using…2017 American Transplant Congress
Largest US Series of Minimally Invasive Full and Laparoscopy-Assisted Living Donor Hepatectomy.
Surgery, New York Presbyterian/Columbia University, New York, NY
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) has offered minimally invasive donor hepatectomies since 2008. Donor hepatectomies have been performed using 3 access routes (1) hybrid technique;…
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