Articles tagged "Donation"

2017 American Transplant Congress
KDPI Obscures Trends in Absolute Donor Risk.
N. Salkowski, S. Gustafson, A. Wey, J. Snyder.
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN
The kidney donor profile index (KDPI) is commonly used to measure deceased donor kidney quality based on the kidney donor risk index (KDRI) (Rao, et…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors and 2 Year Outcomes of Low Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in the Immediate Post-Operative Period for Living Kidney Donors.
H. Pahari,¹ S. Nagai,¹ K. Takahashi,¹ F. Tinney,² J. Denny,¹ L. Malinzak,¹ M. Rizzari,¹ K. Collins,¹ A. Yoshida,¹ M. Abouljoud,¹ D. Kim.¹
¹Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit; ²Wayne State University, Detroit
Background: While long-term risk of end-stage renal disease in living kidney donors is considered less than 0.25% at 15 years, an association between the immediate…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Accuracy of Computed Tomography for Detecting Hepatic Steatosis in Donors for Liver Transplantation.
Z. Guo, D. Zheng, X. He, G. Chen.
The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Background: The accuracy of computed tomography (CT) for detecting donor hepatic steatosis (HS) before liver transplantation is not well established.Methods: A meta-analysis was performed to…
2017 American Transplant Congress
A Decade of Paediatric Kidney Transplantation in Children Weighing <20kg.
P. Chandak,¹ J. Stojanovic,² F. Jamshaid,¹ N. Mamode,¹ F. Calder,¹ J. Olsburgh,¹ C. Callaghan,¹ M. Drage,¹ G. Koffman,¹ S. Marks,³ N. Kessaris.¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas and Evelina Childrens and Great Ormond Street Hospitals, London, United Kingdom; ²Paediatric Nephrology, Evelina Childrens Hospitals, London, United Kingdom; ³Paediatric Nephrology and Transplantation, Great Ormond Street Hospitals, London, United Kingdom
Introduction: Renal transplantation is the gold standard treatment for end-stage kidney disease. There are increased challenges in paediatric renal transplant recipients under 20kg, especially when…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Challenges for the Travelling Donor: Variability Between Donor Work-Up and Donor Surgery in the Canadian Kidney Paired Donation Program.
B. Reikie, T. Kroczak, T. McGregor.
Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Urology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Background: A primary obstacle to providing renal transplantation is limited access to donated kidneys. The living donor pool for renal allografts was greatly expanded through…
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Current Practice and Ethical Dimensions of Implementing APOL1 Testing into Living Donor Evaluation: A National Survey.
E. Gordon,¹ C. Wicklund,¹ R. Sharp,² J. Lee,¹ C. Johnson,¹ J. Friedewald.¹
¹Northwestern University, Chicago; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester
BackgroundAfrican American (AA) live kidney donors (LKDs) have an even greater risk of kidney failure than European American live donors. Apolipoprotein 1 (APOL1) gene variants…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocol in Living Liver Donors.
A. Khalil, S. Ganesh, C. Hughes, A. Tevar, J. Hatche, S. Esper, A. Humar.
Abdominal Transplant, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Surgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Background: Enhanced recovery after surgery protocol has proven its efficacy in many surgery fields in controlling pain and promoting early recovery . The implication of…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Donor Factors Show Low Impact on Patient and Kidney Allograft Outcomes: A Paired Analysis of Left/Right Deceased Donor Kidney Pairs.
T. Schachtner,^1,2,3 M. Stein,² P. Reinke.^1,2
¹Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ²Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ³Charite and Max-Delbrück Center, Berlin Institute of Health BIH, Berlin, Germany
The impact of donor factors on kidney allograft outcomes and infectious complications has been suggested in many previous studies. However, analyses of left/right donor kidney…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Obesity Predicts New-Onset Diabetes After Live Kidney Donation.
K. Lentine,¹ A. Naik,² N. Lam,³ M. Schnitzler,^1,6 H. Xiao,¹ D. Axelrod,⁴ G. Hess,⁵ B. Kasiske,⁶ A. Garg,⁷ S. Gustafson,⁶ D. Brennan,⁸ D. Segev.^9,6
¹St. Louis Univ, St. Louis; ²U Michigan, Ann Arbor; ³U Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ⁴E Carolina Univ, Greenville; ⁵Symphony Health, Philadelphia; ⁶Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; ⁷Western Univ, London, Canada; ⁸Washington Univ, St. Louis; ⁹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore
End-stage renal disease is uncommon in living kidney donors (LKD), but recent data suggest that most kidney failure developing late after donation is due to…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Obese Kidney Donors: Impact of Opioid-Minimization Using Ketorolac-Based Pain Management Protocol Following Robotically Assisted, Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy.
M. Campara, B. Valdepenas, A. Virani, K. Galen, I. Tang, J. Oberholzer, E. Benedetti.
University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago
INTRODUCTION: Obese have been excluded from living donor pool due to risk of surgical complications. Advances in robotic techniques minimized complications and increased use of…