2017 American Transplant Congress
Implementing a New Specialist Requester Role to the United Kingdom to Address Consent Rates.
Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHSBT, Bristol, United Kingdom
Organ donation consent rates in the UK have been stagnant over the last 10 years or more, despite the implementation of the taskforce recommendations, a…2017 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Graft Functional Recovery After Simultaneously Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation with Donation After Cardiac Death in China (16 Cases of Report).
The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Purpose: In recent rears, a pilot program of organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) was initiated in China from general citizens. We describe the first…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Tacrolimus and MPA Derivative Immunosuppression on Acheived GFR in Recipients without Rejection: A Comparison of GFR of Living Donor Recipient Pairs at Six Months Post-Transplant.
Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL
Analysis of the difference in estimated GFR (eGFR) of living donor recipient pairs at six months post-transplant showed that increased use of tacrolimus and MPA…2017 American Transplant Congress
High Mortality in Transplant Recipients Associated with Coccidioidomycosis Derived from Organ Donors.
Purpose Coccidioidomycosis (CI) occurs in 4-9% of solid organ recipients in endemic areas, resulting in 30-63% mortality. CI can be transmitted directly via transplantation, but…2017 American Transplant Congress
How to Improve Pre-Kidney Transplant Education for Hispanics: Preferences and Perceptions of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Hispanic Transplant Program.
Context: Pre-Transplant educational sessions improve access to transplantation. Currently, however, there is lack of culturally competent approaches to improve living kidney donation for Hispanics Americans.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Non-Directed Donors (NDD) Less Than 25 Years.
Many transplant centers will not accept NDDs less than 25 because of: a) concerns about maturity; and b) they potentially have decades during which they…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Performance of Four Tools for the Prediction of Potential for Organ Donation After Cardiac Death in Neurocritical Patients: A Prospective, Multicenter, Observational Study.
Background Successful donation after circulatory death (DCD) requires identification of patients dieing within limited time after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (WLST). We aimed to compare…2017 American Transplant Congress
Pilot Study on Acupuncture in Living Liver and Kidney Donors.
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit
Pain is an important concern in living donation. The purpose of this study was to test feasibility of integrating an acupuncture intervention pre/post-living donation and…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…2016 American Transplant Congress
Obesity Is Associated with Increased Risk of ESRD Among Living Kidney Donors.
Background: Living kidney donor (LKD) demographics have changed, and transplant centers have relaxed selection criteria to include LKDs who are obese. Prior studies of LKDs…
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