Articles tagged "Donation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Potential Kidney Donors with Asymptomatic Micorsocpic Hematuria: Histopathological Findings & Outcomes.
E. Hassan,^1,2 H. Aleid,¹ T. Zulfiquar,¹ I. Ibrahim,^1,3 H. Almana.⁴
¹Department of Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; ²Department of Nephrology, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt; ³Department of Nephrology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; ⁴Department of Anatomic Pathology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Microscopic hematuria is not uncommon in potential kidney donors. After excluding urological causes, most of these donors require kidney biopsy to exclude glomerular lesions.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Age-Based High GFR Associates with Clinical Risk Among Potential Living Donors, but Only with Increased Nephron Number Among Approved Donors.
H. Chakkera,¹ E. Poggio,³ A. Denic,² J. Mathew,² W. Kremers,² J. Larson,² H. Amer,² F. Cosio,² M. Stegall,² S. Taler,² A. Rule.²
¹Mayo Clinic, Arizona; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester; ³Cleveland Clinic, OH.
Background:Association of high GFR with clinical and kidney structural characteristics among living donors has not been studied.Methods: Study cohort:potential kidney donors evaluated at Mayo Clinic…
2016 American Transplant Congress
African Americans and Organ Donation: Where Do We Go After Moving from the Bottom to the Top?
C. Callender,¹ N. Koizumi,² P. Miles,³ J. Melancon.³
¹Department of Surgery, Howard University, Washington, DC; ²School of Policy, Government and Intl Affairs, George Mason University, Arlington, VA; ³Transplant Institute, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC.
PURPOSEThe purpose is to increase organ donation in all ethnic groupsMETHODSThe methodology was based upon the D.C. Organ Donor Program (1982-88) and the Dow Take…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Validation of the Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) in the Australian and New Zealand Kidney Transplant Population.
P. Clayton,^1,2,3 S. White,^1,4 S. McDonald,^1,2,3 S. Chadban.^1,4,5
¹Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia; ²Central Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplantation Service, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia; ³School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; ⁴Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ⁵Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Purpose: The kidney donor risk index (KDRI), developed by the United States Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), was designed to quantify donor kidney quality.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Ineligible: Attitudes and Follow-Up of Individuals Ruled Out of Living Kidney Donation.
D. Dobosz,¹ C. Thiessen,¹ J. Gannon,¹ S. Li,¹ K. Kennedy,² D. Gray,³ A. Mussell,³ E. Gordon,² S. Kulkarni,¹ P. Reese.³
¹Yale U, New Haven; ²Northwestern U, Chicago; ³U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Background: Little is known about the experiences of individuals who begin living kidney donor (LKD) evaluation but are turned down due to ineligibility. We assessed…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Compensating Live Kidney Donors: The Views of United States Voters.
J. Fisher,¹ T. Peters,² R. Gish,³ R. Howard.⁴
¹Surgery, Scripps Center for Organ Transplantation, La Jolla, CA; ²Surgery, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL; ³Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA; ⁴Surgery, LifeQuest Organ Recovery Services, Gainesville, FL.
Purpose: An increasing number of U.S. patients die waiting for a kidney transplant. Financial compensation of living donors is one possible remedy for the organ…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Short UK Dialysis Does Not Significantly Impact on Live Donor Kidney Allograft Survival.
A. Bentall,^1,2 M. Jesky,^1,2 R. Borrows,^1,2 R. Johnson,³ S. Ball.^1,2
¹Department of Nephrology, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ²School of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ³NHSBT, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Background. The survival advantage of pre-emptive transplantation (Pre-empTx) in live donor kidney transplantation (LDKTx) was reported by Meier-Kreische (Kidney International, 2000). Dialysis practices differ internationally…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Donation Weight Loss Postpones Living Kidney Donation without Attaining the Desired Weight Maintenance in the Midterm.
P. Ventura-Aguiar, E. De Sousa-Amorim, J. Campistol, F. Diekmann, F. Oppenheimer, I. Revuelta.
Renal Transplant Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
Pre-donation weight loss in living kidney donation has two main objectives: reduce surgical risk, and decrease long-term complications from obesity and glomerular hypertrophy secondary to…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Should Renin Angiotensin Blockade Be the Mainstay of Hypertension Treatment in Kidney Donors?
O. Sanchez, L. Ferrara, D. Berglund, S. Reule, R. Spong, N. Issa, A. Kukla, A. Matas, H. Ibrahim.
U of MN, Mpls.
Introduction: The prevalence of hypertension (HTN) in kidney donors is comparable to what is seen in the general population. How HTN in donors is treated…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Older Patients Reliably Participate in Automated Living Donor Follow Up Rather Than Avoiding This New Technology.
H. Braun, M. Parente, R. Hirose, G. Roll.
Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Introduction: UCSF implemented automated living donor follow up to increase access to patients, improve communication, efficiency of data collection, and UNOS compliance. Using a modified…