Articles tagged "Donation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Increased Frequency of Post-Recovery Liver Reallocation: The Law of Unintended Consequences?
J. Orlowski, C. Muse, J. Whaley, R. Squires.
LifeShare of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK.
Background: In June 2013, U.S. liver allocation changed from a local-regional-national model to “Share 35”, broadening sharing to a regional level based upon recipient listed…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Measured Glomerular Filtration Rate of the Remaining Kidney Divided by Its Volume Prior to Donation Is a Predictor of the Long-Term Gain of Function in Living Kidney Donors.
M. Courbebaisse,¹ F. Gaillard,² A. Le Nestour,⁴ J.-M. Correas,³ H. Slimani-Thevenet,⁵ C. Leon,² D. Eladari,¹ M.-O. Timsit,⁶ P. Otal,⁷ G. Friedlander,¹ P. Houillier,¹ N. Kamar,⁸ C. Legendre.²
¹AP-HP, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Physiology department, Paris Descartes University, and INSERM, Unit 1151, Paris, France; ²AP-HP, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Renal Transplantation Department, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; ³AP-HP, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Radiology Department, and Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; ⁴University of Otago, Biostastistic department, Otago, New Zealand; ⁵AP-HP, Georges Pompidou European Hospital , Nuclear Medicine department, Paris Descartes University, and INSERM, Unit 1151, Paris, France; ⁶AP-HP, Georges Pompidou European Hospital , Nuclear Medicine department, Paris Descartes University, and INSERM, Unit 1151, Paris, France; ⁷Toulouse University Hospital, CHU Rangueil, Department of Radiology, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France; ⁸Toulouse University Hospital, CHU Rangueil, Department of Nephrology and Organ Transplantation, Paul Sabatier University, INSERM U1043, IFR–BMT, CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France.
Predictors of long-term renal function in living kidney donors are a matter of debate. To describe the predictors of remaining kidney functional gain, we conducted…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy of Nine National Policies Reimbursing and Incentivizing Live Organ Donation.
V. Apte, S. Fry-Revere.
American Living Organ Donor Network, Lovettsville, VA.
Background: Organ shortage is a massive global issue, and the high costs of living organ donation only exacerbate the problem. In order to encourage citizens…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Racial Disparities in Perioperative Complications After Live Kidney Donation.
K. Lentine,¹ N. Lam,² D. Axelrod,³ M. Schnitzler,¹ A. Garg,⁴ J. Schold,⁵ D. Brennan,⁶ H. Randall,¹ D. Segev.⁷
¹Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis; ²Univ Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ³Dartmouth, Hanover; ⁴Western Univ, London; ⁵Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; ⁶Washington Univ, St. Louis; ⁷Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Background: The frequency and severity of perioperative complications after contemporary live kidney donation are not well-described.Methods: We integrated national U.S. live donor registry data with…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Live Donor Champion Program: A Novel Approach to Identying Live Kideny Donors.
E. King, M. Bowring, K. Kumar, J. Garonzik Wang, D. Segev.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Background: The Live Donor Champion (LDC) program is a clinical program offered to kidney waitlist candidates at our high volume transplant center. The six-month program…
2016 American Transplant Congress
5-Year Follow-Up After Live Donor Nephrectomy – A Prospective Cohort Study.
S. Janki,¹ E. Mulder,¹ L. Dols,¹ M. Betjes,² I. Dooper,³ J. IJzermans.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of HPB and Transplant Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Department of Nephrology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ³Department of Nephrology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
BackgroundRecently some studies have reported less favorable results after live kidney donation. We investigated therefore which donors will possibly be at risk for chronic kidney…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Culture Specific Interventions to Increase Organ Donation Advocacy in a Hispanic Serving Institution.
Y. Tasnif,¹ S. Ghaddar,² S. Saladin,³ A. Alaniz.¹
¹Cooperative Pharmacy Program, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX; ²South Texas Border Health Disparities Center, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX; ³School of Rehabilitation Services and Counseling, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX.
Organ donation rates among Hispanics are lower relative to non-Hispanic whites. The purpose of this study is to assess whether participation in a culture-specific educational…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Some DCD Livers Function as Well as DBD Livers: The Implications of Discarding Usable Livers.
J. Scalea, R. Redfield, D. Foley.
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Background: Multiple single center and national database reports in the liver transplant literature have demonstrated that liver transplantation following donation after circulatory death (DCD) is…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Families on Organ Donation Among Native Americans.
T. Bongiovanni,^1,3 J. Rawlings,² J. Trompeta.¹
¹Dept of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ²CT Native American Tribal Council, New Haven, CT; ³Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CSP, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Background: Prevalence of end-stage renal disease is 3.5 times greater among the >2.5 million Native Americans (NAs) in the US than in Caucasians, due to…
2016 American Transplant Congress
What Living Organ Donors See as Their Unmet Needs in the United States.
S. Fry-Revere, M. Middelman.
American Living Organ Donor Network, Lovettsville, VA; American Living Organ Donor Network, Lovettsville, VA.
Study PurposeTo collect data on what living organ donors themselves say they want and need to make living organ donation safer and easier.MethodFor 12 months,…