Articles tagged "Donation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Difficult to Place Livers: Implications for Expanding the Donor Pool.
E. Edwards,¹ A. Harper,¹ J. Rosendale,¹ J. Eason.
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ²Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Introduction. The primary strategic goal for the OPTN is to increase the number of transplants. To that end, we analyzed the characteristics of donors from…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Metabolic Dysregulation and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Are Key Features of Injury Profiles of Donor Kidneys After Brain Death.
M. Lo Faro,¹ M. Akhtar,¹ H. Huang,¹ M. Kaisar,¹ R. Robolledo,² K. Morten,¹ L. Heather,¹ A. Dona,³ H. Leuvenink,² S. Fuggle,¹ B. Kessler,¹ C. Pugh,¹ R. Ploeg.¹
¹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; ²University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ³University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Donation after brain death (DBD) organ donors remain an important source for kidney transplantation. However, brain death affects donor organs rendering them susceptible to ischemia…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: Experience with Over 2400 Cases at a Single Center.
H. Li,^1,2 M. Stegall,¹ G. Chow,¹ P. Dean,¹ J. Heimbach,¹ T. Taner,¹ M. Prieto.¹
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Division of Transplant Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Objective: We reviewed retrospectively the 15 year experience with Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy (HALDN) at our institution.Methods: 2452 consecutive kidney donors underwent a HALDN between…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Live Donor Champion Program: Time to Redefine Living Liver Donation.
D. Maluf, A. Sites, M. Donovan, J. Wang, E. Lyster, C. Argo.
UVA Surgery, Charlottesville, VA.
Live Donor Champion (LDC) Programs promote the advocacy for living donor transplantation by patients' family members or friends. Hereby, we conducted a prospective 9 month…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Use of Small (<10kg) Kidney Donors in the US.
J. Smith,^1,2 J. Snyder,¹ A. Israni,¹ B. Kasiske,¹ R. Perez.³
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; ²Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle; ³UC Davis Medical Center, Sacremento.
The supply of kidneys for transplant continues to exceed the demand. Efforts to expand the donor pool have led to interest in small pediatric kidney…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Removing Geographic and Financial Barriers for Directed Living Kidney Donations: Lessons from Kidney Paired Donation.
M. Aeder,¹ R. Leishman,² D. Stewart.²
¹Univ Hosp Case Med Ctr, Cleveland, OH; ²UNOS, Richmond, VA.
Living donor (LD) kidney (K) transplants (Tx), which peaked at 6647 in 2004 (42.5% of tx), decreased by 2014 to 5538 (32.4% of tx). Although…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Poor HLA Matching May Reduce the Beneficial Effect of ABOi Pairs Entering the Paired and Pooled Scheme.
M. Willicombe, C. Lawrence, R. Charif, A. McLean, J. Galliford, D. Taube.
Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Paired/pooled donation (PPD) facilitates transplantation between UK donor-recipient pairs who are either HLA or blood group incompatible, in whom transplantation is either contraindicated or…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Utility of a Scoring Tool for Living Kidney Donor Volunteers.
S. Lien,¹ L. Willey,² A. Lecuyer-Koich,² M. Voges,² T. Dunn.²
¹Marian University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; ²Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
A comprehensive yet efficient evaluation of living kidney donor volunteers (LKDV) is key to a successful transplant program. Donor selection is complex and must balance…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Prolonged Normothermic Ex Vivo Kidney Perfusion Is a Safe Preservation Technique for Kidney Transplantation: A New Opportunity for the Storage, Assessment and Repair of Kidney Grafts.
J. Kaths,^1,2,3 J. Echeverri,¹ N. Goldaracena,¹ K. Louis,¹ Y.-M. Chun,¹ I. Linares,^1,3 A. Wiebe,¹ P. Yip,⁵ R. John,⁵ I. Mucsi,⁶ A. Ghanekar,¹ D. Bagli,^7,3 D. Grant,¹ L. Robinson,^2,3 M. Selzner.^1,3
¹Department of Surgery, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Nephrology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴Department of General, Visceral, and Transplant Surgery, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany; ⁵Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁶Department of Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁷Departments of Surgery (Urology) & Physiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Hypothermic kidney storage causes preservation injury. We investigated whether SCS can be safely replaced with prolonged normothermic ex vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP). Right kidneys were…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Priorities for Outcomes: A Nominal Group Technique Study.
C. Hanson,^1,2 J. Kanellis,^3,4 G. Wong,^1,2 J. Pinter,² S. Chadban,^5,6 J. Chapman,⁷ J. Craig,^1,2 J. Gill,⁸ A. Garg,⁹ J. Lewis,^1,2 A. Tong.^1,2
¹Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia; ³Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; ⁴Department of Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia; ⁵Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ⁶Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ⁷Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ⁸Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; ⁹Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, Canada.
Background: Living kidney donors face risks associated with nephrectomy. While this is justified with informed consent, screening and follow up, the outcomes that are most…