Articles tagged "Donation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Outcome of Elderly Living Kidney Donors: A Single-Center Study in Japan.
J. Hasegawa, K. Unagami, M. Okumi, K. Omoto, M. Inui, H. Ishida, K. Tanabe.
Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: Previous studies and current guidelines have suggested that elderly persons can be living kidney donors; however, reports on elderly donors >70 years old are…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Safety of Intravenous Ketorolac Use After Donor Nephrectomy.
P. Tabrizian,¹ M. Giacca,¹ J. Prigoff,² E. Chin,² M. Palese,² D. Herron,² A. Arvelakis,¹ D. LaPointe Rudow,¹ S. Florman,¹ R. Shapiro.¹
¹Transplant, Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, New York, NY; ²Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY.
Background: The benefit and short-term safety have been established in previous studies; however, the risk of bleeding and long-term renal impairment in patients undergoing donor…
2016 American Transplant Congress
National Trends in Liver Discards: The Weekend Effect.
D. Carpenter,¹ S. Mohan,² K. Halazun,³ E. Verna,⁵ M. Chiles,² G. Charak,¹ L. Ratner.⁴
¹Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ²Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ³Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York City, NY; ⁴Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ⁵Department of Medicine, Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY.
Overall organ discard rates have increased over the last decade. Given the current organ shortage, understanding factors that contribute to the discard of livers is…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Low-Pressure Pneumoperitoneum in Living Kidney Donors: An Age-Dependent Analysis of Recipient Outcomes.
S. Kulkarni,¹ S. Douglas,² E. Cohen,¹ S. Swift,¹ I. Hall.²
¹Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; ²Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Purpose: Implementation of low-pressure laparoscopy may be facilitated by the use of valveless, recirculating trocar systems that have less intra-abdominal pressure variability, providing adequate surgical…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Kidney Allocation System with Deceased Donor Kidney Utilization at the DSA Level.
W. Ally,² C. Saunders,¹ K. Brayman,² A. Agarwal.²
¹Lifenet Health, Virginia Beach, VA; ²University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA.
Background: In December 2014, UNOS implemented broad sweeping changes in the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS). Recent summary reports by UNOS suggest that on a…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Are Prior Living Kidney Donors with ESRD Being Listed and Receiving Transplantation Priority in a Timely Manner?
J. Wainright, A. Kucheryavaya, D. Klassen, D. Stewart.
UNOS, Richmond, VA.
BackgroundPrior living donors (PLDs) receive very high priority on the kidney (KI) waiting list (WL). Programs must submit requests for PLD priority to the UNOS…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Urine C5a Predicts Donor and Recipient Acute Kidney Injury.
B. Schroppel,¹ P. Heeger,² I. Hall,³ M. Doshi,⁴ F. Weng,⁵ P. Reese,⁶ C. Parikh.³
¹University Hospital, Ulm, Germany; ²Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York; ³Program of Applied Translational Research, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven; ⁴Wayne State University, Detroit; ⁵Barnabas Health, Livingston; ⁶University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Anti-complement therapies are currently being tested in human kidney transplantation to prevent DGF. In this large prospective, cohort study of 469 deceased organ donors, we…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Follow Up of Kidney Donors with Asymptomatic Renal Stones.
D. Serur,¹ M. Charlton,² K. Juluru,³ G. Salama,³ E. LoCastro,³ G. Bretzlaff,² C. Hartono.¹
¹Nephrology/Rogosin, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY; ²Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY; ³Radiology, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY.
BACKGROUND:Kidney stones are often found incidentally in potential renal donors and there is a concern that they may become symptomatic and cause damage in the…
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…