2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Advantage with Older Live Donor Compared to Standard Criteria Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in Older Recipients.
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC.
Objective: Analyze post-transplant outcomes in older recipients of kidney transplants from older live donors compared to older recipients of standard criteria deceased donor kidney transplants.Methods:…2016 American Transplant Congress
Live Kidney Donors Have Significant Out-of-Pocket Costs Associated with Donation.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore.
While financial barriers to transplantation have been recognized, limited data exists on the total non-reimbursed expense associated with live donation. Furthermore, donor costs have not…2016 American Transplant Congress
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics Influence Access to Kidney Transplantation Independently of Individual Socioeconomic Status.
Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
INTRODUCTION: Ensuring fair and equitable access to kidney transplantation (ATT) is of paramount importance. Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with worse access to healthcare. Understanding the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Virological Profile of Deceased Organ Donors in the UK.
Background: To date there has been no routine surveillance of infections in deceased solid organ donors in the UK. A national scheme to monitor infectious…2016 American Transplant Congress
Altruistic Kidney Donation: A Single US Transplant Center Experience.
Background: Altruistic donors (ADs) continue to make rising contributions to the donor pool. Increasing efforts have been made to assess ADs to understand the motivations…2016 American Transplant Congress
Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplant in the Pediatric Population.
Objective:A shift from living donor transplants to deceased donor transplants has been noted nationwide and is more prominent at some centers than others. Our objective…2016 American Transplant Congress
Who Should Decide? Potential Living Kidney Donor Preferences for Making Decisions About Risk.
1Yale U, New Haven; 2Northwestern U, Chicago; 3U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia.
BackgroundTransplant centers debate how to manage risks to potential living kidney donors (LKDs) when there is a lack of consensus about reasonable donor risk .We…2016 American Transplant Congress
Potential Kidney Donors with Asymptomatic Micorsocpic Hematuria: Histopathological Findings & Outcomes.
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.
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?
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…
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