Articles tagged "Donation"

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…
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…