Articles tagged "Donation"

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
Obesity Is Associated with Increased Risk of ESRD Among Living Kidney Donors.
J. Locke,¹ C. Lewis,¹ R. Reed,¹ V. Kumar,¹ D. Sawinski,² A. Massie,³ P. MacLennan,¹ R. Mannon,¹ R. Gaston,¹ D. Segev.³
¹School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; ²School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ³School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Background: Living kidney donor (LKD) demographics have changed, and transplant centers have relaxed selection criteria to include LKDs who are obese. Prior studies of LKDs…
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…
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…