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…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Targeted Genetic Renal Disease Panel With NexGen Sequencing for Unbiased Testing of Living Kidney Donors for Genetic Kidney Disease
C. Thomas,¹ Z. Stewart,³ A. Mansilla,² S. Mason,² A. Kwitek,² C. Campbell,² R. Smith,^1,2 R. Smith.^1,2
¹Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; ²Institute of Human Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; ³Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Recent studies indicate that living donors biologically related to their transplant recipient may be at higher risk of ESRD compared to unrelated donors, possibly secondary…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Liver Allograft Utilization Within the United States: 2003-2013
J. Renz,¹ G. Diaz,¹ L. Ratner,² H. Yersiz,³ M. Millis,¹ J. Matthews.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²Department of Anesthesia/Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; ³Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY; ⁴Department of Surgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
Objectives: 1) Evaluate liver allograft availability, utilization, and failure probability utilizing the liver donor risk index(LDRI) 2) Correlate allograft utilization with waitlist mortality and incidence…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Increase in Neurologic Determination of Death (NDD) Organ Donation in the Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) Era. The Ontario Experience
J. Zaltzman,^1,2 J. MacLean,² C. Payne,² E. Paltser,² V. Rao,³ S. Dhanani.^2,4
¹Medicine, Nephrology & Transplant, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Trillium Gift of Life Network, Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Cardiovascular Surgery and Multi-Organ Transplant, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴Pediatric Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Univeristy of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Some jurisdictions have reported a decrease in neurologic determination of death organ donors (NDD) with the implementation of donation after circulatory death (DCD) organ donation.…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Center Volume Is Associated With Early Graft Failure After Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
B. Shelton, P. MacLennan, R. Reed, D. Sonnier, M. Hanaway, J. Goodman, C. Young, M. Deierhoi, J. Locke.
Surgery/Transplantation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Introduction: The correlation between center volume and outcomes has been established within general surgery and is most pronounced within the context of high-risk, low-volume procedures.…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Tool for Predicting Long Term Risks of Kidney Donation
S. Reule,¹ R. Foley,¹ A. Matas,² H. Ibrahim.¹
¹Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Background:The evidence linking kidney donation to a slightly increased risk of ESRD has now been accepted. The underlying causes of ESRD majority of donors who…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Preferences for Policy Options for Deceased Organ Donation for Transplantation: A Discrete Choice Experiment
K. Howard,¹ S. Jan,² J. Rose,³ G. Wong,^1,4 J. Craig,^1,4 M. Irving,¹ A. Tong,^1,4 S. Chadban,^1,5 R. Allen,⁵ A. Cass.⁶
¹The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ²The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia; ³Institute for Choice, University of South Australia, North Sydney, Australia; ⁴Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, Australia; ⁵Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia; ⁶Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia.
Background: Despite broad public support for organ donation, there is a chronic shortage of deceased donor organs. We sought to identify features of an organ…