2016 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Organ Donors with Zero Organs Transplanted: Why and How Can We Improve?
Organ recovery professionals and donor hospitals are under intense pressure to go to whatever lengths necessary to provide transplantable organs. However, such a mentality can…2016 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Baseline Co-Morbidity on Mortality in Living Kidney Donors – 10 Year UK Cohort Study.
Living kidney donation has significantly improved recipient and graft survival world wide. With a move to increase these numbers further, it becomes mandatory to have…2016 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation Has the Potential to Reduce Blood Group Disparity.
Introduction: Patients with blood group O or B wait significantly longer for a kidney transplant than other groups. Blood group incompatible transplantation is widely accepted…2016 American Transplant Congress
Donation After Cardiac Death Dose Not Impact Short and Long Term Graft Outcomes in Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation.
1Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis; 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
Background:Organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) has the potential to expand the pool of available organs for transplantation. Because of the concern that warm ischemia…2015 American Transplant Congress
APOL1 High-Risk Genotype in African American Live Kidney Donors Is Not Associated With Post-Donation Development of Hypertension and Kidney Disease
African Americans (AA) with two apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) risk alleles have more kidney disease than compared to those with one or zero risk alleles. A…2015 American Transplant Congress
Risk of ESRD Attributable to Live Kidney Donation in Various Subgroups of Donors
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Risk of ESRD attributable to live donation in male, older, obese, related donors, and donors with high predonation eGFR remains uncharacterized.Methods: Various subgroups of individuals…2015 American Transplant Congress
Should We Ever Pay Living Kidney Donors? Focus Group Study of Public Opinion
Background: The unmet demand for kidney transplantation has generated intense controversy about introducing incentives for living kidney donors to increase donation rates. Such debates may…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Comparative Analysis of Histological Scoring in Living Donor Renal Transplants from Donors Above and Below 60 Years of Age
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: World Health Organisation estimates that the absolute number of people aged 60yrs and over will increase from 605-million to 2-billion over the…2015 American Transplant Congress
Utility and Outcomes of Expanded Screening Among Live Solid Organ Donors
Organ Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Background: The Organ Procurement Transplant Network (OPTN) now requires enhanced screening of selected live donors for Trypanosoma cruzi, Strongyloides stercoralis, Tuberculosis (TB), and West Nile…2015 American Transplant Congress
U.S. Population Characteristics Impacting Rates of Organ Donation
Many studies have assessed the impact of factors on organ donation, but have been limited to a few thousand subjects or less. The multicultural composition…
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