Articles tagged "Donation"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Mental Health After Living Kidney Donation: The Importance of Donors' and Recipients' Medical Process
L. Timmerman,¹ M. Laging,¹ R. Timman,² W. Zuidema,¹ D. Beck,¹ J. IJzermans,³ M. Betjes,¹ J. Busschbach,² W. Weimar,¹ E. Massey.¹
¹Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ³General Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
A minority of living kidney donors have poor psychological outcomes after donation. There is mixed evidence as to the influence of the medical process on…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Pediatrics & Donor Derived Disease Transmission: The US OPTN Experience
M. Green,¹ S. Taranto,² S. Covington,² M. Michaels,¹ C. Wolfe,³ D. Kaul.⁴
¹Pediatrics & Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; ²OPTN/UNOS, Richmond, VA; ³Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; ⁴Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI.
Potential donor derived disease transmission events (PDDTE) are tracked by the OPTN DTAC. Specific evaluation of potential transmissions from pediatric (ped) donors or the impact…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Organ Donation Attitudes of Hispanic College Students in the Rio Grande Valley: Analysis of Free Responses
Y. Tasnif,¹ S. Saladin,² A. Araya,¹ X. Wang.³
¹Cooperative Pharmacy Program, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX; ²Department of Rehabilitation, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX; ³Department of Mathematics, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX.
Purpose: To understand barriers in registering as an organ donor amongst students at a predominantly Hispanic institution.Methods: Self-identified adult (ages 18 and above) Hispanic students…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Relationship of Donor Age and Distance in Deceased Donor Lung Offers in the US
L. Edwards,¹ L. Robbins Callahan,¹ W. Cherikh,¹ J. Rogers,² K. Chan.³
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA; ²Duke Univ, Durham, NC; ³U of Mich, Ann Arbor, MI.
Background: Lung (LU) utilization from deceased donors (DD) is considerably lower than for kidney, liver and heart. A better understanding of placement efforts may provide…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Paired Donation: National Activity and Perspectives
T. Dunn,¹ S. Fayek,² C. Marsh,³ P. Abt.⁴
¹Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; ³Surgery, Scripps Health, La Jolla, CA; ⁴Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
While utilization of Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) continues to increase, the potential is not fully realized. We surveyed kidney transplant (KTX) professionals to evaluate perceptions…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Liver Allografts from Deceased Donors. Non Medical Causes for Discard. A Review of the SRTR Annual Report
M. Asolati,¹ C. Kulig,² B. Bilir,² T. Pillen,¹ P. Gauthier,² B. Bista,² T. Heffron.¹
¹Surgery, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, CO; ²Medicine, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, CO.
INTRODUCTION: Discrepancy between demand (end stage organ disease) and supply (organs) remains one of the limiting factors in solid organ transplantation and underlies the dynamics…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Living Kidney Donation on Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Resistance
B. Tanriover,¹ P. Mohan,² S. Cremers,³ I. Lingvay.⁴
¹Medicine/Nephrology, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX; ²Medicine/Nephrology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; ³Biomarkers Core Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY; ⁴Medicine/Endocrinology, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX.
The kidney contributes to glucose hemostasis through processes of insulin metabolism, gluconeogenesis, and glucose filtration. Little is known on insulin sensitivity in living kidney donors…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Infections After Transplant Tourism in Organ Transplant Recipients
D. Kumar,¹ A. Humar,¹ H. Crossman,² C. Kotton,³ M. Levi.²
¹University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; ²University of Colorado-Denver, Denver; ³Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston.
Background:Transplant tourism is defined as travel abroad for the express purpose of receiving or donating an organ. Post-operative complications including infections after transplant tourism may…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics and Outcomes of Renal Transplant Recipients With Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: An OPTN Registry Analysis
B. Tanriover,¹ M. MacConmara,² R. Saxena,¹ Y.-M. Shen.³
¹Medicine/Nephrology, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX; ²Surgery, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX; ³Medicine/Hematology, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX.
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) accounts for <1% of renal transplants in the US. There is limited data on the characteristics and outcomes of in pediatric…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Nomogram for Predicting Patient Survival After Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment in Patients With Devastating Neurological Injury
G. Xu, X. He.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, guangzhou, China; Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, guangzhou, China.
Objective:Reliable prediction of time of death after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in patients with devastating neurological injury is crucial to successful donation after circulatory death.…