Articles tagged "Donation"

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…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Risk of Cause-Specific ESRD in Live Kidney Donors
S. Anjum, A. Muzaale, A. Massie, S. Bae, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the risk of developing cause-specific ESRD in live kidney donors over time.METHODS: We studied a cohort of…
2015 American Transplant Congress
An Investigation of 12 Cases of Membranous Nephropathy of the Donor Origin Accidentally Detected by 0-h Renal Biopsy During Kidney Transplantation
K. Unagami,¹ D. Toki,¹ M. Okumi,¹ H. Ishigooka,¹ K. Tsujimura,¹ T. Kanzawa,¹ K. Omoto,¹ H. Ishida,¹ K. Nitta,² K. Tanabe.¹
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan; ²Nephrology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Membranous Nephropathy (MN) is a type of glomerulonephritis characterized by thickening of the glomerular basement membrane with immunoglobulin deposition. Proteinuria is a primary symptom, and…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Fully Laparoscopic Left Hepatectomy on Donor Interest in Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT)
A. Yegiants, D. Santamour, T. Mansour, J. Pisa, J. Emond, B. Samstein.
Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
Purpose: Laparoscopy was extended to liver donation to reduce invasiveness and our center has offered selected patients fully laparoscopic procurement since 8/12. We sought to…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Quantifying Altruism in Kidney Donors: How Good Are the Current Scales?
M. McLaughlin, D. Berglund, A. Matas, H. Ibrahim.
U of MN, Mpls.
The decision to become a living kidney donor is complicated and altruism is certainly what drives the majority of organ donors. Unfortunately, there are no…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Landscape of Non-Directed Live Donors
K. Kumar, X. Luo, A. Massie, T. Purnell, J. Tonascia, E. King, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.
Background: The use of kidneys from Non-directed live donors (NDLD) among transplant centers in the US is unknown and the recipient selection remains varied. We…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Post-Donation Outcomes in 46 Live Pancreas Donors
V. Kirchner, D. Sutherland, T. Dunn, E. Finger, T. Pruett, R. Kandaswamy.
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Background: Live donor segmental pancreas transplants have been performed selectively to increase the pool of donors, minimize cold ischemia time, and to avoid brain death.…