Articles tagged "Donation"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Age, Race and Socioeconomic Factors Have a Strong Influence on Candidates Finding a Living Donor Kidney
G. Vranic, A. Nishio Lucar, D. Keith.
Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Living donation is decreasing in the US even as the number of candidates listed for renal transplant continues to rise. We sought to evaluate the…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Legal Issues in Domino Liver Transplantation in Germany
H. Schmidt,¹ A. Barreiros,² H. Schlitt,² T. Gutmann.³
¹Klinik für Transplantationsmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Germany; ²Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; ³Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.
TTR-amyloidosis (FAP) is caused by TTR variants expressed and secreted by the liver. Therefore, liver transplantation was introduced as therapeutic option to prevent or limit…
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…
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…