2015 American Transplant Congress
Age, Race and Socioeconomic Factors Have a Strong Influence on Candidates Finding a Living Donor Kidney
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
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