2015 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Gifted Lithiasis: Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Indiana University, Indianapolis.
BACKGROUND: The presence of kidney stones has been a relative contraindication for living donation. The long term outcomes and safety of kidney transplant recipients of…2015 American Transplant Congress
Does DSA Market Competition Influence OPO Performance?
INTRODUCTION: Increased market competition within a Donor Service Area (DSA) is associated with a greater number of liver and kidney transplants, but its effect on…2015 American Transplant Congress
Financial Burden of Laparoscopic Living Kidney Donation
Living kidney donation rates are declining; one cause may be the extent of the unreimbursed expenses associated with donation. We studied financial burden in a…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Benefit of Hepatitis C Donor Kidney Transplantation Is Limited to Hepatitis C Positive Patients Over 50 Years of Age
Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The purpose of this analysis was to provide information regarding the use and survival benefit of kidney transplantation from a hepatitis C positive deceased donor…2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes After Right Kidney Living Donor Transplant Are Associated With Center Volume
Surgery/Transplantation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Background: Right kidney living donor transplant (RKLDT) is a high-risk, low-volume procedure that is associated with increased risk for early graft failure. It is unclear…2015 American Transplant Congress
Birth Weight as a Marker of Nephron Mass: Impact on Renal Allograft Function
Nephron number has been considered a major determinant of renal allograft function and outcome. It has been demonstrated that low birth weights give rise to…2015 American Transplant Congress
Cultural Domains Affecting Organ Donation in Indian Country
Background: The prevalence of end-stage renal disease is 3.5 times greater among the >2.5 million Native Americans or Alaskan Natives (NAs) in the US than…2015 American Transplant Congress
Trajectory of Measured GFR Decades After Kidney Donation: Hyperfiltration Never Seems to End!
While the effect of uninephrectomy on loss of GFR is a cardinal issue for potential kidney donors, current information relies on surrogates of unknown validity,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Decline in Living Donor Rates Pervasive Across All Kidney Transplant Candidate Groups
Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Previous analysis by our group showed living donor (LD) transplant rates peaked between 2002 and 2004 and declined thereafter. We sought to understand if this…2015 American Transplant Congress
Declaring a Patient Brain Dead on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO): Are There Guidelines or Misconceptions?
Purpose: With the rapid growth of ECMO and the accumulating evidence that organs from ECMO donors can be safely transplanted, we reviewed the practice variations…
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