Articles tagged "Donation"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Birth Weight as a Marker of Nephron Mass: Predicting Living Kidney Donor Outcomes
T. Schachtner,^1,2 P. Reinke.^1,2
¹Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charité Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ²Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany.
It has been demonstrated that low birth weights give rise to a reduction in nephron number and low glomerular size in the postnatal kidney. Oligonephropathy…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Identification of Strategies to Facilitate Organ Donation Among African Americans
J. Locke,¹ H. Qu,² R. Shewchuk,² D. Segev,³ M. Martin.⁴
¹Surgery/Transplantation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; ²Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; ³Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ⁴Medicine/Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Background: African Americans (AA) are disproportionately affected by renal disease, yet few receive a kidney transplant. Surveys assessing attitude toward donation have demonstrated that AAs…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Trajectory of Measured GFR Decades After Kidney Donation: Hyperfiltration Never Seems to End!
H. Ibrahim, D. Berglund, R. Foley, A. Matas.
U of MN, Mpls.
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
Risk of ESRD Attributable to Live Kidney Donation in Various Subgroups of Donors
A. Muzaale, A. Massie, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Risk of ESRD attributable to live donation in male, older, obese, related donors, and donors with high predonation eGFR remains uncharacterized.Methods: Various subgroups of individuals…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Should We Ever Pay Living Kidney Donors? Focus Group Study of Public Opinion
A. Tong,^1,2 A. Ralph,^1,2 J. Chapman,³ G. Wong,^1,2,3 J. Gill,⁴ M. Josephson,⁵ C. Hanson,^1,2 J. Craig.^1,2
¹School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia; ³Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ⁴Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; ⁵Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago.
Background: The unmet demand for kidney transplantation has generated intense controversy about introducing incentives for living kidney donors to increase donation rates. Such debates may…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Comparative Analysis of Histological Scoring in Living Donor Renal Transplants from Donors Above and Below 60 Years of Age
A. Ghazanfar,^1,2 F. Kazmi,² A. Bagul,¹ M. Morsy,¹ J. Popoola.¹
¹Renal Medicine and Transplant Surgery, St Georges Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; ²St Georges University of London, London, United Kingdom.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: World Health Organisation estimates that the absolute number of people aged 60yrs and over will increase from 605-million to  2-billion over the…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Utility and Outcomes of Expanded Screening Among Live Solid Organ Donors
A. Rosen, B. Ho, M. Ison.
Organ Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Background: The Organ Procurement Transplant Network (OPTN) now requires enhanced screening of selected live donors for Trypanosoma cruzi, Strongyloides stercoralis, Tuberculosis (TB), and West Nile…
2015 American Transplant Congress
U.S. Population Characteristics Impacting Rates of Organ Donation
B. Schleich,¹ S. Yoon,¹ M. Khasawneh,¹ K. Srihari,¹ W. Tajik,² H. Irving.²
¹Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY; ²New York Organ Donor Network, New York, NY.
Many studies have assessed the impact of factors on organ donation, but have been limited to a few thousand subjects or less. The multicultural composition…
2015 American Transplant Congress
APOL1 High-Risk Genotype in African American Live Kidney Donors Is Not Associated With Post-Donation Development of Hypertension and Kidney Disease
M. Doshi,¹ M. Goggines,² C. Winkler,³ J. Kopp.⁴
¹Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; ²Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI; ³NCI and Leidos, Frederick, MD; ⁴NIDDK, Bethseda, MD.
African Americans (AA) with two apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) risk alleles have more kidney disease than compared to those with one or zero risk alleles. A…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Quality of Life, Financial, and Mental Health Outcomes for Individuals Turned Down for Live Kidney Donation
P. Reese,¹ C. Carney,¹ S. Levsky,¹ R. Pendse,¹ D. Leidy,¹ A. Mussell,¹ R. Bloom,¹ M. Allen,¹ D. Collins,¹ S. Keddem,¹ P. Abt,¹ J. Rodrigue,² E. Emanuel.¹
¹UPenn, Philadelphia, PA; ²Harvard, Cambridge, MA.
Introduction: Individuals considering live kidney donation should have a thorough understanding of the risks and benefits. Regulations focus exclusively on donation risks. However, no data…