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Articles tagged "Donation"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Cultural Domains Affecting Organ Donation in Indian Country

    T. Bongiovanni,1,3,4 J. Rawlings,2 J. Trompeta,3 M. Nunez-Smith.1

    1Dept of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco; 2Tribal Council, New Haven, CT; 3Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; 4Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven.

    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!

    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

    Decline in Living Donor Rates Pervasive Across All Kidney Transplant Candidate Groups

    G. Vranic, A. Nishio Lucar, D. Keith.

    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?

    K. Kreitler,1 N. Cavarocchi,1 H. Hirose,1 S. West,2 R. Hasz,2 M. Ghobrial,3 R. Bell.3

    1Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; 2Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA; 3Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.

    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…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Evolution of Urinary Albumin Excretion in a Large Cohort of Kidney Donors: No Evidence of Progression

    H. Ibrahim, D. Berglund, A. Matas.

    U of MN, Mpls.

    We have previously shown that the prevalence of albuminuria in donors is similar to age, gender and ethnicity matched NHANES controls. This cohort of 259…
  • 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…
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