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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of Urinary Albumin Excretion in a Large Cohort of Kidney Donors: No Evidence of Progression
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
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
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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