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Articles tagged "Donors"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Artificial Intelligence May Detect Donor Liver Steatosis and Predict Early Post-Transplantation Graft Failure

    R. R. Narayan, L. Yang, N. Abadilla, S. B. Chen, J. P. Higgins, M. L. Melcher

    Stanford University, Stanford, CA

    *Purpose: To compare the accuracy of donor liver biopsy slides scored by manual histopathologic review versus a computer vision artificial intelligence (CVAI) platform to predict…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Extracellular Microvesicles from Liver Perfusate: microRNAs, Cellular Cross-Talk, and Early-Post Liver Transplant Outcomes

    A. Fernandez,1 O. Ingram,1 S. Bontha,1 U. Erdbruegger,2 L. Musante,2 V. Mas,1 D. Maluf.1

    1Surgery, UVA, Charlottesville; 2Nephrology Division, UVA, Charlottesville.

    Background: Ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is a multifactorial process that impact liver graft function. Donor quality plays a critical role during IRI and early graft…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Are Deceased Donor Characteristics Associated with Liver Graft Failure among Low MELD Patients Receiving a Liver Transplant Changing

    K. Atiemo,1 A. Skaro,2 R. Craig-Schapiro,1 S. Montag,1 L. VanWagner,1 M. Abecassis,1 J. Levitsky,1 L. Zhao,1 D. Ladner.1

    1Nothwestern, Chicago; 2Western University, London, Canada.

    Intr Low MELD patients have less access to liver transplantation (LT) and increasingly receive 'marginal' organs with risk of graft failure (GF). Despite increased utilization…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Predictors of Graft Survival amongst Recipients of Liver Allografts with Prolonged Cold Ischemic Time (CIT)

    J. Steggerda,1 K. Kim,1 D. Malinoski,2 M. Bloom.1

    1Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; 2Surgery, Oregon Health Science University, Portland, OR.

    Background: CIT is an independent risk factor for worse outcomes in liver transplantation (LT). Factors contributing to improved graft survival in organs with CIT ≥12…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Preoperative Patient Education to Improve the Inpatient Experience for Living Donors

    K. Ventura, K. Sigafus.

    Transplant Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    Purpose: Although the number of living organ donors is small, their altruistic sacrifice requires a dedicated approach to meet their unique needs. Living donors (LD)…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Should Kidneys from Donation after Cardiac Death Expanded Criteria Donors Be Transplanted?

    D. Harriman, J. Rogers, A. Farney, G. Orlando, A. Reeves-Daniel, M. Gautreaux, W. Doares, S. Kaczmorski, R. Stratta.

    Surgery, Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacy, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.

    Introduction: Expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys increase the organ pool but their discard rate remains high, especially in the setting of donation after cardiac death…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Hard-To-Place Kidney Offers: Granular Examination of Donor Risk Factors for Discard

    R. Narvaez, J. Nie, K. Noyes, M. Leeman, L. Kayler.

    Dept of Surgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; Dept of Epidemiology and Environmental Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

    Background: Deceased-donor kidney discard rates remain high. Understanding risk factors for discard is difficult since most analyses lack granularity and sufficient sample of high disease…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Outcomes of Primary Kidney Transplant from Expanded Criteria Maastricht Category 3 DCD Donors: A Single-Centre Observational Study

    E. Favi,1 C. Puliatti,2 S. Iesari,3 M. Ferraresso,1 R. Cacciola.2

    1Kidney Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy; 2Kidney Transplantation, The Royal London Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 3Kidney Transplantation, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.

    Background. Kidney transplants (KTx) from standard (STD) DCD donors have higher rates of primary non function (PNF) and delayed graft function (DGF) than DBD but…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of Accepting Kidneys of Varying Quality for Transplantation or Expedited Placement with Decision Trees

    S. Mehrotra,1 H. Gordon,1 K. Bui,1 J. Friedewald,2 D. Ladner,2 B. Kaplan,4 V. Kilambi.3

    1Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; 2Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 3Operations Research, RAND Corporation, Boston, MA; 4Transplant Services, Baylor Scott and White, Houston, TX.

    Underutilization of marginal-quality kidney-organs for transplantation has occupied the community and led to introducing the idea of expediting the placement of kidneys for populations at…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Predicting Survival after Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplants by Donor-Recipient Match: Who Can Tolerate a High-KDPI Kidney?

    S. Bae, J. Garonzik Wang, K. Jackson, A. Thomas, X. Luo, A. Massie, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

    Deceased-donor kidney transplantation (DDKT) with high-KDPI kidneys carries an additional risk of mortality and graft failure, which could be tolerable for some candidates but detrimental…
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