Articles tagged "Donors, marginal"

2020 American Transplant Congress
The Negative Impact of Inherent Oxidative Stress in Marginal Lungs on Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion
K. Noda¹, B. J. Philips¹, M. Velayutham², T. Harano¹, P. Reck dos Santos¹, S. Shiva², P. G. Sanchez¹
¹Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Identifying good quality grafts within the donor pool, ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) opens another window to evaluate grafts initially declined with marginal quality…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant from Sickle Cell Donors
P. Vaitla, F. H. Cabeza Rivera, W. Cheungpasitporn, F. Koller, P. Matemavi, J. Wynn
University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
*Purpose: Patients with End-stage renal disease have an increased risk of death. Dialysis and kidney transplantation are the only treatments. Patients who receive kidney transplantation…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Survival of ESRD Patients with an EPTS > 90% Listed for Kidney Transplant
M. S. Sampaio¹, E. Lum¹, P. Homkrailas¹, G. Danovitch¹, H. Gritsch², S. Bunnapradist¹
¹UCLA - Division of Nephrology, Los Angeles, CA, ²UCLA - Division of Urology, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Mortality on the kidney transplant waitlist is high especially in candidates with a high Estimated Post Transplant Survival (EPTS) score. We examined outcomes of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Consequences of Turning Down High KDPI Kidney Organ Offers for Kidney Transplant Candidates
J. D. Motter, L. Liyanage, K. R. Jackson, M. G. Bowring, T. Ishaque, Y. Yu, S. Yu, J. M. Garonzik-Wang, A. B. Massie, D. L. Segev
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Kidneys with a high Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI, 80-100%) are frequently declined as they are associated with higher graft loss; yet, candidates that…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Call to Action: Finding the Right Kidney for All Potential Recipients
G. Guerra, L. Preczewski, A. Harshman, G. Ciancio, R. Vianna, J. Figueiro, M. Muldoon
Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL
*Purpose: The dialysis burden in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) awaiting a kidney transplant (KT) is a huge driver of morbidity, mortality, and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Multi- National Survey among Nephrologists & Transplant Surgeons about the Suitability and Acceptance of the Marginal Living Kidney Donors with Microscopic Hematuria
Z. Arabi¹, S. Kaysi², A. Hamad³, M. Bukhari⁴
¹KAMC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Orleans, French Guiana, ³The Regional Medical Center, Orangeburg, SC, ⁴Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Potential kidney donors with isolated hematuria are often excluded from donating although there is a wide controversy about the definition and threshold of investigations…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Protective Effect of Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion (HOPE) Onresuscitating Steatotic Liver and its Underlying Mechanism
F. Lin¹, F. Zhen¹, X. Yan¹, L. Wenjin¹, Y. Qifa²
¹Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, ²Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University/The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Wuhan/Changsha, China
*Purpose: To analyze the impact of steatotic livers with conventional cold storage (CS) and hypothermic oxygenated perfusion (HOPE) approaches, and further to investigate the rescue…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Analysis Identifies a Cancer Transmitted from an Organ Donor to 4 Transplant Recipients
M. Park¹, J. Van Ziffle¹, E. Collisson¹, J. Grenert¹, S. Behr¹, A. Gonzalez¹, J. Chou¹, S. Maisel¹, T. Friedlander¹, C. Freise¹, J. Shoji¹, T. Semrad², P. Chin-Hong¹, C. Atreya¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Gene Upshaw Memorial Tahoe Forest Cancer Center, Truckee, CA
*Purpose: Organ donors are systematically screened for infection, while screening for malignancy is less rigorous. The true incidence of donor-transmitted malignancies is unknown due to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Utilization via Accelerating the Placement of Hard-to-Place Kidneys
S. Noreen¹, R. Brown¹, Y. Becker², M. Cooper³, K. O'Connor⁴, J. Prinz⁵, D. Klassen¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ³MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ⁴LifeCenter Northwest, Bellevue, WA, ⁵Donor Alliance, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Increasing the number of transplants by increasing utilization is a key goal of the OPTN, with a particular focus on the use of marginal…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Machine-Learning Approach for Estimating Likelihood of Transplant Benefit from Older-Donor Kidneys
T. Pruett¹, P. Martin², D. Gupta³
¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²University of Texas, Austin, TX, ³McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin, TX
*Purpose: There is a shortage of transplantable kidneys in the US. Yet, the discard rate among older donors (55+) is approx. 38% per year. The…