Articles tagged "Donors, marginal"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Absence of Adverse Infectious Disease Outcomes in the Long-Term Follow-Up of Recipients of PHS Increased Risk Donor Organs: An Essential Tracking Program
L. Irwin, J. Fishman
Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: 37-41% of deceased donors in Region I are considered “PHS increased risk for infectious disease transmission” (IR) individuals, our Center developed guidelines for the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends in Utilization and Outcomes of DCD Livers for Liver Transplantation in the United States
K. R. Jackson, J. Motter, A. Massie, B. Philosophe, J. Garonzik-Wang, D. Segev
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Donation after cardiac death (DCD) livers represent a possible expansion to the donor pool, but are frequently discarded due to an increased mortality and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Multi- National Survey among Nephrologists & Transplant Surgeons About the Suitability and Acceptance of the Marginal Live Kidney Donors with Sickle Cell Trait
Z. Arabi¹, A. Mateen¹, A. Altheaby¹, M. Bukhari², A. Hamad³, S. Kaysi⁴, E. Elhassan¹
¹KAMC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia, ³The Regional Medical Center, Orangeburg, SC, ⁴CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Saint Pryv/ Saint Mesmin, France
*Purpose: Due to organ shortage, many transplant centers may consider “marginal” kidney donors as those with sickle cell trait ( SCT) for donation. Acceptance of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Report of Organ Offers Linked with Instant Messaging Data Provides a Basis for Quality Improvement
E. Pahl
Health Informatics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: Thousands of viable organs are discarded every year with incorrect or inappropriate reasons for declination. One limitation on the accessibility of organ transplantation is…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Hepatic Steatosis on Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Mice
T. Nikumbh¹, N. Biswas², A. Das², C. K. Sen², S. Kubal¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ²ICRME, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Livers with mild to moderate steatosis have been used to expand the donor pool for transplantation. However, livers with steatosis have a propensity for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving DRG Based Reimbursement to Reflect Complexity of Kidney Transplant
I. R. Schwantes¹, M. Schnitzler², K. Lentine², A. Reed¹, D. A. Axelrod³
¹Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ³Surgery, Universtiy of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: More than 90,000 individuals await a kidney transplant (KTx) in the US, yet up to 20% of recovered kidneys are discarded. Organ Transplant Centers…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Kidney Allograft Discard: The Kidney Discard Risk Index
M. B. Price, M. Joshi, T. Zhang, J. Vierling, T. Galvan, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana
Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The disparity between the supply and demand for kidney allografts is exacerbated by an 18.9% discard rate. It is our aim to determine predictors…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Risk Aversion in Lung Transplantation: Organ Procurement Organizations Differ in Willingness to Pursue Non-Ideal Donor Organs
S. E. Halpern¹, A. McConnell², S. Peskoe², V. Raman³, O. K. Jawitz³, A. Y. Choi¹, J. C. Haney³, J. A. Klapper³, M. G. Hartwig³
¹Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ²Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ³Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Lungs from non-ideal deceased donors are disproportionally discarded despite evidence that waitlisted candidates benefit from use of these organs. Organ procurement organizations (OPOs) individually…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Outcomes Following Uncontrolled and Controlled Donation after Cardiac Death Liver Transplantation in the United States
R. A. Choudhury¹, D. Yoeli¹, H. Yaffe¹, H. B. Moore¹, G. Hoeltzel², A. Schulick¹, K. D. Conzen¹, J. J. Pomposelli¹, E. A. Pomfret¹, T. L. Nydam¹
¹Department of Surgery- Division of Transplantation Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, ²Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Poor short-term outcomes following uncontrolled donation after cardiac death (uDCD) liver transplantation has led to near non-utilization of such donor allografts in the modern…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Multi- National Survey among Nephrologists & Transplant Surgeons about the Suitability and Acceptance of the Marginal Live Kidney Donors Regarding Urological Issues
Z. Arabi¹, M. A. Bukhari², S. Kaysi³, A. R. Altheaby¹, E. A. Elhassan¹, A. A. Mateen¹, M. I. Abdalla¹, M. Gafar¹, S. A. Alam¹, N. Abdulmajeed⁴, A. Alkurdi⁵, A. Hamad⁶
¹KAMC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia, ³CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Saint Pryv/ Saint Mesmin, France, ⁴PSMMC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ⁵University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶The Regional Medical Center, Orangeburg, SC
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplant is the primary modality of renal transplants in many countries. However, donors frequently present with some challenging conditions like some…