2019 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms among Solid Organ Transplant Donors
*Purpose: Transplant guidelines recommend exercising caution when considering donor organs that may be infected or colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). Approaches to identifying such potentially…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Extremely Prolonged Cold Ischemia Time in Combination with AKI on Kidney Transplantation Outcome – A Single Center Experience
*Purpose: Donor kidneys with prolonged cold ischemia time (CIT) and acute kidney injury (AKI) are often rejected on the view they do not achieve successful…2019 American Transplant Congress
One Organ Procurement Organization’s Uncontrolled Donation After Cardiocirculatory Death Program Increases The Donor Pool And Results In The Transplantation Of 254 Organs
Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: To demonstrate that an effective DCD program can lead to an increase in the procurement of transplantable organs with satisfactory transplant outcomes from uncontrolled…2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor Hepatitis C Seropositivity Confers Poorer Post-transplant Outcomes In Recipients Of Marginal Livers In The Post-hepatitis C Treatment Era
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
*Purpose: Since the introduction of newer antiretroviral therapies, utilization of hepatitis C (HCV) positive livers has increased significantly for HCV recipients. In an effort to…2019 American Transplant Congress
Whole Body CT Imaging in Deceased Donor Screening
*Purpose: Using older (extended criteria) donors to increase the donor pool increases the risk of malignancies in the donor. Our aim was to analyze the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Defatting Steatotic Rat Livers during Ex Situ Normothermic Perfusion Improves Lactate Clearance and Bile Quality
*Purpose: Donor livers with moderate-to-severe steatosis are not generally used for transplantation because of poor post-transplant function. Ex situ normothermic machine perfusion (ENMP) provides an…2019 American Transplant Congress
Should Kidney Retransplants Be Performed From Either Extended Criteria Donor Or Donation After Cardio Circulatory Death Donors?
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: Donation after brain death expanded criteria donors (ECD) and donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) standard criteria donors (DCD/SCD) increase the donor organ pool but…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor Acute Kidney Injury on the Outcome of Graft Delayed Graft Function
*Purpose: Kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury (AKI) have a higher risk of delayed graft function (DGF). The aim of this study was…2019 American Transplant Congress
Finding Opportunities for Increased Donation after Circulatory Death Liver Utilization: Results of an American Society of Transplant Surgeons/Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Survey
*Purpose: Liver allografts from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors remain underutilized in the U.S. Improved utilization requires expanded potential donor identification by organ procurement…2019 American Transplant Congress
Organ Vigilance in Germany: Malignancy Transmission from Organ Donor to Recipient
German Foundation for Organtransplantation, Frankfurt, Germany
*Purpose: Vigilance monitoring after organ transplantation includes Serious Adverse Events (SAE) and Serious Adverse Reactions (SAR). SAE describe findings in the donor after transplant that…
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