Articles tagged "Donors, marginal"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Not for the Faint of Heart: The Impact of Post-Reperfusion Syndrome during Liver Transplantation Using Livers with Significant Macrosteatosis
K. P. Croome, D. Lee, S. Croome, R. Chadha, D. Livingston, P. Abader, A. P. Keaveny, C. Taner
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
*Purpose: The present study represents the largest series of donor livers with moderate macrosteatosis and provides detailed analysis of the effects of post reperfusion syndrome…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Reevaluating Cut-Off Points for the Expansion of Deceased Donor Criteria for Kidney Transplantation in Japan
Y. NAKAGAWA¹, M. Masahiro², M. Tasaki², K. Saito³, K. Takahashi⁴
¹Department of Urology,, Uonuma Kikan Hospital, Niigata, Japan, ²Department of Regenerative and Transplant Medicine, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, ³Department of Urology,, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, ⁴Department of Urology,, Otsukadai Clinic, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: A shortage of donors poses a serious problem for organ transplantation around the world. In response, the concept of the Expanded Criteria Donor (ECD)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Differential Effects Of Prolonged Cold Ischemia On Outcomes In Donation After Cardio Circulatory Death Versus Acute Kidney Injury Donor Kidney Transplants
D. Harriman, V. Gurram, J. Rogers, A. Farney, G. Orlando, C. Jay, A. Reeves-Daniel, A. Mena-Gutierrez, M. Gautreaux, W. Doares, S. Kaczmorski, R. Stratta
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: Donation after cardio-circulatory death (DCD) and acute kidney injury (AKI) deceased donor (DD) kidneys increase the organ pool but their rates of discard and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Increasing the Number of Liver Transplants through Active Review of Offers Turned Down
M. L. Melcher, C. A. Bonham, A. Gallo, W. Concepcion, I. Jacobson, C. O. Esquivel
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: To increase the number of patients benefiting from a liver transplant, a university transplant program instituted a weekly review meeting of the transplant surgeons…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Discard Patterns in Donors with Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
M. MacConmara¹, A. Mufti², S. Hanish¹, P. Vagefi¹, S. Tujius², C. Hwang¹
¹Surgery (Division of Surgical Transplantation), UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Medicine (Transplant Hepatology), UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are major health issues affecting 20-50% of the US adult population and are increasingly prevalent in potential…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Risk of Delayed Graft Function after Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in the Current Era
I. Helanterä¹, H. N. Ibrahim², M. Lempinen¹, P. Finne³
¹Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ²Department of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ³Nephrology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
*Purpose: Delayed graft function (DGF) is associated with morbidity and cost after deceased donor kidney transplantation. Some data suggest that previously sensitized patients and kidneys…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Renal Allograft Survival after Dual Kidney Transplantation is at Least as Favorable as Outcome after Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplantation
A. Brar¹, M. Sattar¹, A. Gruessner¹, R. M. Jindal², R. Nee³, R. Gruessner¹, M. Salifu¹
¹SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, ²Department of Surgery,, USU-Walter Reed Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, ³USU-Walter Reed Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD
*Purpose: Dual kidney transplantation (DKT) is the implantation of two adult kidneys from a marginal donor into a single recipient. DKT may play an important…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Factors Associated with the Acceptance of Livers for Liver Transplantation: Validation of the Discard Risk Index in the Eurotransplant Region
J. D. Boer¹, H. Putter², J. J. Blok³, N. Cambridge¹, S. Van den Berg¹, U. Samuel¹, G. Berlakovich⁴, M. Guba⁵, A. E. Braat³
¹Eurotransplant International Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Transplant Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁵Hospital of the University of Munich, Munich, Germany
*Purpose: In times of organ shortage it has to be better understood why available livers are not transplanted. This study aims to analyze factors associated…