2019 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends Following Uncontrolled Donation after Cardiac Death Kidney Transplantation: Implications for Normothermic Regional Perfusion?
Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation following uncontrolled donation after cardiac (uDCD) remains an underutilized resource in the United States when compared to controlled DCD (cDCD) which has…2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Adult Lung Transplant Recipients of Donation after Circulatory Death Allografts in the US
*Purpose: This analysis was performed to compare outcomes of adult lung (LU) transplant (TX) recipients of donation after circulatory death (DCD) and donation after brain…2019 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Outcomes of DCD Kidneys Recovered with vs. without Pre-Recovery Heparin Administration
Division of Transplantation, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: DCD kidney transplants are associated with higher rates of delayed graft function (DGF) and primary non-function (PNF) likely due to ischemic events during recovery.…2019 American Transplant Congress
External Validation of the DCD-N Score and a Linear Prediction Model to Identify Potential Candidates for Donation after Circulatory Death: A Nation-Wide Cohort Study
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) is most often a controlled procedure after planned withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (WLST) at an intensive care unit. In…2019 American Transplant Congress
Pushing the Limits: A Large Multicentric Case-Control Study Evaluating the Impact of Kidney Transplants from Expanded Criteria Donors after Controlled Circulatory Death the Limits: A Large Multicentric Case-Control Study Evaluating the Impact of Kidney Transplants from Expanded Criteria Donors after Controlled Circulatory Death
*Purpose: Controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD) has allowed to significantly increase the deceased donors pool. However, while excellent previous reports have been shown using…2019 American Transplant Congress
Expanding the Donor Pool with Extended Criteria DCD Livers
*Purpose: Utilization of extended criteria donation after circulatory death (ECD DCD) livers has remained cautious due to potentially worse outcomes because of higher rates of…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) Predicts the Risk of Graft Loss in Patients with a Kidney Transplant from Maastricht Type III Asystolic Donors
Nephrology, H.R.U Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain
*Purpose: Recent years have seen an increase in the number of kidney transplants (KT) from Maastricht type III asystolic donors, resulting in the acceptance criteria…2019 American Transplant Congress
Wide Geographic Variability in the Proportion of Donors with Cardiac Death – Lost Opportunities for Organ Donation?
*Purpose: Donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors are largely not considered by organ procurement organization (OPO) metrics, as DCD donors are only counted in donor…2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplants Following Donation after Circulatory Death and Donation after Brain Death Have Similar Early Outcomes
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) is common in the US, comprising 18.3% of the deceased donor pool in 2017. Recipient outcomes following DCD kidney…2019 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Autoresuscitation in Donation after Cardiac Death Donors
*Purpose: Donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors are subject to an observation period after asystole to monitor for cardiopulmonary autoresuscitation (AR). Periods vary between and…
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