2019 American Transplant Congress
Taking a Step toward Standardization: Results of an American Society of Transplant Surgeons/Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Survey of Donation after Circulatory Death Liver Recovery Practices
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplants (LT) represented only 6.3% of total U.S. LT in 2017, despite DCD comprising 18.3% of the deceased…2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Grafts From Donors After Circulatory Death Provide Comparable Outcome To Donors After Brain Death Without Intracorporeal In Situ Cooling
Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) had been one and only source of deceased kidney donor in our country. The number of donation after brand…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Feasibility Of Donation After Cardiac Death In Liver Transplantation: A Registry Analysis
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Utilization of liver allografts from donation after cardiac death (DCD) has gradually increased in the United States. We aimed to analyze overall utilization of…2019 American Transplant Congress
Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition: A Cellular Mediator of Ischemic Cholangiopathy after Liver Transplant
1VCUHealth, Richmond, VA, 2Department of Surgery, VCUHealth, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a genetic reprogramming that causes epithelial cells to assume a migratory, mesenchymal phenotype, and it is induced by hypoxia. Ischemic…2019 American Transplant Congress
Unfavorable Donor after Cardiac Death Characteristics in Lung Transplantation: An Analysis of the UNOS Registry
*Purpose: Despite growing evidence that donation after circulatory death (DCD) lung transplants have comparable survival outcomes and primary graft dysfunction rates to donation after brain…2019 American Transplant Congress
Hypothermic Machine Perfusion Protects Donation After Cardiac Deathliver Graft Through Gstm1-mediated Cytochrome P450 Exogenous Substance Metabolism Pathway
Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases, Wuhan, China
*Purpose: Donation after cardiac death (DCD) is the mainly resource to relieve organ-transplantation shortage. Our previous research have confirmed that the function of DCD liver…2019 American Transplant Congress
Apparatus and Method to Facilitate In-Situ Cold Perfusion of Abdominal Organs in DCD Donors
Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Itasca, IL
*Purpose: Rapid, effective in-situ cold perfusion of the abdominal organs in the setting of donation after circulatory death (DCD) is a critical surgical task to…2019 American Transplant Congress
Oxygenated Hypothermic Machine Perfusion of Kidneys Donated after Circulatory Death: An International Randomised Controlled Trial
*Purpose: An international, double-blinded, randomised, paired phase 3 trial designed to determine the effect on 1-year graft function of continuous oxygenated (HMPO) vs non-oxygenated hypothermic…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Value of SCS Perfusate Biomarkers for Predicting DGF of DCD Donor Kidneys
Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
*Purpose: To explore the possibilities of simple cold stored(SCS) perfusate biomarkers predicting delayed graft function(DGF) in donor of cardiac death (DCD) kidneys.*Methods: A total of…2019 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes Following Uncontrolled Donation after Cardiac Death Kidney Transplantation: Opportunity for Increasing Donor Pool?
Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Uncontrolled donation after cardiac death (uDCD) represents an underutilized source of donors in the United States. However, controversy surrounding the long-term durability of uDCD…
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