2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donation after Circulatory Death Allografts on Outcomes Following Liver Re-Transplantation in the United States
*Purpose: Scarcity of donor organs in liver transplantation (LT) has necessitated consideration of donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors. Complications following LT and disease recurrence…2020 American Transplant Congress
Maximizing the Gift: One OPO’s Experience Maximizing the Gift of Organ Donation by Successfully Increasing the Number of Organs Transplanted from Non-Braindead Donors
LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: In 2018 in the United States, donation after circulatory death (DCD) cases accounted for 20% of deceased organ donor recoveries1. Our organ procurement organization's…2020 American Transplant Congress
Using an Ex Vivo Blood-Free Model of Preservation and Reperfusion to Evaluate the Effects of Subnormothermic Perfusion with Hydrogen Sulfide on DCD Porcine Renal Grafts
*Purpose: The need for donor blood complicates the clinical translation of normothermic and subnormothermic perfusion for preservation and graft function evaluation. As such, hemoglobin-based oxygen…2020 American Transplant Congress
One Organ Procurement Organization Coordinates 43% of All Uncontrolled Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death Donors Recovered in the United States Over 24 Years
Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: An IOM report published in 2006 estimated that 22,000 potential uncontrolled Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death (uDCDD) donors die each year in the…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Negative Impact of Inherent Oxidative Stress in Marginal Lungs on Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion
*Purpose: Identifying good quality grafts within the donor pool, ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) opens another window to evaluate grafts initially declined with marginal quality…2020 American Transplant Congress
Individualized Impact of Donation after Cardiac Death on Kidney Transplant Outcomes
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Increasing the use of kidneys from donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors is a potential solution to mitigate the current organ shortage. However, DCD…2020 American Transplant Congress
Estimating the Potential Pool of Uncontrolled DCD Donors in the United States
*Purpose: In contrast to donation after brain death (DBD), donation after circulatory death (DCD) involves recovery of organs from people with devastating neurologic injury who…2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Metabolic Outcomes after Pancreas Transplantation between DBD (Donors after Brainstem Death) and DCD (Donors after Circulatory Death) Grafts
*Purpose: DCD pancreas transplantation has become common with equivalent graft survival as that of DBD grafts, but are the metabolic outcomes similar? Given the lack…2020 American Transplant Congress
First U.S. DCD Heart Procured/Transplanted after Normothermic Regional Perfusion
*Purpose: We successfully planned, procured and transplanted a heart after a Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) protocol with post-declaration implementation of in vivo cardiopulmonary bypass…2020 American Transplant Congress
Thymoglobulin (ATG) Induction vs. Campath vs. Simulect in DCD Kidneys in UK; Induction Regimes Play a Role after All
*Purpose: Controlled DCD kidneys have increased dramatically in UK. They suffer from a higher rate of DGF and, often in UK, come from older donors…
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