Articles tagged "Donors, unrelated"

2021 American Transplant Congress
General Public Attitude Toward Vascularized Composite Allografts (VCA) Donation?
M. S. S Gharibdousti¹, M. T Khasawneh¹, A. L Friedman²
¹System Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Vestal, NY, ²LiveOnNY, New York City, NY
*Purpose: To analyze factors associated with affirmative authorization for VCA donation from public opinion.*Methods: KnowledgePanel is the largest online panel that relies on probability-based sampling…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Current Practices for Management and Treatment of COVID-19 in Immunocompromised Adults: A Survey of Institutions
H. H. Nam¹, S. Aslam², O. Beaird³, G. Forrest⁴, M. Fung⁵, A. Limaye⁶, A. Multani³, J. Nelson⁷, R. Rakita⁶, L. Strasfeld⁸, J. Schaenman³
¹Medicine, University of California - Irvine, Orange, CA, ²Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California - San Diego, San Diego, CA, ³Medicine, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Medicine, Rush University, Chicago, IL, ⁵Medicine, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁷Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁸Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
*Purpose: The optimal testing strategy for solid organ transplantation (SOT) donor and recipient evaluation, as well as treatment for COVID-19 is unknown. We assessed the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Outcomes of Living Kidney Transplantation from Elderly Spousal Donors
Y. Miyauchi, T. Noda, N. Miura, T. Kikugawa, T. Saika
Ehime University, Toon, Japan
*Purpose: In Japan, the spousal kidney transplantation accounts for approximately 40% out of whole living kidney transplantation. In addition, about half of whole living donors…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Assisted Donor Nephrectomy: A Single Center Experience
A. Khan, A. Sharma, S. Lee, A. Cotterell, D. Kumar, L. Kamal, I. Moinuddin, D. Bruno, V. Kumaran, M. Levy, C. Bhati
Transplant Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Robotic donor nephrectomy (RLDN) is an emerging procedure of choice for living kidney donors at many programs. This approach has benefit of minimal invasive…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Machine Learning Informs Utility-Based Non-Directed Living Liver Donor Allocation
K. Bambha¹, J. Perkins¹, M. Sturdevant¹, S. W. Biggins¹, R. Bakthavatsalam¹, P. Healey², A. Dick², J. Reyes¹
¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Seattle Children's, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: To maximize non-directed living liver donor graft utility, we developed analytic models predicting 10-year graft survival post liver transplant (LT).*Methods: We analyzed OPTN living…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Landscape of Non-Directed Living Liver Donation in the United States
L. R. Herbst, L. Zeiser, A. Massie, K. Herrick Reynolds, E. King, A. Gurakar, D. L. Segev, J. Garonzik Wang, A. M. Cameron
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Non-directed donation (NDD) for kidney transplantation has increased substantially over the past decade, however the landscape of NDD for liver transplantation has yet not…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation Based on Donor Resuscitation
F. Messner¹, J. W. Etra², Y. Yu³, K. Jackson², A. B. Massie², G. Brandacher², S. Schneeberger⁴, C. Margreiter⁴, D. L. Segev²
¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
*Purpose: It has been hypothesized that transplanting simultaneous pancreas kidney (SPK) grafts from donors with a history of cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CACPR) leads…
2020 American Transplant Congress
PHS High Risk: Is this Classification Still Needed?
L. G. Smith
Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: The continued shortage of organs for the over 100,000 candidates on the waitlist has led transplant centers to consider organs that have historically higher…
2020 American Transplant Congress
To Fix or Not to Fix: Kidney Outcomes Requiring Renal Artery Reconstruction Due to Surgical Damage
J. Figueiro, R. Vianna, W. De Faria, S. Elizabeth, G. Ciancio, G. Guerra
Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Deceased donor kidneys damaged surgically during procurement are often discarded. Because of the critical shortage of available kidneys for waitlisted ESRD patients, our center…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Suspected Vape Use in Lung Donor
S. Leonard¹, N. Sinha², S. Manickavel², S. Manickavel²
¹Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Miami/Jackson Health System, Miami, FL, Miami, FL, ²Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami/Jackson Health System, Miami, FL, Miami, FL
*Purpose: E-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) is a recently described disease entity prominently reported throughout many sources. Thus far, diagnosis is primarily…