2020 American Transplant Congress
A Stroke Volume-Based Fluid Resuscitation Protocol Decreases Vasopressor Support and Increases Organ Yield in Brain-Dead Donors
Mid-America Transplant, St Louis, MO
*Purpose: Brain-dead donors are frequently hypovolemic and hypotensive requiring vasopressor support. The goal of fluid resuscitation is to increase perfusion and oxygen delivery and avoid…2020 American Transplant Congress
Why Donate to a Stranger? Exploring the Major Motivations of 31 Non-Directed (Altruistic) Living Kidney Donors
*Purpose: With the steady increase in the number of non-directed donors (NDDs) in the U.S. in the past decade, understanding their motivations may help better…2020 American Transplant Congress
Empowering Recipients Through a Champion Program: A Life Saving Initiative
Transplantation, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
*Purpose: Our purpose was to increase access to living donor kidney transplantation for patients referred at our center. With our interventions, our patients and their…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Eplet-Mismatch Landscape in Kidney Patients and Deceased Donors in British Columbia
*Purpose: Minimizing quantitative donor/recipient mismatch at the HLA epitope level may optimize graft outcomes in renal transplantation, but the degree to which optimal matching can…2020 American Transplant Congress
10-Year Experience Transplanting Very Highly Sensitized Patients with End Stage Renal Disease
*Purpose: Very highly sensitized (VHS) individuals (calculated reactive antigen (cPRA) ≥ 95%) have increased rejection risk which negatively impacts kidney transplant outcomes. Multiple strategies have…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor Lung Pathogenic Bacteria Detected by Next-Generation Sequencing on Early Post-Transplant Outcomes in Lung Transplant Recipients
Lung Transplant Center, Wuxi People's Hospital, Wuxi, China
*Purpose: The effect of donor lung pathogenic bacteria on the prognosis of lung transplantation is not clear. We used the technique of next-generation sequencing (NGS)…2020 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics of Anonymous Living Donors and Their Recipients. Appropriate Use of a Rare and Valuable Gift
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Anonymous Living Donors are a special select set of donors. As there continues to be advances in Paired Donation, we review the trends and…2020 American Transplant Congress
Failure to Launch; a Multi-Centre Study of Potential Live Donors in Southeast Nigeria
*Purpose: To determine the socio-demographic characteristics of potential living kidney donors, donor motivation, incidental findings on clinical evaluation and some identified factors that precluded eventual…2020 American Transplant Congress
Ethical Considerations and Post-Operative Outcomes in Good Samaritan Living Liver Donors: What Motivates Individuals to Donate to Strangers
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Few transplant centers evaluate Good Samaritan living liver donors, secondary to ethical concerns and lack of evidence that the post-operative outcomes are comparable to…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Living Donor Collective Pilot Evaluations of Living Liver Donor Candidates at 6 Programs
*Purpose: Much remains to learn regarding the long-term effects of living organ donation on donors. Rare events are important, and long-term follow-up with appropriate contemporaneous…
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