Articles tagged "Donors, unrelated"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Mental Health of Unspecified Anonymous Living Kidney Donors after Donation
W. Zuidema¹, S. Ismail², J. Wetering van de¹, L. Raalten van², W. Weimar¹, E. Massey¹
¹Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: Aim: Anonymous living kidney donors donates to an unknown stranger. These donors undergo psychosocial assessment to minimize likelihood of psychological harm from donation. The…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Perspectives of Nephrologists and Urologists on Financial Incentives for Altruistic Non-Directed Living Kidney Donors
F. Aziz¹, B. Hafeeq¹, J. C. Gopinathan¹, R. Narayanan¹, A. Krishnakumar¹, N. A. Uvais.²
¹Nephrology, Iqraa International Hospital and Research Centre, Calicut, India, ²Psychiatry, Iqraa International Hospital and Research Centre, Calicut, India
*Purpose: Several strategies have been suggested to remove financial barriers that can arise from donating a kidney, including payment in the form of incentives, rewards…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Paired-Donor Kidney Exchange Has Comparable Early Graft Function to Directed Living Donor
E. McCracken, A. Sites, B. Rawashdeh, A. Nishio-Lucar, A. Agarwal
Transplant Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Living kidney donation in the United States is associated with improved graft and patient survival. However, there is minimal data on graft function in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Analysis Identifies a Cancer Transmitted from an Organ Donor to 4 Transplant Recipients
M. Park¹, J. Van Ziffle¹, E. Collisson¹, J. Grenert¹, S. Behr¹, A. Gonzalez¹, J. Chou¹, S. Maisel¹, T. Friedlander¹, C. Freise¹, J. Shoji¹, T. Semrad², P. Chin-Hong¹, C. Atreya¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Gene Upshaw Memorial Tahoe Forest Cancer Center, Truckee, CA
*Purpose: Organ donors are systematically screened for infection, while screening for malignancy is less rigorous. The true incidence of donor-transmitted malignancies is unknown due to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Body Composition One Year after Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy in Living Kidney Donors
H. Fukuhara¹, Y. Watarai¹, S. Narumi¹, N. Goto¹, T. Hiramitsu¹, M. Okada¹, K. Futamura¹, T. Tomosugi¹, A. Kanda¹, T. Nawano¹, N. Tsuchiya²
¹Department of Transplant Nephrology and Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Myoukentyou, Japan, ²Department of Urology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata City, Iidanishi, Japan
*Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of surgery on living donors’ body composition and to clarify the factors related to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Using HCV Infected Organs and the Challenge of Third-Party Payers
R. Daloul, A. Michaels, L. Sobotka, T. Pesavento, K. Washburn
Comprhensive Transplant Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: The practice of transplanting organs from hepatitis C viremic donors (HCV NAT+) into negative recipients hinges on the ability to ensure direct acting antiviral…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Hepatitis C Viremic Donors in Liver Transplantation. A Single Center Experience
R. Cohen, N. Chandolias*, K. Khanmoradi, S. Campos, H. Kaul, J. Walter, S. Rossi, V. Navarro, R. Zaki
Department of Digestive Disease and Transplantation, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: The evolution of effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV), in the setting of the well recognized organ shortage and the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Estimating Opioid-Related Deaths from Toxicology Reports
C. Martinez, A. M. Zehner, A. Placona
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The “Drug Intoxication” mechanism of death from the DDR is a proxy for opioid-related death. Previous investigations have leveraged this proxy to assess impact…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Compatible Pairs- Providingan Option to Upgrade
V. Chipman¹, M. Cooper², S. Flechner³, G. Hil⁴, D. Leeser⁵, D. Mandelbrot⁶, M. Ronin⁴, D. Segev⁷, S. Syed⁸, A. Thomas⁹, A. Waterman¹⁰, G. R. Roll¹¹
¹Kidney Transplant, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Georgertown, Washington, DC, ³Cleavland Clinic, Cleavland, OH, ⁴NKR, Babylon, NY, ⁵East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC, ⁶University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁷Johns Hopkins, Boltimore, MD, ⁸UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁰UCLA and Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ¹¹Surgery, Division of Transplant, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Compatible pairs (CPs) can enter an exchange program instead of donating directly. These pairs increase transplants (txp) by providing additional donors within an exchange…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Pre-Transplant Resuscitation Factors Influencing Immediate Graft Function after Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
S. Park
General Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The management of a deceased donor in the intensive care unit before organ transplantation is important for the outcome of the recipient. Herein, we…