Articles tagged "Donors, unrelated"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Altruistic Liver Donors at Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute: Impact of the Educational Campaign: Gift of Life
S. Ganesh, M. Molinari, L. Tubb, A. Tevar, C. Hughes, J. Behari, A. Humar
Transplant Surgery, UPMC Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Background and aims: There is an urgent need to expand access to living donor liver transplants due to a wide gap in the availability…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Anonymous Living Donor Liver Donation: Establishing A Protocol and Understanding Donors Experience
S. Shan¹, J. Durden¹, T. Seay², P. Vargas³, S. Pelletier³, J. Oberholzer³, C. Argo⁴, N. Goldaracena³
¹School of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ²Division of Transplantation, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ³Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ⁴Department of Medicine-Gastroenterology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Anonymous living liver donation (ALLDs) are not as widely accepted as directed donations from friends and family, despite having significant potential to help mitigate…
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…
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…