Articles tagged "Donors, unrelated"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Development of a New Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) Program: Starting a Domino Chain with a Deceased Donor
L. Furian¹, C. Di Bella², C. Silvestre², F. Neri², F. Tuci², M. Cardillo³, E. Cozzi⁴, P. Rigotti¹
¹Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Unit, University of Padova, Padua, Italy, ²Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Unit, University of Padova, Italy, Italy, ³Italian National Transplant Center, Rome, Rome, Italy, ⁴Transplant Immunology Unit, Padova University-Hospital, Padua, Padua, Italy
*Purpose: The option of initiating a domino chain of living donor kidney transplants with a deceased donor (DD) has been proposed but never enforced. The…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Mobile Application for Communication Increases the Efficiency of Organ Procurement and Transplantation
E. Pahl
Health Informatics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: Donor organ recovery is a complex process involving organ procurement organizations and multiple surgical teams from various transplant centers. According to the Organ Preservation…
2020 American Transplant Congress
HCV-Positive Donors Are Healthier and Inequitably Utilized in the United States
B. L. Da, T. Kushner, G. Kakked, J. Crismale, G. Ezaz, T. Schiano, B. Saberi
Liver Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: Increased utilization of HCV-positive (HCV+) liver allografts has been endorsed as a solution to the national organ shortage. Due to the opioid epidemic, there…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Financial Concerns of Non-Directed (Altruistic) Living Kidney Donors – How Can We Improve the Donation Process?
A. Maghen¹, G. Mendoza¹, G. B. Vargas¹, S. E. Connor¹, S. Nassiri¹, L. Kwan¹, E. L. Wood¹, J. Lalezari¹, S. Friedman¹, A. D. Waterman², S. George³, S. L. Maliski⁴, J. L. Veale¹
¹Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Office of the Dean, University of Kansas Medical Center School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS
*Purpose: The recent increase in non-directed (altruistic) kidney donors (NDDs) in the United States (U.S.) suggests their potential to help reduce the overburdened kidney transplant…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Stroke Volume-Based Fluid Resuscitation Protocol Decreases Vasopressor Support and Increases Organ Yield in Brain-Dead Donors
G. F. Marklin
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
A. Maghen¹, G. Mendoza¹, S. E. Connor¹, S. Nassiri¹, L. Kwan¹, E. L. Wood¹, J. Lalezari¹, S. Friedman¹, S. George², S. L. Maliski³, J. L. Veale¹
¹Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, ³Office of the Dean, University of Kansas Medical Center School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS
*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
C. L. Rochon, D. Woch, K. Rancourt, O. K. Serrano, A. K. Asamoah
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
J. Tran¹, O. Gunther², J. Lan¹, M. Kadatz¹, R. Sapir-Pichhadze³, P. A. Keown¹
¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Gunther Analytics, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
*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
J. Diaz¹, J. Kennedy², S. Chinnakotla³, P. Verghese⁴
¹Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*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
D. Liu, J. Zhang, J. Chen
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)…