Articles tagged "Donors, unrelated"

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)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics of Anonymous Living Donors and Their Recipients. Appropriate Use of a Rare and Valuable Gift
A. Sharfuddin, M. Panezai, M. Yaqub, D. Mishler, O. Adebiyi, T. Taber
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
C. G. Okwuonu¹, G. O. Achor², Q. L. Ogana³, C. Kingsley⁴
¹Internal Medicine, Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Nigeria, ²Department of Surgery, Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Nigeria, ³Internal Medicine, Beatitudes Mediplex and Kidney Care Centre, Umuahia, Nigeria, ⁴Internal Medicine, Beatitudes Mediplex and Kidney Care Centre, Aba, 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
C. Flaig, A. Humar, E. Kirschner, C. Hughes, S. Ganesh, A. Tevar, J. Steel
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
B. Kasiske, M. Conboy, Y. Ahn, A. Israni, J. Snyder
SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*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…
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…