Articles tagged "Donors, unrelated"

2019 American Transplant Congress
What Are You Smoking? The Impact of Donor Drug Use on Long Term Survival Post-Transplant
D. A. Baran¹, A. Long¹, J. T. Lansinger², H. Copeland³, J. M. Herre¹, W. Old¹, G. Zeevi¹, C. Barreiro¹, C. Kemp¹, B. H. Smith¹, K. Stelling¹, A. Ingemi¹, P. Bourassa¹, J. Philpott¹
¹Sentara Heart Hospital, Norfolk, VA, ²Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, ³Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
*Purpose: Drug use is a common aspect in the history of heart transplant donors. Whether prior or current drug use is associated with inferior post…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Physician Trust and Hypertension Treatment Adherence among Living Kidney Donors in the United States
J. S. Wilson Jr¹, L. Cooper², M. Johnson², M. Waldram², Y. Yu², J. Perkins², D. Crews², N. Lacy³, M. Henderson², A. Massie², K. Lentine⁴, D. Segev², T. Purnell²
¹Williams College, Williamstown, MA, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, ⁴St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Among living kidney donors who develop hypertension (HTN), little is known about racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between physician trust levels and adherence to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
How Do We Choose? Predicting Utilization Of Cardiac Donors And The Effect Of Era
D. A. Baran¹, J. T. Lansinger², A. Long², J. Philpott³, H. Copeland⁴, W. Old³, G. Zeevi³, C. Barreiro³, C. Kemp³, B. H. Smith³, K. Stelling³, A. Ingemi³, P. Bourassa³, J. M. Herre³
¹Sentara Heart Hospital, Virginia Beach, VA, ²Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, ³Sentara Heart Hospital, Norfolk, VA, ⁴University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
*Purpose: The number of patients on the heart transplant waitlist continues to rise. However, the rate of organ acceptance is only about 1/3 of all…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Compatible Pairs in Paired Kidney Exchange – Are There Winners and Loosers?
V. Chipman¹, B. Lee¹, M. Cooper², M. C. Cuffy³, M. Ronin⁴, G. Hil⁴, S. Flechner⁵, A. Thomas⁶, D. A. Mandelbrot⁷, A. D. Waterman⁸, C. E. Freise¹, G. R. Roll¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC, ³UC Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴NKR, Babylon, NY, ⁵Cleavland Clinic, Cleavland, OH, ⁶Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ⁷Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁸UCLA and Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: To understand patterns of participation for compatible pairs and their impact in increasing paired donation in a national registry.*Methods: Favorable pairs (FP) are defined…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Are We Underestimating The Number Of Paired Kidney Exchange Transplants In The United States? Relationship Insights From The National Kidney Registry
A. Thomas¹, A. Shaffer², D. Segev²
¹Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Despite an overall decline in the number of living donor kidney transplants (LDKTs) since 2005, Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) rates have increased over the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Social Loafing: Distribution of Kidneys with Multiple Renal Arteries in a National Paired Kidney Exchange Program
G. R. Roll¹, W. Irish², M. Cooper³, M. Ronin⁴, G. Hil⁴, A. D. Waterman⁵, D. B. Leeser²
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²ECU, Greenville, NC, ³Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC, ⁴NKR, Babylon, NY, ⁵UCLA and Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: To describe the distribution and outcomes after kidney transplantation of multiple renal artery kidneys (MRAK) in a national exchange program.*Methods: We retrospectively reviewed donor…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Improving the Organ Donation Process: Updated
J. Yeh, M. P. Jarrett, L. Teperman
Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, NY
*Purpose: Due to the complexity of care that each ICU patient requires, the bedside nurse may miss the clinical trigger that would indicate an appropriate…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Vascularized Abdominal Wall Allograft Procurement – Lessons Learned from Early Experiences
J. A. Shah, D. L. Sudan, D. Erdmann, K. V. Ravindra
Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Vascularized abdominal wall allografts (AWA), which protect solid organs in patients with loss of abdominal domain or extensive abdominal wall damage, remain an essential…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Reevaluating Cut-Off Points for the Expansion of Deceased Donor Criteria for Kidney Transplantation in Japan
Y. NAKAGAWA¹, M. Masahiro², M. Tasaki², K. Saito³, K. Takahashi⁴
¹Department of Urology,, Uonuma Kikan Hospital, Niigata, Japan, ²Department of Regenerative and Transplant Medicine, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, ³Department of Urology,, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, ⁴Department of Urology,, Otsukadai Clinic, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: A shortage of donors poses a serious problem for organ transplantation around the world. In response, the concept of the Expanded Criteria Donor (ECD)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Determinants of Allograft Injury during Procurement in Deceased Donors
E. Taber-Hight¹, R. Cauwels², E. Eidbo², A. S. Paramesh³, R. Squires⁴, T. Taber¹
¹Nephrology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²AOPO, Vienna, VA, ³Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency, New Orleans, LA, ⁴University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: With the ever enlarging list of potential recipients on the transplant list, the need for deceased donor organs has become critical. Avoiding injury to…