Articles tagged "Donors"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Elevated Donor Terminal Creatinine Does Not Appear to Be Associated with Worse Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation
S. Rayhill, J. Haldorson.
U Washington, Seattly.
There is justified reluctance to use kidneys from donors with significantly elevated creatinine as they may have severe, irreversible injury. Recently, thanks, in part to…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Pharmacological Defatting of Steatotic Human Livers Using a Novel Perfusion Solution during Normothermic Machine Perfusion
Y. Boteon,^1,2 J. Attard,^1,2 R. Laing,^1,2 A. Boteon,¹ R. Bhogal,¹ G. Reynold,² D. Neil,¹ H. Mergental,¹ D. Mirza,¹ S. Afford.²
¹National Institute for Health Research, Birmingham Liver Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ²Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Steatosis is the leading reason for donor livers discarding and contributes significantly to the worsening shortage of organs for transplantation. Steatotic livers commonly fail…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Intentional Transplantation of Hepatitis C Positive Livers into Hepatitis Negative Recipients- Report of the First Case-Series in the World
P. Martins, B. Movahedi, A. Ahearn, A. Bozorgzadeh.
Dept. of Surgery, Univ of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA.
Background: The current disparity between supply and demand of liver grafts has dramatically increased the waiting time and mortality on the waiting list. The recent…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Desensitization to Facilitate Matching in a Large, National Kidney Paired Exchange Clearinghouse
C. Holscher,¹ A. Thomas,¹ K. Jackson,¹ C. Haugen,¹ M. Ronin,² A. Waterman,^3,4 A. Massie,^1,5 J. Garonzik Wang,¹ D. Segev.^1,5
¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; ²National Kidney Registry, New York; ³David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles; ⁴Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles; ⁵Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore.
In kidney paired exchange (KPE) programs, the use of incompatible transplantation has been necessary to prevent long waiting times for sensitized candidates and to facilitate…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes from Brain Death Donors with Cardiac Arrest Accepted for Pancreas Transplantation
P. Ventura-Aguiar,¹ J. Ferrer,² D. Paredes,³ C. Rodriguez,³ C. Fontdevilla,² E. Esmatjes,⁴ J. Garcia-Valdecasas,² F. Oppenheimer,¹ F. Diekmann,¹ M. Ricart.¹
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; ²Hepatobiliopancreatic and Liver Transplant Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; ³Organ Transplantation Coordination Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; ⁴Diabetes Unit, Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
Donor selection has a major impact on pancreas transplantation. Cardiac arrest and hypoxemia produce an insult to endothelial cell and may increase the risk of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Early Outcomes and Risk Factors after Five Years of a Nationwide Strategy for Kidney Transplantation with Controlled Circulatory Death Donor (cDCD)
J. Portoles,^1,2 M. Perez Saez,² D. Hernandez,² J. Juega,² F. Moreso,² N. Maruri,² P. Lopez,^1,2 E. Melilli,² D. Navarro,² E. de Souza,² J. Ruiz,² M. Mazuecos,² A. Gutierrez,² I. Perez-Flores,² D. Janeiro,^1,2 J. Pascual.²
¹Nephrology, H Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain; ²Nephrology, Spanish Multicentre Sentra-GEODAS Group, Madrid, Spain.
Study: prospective multicentre, systematic inclusion of every kidney transplants-KTx from controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD) at joined units. Local center surgical and immunosuppressive protocols.Background:…
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10-Year Outcomes of Renal Transplantation from Circulatory Death Donors with Increased Terminal Creatinine
Y. Tomita, K. Iwadoh, I. Nakajima, S. Fuchinoue.
Surgery III, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: To alleviate chronic renal graft shortages in Japan, donation after circulatory death (DCD) is an increasingly used organ resource. Organs from DCD donors with…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Improvement in Intermediate Graft Survival among Deceased Donor Recipients in the Last Decade Due to Improvements in Outcomes of Higher KDPI Kidney Recipients
D. Keith.
Medicine, Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL, Turkey.
Previous research by our group showed that intermediate graft survival of adult deceased donor kidney transplants between six months and three years post-transplant improved in…
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Pre-Existing Allograft Diabetic Nephropathy from Diabetic Donor is Reversible after Kidney Transplantation in Non-Diabetic Recipient
K. Hotta,¹ D. Iwami,¹ H. Harada,² Y. Fukasawa,² H. Okada,¹ H. Higuchi,¹ T. Hirose,² N. Fukuzawa,² N. Shinohara.¹
¹Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan; ²Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.
【Introduction】The shortage of kidney donor has limited the treatment of patients with end-stage kidney disease. To use diabetic donor with normal renal function is would…
2017 American Transplant Congress
MELD-Based Allocation Leads to Inferior Survival After Liver Transplantation.
P. Ritschl, L. Wiering, M. Hippler-Benscheidt, F. Aigner, M. Biebl, M. Schmelzle, K. Kotsch, J. Pratschke, R. Öllinger.
Department of Surgery, Campus Virchow and Mitte, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Introduction and BackgroundThe MELD-based allocation system has been implemented in Germany in 2006 in order to decrease waiting list mortality in patients with end stage…