Articles tagged "Donors"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Chagas Disease and Outcome in Kidney Transplant.
M. Taylor, A. Martinoia, S. Di PIetrantonio, M. Torres, H. Petrone.
Renal Transplant Unit, CRAI Sur - CUCAIBA, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Introduction: Chagas disease is one of the most expanded endemic in Latin America with 8 people from every 10.000.000 being infected. In Argentina its estimated…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) Kidneys Are More Likely to Be Discarded than Kidneys from Neurologically Brain Dead Donors (NBD).
J. Gill,¹ C. Rose,¹ J. Lesage,¹ Y. Joffres,¹ J. Gill,¹ K. O'Connor.²
¹UBC, Vancouver, Canada; ²LifeCenter, Seattle
Strategies to decrease organ discard are needed. We determined the adj odds of discard of DCD vs NBD kidneys in kidney donor profile index (KDPI)…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) as Prognostic Indicator of Outcomes in Older Patients Undergoing Renal Transplantation.
A. Asderakis, U. Contractor, U. Khalid, P. Donato, L. Szabo.
Cardiff Transplant Unit, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Introduction: Our group has shown excellent results using old DCD donor kidneys to older recipients. There are continuing efforts to predict those older recipients who…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Donor Age > 50 Years and CIT Longer Than 18 Hour Are Independent Risk Factors for One Year Graft Survival in Renal Transplant Form Uncontrolled Donors After Circulatory Death (uDCD).
M. Molina, E. Gutierrez, E. Gonzalez, E. Morales, J. Cabrera, A. Andres.
Nephrology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; Nephrology Department, Hospital Evangelico y Hospital Militar, Montevideo, Uruguay
Introduction: Kidneys transplantations (KT) from uDCD have higher ischemia injury. It develops in higher primary non-function and delayed graft function, lower graft survival and worst…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Is It Safe to Use Older Donor Liver Grafts for Older Recipients?
M. Safwan, K. Collins, K. Takahashi, M. Rizzari, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud, S. Nagai.
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Aim: The safety of liver transplantation (LT) using older donor grafts into older recipients remains to be elucidated. The aim of this study was to…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Post-Donation GFR Changes in Living Kidney Donors.
E. Poggio,¹ S. Arrigain,² J. Augustine,¹ S. Flechner,³ J. Schold.²
¹Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²Qualitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ³Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Living kidney donor transplantation is the preferred treatment for ESRD because it confers excellent outcomes for recipients and poses reasonable risks to donors. Post-donation glomerular…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Donor Age Is the Most Important Predictor of Longterm Graft Function in Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation from Donors After Cardiac Death.
J. Chen,¹ D. Mikhail,^1,2 H. Sharma,³ A. Hijazi,¹ D. Nap,¹ L. Stitt,⁴ J. Jevnikar,⁵ M. Cooper,⁶ P. Luke,^1,2 A. Sener.^1,2
¹Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Canada; ²Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Western University, London, London, Canada; ³Division of General Surgery, Department of Urology, Western University, London, Canada; ⁴LW Stitt Statistical Services, London, Canada; ⁵Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Sciences, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada; ⁶Georgetown University, Washington
STUDY PURPOSE: We analyzed data from UNOS to determine the effects of donor age, donor BMI, and organ cold ischemic time on DCD-SPK graft outcomes.METHODS:…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Intended and Unexpected Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System on a Large Volume Transplant Program.
A. de Mattos, M. Alnimri, L.-X. Chen, J. Sageshima, C. Santhanakrishnan, R. Perez.
University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA
On December 4, 2014 the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) went into effect in the United States. The intentions of KAS were to increase the…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Warm Ischemic Time as an Additive Predictor of Graft Survival in KDPI/KDRI Era of Kidneys from Donors After Cardiac Death: A Single-Center Experience Over Three Decades.
M. Kusaka,¹ Y. Kubota,¹ H. Takahashi,² H. Sasaki,¹ M. Takenaka,¹ N. Fukami,¹ T. Kenmochi,³ R. Shiroki,¹ K. Hoshinaga.¹
¹Urology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan; ²Division of Medical Statistics, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan; ³Organ Transplant Surgery, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan
It is important to predict the outcome of grafts prior to kidney transplantation and establish an appropriate allocation system, particularly to consider expanded criteria donors…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Intraomental Non-Purified Islet Transplantation Isolated from DCD Donor Pancreas.
S. Wang, G. Pei, Y. Liu, Z. Wang, B. Zhang, Y. Xie, J. Wang, Z. Shen.
Transplant Center, Tianjin First Center Hospital, Tianjin, China
Objective: We have proved that omentum was a more efficient site to perform non-purified islet transplantation with more safety in Beagle dog islet auto-transplantation model.…