Articles tagged "Donors"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Inferior Graft and Patient Survival After Living Donor Renal Transplantation of Negatively Selected Right Kidneys.
S. Yamanaga,^1,2,3 A. Posselt,¹ C. Freise,¹ C. Niemann,¹ A. Rosario,¹ D. Fernandez,¹ T. Kobayashi,³ A. Ahearn,⁴ M. Tavakol,¹ S.-M. Kang.¹
¹Department of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ²Department of General Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan; ³Department of Renal Transplant Surgery, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan; ⁴Department of Transplant Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Purpose: In living donor renal transplantation, the left kidney is usually chosen for anatomical reasons. The right kidney is sometimes chosen if it is believed…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Lack of Utility of KDPI in Dual Kidneys from Donors at the Extremes of Age.
D. Felts, M. Khan, B. Alradawna, A. Farney, J. Rogers, G. Orlando, A. Reeves-Daniel, A. Palanisamy, W. Doares, S. Kaczmorski, R. Stratta.
Transplant, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC
The study purpose was to analyze outcomes in recipients of pediatric dual en bloc (EB) kidneys from small pediatric donors (SPDs, age ≤ 3 years)…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Model to Predict Prolonged Delayed Graft Function (DGF) Following Kidney Transplantation from Deceased Donor with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI Tx).
R. Heilman,¹ B. Smith,² C. Johnson,¹ H. Khamash,¹ K. Reddy,¹ W. Kremers,² B. Kaplan.¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background Our aim is to develop a model to predict prolonged DGF following AKI Tx.Methods AKI Tx (donor terminal Cr>/=2) from 2003 to 2016 were…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Implementing a Successful DCD Heart Programme to the United Kingdom.
M. Ryan, S. Duncalf.
Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom
The UK has the most successful DCD heart programme in the world which has primarily been developed in one region in England. Due to a…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Expectations and Experiences of Follow-Up and Self-Care After Living Kidney Donation: A Focus Group Study.
K. Manera,^1,2 C. Hanson,^1,2 J. Chapman,³ J. Kanellis,^4,5 J. Gill,⁶ J. Craig,^1,2 S. Chadban,^7,8 G. Wong,^1,2,3 A. Ralph,^1,2 A. Tong.^1,2
¹Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; ³Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia; ⁴Department of Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, VIC, Australia; ⁵Department of Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia; ⁶Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; ⁷Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Background: Ensuring donor wellbeing warrants ongoing monitoring following living kidney donation. However, there is considerable variability in donor follow up processes, including information provided to…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Living and Deceased Donor Uterus Transplantation – The 2-Arm Czech Uterus Transplant Trial: The First Year Report with Four Cases Done so Far.
J. Fronek,¹ R. Chmel,² L. Janousek,¹ M. Novackova,² J. Matecha,² M. Olausson.³
¹Transplant Surgery Department, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM), Prague, Czech Republic; ²Gynecology Department, University Motol Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; ³Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University, Goteborg, Sweden
Introduction: Uterus transplantation (UTx) may become another organ transplantation. There is very limited worldwide experience so far. The Czech uterus transplant trial started in 2015.…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Absence of Independent and Additional Predictive Ability of Preimplantation Kidney Allograft Biopsies for Long-Term Outcome: Population Based Study.
O. Aubert, D. Viglietti, C. Loheac, M. Rabant, C. Gosset, J. Duong Van Huyen, D. Glotz, C. Legendre, C. Lefaucheur, A. Loupy.
Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, Paris, France
BackgroundA significant number of kidneys are discarded worldwide due to the suboptimal use of large kidney resources. The mean cause is the result of the…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Outcome of Kidney Transplantation from Deceased Octogenarian Donors.
P. Donato, L. Furian, C. Silvestre, F. Neri, C. Di Bella, M. Di Bello, P. Rigotti.
Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Uniti, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy
In order to expand the donor pool, the utilization of kidneys otherwise discarded because of extremely old age or comorbidities has been evaluated.We retrospectively analyzed…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Induction Immunotherapy in ECD and DGF Kidneys: Does ECD Equal Diminishing Induction Returns?
M. Barrett, A. Smith, K. Woodside, R. Sung.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The benefit of induction immunotherapy to prevent DGF or mitigate its effects in recipients of marginal kidneys is not well understood and practices vary. We…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Outcomes of Patients Re-Listed Following Failed Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) Liver Transplant.
K. Croome, D. Lee, A. Keaveny, C. Taner.
Transplant, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Introduction: The outcome for patients re-listed after developing ischemic cholangiopathy(IC) or graft failure following liver transplant(LT) from a DCD donor, remains a significant concern. Better…