2017 American Transplant Congress
Development of an Automatic Regulated Normothermic Kidney Preservation Device for Long-Term Organ Perfusion.
BackgroundNormothermic kidney perfusion for a period of 24 hours or longer would offer significant clinical advantages. It would enable clinicians to investigate the condition of…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Performance of Four Tools for the Prediction of Potential for Organ Donation After Cardiac Death in Neurocritical Patients: A Prospective, Multicenter, Observational Study.
Background Successful donation after circulatory death (DCD) requires identification of patients dieing within limited time after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (WLST). We aimed to compare…2017 American Transplant Congress
Combined Dual-Kidney Liver Transplantation in the United States: A Review of UNOS/OPTN Data Between 2002 and 2012.
Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
BackgroundSimultaneous liver-kidney transplantation (SLKT) has increased demand for donor kidneys during a national organ shortage. In kidney-alone recipients, dual kidney transplantation (DKT) using “marginal” donor…2017 American Transplant Congress
KDPI and Small (<20 kg) Pediatric Kidney Donors.
1Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle; 2Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis
Use of small (≤20 kg) donor kidneys in pediatric candidates has declined under the new kidney allocation system (KAS), from 5.0% of pediatric kidney-alone transplants…2017 American Transplant Congress
Variations in Risk-Appetite Between UK Kidney Transplant Centres and Impact on Patient and Graft Outcomes.
Introduction: Risks associated with deceased donors may be donor-related, organ-related, or both. Variations between transplant centres in the risks they are prepared to accept ('risk…2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor Asystole in Intestine Transplant.
Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Intestine transplantation has a high risk of post-transplant complications. For this reason, many intestine transplant centers are conservative in their choice of deceased donors, using…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Technique to Increase Donor Utilization: Our Experience Using High-Dose Tissue Plasminogen Activator Flush in Donation-After-Cardiac-Death Donors for Liver Transplantation.
Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
The utilization of donation-after-cardiac-death (DCD) livers remains generally low. Strategies to address the perceived liabilities associated with DCD organs could influence their utilization in a…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Outcome of Kidney Grafts from Living Donors with Pyelo-Ureteric Junction Dysfunction.
Introduction: There is a wide gap between number of patients seeking renal transplants and potential kidney donors. Living kidney donation seems a reasonable source to…2017 American Transplant Congress
Abrogating MyD88 Signaling in Donor Lung Resident Hematopoietic Cells Promotes Cell Based Tolerance Induction in Lung Allografts in Mice.
Objectives: MyD88 signaling plays an important role in allograft rejection and tolerance induction. This study is designed to determine the cellular base of MyD88 expression…2017 American Transplant Congress
KDPI Obscures Trends in Absolute Donor Risk.
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN
The kidney donor profile index (KDPI) is commonly used to measure deceased donor kidney quality based on the kidney donor risk index (KDRI) (Rao, et…
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