Articles tagged "Donors"

2017 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Kidneys from Deceased Donors Over 80 Years in Kidney Transplantation.
M. Pérez-Sáez,¹ E. Arcos,² J. Comas,² J. Pascual.¹
¹Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; ²Organització Catalana de Trasplantaments, Barcelona, Spain
Patient survival is longer after kidney transplantation (KT) compared with remaining in the waiting list on dialysis. We have questioned if this is true also…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Donor Families' Perspectives of the Harms of Failed Donation After Circulatory Death: A Qualitative Analysis.
L. Taylor,¹ A. Buffington,¹ S. Joseph,³ N. Fost,² M. Schwarze.¹
¹Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; ²Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; ³Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Introduction: We sought to identify harms perceived by families of patients who underwent an unsuccessful attempt to donate organs after circulatory death.Methods: We identified a…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Greater Emphasis on Non-Eligible Donors as a Strategy to Decrease the Organ Shortage.
K. Croome, D. Lee, A. Keaveny, C. Taner.
Transplant, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Background: OPO performance is generally evaluated by the number of organ procurement procedures divided by the number of eligible deaths(brain dead donors under age 70),…
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:…