Articles tagged "Donors"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation from Diabetic Donors: Does Presence of Recipient Diabetes Matter?
J. Rogers,¹ A. Farney,¹ G. Orlando,¹ A. Reeves-Daniel,² A. Palanisamy,² H. El-Hennawy,¹ M. Khan,¹ M. Gautreaux,¹ S. Iskandar,³ W. Doares,⁴ S. Kaczmorski,⁴ R. Stratta.¹
¹Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC; ²Internal Medicine, WFBMC, Winston-Salem, NC; ³Pathology, WFBMC, Winston-Salem, NC; ⁴Pharmacy, WFBMC, Winston-Salem, NC.
Donor history of diabetes mellitus (DM) is a known risk factor for inferior graft survival after deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT) and is heavily weighted…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Replacing Cold Storage with Normothermic Ex Vivo Kidney Perfusion Improves Function of Grafts Retrieved After Circulatory Death (DCD).
J. Kaths,^1,2 Y.-M. Chun,¹ D. Cen,¹ J. Echeverri,¹ I. Linares,¹ P. Yip,³ R. John,³ D. Bagli,⁴ I. Mucsi,⁵ A. Ghanekar,¹ D. Grant,¹ L. Robinson,² M. Selzner.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Nephrology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴Departments of Surgery (Urology) & Physiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁵Department of Medicine, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Normothermic ex vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP) and avoidance of static cold storage (SCS) is an attractive strategy to minimize injury of DCD kidney grafts. We…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Factors Associated with Prolonged Warm Ischemia Time Among Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients.
A. Miller,¹ B. Kiberd,¹ I. Alwayn,² S. Kim,³ K. Tennankore.¹
¹Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; ²Surgery, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; ³Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Prolonged warm ischemia time (the time from organ removal from cold storage to reperfusion with warm blood) is associated with graft failure and mortality among…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of DRI and KDPI on Outcomes of High MELD Patients Undergoing Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplant.
E. Chan,¹ M. Hertl,¹ J. Perkins.²
¹General Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; ²Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Background: Patients with a high Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score have an increased risk for dying without transplant. Renal function worsens secondary…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Advantage with Older Live Donor Compared to Standard Criteria Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in Older Recipients.
P. Abrams, M. Cooper, J. Verbesey, R. Ghasemian, M. Grafals, A. Gilbert, J. Moore, J. Fenton, C. Cannon, J. Rapisurra, B. Javaid.
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC.
Objective: Analyze post-transplant outcomes in older recipients of kidney transplants from older live donors compared to older recipients of standard criteria deceased donor kidney transplants.Methods:…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Serum Inflammatory Biomarkers in Kidney Transplant Recipients and Renal Donors.
J. Ramirez,¹ E. Cuevas,¹ J. Furuzawa,² L. Morales-Buenrostro,³ M. Lopez-Cervantes,² J. Alberu.¹
¹Transplantation, Inst Nal Ciencia Medicas y Nutricion SZ, Mexico City, Mexico; ²Immunology, Inst Nal Ciencia Medicas y Nutricion SZ, Mexico City, Mexico; ³Nephrology, Inst Nal Ciencia Medicas y Nutricion SZ, Mexico City, Mexico; ⁴Medicine School, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
Kidney transplant recipients (KTR) have an increased risk for cardiovascular events, graft failure, and death. It is unknown whether serum inflammatory biomarkers correlate with eGFR…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit from Kidney Transplantation Using Kidneys from Deceased Donors Over 75 Years.
M. Pérez-Sáez,¹ E. Arcos,² J. Comas,² M. Crespo,¹ J. Lloveras,¹ J. Tort,² J. Pascual,¹ Catalan Renal Registry Committee.²
¹Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; ²Catalan Renal Registry, Organització Catalana de Trasplantaments, Barcelona, Spain.
Large registries have shown that end-stage renal disease patients have longer survival after kidney transplantation (KT) than remaining on dialysis. However, the outcome for kidneys…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Dual Kidney Transplants as Policy to Optimize the Allocation of Marginal Donor Kidneys: Analysis of the French Cohort Since 2002.
E. Savoye,¹ R. Snanoudj,² C. Hiesse,³ M.-N. Peraldi,⁴ A. Durrbach,⁵ N. Ouali,⁶ M. Durand,⁷ L. Badet,⁸ M.-A. Macher.¹
¹Agence de la Biomédecine, Saint Denis, France; ²Necker hospital, Paris, France; ³Foch hospital, Suresnes, France; ⁴Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France; ⁵Bicêtre Hospital, Kremlin Bicetre, France; ⁶Tenon hospital, Paris, France; ⁷Pasteur hospital Nice, Nice, France; ⁸Department of Chirurgie de la Transplantation Pav V and Department of Immunologie Clinique Transplantation Pav P, Edouard Herriot Hospital Group, Lyon, France.
The aim of this national multicentre cohort study was to assess the safety of dual kidney transplantation (DKT) in terms of patient and graft survival…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Short, Cool and Well Oxygenated – HOPE for DCD Kidneys.
P. Kron, A. Schlegel, O. de Rougemont, C. Oberkofler, P.-A. Clavien, P. Dutkowski.
University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
Background Organs from donors after cardiac death (DCD) suffer from severe loss of function requiring development of innovative methods of preservation. A novel perfusion approach,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function (DGF) Doesn't Affect Adversely the Long-Term Survival of Renal Transplantations (RT) from Uncontrolled Donation After Cardiac Death (UDCD) as Compared with RT from Standard Criteria Donor (SCD).
M. Molina,¹ J. Cabrera,² E. Gonzalez,¹ E. Gutierrez,¹ E. Morales,¹ E. Hernandez,¹ M. Praga,¹ A. Andres.¹
¹Nephrology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; ²Nephrology, Hospital de Clínicas, Montevideo, Uruguay.
INTRODUCTION: DGF is a well-known risk factor for long-term kidney survival in RT. DGF hasn't been evaluated in RT from SCD and from UDCD donors.AIM:…