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Articles tagged "Donors"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney and Liver DCD Outcomes – A Five Year Review

    J. Buggs,1 J. Boone,2 M. Adesunkanmi,2 R. Mehta,2 E. Rogers,3 A. Kumar,4 A. Alsina,1 V. Bowers.1

    1Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Medical Group, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; 2Pre-Med Undergraduate, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; 3Transplant Research, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; 4Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

    Background: The demand for organ transplantation exceeds the supply and has led to an increase in use of donation after cardiac death (DCD) solid organs…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Livers from Diabetic Donors Can Safely Be Used in Donation after Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation

    I. Brüggenwirth,1 I. Vasiliauskaire,2 A. Westerkamp,1 W. Polak,2 A. Braat,3 R. Porte.1

    1Surgery, UMCG, Groningen, Netherlands; 2Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; 3Surgery, LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands.

    Liver grafts from donors with a history of diabetes mellitus (DM) have been associated with reduced graft survival after liver transplantation. Transplantation centers are often…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    A Medical Decision Analysis for the Use of Donation after Cardiac Death Donors for Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant

    A. Miller, K. Tennankore, B. Kiberd.

    Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

    For patients on the simultaneous liver-kidney transplant (SLKT) waitlist, acceptance of donation after cardiac death (DCD) organs may facilitate earlier transplantation thereby reducing waitlist mortality,…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Examples of the Observer Effect in Transplantation- Unintended Consequences of Regulation and Selected Outcome Metrics

    A. Rana, M. Kueht, N. Galvan, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss.

    Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

    Introduction: The influence of an observer on the phenomena being observed is designated as the observer effect. It is our aim to demonstrate that an…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Global Expression Profiles of miRNA and Expression Patterns and Localization of the miR-21 in One-Hour Biopsy Specimens of Human Kidney Tansplantation from Donors after Cardiac Death

    M. Kusaka,1 N. Fukami,1 H. Sasaki,1 A. Kawai,1 T. Kenmochi,2 T. Ito,2 R. Shiroki,1 K. Hoshinaga.1

    1Urology, Fujita-Health University, Toyoake/Aichi, Japan; 2Transplant Surgery, Fujita-Health University, Toyoake/Aichi, Japan.

    Because of the global shortage of renal grafts, kidney transplantation (KTx) from donors after cardiac death (DCDs) is an alternative way of obtaining KTx from…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Hepatectomy Time in Donation after Circulatory Death Donors is an Independent Risk Factor for the Development of Biliary Strictures and Early Graft Loss after Transplantation

    O. van Leeuwen,1 M. van Reeven,2 M. Fujiyoshi,1 V. de Meijer,1 R. de Kleine,1 M. de Boer,1 J. de Jonge,2 J. Ijzermans,2 W. Polak,2 R. Porte.1

    1Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; 2Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

    Introduction: Liver transplantation (LT) from donors after circulatory death (DCD) is associated with an increased risk of non-anastomotic biliary strictures (NAS) and early graft loss…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    DonorNet and Biases in Decision-Making: An Organ Offer Simulation Study

    D. Stewart,1 J. Lindemans,2 J. Schold,3 H. McGehee,1 J. Kessler,4 C. Sullivan,4 M. Turner,2 K. Mekeel,5 C. Berg,2 R. Stratta,6 R. Formica,7 L. Ratner,8 D. Klassen,1 B. Shepard.1

    1UNOS, Richmond; 2Duke, Durham; 3CCF, Cleveland; 4Wharton, Philadelphia; 5UCSD, San Diego; 6Wake Forest, Winston-Salem; 7Yale, New Haven; 8Columbia, NY.

    Background: Behavioral science research has revealed that the way information is presented can impact decision-making. UNOS has developed a DonorNet-like simulation tool to send hypothetical…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Shared Genetic Ancestry as a Predictor of Medium Term Renal Transplant Outcome in Deceased Donor Transplants

    C. Stapleton,1 On behalf of the UK and Ireland Renal Transplant Consortium, P. Conlon,2 G. Cavalleri.1

    1Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; 2Department of Nephrology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

    Sibling transplant pairs have better transplant outcomes than unrelated donor recipient (DR) pairs indicating that shared genetic ancestry between donors and recipients can aid in…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Factors Predicting Viability Achievement on Discarded Donor Livers Submitted to Extra-Corporeal Machine Perfusion

    Y. Boteon,1,2 R. Laing,1,2 A. Schlegel,2 J. Attard,1,2 L. Wallace,1 A. Smith,2 T. Perera,2 J. Isaac,2 D. Mirza,2 S. Afford,1 H. Mergental.2

    1National Institute for Health Research, Birmingham Liver Biomedical Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 2Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

    Background: Ex-vivo machine perfusion of livers (MP) may offer superior preservation for marginal donor organs. During normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) is possible to assess liver…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Reducing Discards for Deceased Kidney Donors over Age 50 by Restricting Biopsy Criteria

    C. Hostetler, J. Rogge, B. Nicely, S. Rudich.

    Clinical Division, Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

    The placement of kidneys from deceased organ donors of advanced age is an ongoing challenge. An Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) evaluated its discard rate for…
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