Articles tagged "Donors"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation: UK Single Centre Study.
I. Umbro,^1,2 F. Tinti,^1,2 F. Evison,³ A. Sharif,⁴ B. Gunson,⁵ A. Mitterhofer,² J. Ferguson,¹ P. Muiesan.¹
¹The Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ²Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; ³Department of Health Informatics, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁴Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁵NIHR Birmingham Liver Biomedical Research Unit and Centre for Liver Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Aim of the study is to assess the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) after liver transplantation (LT) in DCD…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Motivation and Stress Associated with Non-Directed Kidney Donation.
J. Wiseman,¹ D. Berglund,¹ C. Jacobs,¹ D. Larson,¹ C. Garvey,¹ M. Vogues, S. Rein,¹ O. Sanchez,¹ C. Radecki Breitkopf,² H. Ibrahim,¹ A. Matas.¹
¹U of MN, Mpls; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester.
Background: Nondirected kidney donors (NDDs) are unique in that they have the risks of nephrectomy but often do not have the benefit of seeing the…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Kidney Donors Older Than 80 Years Does Not Affect Graft Survival in the Medium Term.
A. Fernández,¹ J. González,² C. Galeano,¹ S. Elias,¹ S. Jimenez,¹ F. Caravaca,¹ S. Pampa,¹ R. Marcen.¹
¹Nephrology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain; ²Nephrology, Hospital de León, Leon, Spain.
INTRODUCTION:Kidney transplantation is the best option for renal replacement therapy. One of its main limitations is the organs shortage. We analyzed the results in kidney…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor AKI on Outcome Following High KDPI Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation.
D. Haakinson,¹ I. Qaqish,² M. Smith,³ H. Khamash,² K. Reddy,¹ R. Heilman.²
¹Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; ²Nephrology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; ³Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ.
Background: Transplanting deceased donor kidneys with AKI does not appear to have negative impact on graft survival, however the impact of AKI on high KDPI…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The UKKDRI Score Predicts Outcomes of Deceased Donor Transplantation Using a Steroid Sparing Immunosuppressive Protocol.
A. Wardle, M. Willicombe, D. Goodall, A. McLean, D. Taube.
Imperial College REnal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
The UK kidney donor risk-index (UKKDRI) was developed to provide a simplistic clinical tool to help determine quality of an allograft and aid informed consent.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Perfusion of Livers Donated After Circulatory Death: A New Clinically Relevant Experimental Model.
Y. Cao,¹ H. Chew,^1,2 K. Fernandez,¹ L. Gao,¹ J. Villanueva,¹ M. Hicks,¹ P. Macdonald,^1,2 K. Dhital,^1,2 H. Pleass.³
¹Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ²Cardiac Transplant Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ³The Department of Surgery, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Aim. Transplantation using livers donation after circulatory death (DCD) is associated with worse outcomes compared to using donation after brain death (DBD). Considerable research resources…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation from DBD, DCD or DBCD Donors: A Single Center Experience from China.
G. Chen, C. Wang, L. Chen, J. Qiu, C. Wang.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Background There are three categories of deceased donors in China now, donation after brain death(DBD), donation of cardiac death(DCD), and donation after brain and cardiac…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of DCD Livers.
X. Luo, A. Massie, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore.
Liver transplantation benefits registrants with MELD≥18. However, this benefit no doubt varies by donor characteristics, and the benefit of DCD livers remains unclear.Methods: We used…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Kidney Paired Donation Standard Acquisition Charge Pilot Program.
M. Rees,¹ L. Reece,² S. Rees,² B. Crandall,² A. Leichtman.⁴
¹UT, Toledo; ²APKD, Perrysburg; ³Arbor Res, Ann Arbor.
Background/Purpose: A national non-profit Kidney Paired Dontion (KPD) organization undertook a demonstration project to redesign payment for KPD transplants with a payment model similar to…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Dynamic Detection of Anti-HLA Antibodies Can Predict aGVHD and OS in HLA-12/12 Matched Unrelated-Donor Allo-HSCT for Hematological Malignancies.
J. He,¹ Z. Pan,¹ X. Yuan,¹ Y. Li,¹ X. Wu,² W. Zhu,² X. Bao,¹ Q. Zhao.²
¹Department of HLA Laboratory, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, Key Laboratory of Thrombosis and Hemostasis of Ministry of Health, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China; ²Department of Hematology, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, Key Laboratory of Thrombosis and Hemostasis of Ministry of Health, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
The NMDP and CIBMTR provided guidelines for the use of anti-HLA antibodies in unrelated-donors hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). However, a deeper understanding of other…