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Articles tagged "Donors"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Serelaxin Decreases the Severity of Cold Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury After Liver Transplantation in Mice.

    S. Kageyama, K. Nakamura, R. Busuttil, J. Kupiec-Weglinski.

    The Dumont-UCLA Transplantation Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

    Background. Extended cold preservation contributes to ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), which impairs graft function and leads to poor clinical outcomes. Serelaxin (SER), a recombinant form of…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Early Acute Rejection and Delayed Graft Function on Graft Outcomes at Six Months in Adult Deceased Donor Kidney Recipients.

    D. Keith, G. Vranic, A. Nishio Lucar.

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

    Graft function as determined by GFR is an important predictor of long-term graft and patient survival after deceased donor kidney transplantation. KDPI is an important…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Age Gap Analysis Between Live Donor and Recipients in Kidney Transplantation: Opportunities to Improve Voluntary Exchange Programs and Kidney Paired Donation.

    J. Rodriguez,1 A. Patel,2 M. Goggins.2

    1Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; 2Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; 3Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.

    Graft survival(GS) perception is that, with a smaller age gap between the donor(D) and recipient(R), better the outcome. It is unclear if there is an…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Predictors of Donor Heart Utilization in United States.

    J. Trivedi, A. Cheng, E. Schumer, M. Black, H. Massey, M. Slaughter.

    Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.

    BackgroundOptimum use of donor organs can increase the reach of the transplant therapy to more patients on waitlist. The heart transplant (HTx) has remained stagnant…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Young Recipients Receiving Kidneys from Older Donors Have Poorer Allograft Outcomes.

    A. Wardle, M. Willicombe, D. Goodall, A. McLean, D. Taube.

    Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

    Introduction: An increasing number of marginal donors are being used in order to expand the donor pool. Age is one of the major criteria in…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Does Donor and Recipient Age Disparity Make a Difference with Expanded Criteria Donors?

    M. Khan,1 K. Jones,1 H. El-Hennawy,1 A. Farney,1 J. Rogers,1 G. Orlando,1 A. Reeves-Daniel,2 A. Palanisamy,2 M. Gautreaux,3 S. Iskandar,3 W. Doares,4 S. Kaczmorski,4 R. Stratta.1

    1Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; 2Internal Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; 3Pathology, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; 4Pharmacy, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.

    The critical shortage of donor organs challenges the transplant community to optimize the use of organs from all consented deceased donors (DD). The purpose of…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Controlled Cardiac Death Donor Program for Kidney Transplantation – Spanish Multicenter Experience with Two Years of Follow-Up.

    J. Portoles,1 M. Perez-Saez,2 D. Hernandez-Marrero,2 O. Lafuente,1 F. Diekmann,2 N. Maruri Kareaga,2 M. Rodriguez-Ferrero,2 F. Llamas,2 M. Mazuecos,2 J. Juega,2 E. Melilli,2 A. Rodriguez-Benot,2 A. Alonso,2 J. Pascual.2

    1Nephrology, U.H.Puerta de Hierro-RedinRen, Majadahonda, Spain; 2Nephrology, SENTRA-GEODAS Group, Madrid, Spain.

    Background: Controlled donation after cardiac death (cDCD) programs are running in several countries for years. National transplant organization (ONT) has developed a nation-wide program in…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Distance Between Us: The Landscape of Recipient-Specific Loss-of-Function in Solid Organ Transplantation and Association with Rejection-Free Graft Survival.

    B. Cole,1,2,5 J. van Setten,3,5 B. Keating.1,4,5

    1Department of Surgery, The Penn Transplant Institute, Philadelphia, PA; 2Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Philadelphia, PA; 3Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; 4Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; 5The Omics Working Group, iGeneTRAiN Consortium, Philadelphia, PA.

    Purpose: This study aims to comprehensively identify genes that are inactivated in both copies in transplant recipients but not in their respective donors, uncovering a…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Factors Associated with Acute Rejections in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Time for HLA-DR Matching in Elderly Recipients?

    D. Khadzhynov, F. Halleck, L. Lehner, M. Duerrr, A. Kleinsteuber, D. Schmidt, K. Budde, O. Staeck.

    Nephrology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

    Background. Within the Eurotransplant Senior Allocation Program (ESP) HLA-matching is neglected,potentially causing inferior outcomes. There is a lack of data analysing the long-term immunologic outcomes…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Impaired Outcome of Kidney Transplants from Donors with Acute Kidney Injury.

    K. Schuette-Nuetgen,1 G. Thölking,1 H. Pavenstädt,1 S. Ehlert,1 B. Suwelack,1 D. Palmes,2 R. Bahde,2 S. Reuter.1

    1Department of Medicine D, Division of General Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Rheumatology, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster, Germany; 2Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.

    Given the gap between patients in need of a kidney transplantation and organs available, transplantation centers increasingly accept lower quality organs, e.g. from donors with…
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