Articles tagged "Donors"

2016 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-Modular Approach for Training in Liver Procurement Accelerates Proficiency Gain.
I. Al Hasan,^1,2 H. Sharma,^1,2 M. Tun-Abraham,¹ D. Quan.^1,2
¹Department of Surgery, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; ²Multi-Organ Transplant Program, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada.
BACKGROUND: Modular training has been established as an educational tool in colorectal and urology surgery for the last 5 years. This modular operative approach is…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The UK Kidney Donor Risk Index Score Predicts the Development of TRAS Post Deceased Donor Transplantation.
M. Willicombe, A. Baheerathan, S. Moser, A. McLean, M. Hammady, W. Gedroyc, D. Taube.
Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) is a heterogeneous disorder with different subtypes and aetiologies, which include traditional cardiovascular and transplant specific risk factors. Whether…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Call for a New Paradigm of Organ Allocation within the Confines of MELD for Those Who Are Not “the Sickest”.
T. Baker, A. Siarris, P. Accoh, D. Ladner.
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
BACKGROUND: Liver Allocation policy in the United States is in dynamic flux, with revisions in policy reflecting designs to optimize access to and outcomes for…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Hydrogen Sulfide Supplementation Helps Mitigate Effects of Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in a Murine Model of Donation After Cardiac Death Renal Transplantation.
J. Grewal,¹ I. Lobb,¹ M. Saha,² J. Jiang,² A. Haig,¹ A. Sener.^1,2
¹Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada; ²Matthew Mailing Centre for Translational Transplant Studies, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Canada.
Donation after cardiac death(DCD) renal grafts experience a combination of prolonged warm and cold ischemia leading to greater ischemia reperfusion injury(IRI) that results in higher…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Liver Grafts from Donors with Very High Transaminases.
P. Martins, A. Rawson, P. Mahboub, B. Movahedi, N. Dolgin, I. Bruggenwirth, A. Bozorgzadeh.
Department of Surgery, Transplant Division, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA.
Introduction: Traditionally, elevation of transaminases has been broadly used as markers of hepatic ischemic injury and crucial parameters for liver graft assessment. We wanted to…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Abrogating Donor-Derived Myd88 Signaling Impairs the Recruitment of Recipient Neutrophils and CD8 T Cells into Lung Allografts in Mice.
Z. Zheng,¹ J.-J. Wang,¹ X. Yeap,¹ X. Kang,¹ Y. Xie,¹ X. Luo,² Z. Zhang.¹
¹Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; ²Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Objectives: Transplant ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) mediated primary graft dysfunction (PGD) remains the predominant cause of short- and long-term graft loss in lung transplantation. This…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Initial Rise in Kidney Discard Rates Observed Post-KAS.
D. Stewart,¹ A. Kucheryavaya,¹ R. Brown,¹ D. Klassen,¹ N. Turgeon,² M. Aeder.³
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA; ²Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA; ³Univ Hosp Case Med Ctr, Cleveland, OH.
Background: Kidney discard rates increased by 10% -- from 18.3% to 20.2% (p=0.001) -- during the first 7 months of KAS but returned to pre-KAS…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Solid Organ Transplants Following Simultaneous Solid Organ and Vascularized Composite Allograft Procurements.
M. Alhefzi,¹ M. Aycart,¹ G. Sharma,² N. Krezdorn,¹ E. Bueno,¹ S. Talbot,¹ M. Carty,¹ B. Pomahac,¹ S. Tullius.³
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ²Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ³Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Background: Current knowledge of the impact of facial vascularized composite allograft (VCA) procurement on the transplantation outcomes of the concomitantly recovered life-saving organs is limited…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Rapid Withdrawal of Donation After Cardiac Death Donors.
K. Mekeel,¹ J. Trageser,² W. Garrison,² J. Berumen,¹ L. Stocks,² A. Hemming.¹
¹Surgery, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA; ²Lifesharing, San Diego, CA.
Purpose: Potential organ donors may be lost if procurement needs to occur emergently due to hemodynamic instability or family request, in particular if serologies and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Inferior Outcomes in Hepatitis C Virus Positive Donors to Hepatitis C Virus Negative Kidney Recipients: Analysis of National Data.
H. Fattah, L. Kang, H. Dave, D. Kumar, A. King, C. Bhati, A. Sharma, G. Gupta.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Background: Kidney transplantation (KTxp)with HCV kidneys (HCV D+)may represent a safe resource to expand the donor pool, and to reduce waiting time in patients with…