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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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…2016 American Transplant Congress
Is Donor Methamphetamine Use a Contraindication in Heart Transplantation?
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: Donor methamphetamine (meth) use has been a relative contraindication for the use of the donor hearts for patients awaiting heart transplantation. The concern is…2016 American Transplant Congress
Eversion Endarterectomy of the Deceased Donor Renal Artery to Prevent Kidney Discard.
Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
Deceased donor (DD) kidneys exhibiting severe atherosclerosis with hard ulcerative occlusive plaque extending into the renal artery (RA) may represent a contraindication to utilization. Limited…
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