Articles tagged "Donors"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Detriemental Impact of DGF and CIT On Longterm Survival After Kidney Transplantation in Elderly Recipients
C. Denecke,^1,2 M. Biebl,^1,2 C. Bösmüller,² F. Aigner,^1,2 T. Dziodzio,^1,2 R. Sucher,^1,2 S. Weiss,² J. Pratschke,^1,2 R. öllinger.^1,2
¹Allgemein, Viszeral – und Transplantationschirurgie, Charite Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany; ²Viszeral, Transplantations – und Thoraxchirurgie, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
Background: In kidney transplantation, the association of cold ischemia time (CIT) and delayed graft function (DGF) is particularly detriemental in grafts from marginal donors. In…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Lessons Learned from the Clinical Use of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (nRP) in Uncontrolled Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD)
C. Antoine,¹ E. Savoye,¹ F. Gaudez,² G. Cheisson,³ M. Videcoq,⁴ B. Barrou,⁵ National Steering Committee of Donation After Circulatory Death.¹
¹Medical and Scientific Department, Agence de la Biomedecine, LA Plaine Saint Denis, Saint Denis, France; ²Department of Urology, Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France; ³Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Bicetre Hospital, Kremlin Bicetre, Val de Marne, France; ⁴Department of Transplantation, Edouard Herriot Hospital Group, Lyon, Rhones Alpes, France; ⁵Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France; ⁶Department of Urology, University Hospital La Pitie, Paris, France.
The national protocol for the uDCD program restricts donor age < 55 y, no flow period < 30 min and total warm ischemia time (WIT)…
2015 American Transplant Congress
National Outcomes of Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) Liver Transplantation Are Equivalent to Donation After Brain Death (DBD) Liver Transplantation Using Older (DBD) Donor Livers
R. Redfield, M. Rizzari, J. Scalea, L. Fernandez, A. D'Alessandro, J. Mezrich, D. Foley.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Background: Multiple studies have demonstrated that outcomes of DCD liver transplantation (LTx) are inferior to DBD LTx. Thus DCD liver transplantation represents only 7% of…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Do Community-Solicited NDDs Experience More Coercion to Donate a Kidney Than Traditional NDD Donors?
D. Serur, G. Bretzlaff, P. Christos, F. Desrosiers, M. Charlton.
New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY.
BACKGROUND:Studies of non-directed donors (NDDs) have shown comparable psychosocial functioning to traditional donors. Within NDDs there are some that come forward in response to community…
2015 American Transplant Congress
National Outcomes of Kidney Tranplantation from Diabetic Donors: A Mate-Kidney Analysis
J. Cohen,¹ P. Reese,¹ P. Porrett,² R. Bloom,¹ K. Forde,³ D. Sawinski.¹
¹Renal Division, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA; ²Dept of Surgery, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA; ³Division of Gastroenterology, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA.
Utilization of diabetic donor kidneys has increased, though scarce patient and allograft survival data are available for recipients of these organs. Using United Network for…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation of ABO- and Crossmatch-Incompatible Recipient-Donor Pairs Entered in Kidney Paired Donation Program
D. Dadhania, M. Charlton, M. Aull, R. Friedlander, T. Muthukumar, J. Lee, M. Goris, D. Serur, S. Kapur, V. Sharma.
Transplantation Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY.
Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) enables ABO-incompatible (ABOI) and crossmatch-incompatible (XMI) patients to undergo transplantation using a 'more compatible' donor. Identification of factors that predict early…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Poor Renal Function and Increased Mortality in Elderly Recipients of Deceased Donor Kidneys from Elderly Donors
S. Berger,¹ H. Peters-Sengers,² M. Heemskerk,³ F. Bemelman,² J. Homan van der Heide.²
¹Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Department of Nephrology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ³Dutch Transplant Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands.
Background: Within the Eurotransplant Senior Program kidneys form donors older than 65 both after cardiac death (DCD) or brain death (DBD) are allocated to recipients…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Expanding the Donor Pool: Comparison of Outcomes in DCD Vs Living Donor Liver Transplantation
G. Sapisochin,¹ J. Seal,² N. Goldaracena,¹ T. Reichman,² J. Laurence,¹ H. Bohorquez,² I. McGilvray,¹ D. Bruce,² P. Greig,¹ I. Carmody,² M. Cattral,¹ A. Ghanekar,¹ D. Grant,¹ G. Loss,² M. Selzner.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Toronto General Hospital. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Multi-Organ Transplant Institute, Ochner Medican Center, New Orleans, LA.
Living donors (LD) and donation after-circulatory-death (DCD) grafts represent important opportunities to increase the donor pool. We reviewed the combined experience at Toronto General Hospital…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Cold Ischemia Time in Combination With Donor Ischemic Events on Kidney Transplant Outcomes
M. Lubetzky, Y. Xia, P. Friedmann, C. Cortes, L. Kayler.
Transplantation, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Deceased-donor kidneys may be exposed to various ischemic events either from donor instability as evidenced by acute kidney injury (AKI) or donation after circulatory death…
2015 American Transplant Congress
The Donor Risk Index Does Not Accurately Classify Patients With or Without Graft Failure
E. Franco,¹ T. Athanasios,² N. Kemmer,³ L. Leone,¹ A. Alsina,¹ B. Djulbegovic.²
¹Surgery, TGMG/USF Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL; ²Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, USF, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL; ³Hepatology, TGMG/USF Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL.
In liver transplantation assessing risk of donor is paramount to graft survival. The donor risk index (DRI) was introduced as a predictor of graft failure…