2015 American Transplant Congress
A 10 Min “No-Touch” Time – Is It Enough in DCD? A DCD Animal Study
Introduction: DCD is under investigation due to the lack of human donor organs. Required times of cardiac arrest vary between 75 seconds and 27 min…2015 American Transplant Congress
Enhancing Kidney Function Following DCD Donation With Thrombolytic Therapy: A Preliminary Report of a Multicenter Prospective Quasi-Blinded Randomized Trial
Kidneys from donors following cardiac death (DCD) are at risk for inferior outcomes, possibly due to microthrombi and additional warm ischemia. We describe an organ…2015 American Transplant Congress
Accurate Prediction of High-Resolution HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1 and -DQB1 Typing and Low-Resolution HLA-DQA1 Typing by Haplotype Analysis
Aim: Allele-specific HLA antibodies are commonly detected by Luminex single antigen bead assays in solid organ transplant recipients. However, high-resolution HLA typing for deceased donors…2015 American Transplant Congress
Survival Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients from Expanded Criteria Donors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Background: In 2002, UNOS proposed the use of Expanded Criteria Donors (ECD=brain dead donor > 60 years, or 50-59 years with two criteria: CVA as…2015 American Transplant Congress
Learning from Failures: A 7-Year Analysis of a Multi-Institutional Kidney Paired Donation Registry
1University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH; 2Alliance for Paired Donation, Maumee, OH.
Failure to convert computer-identified possible Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) exchanges into transplants has prevented KPD from reaching its full potential. The purpose of this study…2015 American Transplant Congress
The use of Donation After Cardiac Death Liver Allografts does not increase Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Background: Previous studies examining the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) database for liver transplantation (LT) have demonstrated inferior survival for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recipients…2015 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation Using Kidneys from Donation After Circulatory Death Donors: Results from the UK Experience
Introduction: Kidneys from donation after circulatory-death donors currently make up over 40% of deceased donor kidney transplants in the UK. In addition, 34% of deceased…2015 American Transplant Congress
Patients Referred to an OPO: Analysis of Potential for Additional DCD Donors
New York Organ Donor Network, New York, NY.
Performance improvement at our organ procurement organization (OPO) includes retrospective analysis of the triage process for newly referred patients to identify missed opportunities for donation…2015 American Transplant Congress
Where Does It End? Outcome of the Rejected Kidney Offers for Potential Renal Transplant and Their Outcome. A Single Centre Experience
Renal Medicine and Transplant Surgery, St Georges Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Background: Worldwide there are no uniformly acceptable deceased donor selection criteria for renal transplantation. There are national and international guidelines available based on which most…2015 American Transplant Congress
Glomerulosclerosis Patterns Are Non-Uniform Throughout the KDPI Spectrum With Impact on Biopsy Evaluation of Kidneys for Transplant
1Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Itasca, IL; 2Rush University, Chicago, IL.
Background: The kidney donor profile index (KDPI) stratifies kidney quality with direct bearing on organ allocation and utilization. Procurement biopsy is commonly performed and factored…
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