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Articles tagged "Donors"

  • 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…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Obesity Impact on Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation Outcomes

    T. Alhamad,1 A. Malone,1 H. Chakkera.2

    1Transplantation Nephrology, Renal Division, Washington University, St Louis; 2Renal Division, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ.

    Background: Donor obesity has been reported as a risk factor for early pancreas allograft failure. The relationship between donor obesity and long-term pancreas allograft survival…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Characteristics and Outcomes of Kidneys Procured from Donors With KDPI > 80%

    M. Doshi, I. Hall, F. Weng, B. Schroppel, J. Ficek, R. Hasz, H. Thiessen-Philbrook, R. Formica, P. Reese, C. Parikh.

    TRIBE Consortium, New Haven, CT.

    Kidneys procured from donors with KDPI>80% are often biopsied and pumped, yet frequently discarded. The accuracy of these quality assessment tools remain controversial but contribute…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Donor-Derived Tumor Transmission Events. A Summary of 2008-2013 Data from the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)

    M. Nalesnik,1 S. Taranto,2 S. Covington,2 E. Blumberg,1 M. Green,1 T. Gross,1 M. Klassen-Fischer,1 M. Pavlakis,1 C. Wolfe,1 D. Kaul.1

    1OPTN Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC), Richmond, VA; 2United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.

    Purpose: Transmission of donor malignancy via transplantation is an uncommon but significant occurrence. The OPTN Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC) has monitored such complications since…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Low Expanded Criteria Donor Listing Rates by Organ Procurement Organization Is Associated With Increased Differential in Waiting Time for Candidates Willing to Accept Marginal Organs in the US

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

    Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

    Organ procurement organization (OPO) listing rates for expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys vary greatly across the US. The goal of ECD listing is to shorten…
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