Articles tagged "Donors"

2015 American Transplant Congress
No Tumor Recurrence After Renal Cell Carcinoma Resected Kidney Transplantation – 5 Year Follow Up
M. Zwierzchoniewska,¹ K. Fong,¹ D. Patel,¹ L. Mou, W. Lim,² B. He,¹ L. Delriviere.¹
¹Western Australian Kidney Transplant Surgery Service, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia; ²Western Australian Kidney Transplant Service, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
INTRODUCTION:Organ shortage remains the single most significant impediment to increasing low rate of kidney transplantation. One of the strategies to improve it, is a utilisation…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Socioeconomic Status of Local Vs Exported Liver Recipients and Their Donors
J. Adler,¹ J. Hyder,² J. Markmann,¹ H. Yeh.¹
¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
INTRODUCTION: Broader sharing has been proposed as a solution to decrease geographic disparities in liver transplantation, with the hope that this will also neutralize the…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Closing the Knowledge Gap: The Successful Launch of an Interactive Website Dedicated to Information on Living Kidney Donor Transplantation
D. Slaats,¹ W. Zuidema,¹ J. van de Wetering,¹ D. Hesselink,¹ T. Terkivatan,² M. Betjes.¹
¹Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Introduction. The internet is increasingly used to find reliable information about living kidney donation (LKD) and transplantation (LKT). Therefore, an easily accessible, interactive website was…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Phenotype Characterization, Migratory Pathways, Engraftment and Safety Evaluation of Human Cord Blood Derived Ex-Vivo Created Di- Chimeric Cells in NOD SCID Mouse Model: A Preliminary Study
J. Cwykiel,¹ A. Sklodowska,¹ W. Malewski,¹ M. Cyran,¹ H. Karagoz,¹ E. Bryndza Tfaily,¹ M. Askar,² M. Siemionow.¹
¹Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate safety, survival, migration and engraftment of ex-vivo fused human cord blood derived di-chimeric cells (DCC) in…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcome of Kidney Transplantation from Older Living Donors: Histological Evaluation Using Zero-Time Biopsy Specimens
K. Omoto,¹ D. Toki,¹ M. Okumi,¹ T. Shimizu,¹ H. Ishida,¹ K. Honda,² J. Koike,³ K. Tanabe.¹
¹Department of Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ²Department of Pathology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ³Department of Pathology, St. Marianna University, School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan.
OBJECTIVE: The relationship between preimplantation biopsy and graft outcome in kidney transplantations from older living donors has not been studied yet. We reviewed graft outcomes…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Come Again? Part 2, Exploring Causes for Increased Rehospitalization in ECD Kidney Recipients
C. Dunn, M. Hung, S. Greenstein.
Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
Previously, we demonstrated that ECD kidney recipients had an increased rate of re-hospitalization within 1 year but not 2 years post-transplant . This was a…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Tool to Evaluate Coercion, Pressure, and Motivation in Potential Live Kidney Donors
A. Shaffer,¹ E. King,¹ J. Kahn,² L. Erby,³ D. Segev.¹
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ²Bergman Institute for Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ³School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Live donor kidney transplantation yields improved graft survival and recipient longevity, as compared to deceased donors. However, one concern with living donation is the potential…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Cultural Domains Affecting Organ Donation in Indian Country
T. Bongiovanni,^1,3,4 J. Rawlings,² J. Trompeta,³ M. Nunez-Smith.¹
¹Dept of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco; ²Tribal Council, New Haven, CT; ³Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; ⁴Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven.
Background: The prevalence of end-stage renal disease is 3.5 times greater among the >2.5 million Native Americans or Alaskan Natives (NAs) in the US than…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Ischemic Cholangiopathy Following Liver Transplantation from Donation After Circulatory Death Donors: Role of Tissue Plasminogen Activator Flush
C. Kubal,¹ R. Mangus,¹ J. Fridell,¹ M. Wingler,² S. Nagai,¹ B. Ekser,¹ J. Tector.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; ²Indiana Organ Procurement Organization, Indianapolis, IN.
Background: Formation of microthrombi within the peribiliary arterial plexus causing necrosis of biliary epithelium may be responsible for ischemic cholangiopathy (IC) after donation after circulatory…
2015 American Transplant Congress
"In-House" Controlled Oxygenated Rewarming After Initial Static Cold Storage: First Clinical Application in Marginal Donor Livers
D. Hoyer,¹ Z. Mathé,¹ A. Gallinat,¹ A. Canbay,² J. Treckmann,¹ U. Rauen,³ A. Paul,¹ T. Minor.⁴
¹General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany; ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany; ³Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany; ⁴Surgical Research Division, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
IntroductionControlled oxygenated rewarming of cold stored livers by machine perfusion demonstrated a strong protective effect in preclinical studies. Here we report on the first clinical…