2015 American Transplant Congress
Poor Renal Function and Increased Mortality in Elderly Recipients of Deceased Donor Kidneys from Elderly Donors
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
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
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
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
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%
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)
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
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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Fully Laparoscopic Left Hepatectomy on Donor Interest in Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT)
Purpose: Laparoscopy was extended to liver donation to reduce invasiveness and our center has offered selected patients fully laparoscopic procurement since 8/12. We sought to…2015 American Transplant Congress
Local Expansion in DCD Kidney Transplant Activity Improves Waiting List Outcomes and Addresses Inequities of Access to Transplantation
1Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2NHSBT, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Following expansion in our circulatory death (DCD) transplant program, our center now performs twice as many DCD as brain-death (DBD) kidney transplants. Here, we…
American Transplant Congress abstracts