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Articles tagged "Donors"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    When Does Donor Age Matter? A Review of over 70,000 Liver Transplants

    D. Yoeli, E. Pan, M. Kueht, N. Galvan, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana.

    Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

    Background: Past studies on donor age in liver transplantation have largely relied on binary groups (i.e., young vs. old) with arbitrarily defined cut-offs. The aim…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Non-Immunologic Pairing of Kidney Transplant Donors and Recipients: How Important is HLA Match Status?

    A. Miller, B. Kiberd, K. Tennankore.

    Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

    Currently, allocation preference in deceased donor kidney transplantation is given to donors and recipients (D/R) with 0 human leukocyte antigen (HLA) mismatches (MM), with non-immunologic…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Using Distal Abdominal Aorta as an Outflow Tract for En Bloc Kidney Transplantation from Infant Donors with Extremely Low Body Weight

    H. Dai,1,2 L. Peng,1 F. Peng,1 G. Lan,1 Y. Wang,1 J. Chen,1 L. Liu,1 C. Gao,1 Y. Guo,1 C. Fang,1 M. Nie,1 W. Long,1 S. Yu.1

    1Department of Urological Organ Transplantation, Changsha, Hunan, China; 2Department of Surgery, Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Pediatric kidney donors are underutilized due to high risk of postoperative thrombosis and other complications. To address these problems, we develop a novel en bloc…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Potential Impact of DCD Donor Recoveries on Heart Transplantation: Retrospective Analysis of a Limited UNOS Dataset

    J. Lindower,2 M. Farr,1 S. Taylor,2 U. Jorde,3 L. Chen,4 A. Gass,5 L. Truby,1 S. Delair,2 S. Pinney.6

    1New York Cardio-Thoracic Transplant Consortium, Troy, NY; 2Columbia/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York; 3Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; 4Rochester University Medical Center, Rochester, NY; 5Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY; 6Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY.

    Purpose: To review the volume and quality of potential DCD (Donation after Cardiac Death) Heart Transplant (HT) donors in the US, evaluate trends over time…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Very Old Kidney Recipients of Grafts from Very Old Donors

    H. Trujillo, A. García, T. Cavero, B. Redondo, C. Moliz, T. Bada, E. González, M. Praga, A. Andrés.

    Nephrology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.

    Aims: Describe the outcomes of very old kidney recipients of grafts from very old donors. Identify pretransplant clinical factors associated with graft and recipient survival.Methods:…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Maximizing Utilization in Pancreas Transplantation: Phenotypic CharacteristicsDifferentiating Aggressive from Nonaggressive Transplant Centers

    O. K. Serrano,1 D. M. Vock,2 T. B. Dunn,1 R. Kandaswamy,1 E. B. Finger.1

    1Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 2Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

    OBJECTIVE: Given the increasing shortage of deceased donor pancreas allografts and their declining acceptance rate, maximizing utilization requires a balance between donor selection and transplant…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of DCD Renal Transplantation from Donors with Acute Kidney Injury

    E. Grodstein, J. Yang, V. Nair, L. Teperman.

    Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY.

    BackgroundDeceased donor kidneys with acute kidney injury (AKI) are a viable source of organs, yet are frequently discarded. Outcomes of deceased donor renal transplantation (DDRT)…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Stiffness Measurement, but Not Controlled Attenuation Parameter, is Increased in Deceased Liver Donors at the Time of Transplant Procurement

    A. Duarte-Rojo,1 G. Barone,1 D. Borja-Cacho,1 W. Concepcion,2 M. Shaheen,3 J. Heimbach,3 W. Kim.2

    1University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; 2Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; 3Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

    Background & Aims: The growing obesity rate and IV drug use in the USA presage a higher usage of liver allografts with NAFLD or active…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Extended Criteria Donors Have Higher Expression of Inflammatory Genes Than Standard Donors

    M. Abbud-Filho,1,2,3 M. Fernandes-Charpiot,1,2 M. Baptista,1,2 H. Caldas,1,2 G. Florim.1

    1Medicine, Laboratory of Immunology and Experimental Transplantation - LITEX, Medical School of Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2Transplant, Kidney Transplant Unit, Hospital de Base, FAMERP/FUNFARME, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 3Urology and Nephrology Institute, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    Background.Changes to an organ occur at the time of brain death where a series of inflammatory modify occur within the organ. Because it is not…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Development and Validation of Nomogram to Predict Primary Non Function in Liver Transplant Recipients Using Donation after Cardiac Death Donor Graft

    Z. Guo, J. Zeng, Q. Zhao, B. Chen, Z. Zhang, L. Wang, X. He.

    Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

    Primary non function(PNF) is a severe complication after liver transplantation which causes recipient death or re-transplantation in a short term. PNF occurs more common in…
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