2017 American Transplant Congress
How Potential Living Kidney Donors (LKDs) View ESRD Risk: A Multi-Center Study.
1Yale U, New Haven; 2U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 3Northwestern U, Chicago
PurposeTo determine how kidney donors view ESRD risk at initial donor evaluation.MethodsWe conducted a longitudinal, prospective study of LKDs at three centers and report results…2017 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor-Initiated Non-Simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor Chains Through the Military Share Program.
Introduction: At a recent White House Summit on organ transplantation, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced that they would direct some Military Share deceased donor…2017 American Transplant Congress
Perceived Legitimacy of Using Social Support for Transplant Eligibility: Results from a National Survey of Transplant Clinicians.
Background: Although the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services require that social support be used to determine transplant eligibility, guidance is vague. Centers vary significantly…2017 American Transplant Congress
Potential Living Kidney Donors (LKD) Concerns About Opting Out and Preferences for an 'Alibi'.
1Yale U, New Haven; 2Northwestern U, Chicago; 3U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia
PurposeTo evaluate potential LKDs comfort discussing opting out with their intended recipient (IR) and preferences for alibisMethodsWe conducted a prospective, longitudinal study of potential LKDs…2017 American Transplant Congress
Willingness of Canadian ESRD Patients to Consider Transplant Tourism.
BackgroundTransplant tourism refers to travel for transplantation involving organ trafficking or transplant commercialism, and is associated with poor outcomes. While some characteristics of transplant tourists…2017 American Transplant Congress
Global Kidney Exchange.
Introduction: Innovative solutions are required to overcome the organ shortage.Methods: The cost differential between dialysis and transplantation in some countries allows the exchange of kidneys…2017 American Transplant Congress
Use of Forensic DNA Testing to Trace Unethical Organ Procurement and Organ Trafficking Practices.
The purpose of this study is to establish a methodology, which allows to identify evidence of transplant organs originating from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience…2017 American Transplant Congress
Trends in the Number and Medical Urgency of Adult Heart Transplant Candidates Listed as Status 1A from 2006-2015.
The wider geographic sharing of hearts in 2006 may have had unintended consequences for transplant center listing behavior. This project examines trends in the number…2017 American Transplant Congress
Current Practice and Ethical Dimensions of Implementing APOL1 Testing into Living Donor Evaluation: A National Survey.
1Northwestern University, Chicago; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester
BackgroundAfrican American (AA) live kidney donors (LKDs) have an even greater risk of kidney failure than European American live donors. Apolipoprotein 1 (APOL1) gene variants…2017 American Transplant Congress
Willingness of End-Stage Renal Disease Patients (ESRD) without Hepatitis C (HCV) to Accept a HCV+ Kidney.
1UPENN, Philadelphia, PA; 2Yale, New Haven, CT
Background: New HCV drugs could reduce the risks of donor-derived HCV infection. However, it is unknown if HCV-negative (HCV-) ESRD patients would accept an HCV+…
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