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Articles tagged "Ethics"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Global Kidney Exchange.

    M. Rees,1 T. Dunn,2 S. Rees,3 J. Rogers,4 A. Roth,5 C. Kuhr,6 O. Ekwenna,1 K. Krawiec,7 S. Jain,1 C. Marsh,8 P. Sindhwani,1 M. Zimmerman,9 R. Forbes,10 M. Tan,11 I. Ashlagi,5 R. Correa-Rotter,12 S. Paloyo.13

    1U Toledo, Toledo, OH; 2U Minn, Minneapolis, MN; 3APD, Perrysburg, OH; 4Wake Forrest U, Winston Salem, NC; 5Stanford U, Palo Alto, CA; 6Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA; 7Duke U, Durham, NC; 8Scripps Green Hosp, La Jolla, CA; 9Froedtert Hosp, Milwaukee, WI; 10Vanderbilt U, Nashville, TN; 11Piedmont Hosp, Atlanta, GA; 12INCMNSZ, Mexico City, Mexico; 13St Luke's Hosp, Manila, Philippines

    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.

    M. He,1,2 A. Corson,2 Z. Wang,3 J. Russo,2 T. Trey.2

    1Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; 2Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, Washington DC; 3World Organization To Investigate The Persecution of Falun Gong, New York, NY

    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…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    What Living Organ Donors See as Their Unmet Needs in the United States.

    S. Fry-Revere, M. Middelman.

    American Living Organ Donor Network, Lovettsville, VA; American Living Organ Donor Network, Lovettsville, VA.

    Study PurposeTo collect data on what living organ donors themselves say they want and need to make living organ donation safer and easier.MethodFor 12 months,…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Here Comes the Sun: Industry's Payments to Transplant Physicians.

    R. Ahmed,1 E. Chow,2 S. Bae,2 A. Massie,2 E. King,2 B. Orandi,2 J. Lopez,2 B. Lonze,2 D. Segev.2

    1Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2General Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

    Background: The Open Payments Program (OPP) was implemented to publicly disclose industry payments to physicians, enabling patients to be aware of conflicts of interests. We…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Who Should Decide? Potential Living Kidney Donor Preferences for Making Decisions About Risk.

    C. Thiessen,1 J. Gannon,1 K. Kennedy,2 D. Dobosz,1 S. Li,1 D. Gray,3 A. Mussell,3 E. Gordon,2 P. Reese,3 S. Kulkarni.1

    1Yale U, New Haven; 2Northwestern U, Chicago; 3U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia.

    BackgroundTransplant centers debate how to manage risks to potential living kidney donors (LKDs) when there is a lack of consensus about reasonable donor risk .We…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Reciprocity for Compatible Pair Participation in Kidney Paired Donation.

    J. Gill,1 M.-C. Fortin,2 C. Rose,1 E. Cole,3 K. Tinckam,3 J. Gill.1

    1Nephrology, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2Nephrology, CHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada; 3Nephrology, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Participation of ABO and HLA compatible pairs (CPs) in kidney paired donation (KPD) could significantly increase living donor (LD) transplantation (TX). CPs may be more…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    In Their Own Words: Living Kidney Donors Who Develop Kidney Failure.

    L. Ross,1 C. Halverson,2 J. Wang,1 M. Poulson,3 J. Karlin,4 M. Crowley-Matoka.5

    1U Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Anthropology, U Chicago, Chicago, IL; 3Georgetown U, Washington, DC; 4Family Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; 5Medical Humanities, Northwestern U, Chicago, IL.

    Background: Psychosocial data about living kidney donation have been collected for almost five decades. The results are almost uniformly positive, even in the early years…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Role of Palliative Care in the Thoracic Transplant Multidisciplinary Care Team: Barriers and Benefits.

    A. Manfredi,1 C. Toevs.2

    1Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; 2Terre Haute Regional Hospital, Terre Haute, IN.

    PURPOSE: Patients under consideration for or who have undergone lung and heart transplantation experience many symptoms, including dyspnea, anxiety, pain and caregiver burden. Integration of…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Will the New Kidney Allocation System Negatively Impact Future Organ Donation in States Mandated to Export a Large Number of Kidneys?

    D. Mital,1 E. Hull,1 J. Brown,1 C. Karmell,2 M. Jendrisak.2

    1Kidney Transplant Program, General Surgery, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL; 2Quality and Process Improvement, Gift of Hope OPO, Itasca, IL.

    Purpose: To examine the potentially deleterious effects of the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) on future organ donation: as a consequence of the massive increase…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Optimal Measures for Timely Transplantation: Reviewing Correlation Between Early Transplantation Wait-Listing and Transplantation Outcomes.

    M. Brown, K. Polkinghorne, J. Kanellis.

    Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.

    Background and Purpose: Transplantation is the best treatment for end-stage renal failure (ESRF). In Australia the algorithm for organ allocation considers a combination of factors…
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