Articles tagged "Ethics"

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…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Survival of Deceased Donor Kidneys from Children Under Ten
W. Parker, J. Thistlethwaite, L. Ross.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Background: The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has adopted a new allocation algorithm that uses a Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) based on 10…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Quality of Life, Financial, and Mental Health Outcomes for Individuals Turned Down for Live Kidney Donation
P. Reese,¹ C. Carney,¹ S. Levsky,¹ R. Pendse,¹ D. Leidy,¹ A. Mussell,¹ R. Bloom,¹ M. Allen,¹ D. Collins,¹ S. Keddem,¹ P. Abt,¹ J. Rodrigue,² E. Emanuel.¹
¹UPenn, Philadelphia, PA; ²Harvard, Cambridge, MA.
Introduction: Individuals considering live kidney donation should have a thorough understanding of the risks and benefits. Regulations focus exclusively on donation risks. However, no data…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A 10 Min “No-Touch” Time – Is It Enough in DCD? A DCD Animal Study
M. Sereinigg,¹ V. Stadlbauer,² T. Seifert-Held,³ F. Iberer,¹ P. Stiegler.¹
¹Department for Transplant Surgery, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria; ²Department for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria; ³Department for Neurology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria.
Introduction: DCD is under investigation due to the lack of human donor organs. Required times of cardiac arrest vary between 75 seconds and 27 min…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Should We Ever Pay Living Kidney Donors? Focus Group Study of Public Opinion
A. Tong,^1,2 A. Ralph,^1,2 J. Chapman,³ G. Wong,^1,2,3 J. Gill,⁴ M. Josephson,⁵ C. Hanson,^1,2 J. Craig.^1,2
¹School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia; ³Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ⁴Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; ⁵Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago.
Background: The unmet demand for kidney transplantation has generated intense controversy about introducing incentives for living kidney donors to increase donation rates. Such debates may…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence and Outcomes of Heart Transplantation in Children With Intellectual Disability
A. Wightman,¹ H. Bartlett,¹ Q. Zhao,² J. Smith.³
¹Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI; ²Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI; ³Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.
Background:Heart transplantation in children with intellectual disability (ID) is a controversial issue. Previous research on this population has been limited to small case reports.Objective:To describe…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Hispanic/Latino Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation – Role of a Culturally Competent Transplant Program
E. Gordon, J. Lee, R. Kang, D. Ladner, A. Skaro, J. Holl, D. French, M. Abecassis, J. Caicedo.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Background and objectives: Hispanic Americans face disparities in access to kidney transplantation, particularly living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT).Design, setting, participants, and measurements: Northwestern Medicine's® (NM)…