Articles tagged "Ethics"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Racial/Ethnic and Socio-Economic Disparities: Single versus Multi-Organ Transplant Recipients
C. A. Custer¹, K. Ladin², J. Entwistle³, E. J. Gordon⁴
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Tufts University, Medford, MA, ³Thomas Jefferson University, Washington, DC, ⁴Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Under current deceased donor kidney allocation policy, multi-organ transplant (MOT) candidates often receive priority over single organ transplant (SOT) candidates. We examined the distribution…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Incorporating Tangible Benefits into the Risk-Benefit Analysis of Living Organ Donation Decisions
M. Robin¹, S. Rasmussen², A. Saha², A. Eno², M. Waldram², D. Segev², M. Henderson²
¹University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: The risk-benefit framework currently used in living organ donation presumes all benefit is afforded to the recipient, whereas the donor only assumes risks. However,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Patient Perspectives of Informed Consent for Deceased Donor Organ Intervention Research
E. Gordon¹, B. Knopf¹, A. Mussell², C. Phillips², R. Veatch³, P. Abt², P. Reese²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Georgetown University, Washington DC, DC
*Purpose: Interventions on deceased donors or their organs hold promise for increasing the quantity and quality of organs for transplantation by minimizing organ injury and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Global Kidney Exchange
D. N. Bozek¹, O. Ekwenna¹, S. Paloyo², T. Dunn³, K. Krawiec⁴, S. Rees⁵, A. Roth⁶, M. Zimmerman⁷, J. Punch⁸, R. Forbes⁹, C. Marsh¹⁰, C. Kuhr¹¹, J. Rogers¹², M. Tan¹³, L. Basagoitia¹⁴, R. Correa-Rotter¹⁵, J. Ortiz¹, P. Sindhwani¹, M. A. Rees¹
¹University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH, ²University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital; St. Luke’s Medical Center, Manila, Philippines, ³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁵Alliance for Paired Donation, Perrysburg, OH, ⁶Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁷Froedert Hospital-Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁸University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ¹⁰Scripps Green Hospital, San Diego, CA, ¹¹Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, ¹²Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ¹³Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁴ProRenal, ., Mexico, ¹⁵INNSZ, Mexico City, Mexico
*Purpose: Poverty prevents more kidney transplants (KTs) worldwide than any other barrier. Global kidney Exchange (GKE) is a mechanism to overcome this barrier.*Methods: In high-income…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Illustration of Renal Recovery in SLK with Utilization of Most Recent Allocation Criteria
B. Patel, R. Prashar, A. Babu
Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Single Center review of Renal recovery in Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation (SLKT) in patients who were approved for SLK based on the recent UNOS…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Facilitators and Barriers to the Implementation of Culturally Competent Care to Increase Living Kidney Donation in Transplant Centers
E. J. Gordon, E. Romo, D. Amortegui, A. Rodas, N. Anderson, J. Uriarte, J. Caicedo, M. Shumate
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Hispanics/Latinos are disproportionately less likely than non-Hispanic whites to receive a live donor kidney transplant (LDKT). Cultural beliefs and linguistic barriers contribute to LDKT…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Overcoming Sex Disparity In Japan
M. Yoshikawa
Nephrology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan
*Purpose: Despite its superior outcomes relative to chronic dialysis, living kidney transplantation are less likely to occur in female in Japan. The aim of this…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Patient Response to a Formal Living Donor Liver Transplant Educational Program
P. Narayanan, C. Palumbo, K. Ventura, R. Tomlin, L. Hammers, M. Joyce, D. Wuerth, D. Haakinson, S. Kulkarni, D. Mulligan, S. Emre, A. Liapakis
Transplantation Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Informed consent for liver waitlist candidates is required and includes discussion of donor graft options. Living donor liver transplant (LDLT) is an established option…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Attitude towards Organ Donation among Medical Students: Relationship to Knowledge and Beliefs
A. Cerrato, M. Salifu, M. Markell
Nephrology/Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of organ donation may underlie physician unwillingness to refer patients for organ donation. We examined baseline knowledge and beliefs…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Moving from Local Allocation to National Allocation Using Gravity Model
F. Bayer¹, B. Audry², C. Antoine², C. Jasseron², C. Legeais², O. Bastien², C. Jacquelinet¹
¹Agence de la biomedecine and INSERM U1018, Saint-Denis la Plaine and Villejuif, France, ²Agence de la biomedecine, Saint-Denis la Plaine, France
*Purpose: Most allocation scheme are based on optimized or administrative boundaries that do not allow transplant candidates without national priority to access a graft from…

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