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Articles tagged "Ethics"

  • 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…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Perceptions, Motivations, and Concerns about Living Organ Donation among People Living with HIV

    S. Rasmussen, M. Henderson, J. Bollinger, S. Seaman, C. Durand, D. Segev, J. Sugarman.

    JHU, Baltimore.

    Background: The HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act permits persons living with HIV (PLWH) to donate organs within research protocols. Motivations and concerns related to…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    An Economic Analysis of the UK Pancreas Allocation Scheme

    K. Burke,1 S. Birch,2,3 T. Augustine.1

    1The Renal and Pancreas Transplantation Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom; 2Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; 3Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

    Introduction: Economics provides input to decisions concerning the best use of available resources. In transplantation, limitations include organ availability and competing organ demands. This is…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Critical Care Management of Organ Donors with Uncertain Consent Status

    M. Varma, J. LaRosa.

    Department of Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ.

    Introduction: Donor management is a foundation of organ transplantation. It requires professionalism, compassion, and collaboration between intensive care unit (ICU) staff, organ procurement organizations (OPOs),…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Higher Early Post-Liver Transplant Mortality in Recipients with Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis versus Alcoholic Cirrhosis

    B. Lee, G. Im, J. Dodge, M. Voigt, J. Rice, M. Lucey, D. Foley, L. Platt, A. Gurakar, N. Mehta, G. Therapondos, H. Han, D. Victor, O. Fix, L. Dinges, D. Dronamraju, C. Hsu, M. Rinella, H. Maddur, S. Eswaran, J. Hause, R. Ghobrial, Z. Li, N. Terrault.

    UCSF, SF; Mt Sinai, NYC; Iowa, Iowa; UW, Madison; Hopkins, Baltimore; Ochsner, Jefferson; USC, LA; Houston Methodist, Houston; Swedish, Seattle; Maryland, Baltimore; UPenn, Philadelphia; NW, Chicago; Rush, Chicago.

    INTRODUCTIONThe American Consortium of Early Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis (ACCELERATE-AH) is a multicenter cohort from 8 UNOS regions studying early liver transplant (LT) for…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Opting out and Offers of 'Alibis' for Potential Living Kidney Donors in the US

    R. Iskander,1 S. Kulkarni,2 C. Thiessen.2

    1McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; 2Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

    Purpose: To delineate rates of and reasons for opting out of living kidney donation, to determine if and how transplant centers offer alibis, to assess…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Deceased Donor Initiated Kidney Transplant Exchanges and the Forgotten Incompatible Directed Donor Recipients

    E. Molmenti,1 C. Molmenti,2 E. Grodstein,1 H. Rilo,1 L. Teperman.1

    1Surgery, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY; 2Feinstein Institute, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY.

    Although incompatibility is usually viewed as affecting potential recipients of live donors, it is also encountered in instances of directed donation of deceased donors. In…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Attitudes of African Canadian Patients with End Stage Kidney Disease toward Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

    V. Gupta, C. Richardson, D. Belenko, N. Singh, A. Xu, P. Thiagalingam, D. Wong, H. Ford, M. Novak, I. Mucsi.

    University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Background:African Canadian patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) are less likely to receive a living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) compared to Caucasian Canadians. We…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    The Ethical Turmoil of Imminent Death Donation

    N. Galvan, J. Geha, R. Ackah, M. Kueht, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, A. Rana, J. Goss.

    Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

    A. Imminent Death Donation (IDD) is a term to describe organ procurement from a live donor before withdrawal of ventilator support and/or from a patient…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Transplantation in Foreign Nationals: Lower Rates of Waitlist Mortality and Higher Rates of Lost to Follow-Up Post-Transplant

    N. Ferrante, D. Goldberg.

    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

    Background: A highly contentious issue in the transplant community is whether or not to provide deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT) to non-citizen/non-residents (NCNRs) who travel…
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