Articles tagged "Informed consent"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Patient Definitions of Transplant Success of Upper Extremity VCA
M. Downey¹, B. Kuramitsu², J. Gacki-Smith², K. Vanterpool¹, M. Luken³, M. Nordstrom³, T. Riggleman³, C. Cooney¹, M. Levan¹, S. Tintle³, G. Brandacher¹, S. Jensen², G. Dumanian², E. Gordon²
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
*Purpose: Little is known about how to measure "success" of upper extremity (UE) vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) given its relative novelty and low frequency. While…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Donors’ Perceptions of Uterus Donation Motivations, Informed Consent and Value: A Qualitative Study of Dallas Uterus Transplant Study (duets) Participants
A. Wall¹, J. Hagen², V. Reddy³, E. Gordon⁴, L. Johannesson¹, G. Testa¹
¹Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³Baylor Transplant Research Institute, Dallas, TX, ⁴Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Clinical trials have demonstrated the feasibility and reproducibility of uterus transplantation (UTx) to treat absolute uterine factor infertility. Successful live births have resulted from…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Decision-Making Among HCV-Negative Transplant Candidates Offered Organs from Donors with HCV Infection
E. Schnellinger¹, E. Saine¹, M. Liu¹, J. Diamond¹, M. Crespo¹, S. Prenner¹, V. Potluri¹, C. Bermudez¹, H. Mentch¹, M. Moore², B. Besharatian¹, D. Goldberg³, F. Barg¹, P. Reese¹
¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of London, London, United Kingdom, ³University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Historically, many organs from deceased donors with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were discarded due to stigma and challenges in treating HCV after transplant.…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Manufactured Organ Procurement Facility Collaboration and Authorization Approach for Xenotransplant Research
E. P. Weldon, N. S. Lawson, B. E. Sullivan, B. S. Parent, C. L. Deterville, R. A. Dieter, R. A. Montgomery
NYU Langone Health-Transplant Institute, New York, NY
*Purpose: A Manufactured Organ Research Facility (MORF) was created at our institution to provide a safe environment for testing xenograft organs in deceased brain dead…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Framing the Conceptualization of Uterus Transplantation: A Mixed Methods Study
A. Wall¹, L. Johannesson¹, M. Sok², A. Warren³, E. Gordon⁴, G. Testa¹
¹Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³Trauma and Critical Care, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁴Northwestern University, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Absolute uterine factor infertility (AUFI) affects 1-5% of women of child-bearing age, and was recently the only untreatable cause of infertility. Clinical trials have…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Patient and Physician Perspectives on Kdpi>85 Consent and Kidney Acceptance Decision Making
K. J. Schantz¹, E. Gordon¹, U. Lee¹, M. Rocha¹, J. Friedewald¹, D. Ladner¹, Y. Becker², D. Kaufman³, R. Formica⁴, P. Reese⁵, M. Barah¹, M. Walker¹, D. Viveros⁶, O. Mehrotra⁶, S. Mehrotra¹
¹Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, ²University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁴Yale University, New Haven, CT, ⁵University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: This study explores patient and physician perspectives on patients' understandings of kidney quality and patients' decision making with regards to consenting for and accepting…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Public Perceptions of Presumed Consent for Organ Donation in Canada: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Public Comments from News Articles
D. E. Fox¹, M. Donald², C. Chong¹, R. R. Quinn³, P. E. Ronksley¹, M. J. Elliott³, N. N. Lam³
¹The Department of Community Health Sciences, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²Cumming School of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³The Cumming School of Medicine and Department of Community Health Sciences, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
*Purpose: In 2019, two Canadian provinces (Alberta and Nova Scotia) became the first jurisdictions in North America to pass presumed consent legislation to increase deceased…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Experiences and Challenges Faced by Organ Transplant Recipients with Donor-Derived Hepatitis C Virus Infection
K. Prakash¹, C. Ramirez-Sanchez¹, S. I. Ramirez¹, C. Logan¹, N. Law¹, K. Mekeel², V. Pretorius², S. Aslam¹
¹Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, ²Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: Recently, transplantation of organs from viremic donors with hepatitis C virus (HCV-V) has increased. Currently, there is a lack of standardization of consent forms…
2020 American Transplant Congress
UK Residents Transplanted Overseas: A Summary of UK Data from 2000-2016
A. Cronin¹, L. Mumford², M. Robb², L. Burnapp², R. Johnson²
¹Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ²NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Organ shortage has prompted UK residents to source organs overseas. Little is known about the circumstances in which these transplants take place, but stories…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving Consent Rate for High Kidney Donor Profile Index Kidneys
L. Malinzak, A. Patel, A. Malilay, K. Dandron, A. Landrum, S. Gray, L. Lewis, K. Lord, R. Stampley, D. Kim
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Many deceased donor kidneys remain unused in this country. The UNOS formed Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Networks (COIIN) to tackle this issue, in which…