Articles tagged "Informed consent"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Preferences: A Novel Use of a Visual Instrument to Quantify ESRD Risk Acceptance.
C. Thiessen,¹ J. Gannon,¹ D. Dobosz,¹ S. Li,¹ D. Gray,² A. Mussell,² K. Kennedy,³ L. Skrip,¹ E. Gordon,³ P. Reese,² S. Kulkarni.¹
¹Yale U, New Haven; ²U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia; ³Northwestern U, Chicago.
BackgroundGiven new data about the estimated lifetime risk of ESRD among living kidney donors (LKD) (Muzaale 2014), we elicited their willingness to accept the risk…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Peri-Operative Events and Complications in Minimally-Invasive Live Donor Nephrectomy: What Should We Tell Potential Donors?
K. Kortram, J. Ijzermans, F. Dor.
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
PURPOSE: To systematically assess perioperative events in minimally-invasive live donor nephrectomy, and to compare different techniques currently employed for this procedure.METHODS: A literature search was…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The “PHS Increased Risk” Label Is Associated with Non-Utilization of Hundreds of Organs Per Year.
M. Volk,¹ A. Wilk,² C. Wolfe,³ D. Kaul.⁴
¹Transplantation Institute, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA; ²United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ³Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University, Durham, NC; ⁴Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
The Public Health Service (PHS) guidelines use behavioral risk factors to designate certain organ donors as carrying increased risk for the transmission of hepatitis B,…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Utilizing CDC High Risk Donors to Improve Outcomes in Liver Transplantation
V. Fleetwood, J. Lusciks, M. Hertl, E. Chan.
General Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
Introduction: An under-utilized demographic in liver transplantation is the CDC high-risk donor (HRD). These individuals, considered at higher risk of blood-borne diseases, contribute approximately 9%…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Tool to Evaluate Coercion, Pressure, and Motivation in Potential Live Kidney Donors
A. Shaffer,¹ E. King,¹ J. Kahn,² L. Erby,³ D. Segev.¹
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ²Bergman Institute for Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ³School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Live donor kidney transplantation yields improved graft survival and recipient longevity, as compared to deceased donors. However, one concern with living donation is the potential…