Articles tagged "Kidney"

2018 American Transplant Congress
The Advantage of Utilizing ABO and HLA Compatible Pairs in Kidney Paired Donation
A. Basu,¹ C. Kosberg,¹ H. Khamash,² M. Mai,³ M. Prieto,¹ C. Schinstock.¹
¹Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; ³Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
BACKGROUND: Kidney paired donation (KPD) programs are mainly used to facilitate transplantation for candidates with ABO or HLA incompatible living donors. However, the benefit of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Race/Ethnicity and Hypertension Self-Care Behaviors among US Living Kidney Donors
M. Johnson, T. Purnell, X. Luo, L. Cooper, M. Waldram, D. Crews, M. Henderson, A. Massie, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.
Purpose: Despite the success of live donor kidney transplantation as an optimal treatment for ESRD, some living kidney donors may be at increased risk of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Screening Tool to Predict Chronic Kidney Disease Risk in Post-Nephrectomy Living Kidney Donors
J. Na,¹ J. Park,¹ M-.G. Yoon,¹ H. Lee,² Y. Yoon,³ K. Huh,⁴ M. Kim,⁴ S. Kim,⁴ Y. Kim,⁴ W. Han.¹
¹Department of Urology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Urological Science Institute, Seoul, Korea; ²Department of Urology, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang-si, Korea; ³Department of Urology, Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea; ⁴Department of Surgery-Transplantation, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Purpose: We aimed to develop a prediction models of chronic kidney disease (CKD) for the 1-year period after donor nephrectomy in living donors.Materials and Methods:…
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Evaluation of Financial Well-Being of Living Kidney Donor Candidates
S. Singh,^1,2 G. Bannerman,² A. Yantsis,² M. Liu,² F. Gumabay,² O. Famure.²
¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Nephrology and the Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Despite the known benefits of living donor kidney transplantation, the rate of living kidney donation in Canada has not increased. Potential reasons include the lack…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Successful Utilization of Deceased Donor Kidney Allografts with KDPI>85: The Organ is Not Wholly to Blame
A. Agarwal,¹ A. Nishio Lucar,² A. Nickkholgh,¹ K. Brayman,¹ A. Doyle,² J. Oberholzer.¹
¹Dept. of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ²Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA.
Background: High kidney donor profile index (KDPI)>85% organs are increasingly discarded, suggesting missed opportunities to provide patients the benefits of transplantation. Herein, we report the…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Altruistic Living Kidney Donor Phenotype – From Inquiry to Donation
V. Kumar, P. MacLennan, M. Bonventre, M. Hanaway, R. Reed, J. Locke.
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham.
BackgroundWe distinguish an altruistic donor from the traditional living donor when a living person's offer to donate an organ is to “anyone” and not attached…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Early Considerations for Deceased Donor Chains
A. Toll,¹ R. Leishman,¹ V. Casingal,² M. Aeder,³ T. Sandholm,⁴ N. Turgeon.⁵
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA; ²Carolinas HeathCare Sys, Charlotte, NC; ³Univ Hosp Med Ctr, Cleveland, OH; ⁴Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA; ⁵Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA.
Background: The potential use of deceased kidney donors (DDs) to initiate kidney paired donation (KPD) chains (DD chains) has been of interest to the transplant…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Determinants of Delays and Reduced Rates of Waitlisting and Kidney Transplant among American Indians
M. Keddis, M. Ilyas, N. Zhang, H. Khamash, S. Leischow, A. Sharma, R. Heilman.
Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ.
Introduction: American Indian (AI) patients experience delays in every step of the kidney transplant (KTx) evaluation. Our objective is to determine the contribution of co-morbid…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Recovery of Renal Function after Donor Nephrectomy
J. Na,¹ J. Park,¹ M-.G. Yoon,¹ H. Lee,² Y. Yoon,³ K. Huh,⁴ M. Kim,⁴ S. Kim,⁴ Y. Kim,⁴ W. Han.¹
¹Department of Urology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Urological Science Institute, Seoul, Korea; ²Department of Urology, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang-si, Korea; ³Department of Urology, Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea; ⁴Department of Surgery-Transplantation, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Introduction:Among living kidney donors at risk of CKD at 1 year after nephrectomy, some donors remain with poor renal function while many show delayed recovery…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Estimated GFR for Living Kidney Donor Evaluation before and after Donor Nephrectomy
Y. Kakuta,¹ M. Okumi,¹ R. Imamura,² N. Ichimaru,² S. Takahara,² H. Ishida,¹ K. Tanabe.¹
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ²Urology, Osaka Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
BackgroundKidney transplantation from living donors is an important treatment for patients with kidney failure. An accurate evaluation of renal function must be conducted before and…