Articles tagged "Living donor"

2022 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Donor’s Metabolic Syndrome Factor on Living Kidney Transplantation
Y. Miyauchi, T. Noda, N. Miura, T. Kikugawa, T. Saika
Ehime University, Toon, Japan
*Purpose: Because donors for kidney transplantation are also aging in Japan, it is not uncommon that donors have metabolic syndrome (Met-S). It is necessary to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Telemedicine Services for Living Kidney Donation: A U.S. Survey of Multidisciplinary Providers
F. Al Ammary¹, J. Motter¹, H. Sung¹, K. Lentine², A. Sharfuddin³, V. Kumar⁴, A. Yadav⁵, M. Doshi⁶, S. Virmani⁷, B. Concepcion⁸, T. Grace⁹, C. Sidoti¹, M. Y. Jon³, A. Muzaale¹, J. Wolf¹⁰
¹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ³Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, MD, ⁶University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MD, ⁷Yale, New Haven, CT, ⁸Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, ⁹Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC, ¹⁰Piedmont, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Individuals considering living kidney donation face geographic, financial, and logistical challenges. Telemedicine has the potential to facilitate care delivery/coordination for donors. We aimed to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Implanting a Robot-Assisted Kidney Transplant Program for ASTS Trained Transplant Surgeons with No Robotic Surgery Background
B. Kocak¹, N. Celik¹, E. Arpali¹, B. Akyollu¹, B. Kilicer¹, E. Canda², Y. Kordan²
¹Division of Organ Transplantation, Koc University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Department of Urology, Koc University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
*Purpose: Robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) was introduced and has been performed commonly by surgeons experienced with robotic surgery and with this single center study we…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Donor Factors Do Not Discriminate Living Donor Kidney Transplant Outcomes and Should Not Be Used to Promote the Use of Compatible Pairs in Kidney Paired Donation Programs
G. Irish¹, D. Chang², S. Chadban¹, N. Boudville¹, S. Campbell¹, J. Kanellis¹, L. McMichael², E. Sharples³, M. Kadatz², J. Gill², P. Clayton¹
¹ANZDATA, Adelaide, Australia, ²Providence Health Research Institute, Transplant Research, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Oxford University Trust Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Enrolment of ABO blood group and HLA incompatible pairs in kidney paired donation programs improves matching potential. The benefit for compatible pairs, however, is…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Early Outcomes of Single Dose Eculizumab for Abo-Incompatible Living Donor Renal Transplantation
K. Heagler, M. Campara, P. Di Cocco, S. Gaitonde, I. Tang, J. Almario Alvarez, M. Spaggiari, J. Benken, C. S. Muran, B. Valdepenas, D. Pierce, I. Tzvetanov, E. Benedetti
UI Health, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Use of ABO-incompatible (ABOi) donors increases access to living donor renal transplantation (LDRT). Conventional desensitization with plasmapheresis (PLEX) allows safe ABOi transplantation when pre-transplant…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Exploring the Differential Access Hypothesis: Do Black Kidney Transplant Candidates Have Less Social Network Access to Potential Living Donors Than White Candidates?
J. Daw¹, M. Roberts¹, T. Purnell²
¹Sociology & Criminology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, ²Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: This study assesses the ‘differential access’ hypothesis that non-Hispanic Black kidney transplant candidates in the United States have access to fewer healthy, willing potential…
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Exacerbation of Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplant During the Covid-19 Pandemic
N. Singh¹, R. Li², T. Alhamad³, M. A. Schnitzler⁴, R. B. Mannon⁵, M. D. Doshi⁶, K. J. Woodside⁶, B. E. Hippen⁷, M. Cooper⁸, J. Snyder⁹, D. A. Axelrod¹⁰, K. L. Lentine⁴
¹Willis Knighton Health System, Shreveport, LA, ²Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ³Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, ⁴Saint Louis University Center for Abdominal Transplantation, Saint Louis, MO, ⁵University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁶University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁷Metrolina Nephrology, Associates, Charlotte, NC, ⁸Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ⁹Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ¹⁰University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose:The SARS-CoV-2 or coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately impacted racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Although, kidney transplant procedures decreased…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Including Race Adjustment in EGFR for Black Living Kidney Donors
A. Henderson, A. Robinson, S. Noreen, L. A. Cartwright, T. G. Mupfudze, W. S. Cherikh, D. Klassen, J. Wainright
UNOS United Network For Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Current discussions about the calculation of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) have spurred studies on Black patients’ access to kidney transplantation, but less research…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Improving Value Delivery in Compatible Living Donor Kidney (CLD) Transplant Through Zero-Low Eplet Mismatch via National Kidney Registry (NKR)
S. Anand¹, J. Sanchez-Garcia¹, W. Stapley¹, J. Browning¹, M. Egbert¹, S. Dow¹, A. Raza¹, T. Srinivas², D. Morris¹
¹Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT, ²CareDX, South San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Despite advances in diagnostics and therapeutics, kidney allograft survival rates have not increased considerably. Kidney For Life (KFL) through NKR aims to increase access…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Renal Function After Donation in Living Marginal Kidney Donor
S. Harada¹, H. Sasaki², Y. Takada², D. Takamoto², T. Hirano², T. Kan¹, Y. Yamagata¹, H. Harada², K. Minami¹, K. Moriya¹, H. Tanaka¹
¹Urology, Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan, ²Kidney Transplant Surgery, Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
*Purpose: Chronic kidney-donor shortage is major concern in Japan where more than 90% of recipients received kidneys from living donor as kidney transplantation from deceased…

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