Articles tagged "Living donor"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Additional Value to Participation in a National Paired Kidney Exchange Program: Exploring Characteristics of Chain End Living Donors and Waitlist Recipients
N. Osbun¹, A. Thomas², M. Cooper³, S. Flechner⁴, D. Segev², J. Veale¹
¹Urology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington DC, DC, ⁴Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Non-directed kidney donors can initiate living donor chains that end to patients on the deceased donor waitlist. While many studies of paired exchange practices…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Compatible Paired Donation in Paired Kidney Exchange: A Look at the Road Not Taken
G. Vranic, A. Gilbert, B. Thomas, S. Ghasemian, M. Cooper, J. Verbesey
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Paired kidney exchange (PKE) offers incompatible donor-recipient pairs increased access to transplant. Compatible pairs are increasingly joining the PKE in an effort to find…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Developing a Robot-assisted Donor Nephrectomy Program in a High Volume Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy Program
S. S. Lee, N. Vachharajani, M. Pfeiffer, S. Matson, M. Scherer, M. Doyle, J. Wellen, Y. Lin, T. Rice, J. Yu, A. Khan
Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Washington University at St. Louis, St Louis, MO
*Purpose: Three dimensional visualization, improved dexterity and fine instrument control make robotic surgery an attractive option for further improving the safety profile of laparoscopic living…
2021 American Transplant Congress
In Search of a Better Outcome: Opting Into the Live Donor Paired Kidney Exchange Program
A. J. Vinson¹, B. Kiberd², K. J. Tennankore¹
¹Nova Scotia Health Authority Division of Nephrology, Departm, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
*Purpose: Live donor kidney transplantation is the best option for patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD), if a donor is available. However, this may not…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Paired Exchange in Children in the United-states
J. Hogan¹, A. G. Thomas², J. Verbesey³, D. L. Segev⁴
¹Transplant Research Center, Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Department of Surgery, Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ⁴Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Kidney paired exchange (KPE) plays an increasing role in the landscape of adult living donor transplant (LDTx) in the US. LDTx is the treatment…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Platelets Stimulate Liver Regeneration After Partial Liver Transplantation
K. Takahashi, C. Liang, K. Furuya, T. Oda
GI and HBP Surgery, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplant (LDLT) can sometimes be associated with impaired regeneration and severe ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in the liver graft, resulting in small-for-size…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Alterations in Mineral Metabolism of Living Kidney Donors: Prospective Observational Study
H. Lee¹, E. Ko¹, H. Cho², C. Yang¹, B. Chung¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Urology, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate whether reduction in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) after kidney donation causes mineral metabolism alterations, and also…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Perioperative Terlipressin Therapy Reduces the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury Post-Living Donor Liver Transplantation – A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
A. V. Kulkarni, H. V. Tevethia, M. Sharma, P. Kumar, N. P. Rao, N. D. Reddy
Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India
*Purpose: Acute kidney injury (AKI) after liver transplantation precludes calcineurin inhibitors' therapy and is associated with poor outcomes. Terlipressin (Tp) has mortality benefit in pre-transplant…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Right Kidneys and Kidneys with Complex Anatomy are More Likely to be Transplanted to the Waiting List in a National Kidney Paired Donation Program
N. Osbun¹, A. Thomas², A. Waterman³, J. Veale¹, D. Segev², D. Leeser⁴
¹Urology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: In the era of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, there is a preference for left kidneys with a single renal artery. In paired exchange, the receiving…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Follow-Up of a Phase 2 Clinical Trial to Induce Tolerance in Living Donor Renal Transplant Recipients
J. Leventhal¹, J. Galvin², J. Mathew¹, L. Gallon¹, D. Belshe¹, M. Gibson¹, K. Ravindra³, M. Horwitz³, S. Ildstad⁴
¹Northwestern University, Comprehensive Transplant Center, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Duke Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁴University of Louisville, Llouisville, KY
*Purpose: 37 subjects were transplanted in a phase 2 protocol based upon tolerogenic CD8+/TCR-facilitating cells (FCR001) to induce tolerance in recipients of living donor renal…