Articles tagged "Living donor"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Living Donor Transplantation in USA
N. Kemmer, C. Albers, S. Agrawal, R. Syed, M. Malespin, J. Buggs
Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Globally, living donation has improved access to organ transplantation and saved the lives of individuals with end-stage kidney disease and end-stage liver disease. In…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Re-Do Hepatic Artery Reconstruction for Thrombosis Can Save Grafts and Patients without Retransplantation: Lessons Learned from 1,355Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantations
S. Hong, N. Yi, K. Hong, E. Han, S. Suh, J. Lee, S. Hong, Y. Choi, U. Jin, H. Chang, K. Lee, K. Suh
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) after liver transplantation is associated with a marked increase in morbidity, being the main cause of graft loss and bile…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Associations of Lack of Insurance and Other Sociodemographic Traits with Deficiencies in Follow-Up After Living Kidney Donation
K. Lentine¹, R. Hays², N. Lam³, A. Tietjen⁴, A. Muiru⁵, H. Xiao¹, A. Garg⁶, C. Thomas⁷, G. McNatt⁷, R. Howey⁸, U. Lebron-Banks⁹, M. Cooper¹⁰, M. Conboy¹¹, B. Kasiske¹¹
¹Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ²Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ³Univ of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴St. Barnabas, Livingston, NJ, ⁵Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Western Univ, London, ON, Canada, ⁷Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁸Toyon Associates, Concord, CA, ⁹New York Presb Hosp, New York, NY, ¹⁰Medstar-Georgetown, Washington, DC, ¹¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Follow-up after living kidney donation in the United States has improved with recent policy mandates. We hypothesized that lack of insurance at donation may…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Seasonal and Income-related Factors in Live Kidney Donation in the United States from 1995 to 2019
F. Al Ammary¹, A. Arking², G. Kaddu², J. Garonzik Wang², A. B. Massie², D. Segev², A. Muzaale²
¹Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: For nearly two decades, the annual number of US live kidney donors has been characterized by striking and worrying patterns of general decline that…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Criteria and Practice Patterns for Accepting Living Donors with Prior Covid-19: A National Survey
A. Jawed¹, M. Y. Jan², N. Barros², O. Adebiyi², A. Diez³, J. Fridell², W. Goggins², M. Yaqub², M. A. Mujtaba⁴, T. Taber², V. Kumar⁵, K. Lentine⁶, A. Sharfuddin²
¹Wayne State University, Detroit, IN, ²Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ³The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁴UTMB Galveston, Galveston, TX, ⁵University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁶St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: A critical question facing transplant programs is if, when and how to safely accept living kidney donors (LKD) who have a history and recovered…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Attitudes Regarding Transplantation During the Pandemic: Give Me My Kidney Now!
T. Menser¹, M. Hobeika², A. Gaber², H. Ibrahim²
¹Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, ²Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The transplant community faces ongoing challenges regarding the conduct of organ transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic, and patient treatment preferences during the pandemic require…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Death Among Living Liver Donors- Are We Overestimating the Risk?
H. J. Braun, A. M. Shui, N. L. Ascher, J. P. Roberts
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: In the United States, the estimated risk of death associated with live liver donation is currently quoted at 0.1% for left lobe donation, and…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Donor Nephrectomy: Advantages Offered by a Minimally Invasive Approach to Kidney Transplantation
A. Popovic¹, R. Shahbazov¹, A. Hoste¹, S. Loerzel¹, B. Gallay², J. Leggat², O. Pankewycz¹, R. Saidi¹, R. H. Dvorai³, M. J. Hanlon¹, S. Narsipur², M. R. Laftavi¹
¹Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ²Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ³Pathology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
*Purpose: Our aim was to further explore the difference in results between laparoscopic and robotic assisted techniques of living donor nephrectomies*Methods: This is a retrospective…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation in Patients with Hereditary Kidney Diseases
Y. Caliskan¹, N. Garayeva², A. B. Dirim², S. Safak², S. Mirioglu², H. Yazici², A. Yildiz³, O. A. Oto², E. Demir², Y. Ozluk⁴, A. Turkmen², K. Lentine¹
¹Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ²Division of Nephrology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Division of Nephrology, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey, ⁴Department of Pathology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
*Purpose: Genetic testing is poised to play a larger role in the evaluation and management of both kidney transplant (KTx) recipients and donors. We characterized…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Differential Impact of Size Mismatch in Live versus Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant
A. J. Vinson¹, T. Skinner², B. Kiberd³, D. Clark¹, K. Tennankore¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Department of Urology, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS, Canada, ³Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
*Purpose: The risk of significant weight mismatch between donors and recipients (D-R) undergoing living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) is not well established. Further, how this…