Articles tagged "Living donor"

2021 American Transplant Congress
The Australian and New Zealand Living Kidney Donor Profile Index
G. L. Irish¹, S. Chadban¹, N. Boudville², S. B. Campbell³, J. Kanellis⁴, P. A. Clayton¹
¹Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia, ²Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, ³Department of Nephrology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴Department of Nephrology, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia
*Purpose: Risk scores may aid risk quantification and decision-making in kidney transplantation. The Living Kidney Donor Profile Index (LKDPI) was developed to choose between living…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Living Donors Aged 70 and Older on Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
T. Hiramitsu, T. Tomosugi, K. Futamura, M. Okada, N. Goto, T. Ichimori, S. Narumi, Y. Watarai
Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya Aichi, Japan
*Purpose: Due to the discrepancy between the number of patients on the waiting list and oragn supply, living donor kidney transplantation is more required. The…
2021 American Transplant Congress
First Promising Results of CIAT: A New Kidney Exchange Program for Difficult-to-match Patients
M. de Klerk¹, J. Kal¹, K. Glorie², D. Roelen³, M. Betjes¹, J. Wetering van de¹, M. Kho¹, J. Roodnat¹
¹Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²EQI, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands
*Purpose: Computerised Integration of Alternative Transplantation (CIAT) programs was developed to increase the chances of highly immunized (HI) and longwaiting (LW) kidney transplant candidates. CIAT…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Living Donor Liver and Renal Transplantations in Japan: A Nationwide Survey
S. Yamanaga¹, T. Hibi², R. Osawa³, K. Yuzawa⁴, H. Egawa⁵, K. Kuramitsu⁶
¹General Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan, ²Pediatric Surgery and Transplantation, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, ³Infectious disease, Kameda medical center, Kamogawa, Japan, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Mito Medical Center, Higashiibaraki District, Japan, ⁵Gastrointestinal Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, Shinjyuku-ku, Japan, ⁶HBP surgery, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
*Purpose: COVID-19 brought a huge impact on the field of organ transplantation. On 6th March, the Japan Society for Transplantation (JST) COVID-19 task force published…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Managing the Costs of Routine Follow-up Care After Living Kidney Donation: A Survey of Contemporary Experience, Practice & Challenges
K. Lentine¹, G. McNatt², R. Howey³, C. Thomas², R. Hays⁴, U. Lebron-Banks⁵, S. Ainapurapu¹, A. Tietjen⁶
¹Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ²Univ. Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ³Toyon Associates, Concord, CA, ⁴Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁵New York-Presbyterian Hosp., New York, NY, ⁶St. Barnabas, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Policy mandates that living kidney donor (LKD) programs collect and report clinical and laboratory follow-up information for living…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Health-System Level Barriers and Facilitators to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Comparative Case Study
A. Horton¹, M. Fortin², P. Nugus³, D. Landsberg⁴, M. Paquet², M. Cantarovich¹, S. Sandal¹
¹Nephrology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Nephrology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: Despite the well-known advantages of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), rates at many centers have stagnated or declined. In Canada, there are large interprovincial…
2021 American Transplant Congress
I Would Do Whatever It Took”: Understanding the Motivation, Education and Experiences of Kidney Paired Donation Participants
R. Pines¹, Y. A. Iraheta², L. Ambriz², K. A. Dahmani², E. H. Wood², M. Cooper³, A. D. Waterman²
¹Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA, ²UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ³Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: To improve kidney paired donation (KPD) educational programs, we conducted semi-structured interviews to understand motivations of past recipients and donors to participate in KPD,…
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…