Articles tagged "Living donor"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends in Depression and Anxiety in Potential Live Kidney Donors
A. Ravi, D. Bakhai, E. Clifton, S. Norman, A. Naik, Y. Lu, R. Parasuraman, M. Doshi
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Psychosocial factors, including mental health status, are an important part of donor evaluation due to its altruistic nature. Yet, little is known about the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Different Strategies to Decrease Post-Operative Opioid Use Following Living Donor Nephrectomy
D. Quan¹, J. Lazo², J. Lee³, A. Barnes⁴, S. Kang⁵
¹UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ²Pharmaceutical Services, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ³School of Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Department of Pharmaceutical Services, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Transplant Surgery, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Living donor transplant programs are essential in decreasing the number of kidney wait-list candidates, however, of utmost importance should be ensuring our donors are…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Assessment: Kidney Length versus Differential Function
K. J. Schumacher, J. A. Akoh
General and Transplant Surgery, Plymouth University Hospitals NHS Trust, Plymouth, United Kingdom
*Purpose: The key question in living kidney donor assessment is how best to determine the contribution of each kidney to overall renal function as a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy and Safety Outcomes by Donor Type in De Novo Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving Everolimus with Reduced-Dose Calcineurin Inhibitor: 24-Month Results from Transform
S. Berger¹, M. Bakr¹, F. Bemelman¹, R. Danguilan¹, H. De Fijter¹, D. Han¹, M. Kim¹, E. Mor¹, A. Patel¹, M. Hernandez Gutierrez², A. Gawai², Y. Watarai¹
¹TRANSFORM Study Group, Basel, Switzerland, ²Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
*Purpose: To assess the efficacy and safety outcomes in de novo renal transplant (RTx) recipients receiving everolimus with reduced-exposure calcineurin inhibitor (EVR+rCNI) versus mycophenolate with…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Development of a New Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) Program: Starting a Domino Chain with a Deceased Donor
L. Furian¹, C. Di Bella², C. Silvestre², F. Neri², F. Tuci², M. Cardillo³, E. Cozzi⁴, P. Rigotti¹
¹Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Unit, University of Padova, Padua, Italy, ²Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Unit, University of Padova, Italy, Italy, ³Italian National Transplant Center, Rome, Rome, Italy, ⁴Transplant Immunology Unit, Padova University-Hospital, Padua, Padua, Italy
*Purpose: The option of initiating a domino chain of living donor kidney transplants with a deceased donor (DD) has been proposed but never enforced. The…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donation is Associated with Accelerated Podocyte Loss Early after Donation
A. S. Naik, D. Le, S. Wang, M. Chowdhury, M. D. Doshi, R. Wiggins
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Living kidney donation (LKD) is associated with increased long-term risk of CKD/ESRD. Post donation DM/HTN are associated with this increased risk. However, the remaining…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Biliary Reconstructionwith High Biliary Radicals is Safe Option for Multiple Graft Bile Ducts in Right Lobe Living Donor Liver Transplantation
J. Kim, D. Choi, E. Jwa
Department of Surgery, Catholic University of Daegu College of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Multiple small size donor bile ducts (BDs) are related to higher incidence of biliary complications (BCs) and biliary reconstruction for multiple BDs still remains…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Validation of New Measures of Self-Efficacy and Decision-Making for Living Donors
A. D. Waterman¹, D. Peipert², J. L. Beaumont³, F. Weng⁴
¹Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: Kidney transplants from living donors (LD) impart the best clinical outcomes but have declined substantially over the past 15 years. To intervene with LDs…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Reasons for Living Kidney Donor Candidate Turndowns: A Single-Center Cohort Study
M. Debroy, K. Yadav, A. Palanisamy, K. Chavin
University Hospitals. Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Living kidney donation is widely accepted to be a safe procedure. In the absence of reliable predictors of renal dysfunction in potential living kidney…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes in the Us: Analysis of HCUP Data
M. S. Gharibdousti¹, M. T. Khasawneh², A. L. Friedman³
¹Research, Live On NY, Brooklyn, NY, ²System Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, ³Preservation, Live On NY, New York, NY
*Purpose: To identify clinical outcomes and complications of living donor nephrectomies in the US from 2008 - 2015.*Methods: A retrospective analysis of 2008-2015 discharge data…