Articles tagged "Living donor"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Retroperitoneoscpic Donor Nephrectomy in the Right Side Provides Excellent Outcomes and Donor Safety Comparable with Left Side
D. Iwami, K. Hotta, N. Iwahara, N. Shinohara
Renal and Genitourinary Surgery, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
*Purpose: The left kidney is usually selected for laparoscopic donor nephrectomy while the right kidney raises concerns for donors’ and recipients’ safety and presents a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Serum αKlotho after Living Kidney Donation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
W. Cheungpasitporn¹, C. Thongprayoon², N. Leeaphorn³, M. A. Mao⁴, J. A. Neyra⁵
¹Nephrology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, ²Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Renal Transplant Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine/Saint Luke's Health System, Kansas City, MO, ⁴Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁵Nephrology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
*Purpose: αKlotho (klotho) is a known anti-aging protein that exerts diverse physiological effects. Defect in klotho gene expression in mice can result in a syndrome…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Failure to Launch; a Multi-Centre Study of Potential Live Donors in Southeast Nigeria
C. G. Okwuonu¹, G. O. Achor², Q. L. Ogana³, C. Kingsley⁴
¹Internal Medicine, Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Nigeria, ²Department of Surgery, Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Nigeria, ³Internal Medicine, Beatitudes Mediplex and Kidney Care Centre, Umuahia, Nigeria, ⁴Internal Medicine, Beatitudes Mediplex and Kidney Care Centre, Aba, Nigeria
*Purpose: To determine the socio-demographic characteristics of potential living kidney donors, donor motivation, incidental findings on clinical evaluation and some identified factors that precluded eventual…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation for the Prevention of Aggravation of Peripheral Arterial Disease in the Diabetic Ischaemic Lower Limb. A Multicenter Propensity Score Matched Cohort Study in Japan
M. Taniguchi
Division of Transplant Surgery, St. Mary Hospital, Kurume, Japan
*Purpose: Japan substantially outperforms other countries in survival of patients receiving haemodialysis (HD). Unadjusted 5-year survival was 60% in Japan, 39% in the USA, and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Wage Reimbursement by the NKR: A Critical Step Towards Financial Neutrality for Living Kidney Donors
N. Garg¹, T. D’Alessandro², M. Ronin², A. D. Waterman³, M. Cooper⁴, G. Hil², D. A. Mandelbrot¹
¹UW-Madison, Madison, WI, ²NKR, Babylon, NY, ³UCLA, Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Georgetown University, Washington, DC
*Purpose: The potential for out-of-pocket expenses incurred by living kidney donors has been identified as an important barrier to proceeding with live donation, with financial…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Stone Former Donors at the University of Minnesota
A. Khan¹, S. M. Riad¹, D. Keys¹, S. Jackson¹, A. Matas²
¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: As the National kidney shortage continues to rise, efforts to expand the donor pool by utilizing living kidneys from stone-forming donors have become widely…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Totally Robotic Living Donor Hepatectomy Graft Parenchymal Transection Time
Y. L. Cheah, J. Kim, C. J. Simon, S. Meade, R. Jenkins, M. E. Akoad
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA
*Purpose: Evaluate duration of parenchymal transection in a series of totally robotic living donor hepatectomies in order to improve time coordination between living donor and…
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…