Articles tagged "Living donor"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Decision-Making, Motivations and the Donation Experience among HLA-Identical Living Kidney Donors at UCLA – A Qualitative Study
E. L. Wood¹, S. George², N. Kogut¹, E. Lum³, J. Veale¹
¹Urology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Medicine, Nephrology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Studies on motivations and decision-making processes of living donors have previously identified recipient relationship, fear of loss and altruism as important modifying factors of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Public Health Insurance is Associated with Reduced Access to Living Donor Liver Transplantation and Increased Liver Transplant Waiting List Mortality: An Analysis of the SRTR
R. Hogen¹, M. Aljehani², J. Lee³, L. Sher¹, Y. Genyk¹, J. Emamaullee¹
¹Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliary and Abdominal Organ Transplant Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is associated with improved survival and lower hospital costs, but it continues to makes up less than 5% of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Physician Survey on Using APOL1 Genetic Testing in Live Kidney Donor Selection
M. Doshi¹, E. Gordon², B. Freedman³, C. Thomas⁴, C. Glover⁵, J. Locke⁶
¹Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁴Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁵N/A, Miami, FL, ⁶Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Live kidney donors of recent African ancestry are at an increased risk of developing end stage kidney disease than matched healthy non-donors. A recent…
2020 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. Mathew¹, J. Galvin², L. Gallon¹, D. Belshe¹, K. Ravindra³, M. Horwitz³, J. Miller¹, S. Ildstad⁴
¹Northwestern, Chicago, IL, ²UIC, Chicago, IL, ³Duke, Durham, NC, ⁴U Louisville, Louisville, KY
*Purpose: 37 pts have been transplanted since 2009 in a phase 2 protocol to induce tolerance in recipients of living donor renal allografts (KTx). The…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Are Living Donor Offers a Missed Opportunity? A Social Network Analysis of End-Stage Renal Disease Patients
A. Gillespie¹, J. Cappiello², R. L. Brown¹, H. M. Gardiner², E. L. Fink³, P. P. Reese⁴, C. Gadegbeku⁵, Z. Obradovic⁶
¹Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Bala Cynwyd, PA, ²Temple University College of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, ³Lew Klein School of Media and Communication Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Increasing the rates of living donor kidney transplantation is a priority, yet not much is known about the members of an end-stage renal disease…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Telehealth Medicine: A Novel Tool to Make Living Donation Simple and Financially Neutral
A. Yadav, M. Cantarin Martinez, P. Singh
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Live kidney donation can be an overwhelming process even for the highly motivated individuals. Live donors may have to spend up to $5000 for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Facebunk: Does Social Media Have a Positive Impact on Living Kidney Donation
E. K. Venniro¹, R. Kashyap², J. G. Taylor¹
¹Nephrology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ²Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
*Purpose: More kidney transplant recipients are reaching out beyond their immediate contacts in order to find potential living donors. In addition, transplant centers and organizations…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Kidney Donors with Nephrolithiasis
M. R. D'Costa, M. A. Merzkani, A. Denic, A. F. Mullan, J. J. Larson, W. K. Kremers, W. D. Park, M. P. Alexander, S. J. Taler, N. S. Issa, M. D. Stegall, A. D. Rule
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Long-term outcomes data of living kidney donors (LKDs) with nephrolithiasis are limited. We assessed the clinical and structural findings and their association with long-term…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Living Kidney Donation in the United States
A. Ferzola, Y. Yu, A. B. Massie, D. L. Segev, M. L. Henderson
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: After peaking in 2014, the number of LKDTs per year dropped substantially in the US despite an increasing waitlist. However, trends in the KAS…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Gender Disparities Vary by Donor-Recipient Familial Relationship
Y. Chen¹, Y. Hung², C. de Crescenzo¹, C. Rickert¹, Y. Hsu³, H. Yeh¹, D. Chang¹
¹Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Department of Surgery, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, MA, ³Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Women are more likely to be living transplant donors and less likely to be recipients. It has been difficult to distinguish how much of…