2020 American Transplant Congress
Wage Reimbursement by the NKR: A Critical Step Towards Financial Neutrality for Living Kidney Donors
*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
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
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
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
*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
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
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
*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
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
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…
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