Articles tagged "Living donor"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Optimal Perioperative Management of Patients Undergoing Living Donor Nephrectomy Reduces Postoperative Length of Stay and Nausea and Vomiting
R. Chadha¹, S. Aniskevich¹, D. Perry², C. Taner², J. Burns²
¹Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, ²Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
*Purpose: Renal transplantation with organs from living donors saves thousands of lives every year. In the perioperative period, poorly controlled nausea and pain can prolong…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Non-Directed Anonymous Live Liver Donors on the Number of Children on the Waitlist at a Single Pediatric Liver Transplant Center
D. Yoeli¹, M. A. Adams¹, M. E. Wachs¹, S. S. Sundaram², R. A. Choudhury¹, K. D. Conzen¹, J. R. Burton³, E. A. Pomfret¹, W. E. Jackson³
¹Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Pediatric Hepatology, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ³Transplant Hepatology, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Since the initiation of our living donor (LD) pediatric liver transplant program in November 2016, 10 non-directed anonymous donors have been approved and completed…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving Value Delivery in Living Donor Kidney Transplant Through Process Improvement
S. Anand, J. Browning, W. Stapley, M. Egbert, J. Krong, J. Zobell, A. Herbert, S. Dow, L. Dong, D. Morris, T. Srinivas
Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT
*Purpose: To increase living donation through process improvement.*Methods: Quality improvement project, with intention to substantially improve the living donor (LD) transplant (Tx) rate. Participants: All…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Can a Patient with Von Willebrand Disease Donate a Kidney?
Y. Marie¹, W. McKane¹, R. Maclean², R. Pararajasingam¹
¹Renal Transplantation, Sheffield Kidney Institute, Sheffield, United Kingdom, ²Haematology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a haematological condition that can be challenging to deal with during any operative intervention. We report a successful example…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Cancer Risk in Living Kidney Donors (LKDs) in the United States
E. Engels¹, K. Yu¹, S. Brown¹, K. Pawlish², C. Lynch³, B. Kasiske⁴, J. Snyder⁴, R. Pfeiffer¹
¹National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, ²New Jersey Dept of Health, Trenton, NJ, ³Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁴Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Individuals who wish to donate a kidney for transplantation are evaluated for transmissible diseases (including cancer) prior to donation. Outcomes in LKDs after donation…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of Molecular MMDx Scores after Kidney Transplantationin Different Donor Categories
P. Hruba¹, K. S. Madill-Thomsen², M. Mackova², J. Maluskova³, E. Honsova³, J. Slatinska⁴, P. F. Halloran², O. Viklicky⁴
¹Transplant Laboratory, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic, ²ATAGC, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Department of Pathology, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁴Department of Nephrology, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic
*Purpose: The outcome of kidney transplantation is highly affected by donor category. Little is known about molecular processes which may underline this phenomenon.*Methods: Using Molecular…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transient Elastography to Evaluate Steatosis in Candidate Living Donors for Liver Transplantation
E. Palte¹, J. Duong², H. Remotti³, J. Burt³, A. Griesemer⁴, B. Samstein⁵, D. Marratta⁶, A. N. Fox⁷
¹Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, ²Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, ³Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁵Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁷Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) increases the donor pool and affords a life-saving cure to recipients who do not have MELD-based access to allografts.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Preferences of Potential Living Kidney Donors on Strategies to Reduce Donation-Related Financial Burden
A. D. Waterman¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, Y. Cui², J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, B. Campbell⁴, F. L. Weng⁵
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: To identify the severity of financial and employment challenges present for potential living kidney donors and the value of strategies to make kidney donation…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation Demonstrated Superiority to Deceased Donor Transplantation after Adult-To-Adult Liver Transplantation in Cumulative Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study of 19 Years
T. Goto, T. Reichman, G. Sapisochin, I. McGilvray, M. Selzner, A. Ghanekar, M. Cattral, N. Selzner
Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an alternative way to deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT). LDLT and DDLT showed similar short-term outcomes of recipient…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Establishment of a National Kidney Exchange Program in Mexico: Pro-Renal
A. Cicero¹, L. Basagoitia², E. F. Velez³, A. Dib-Kuri⁴, A. E. Roth⁵, M. A. Rees⁶
¹Transplant Surgery, ABC Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Transplant Nephrology, Centro Mexicano Pro-Donación Renal, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico, ³Medical Director, Centro Mexicano Pro-Donación Renal, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico, ⁴Director, Centro Mexicano Pro-Donación Renal, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico, ⁵Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁶Transplant Surgery, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH
*Purpose: Expose the need of an effective kidney paired exchange program in Mexico*Methods: Describe how Pro-Renal works. Expose weaknesses of Mexican Health System. Compare our…