Articles tagged "Living donor"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Gender Disparity in Living Donor Kidney Transplants
A. Gruessner, S. Saggi, J. Renz, M. Markell, M. Salifu, R. Gruessner
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Over the last decades, the number of kidney transplants has increased. However, more male than female patients receive a transplant. While the male/female ratio…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Recipient Genetic Relationship and Outcomes of Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT): Does it Really Matter?
A. M. Elsabbagh¹, A. Mohamed¹, E. M. Elsabbagh², A. Al-Kurd¹, T. Ivanics¹, E. Ulrich¹, T. Kitajima¹, M. Rizzari¹, K. Collins¹, A. Yoshida¹, M. Abouljoud¹, S. Nagai¹
¹Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ²University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The impact of donor-recipient genetic relationship on LDLT outcomes has been raised by some recent reports. We sought to study this over a large…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Pilot Study of Mkidney: A Novel Mobile Health Platform to Support OPTN Living Donor Follow-Up Data Collection
C. Sidoti¹, W. Zhang¹, M. Waldram¹, A. Thomas¹, M. Levan¹, A. Massie¹, A. Bingaman², R. Forbes³, G. Edwards³, K. Warmke³, K. Centanni³, D. Segev¹, M. Henderson¹
¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²The Texas Transplant Institute, Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital, San Antonio, TX, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Transplant hospitals struggle to meet Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) requirements for LKD follow-up. In the face of barriers such as cost, LKD…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Influence of Spirituality and Other Motivations on Potential Kidney Living Donors’ Decisions to Donate by Race/Ethnicity
A. Waterman¹, G. H. Kim¹, Y. Cui², O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, U. Reddy⁴, B. Campbell⁵, F. L. Weng⁶
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, ⁵Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: Few studies have explored potential kidney living donors’ motivations to donate, particularly their spirituality, and assessed whether these motivations vary by race/ethnicity.*Methods: 2576 potential…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Live Donor Liver Transplant Offers Higher Survival, Improved Quality of Liver and Lower Morbidity for Recipients with Low MELD Score
M. Black, J. Bayer, H. Fernandez, E. Martinez, G. McKenna, N. Onaca, R. Ruiz, G. Testa, A. Wall, T. Ma, G. Saracino, S. Asrani, A. Gupta
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: The shortage of cadaveric liver grafts contributes to significant waitlist mortality. Patients with low MELD-Na score (
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New-Onset Diabetes after Adult Liver Transplantation in the Korean Organ Transplantation Registry Study
J. Kim¹, S. Hwang², K. Lee³, J. Lee⁴, J. Ryu⁵, B. Kim⁶, D. Choi⁷, Y. You⁸, D. Kim⁹, Y. Nah¹⁰, K. Kang¹¹, M. Kim⁴
¹Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, College of Medicine University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Department of Surgery, Pusan National University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea, Republic of, ⁶Department of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea, Republic of, ⁷Department of Surgery, Catholic University of Daegu College of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, ⁸Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁹Division of HBP Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ¹⁰Department of Surgery, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ¹¹Department of Surgery, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: New-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) is a serious complication following liver transplantation (LT). The present study aimed to investigate the incidence of and risk…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Live Donor Champion: Advocacy Training to Facilitate Identification of Live Liver Donors
A. D. Love¹, L. R. Herbst¹, D. R. Helfer¹, L. Kurman², M. G. Bowring¹, S. R. Weeks¹, E. King¹, D. L. Segev¹, J. Garonzik Wang¹
¹Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Although live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) may help address organ shortage, patients lack knowledge about living donation and are reluctant to speak to potential…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Discrepant Subtyping of Blood Type A2 Living Kidney Donors in Paired Kidney Exchange
L. Warnke¹, R. R. Redfield¹, K. M. Miller¹, M. Cooper², G. Roll³, C. Freise³, B. Lee³, V. Chipman³, A. Thomas⁴, D. Leeser⁵, M. Ronin⁶, G. Hil⁶, A. D. Waterman⁷, D. Mandelbrot¹
¹Transplant, UW Health, Madison, WI, ²Transplant, Medstar Georgetown, Washington, DC, ³Transplant, UCSF, San Fransisco, CA, ⁴Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Transplant, ECU, Greenville, NC, ⁶NKR, Babylon, NY, ⁷Nephrology, UCLA; Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Utilizing non-A1 donors for O or B recipients with low anti-A titers presents an opportunity to expand living donor kidney transplantation. Since February 2018,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Altruistic Liver Donors at Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute: Impact of the Educational Campaign: Gift of Life
S. Ganesh, M. Molinari, L. Tubb, A. Tevar, C. Hughes, J. Behari, A. Humar
Transplant Surgery, UPMC Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Background and aims: There is an urgent need to expand access to living donor liver transplants due to a wide gap in the availability…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving Evaluation and Follow-Up of Living Kidney Donors: Role of Radioisotopic Glomerular Filtration Rate and Renal Functional Reserve
V. Cantaluppi¹, G. Guglielmetti¹, U. M. Morosini¹, A. Nappo¹, G. Merlotti¹, A. Airoldi¹, M. Quaglia¹, C. Ronco²
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Unit, University of Piemonte Orientale (UPO), Novara, Italy, ²Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Unit, University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy
*Purpose: After donation, living kidney donors (KD) develop an early and transient loss of kidney function (KF), defined as Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). Its recovery…