2020 American Transplant Congress
Validation of New Measures of Self-Efficacy and Decision-Making for Living Donors
*Purpose: Kidney transplants from living donors (LD) impart the best clinical outcomes but have declined substantially over the past 15 years. To intervene with LDs…2020 American Transplant Congress
Reasons for Living Kidney Donor Candidate Turndowns: A Single-Center Cohort Study
University Hospitals. Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Living kidney donation is widely accepted to be a safe procedure. In the absence of reliable predictors of renal dysfunction in potential living kidney…2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes in the Us: Analysis of HCUP Data
*Purpose: To identify clinical outcomes and complications of living donor nephrectomies in the US from 2008 - 2015.*Methods: A retrospective analysis of 2008-2015 discharge data…2020 American Transplant Congress
Survival of Right and Left Living Donor Renal Allografts is Equivalent Even with Higher-Than-Average Rates of Right Graft Utilization
Surgery, Indiana University, indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated comparable rates of graft survival for right and left living donor renal allografts, however such analyses have been conducted among…2020 American Transplant Congress
Application of Image-Guidance Using 2D Illustrations and 3D Modeling of Donor Anatomy During Living Donor Hepatectomy
Transplantation, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: For living donor liver transplantation, preoperative imaging is required for the safety of donor and recipient. As we started our image-guidance program using 2D…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Cold Ischaemia Time on Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Outcomes
*Purpose: Living donor KTx (LDKT) provides the best option for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). ESKD patients who have an incompatible living donor still…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Single-Center Characterization of the Living Liver Donor Evaluation Process
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: We have previously characterized the living kidney donor evaluation and found that African American (AA) donors were less likely to progress through the process…2020 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Decision-Making of 2576 Potential Living Kidney Donors of Different Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds
*Purpose: To better understand racial/ethnic disparities associated with kidney living donation, this study examined differences in potential living kidney donors’ decision-making, resistance to donation, and…2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor versus Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation in USA: Where Do We Stand, Where to Go
1Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, 2University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: LDLT represents a very small percentage of all liver transplants done in the United States, despite the shortage of deceased donor organs. The aim…2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes in Recipients of Allografts from Living Kidney Donors with Hypertension
1Medicine, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, 2Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Allografts from living kidney donors may “carry” subclinical pathological abnormalities to the recipient and thus lead to adverse clinical outcomes. Because one mechanism underlying…
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