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…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
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…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Single-Center Experience in Transfusion-Free Liver Transplantation: Referrals and Outcomes from 2005 to 2019
*Purpose: The Jehovah’s Witnesses is a religious group known to the medical community for its non-acceptance of blood products. This poses a significant challenge in…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…
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