Articles tagged "Living donor"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Understanding Attitudes and Perceptions about Liver Disease and Living-Donor Liver Transplant- Results of a National Survey
C. Zell¹, C. Caruso¹, T. Kirby², S. Piccirilli³, S. Ganesh⁴, J. Whyte⁵, A. Humar³
¹Clinical Marketing, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Marketing Intelligence, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴Clinical Marketing, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁵WebMD, New York, NY
*Purpose: There are more than 14,000 people on the national waiting list for a liver transplant. Approximately 25% will die before receiving a life-saving transplant…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Your Path to Transplant Tailored Education Increases Living Donation Transplant Actions and Wait-Listing Rates: Final Randomized Controlled Trial Findings
A. Waterman¹, Y. Cui², J. L. Beaumont², J. D. Peipert³, A. Paiva⁴, M. L. Robbins⁴
¹Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
*Purpose: Tailoring education and behavior change interventions to address gaps in individual patients’ knowledge, readiness, and socio-economic challenges may help more end-stage kidney disease patients…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Compliance with OPTN Living Kidney Donor Follow-Up Policy Remains Low
A. Thomas¹, A. Shaffer², D. Segev², M. Henderson²
¹University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: OPTN implemented a policy in 2013 that required all centers to perform 6-, 12-, and 24-month living donor follow-up (LDF). Early compliance with this…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Deep Learning for Living Donor Surgery: AI Recognition of Surgical Video to Develop Navigation Systems for Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
M. Nishihara¹, K. Iwadoh², M. Noriyuki¹, I. Koyama², I. Nakajima², M. Tonsho¹
¹Transplant Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare, Mita Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ²Kidney Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: Laparoscopic surgery for living donors requires high safety, thus establishing of navigation system for surgical operation is urged. The purpose of this study was…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Utilization of Anonymous Nondirected Living Liver Donors in the United States
M. H. Raza¹, M. Lo², Y. Genyk³, L. Sher³, J. Emamaullee³
¹Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Recently, there has been growth in the rate of living donor liver transplantation in the U.S. Increasingly, liver transplant programs are evaluating potential anonymous…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Public Perceptions of ApoL1 Testing in the Context of Living Kidney Donation
J. R. Rodrigue¹, J. Austrie¹, A. Fleishman¹, K. Tercyak², M. Berrigan¹, M. Pavlakis¹, V. Rohan³, P. Baliga³, L. Kayler⁴, T. Feeley⁴, M. Pollak¹
¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Georgetown University, Washington, DC, ³Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁴University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: We sought to assess the perceptions and attitudes about ApoL1 testing in African Americans.*Methods: African Americans (AA) living in the United States completed an…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Can Mayo Adhesive Probability Score Can Predict an Adherent Perinephric Fat? Analysis in Japanese Healthy Donor for Transplantation Underwent Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
T. Noda, Y. Miyauchi, K. Koyama, Y. Sawada, K. Nishimura, T. Fukumoto, N. Miura, T. Kikugawa, T. Saika
Department of Urology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Japan
*Purpose: This study is aimed to evaluate Mayo Adhesive Probability (MAP) score as a predictor of adherent perinephric fat (APF) by analyzing a cohort of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Living versus Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation in Cholestatic Liver Disease: An Analysis of the OPTN Database
I. A. Ziogas¹, S. P. Alexopoulos¹, L. K. Matsuoka¹, S. K. Geevarghese¹, L. D. Gorden¹, S. J. Karp¹, J. D. Perkins², M. I. Montenovo¹
¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: The current MELD allocation system does not accurately reflect the urgency of liver transplantation (LT) in cholestatic liver disease (CLD) patients. Therefore, more CLD…