Articles tagged "Living donor"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Initial Case Series of Pure Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy in Cleveland Clinic
K. Sasaki, F. Aucejo, M. Fujiki, T. Diago Uso, B. Eghtesad, C. MIller, C. Quintini, K. Hashimoto, C. D. Kwon
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Techniques for laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) have been developed over the two decades, and its advantage in less postoperative pain and early recovery are…
2020 American Transplant Congress
HIV+ Living Kidney Donors in the United States: Cases and a Clinical Paradigm
D. Segev¹, C. Wolfe², D. Brown³, D. Fine³, K. Neumann⁴, N. Martinez⁵, D. Ostrander³, F. Al Ammary³, A. Tobian³, A. W. Baker⁶, C. Durand³
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ³Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Unaffiliated, N/A, VA, ⁵Unaffiliated, N/A, GA, ⁶Duke University, School of Medicine, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To report clinical characteristics and outcomes of two people living with HIV who underwent laparoscopic donor nephrectomy*Methods: To facilitate donor selection, we first conducted…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Health-Related Quality of Life after Anonymous Nondirected Living Liver Donation: A Multi-Center, North American Collaboration
M. H. Raza¹, W. E. Jackson², A. Dell³, L. Ding⁴, J. Shapiro³, E. A. Pomfret⁵, Y. Genyk⁶, L. Sher⁶, J. Emamaullee⁶
¹Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²Gastroenterology, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ³Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁴Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ⁶Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Literature on anonymous or ‘altruistic’ nondirected living liver donors (ND-LLDs) remains sparse as living donor liver transplant (LDLT) programs continue to explore the utilization…
2020 American Transplant Congress
African American Patient Perceptions of Live Kidney Donation and Educational Health Animations
R. E. Seibert¹, M. Keller², B. Dolph³, T. H. Feeley⁴, L. K. Kayler³
¹Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ²Department of Community Health and Health Behavior, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ³Transplant and Kidney Care Regional Center of Excellence, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY, ⁴Department of Communication, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: Disparities in pursuit of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among African Americans remain challenging to overcome. Animation-based education is a promising approach to increasing…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Recipient Outcomes from Older (60+) Hypertensive Living Donors
A. Sharfuddin, T. Taber, O. Adebiyi, M. Panezai, D. Mishler, M. Yaqub
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Although the data supporting long-term safety of nephrectomy in hypertensive donors has been reported, there is scarcity of long term data on the recipient…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Opioid Prescription Pattern and Risk Factors Associated with Opioid Use after Living Donor Hepatectomy in the US
M. Nguyen¹, L. Vest², Z. Zhang², V. Whittaker³, M. Schnitzler¹, D. Axelrod⁴, H. Randall¹, C. Varma¹, J. Snyder⁵, B. Kasiske⁵, D. Segev⁶, M. McAdams Demarco⁷, G. Hess⁸, K. Lentine²
¹Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ²Department of Medicine, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ³Department of Surgery, New York Medical College, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁵SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ⁶Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁷Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁸Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Opioids are the cornerstone of acute pain management after living donor hepatectomy. Their misuse poses the danger of chronic abuse. How this affects living…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Geographical Disparities in Transplantation: Exploring the Association between County Health Rankings and an Individual’s Access to Transplantation
A. J. Carter, R. D. Reed, D. Hendricks, K. N. Baldwin, A. C. Kale, J. E. Locke
Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Since 2004, living kidney donation has declined, with the southeastern United States disproportionately affected. Programs such as the Living Donor Navigator (LDN), designed to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Validation of the Graft Volume Formula Avoiding Small-for-Size Graft Dysfunction in Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation
A. Nishimagi, N. Sato, Y. Kofunato, T. Ishigame, R. Okada, T. Kimura, A. Kenjo, S. Marubashi
Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Fukishima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan
*Purpose: It is important to determine the optimal volume of liver graft in living donor liver transplantation(LDLT) for avoiding small-for-size graft syndrome(SFSS) A formula of…