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Articles tagged "marginal"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Steatotic Human Livers Show Inferior Function Compared to Non-Steatotic Livers During Ex-Situ Viability Assessment by Oxygenated Machine Perfusion.

    N. Karimian,1 V. Huang,1 F. Fontan,1 M. Aburawi,1 S. Geerts,1 S. Mert,1 I. Beijert,2 R. Porte,2 M. Yarmush,1 K. Uygun,1 J. Markmann,1 H. Yeh.1

    1Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; 2Division of Transplantation, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

    Fatty livers are frequently declined for transplantation due to high risk of primary non-function. Ex-situ oxygenated machine perfusion (MP) is superior to static cold storage…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    The Outcome of Kidney Grafts from Living Donors with Pyelo-Ureteric Junction Dysfunction.

    C. Gledhill-Flynn, H. Ali, A. Ahmed.

    Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, United Kingdom; Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, United Kingdom; Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, United Kingdom

    Introduction: There is a wide gap between number of patients seeking renal transplants and potential kidney donors. Living kidney donation seems a reasonable source to…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Higher Mortality Among Candidates Who Refused Increased-Infectious Risk Kidney Offers.

    M. Bowring, L. Kucirka, A. Massie, C. Holscher, D. Segev.

    JHU, Baltimore

    Increased infectious risk donors (IRD) are younger and healthier than most deceased donors, but IRD kidneys are discarded at higher rates despite potential benefit to…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Marginal Factors on the Postoperative Kidney Function of Complex Living Donors for Kidney Transplantation.

    T. Hiramitsu, K. Futamura, M. Okada, M. Tsujita, N. Goto, S. Narumi, Y. Watarai.

    Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

    BackgroundMedically complex living donors with marginal factors are increasing.MethodsBetween January 2008 and May 2015, 639 living donors for kidney transplantation were included. Marginal factors for…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of AKI Donor Admit Creatinine on Renal Transplant Outcomes.

    E. Giorgakis,1 R. Heilman,2 H. Khamash,2 B. Kaplan,2 A. Moss,1 M. Smith,3 K. Reddy.1

    1Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ; 2Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ; 3Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ

    Purpose of the study was to explore the effect of admit AKI donor creatinine on graft outcomes.Method: Single center retrospective analysis of kidney transplants performed…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    “Donor Age or Quality” a Qualitative Analysis of Livers Declined for 830.

    M. Dokus, E. DeAngelis, G. Ramaraju, K. Tomiyama, J. Huang, M. Levstik, R. Hernandez-Alejandro, M. Orloff, R. Kashyap.

    Abdominal Transplant, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    Background: Efforts to improve organ utilization have been hindered by a lack of specificity on center's reasons for declining organs. One of the most frequently…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    The Delivery of Stem Cell Therapy to Extended Criteria Donor Human Livers Using Normothermic Machine Perfusion.

    R. Laing,1 S. Stubblefield,3 B. Ricky,1 S. Barnaby,2 M. Alfaifi,1 A. Ting,3 D. Mirza,2 P. Newsome,1 H. Mergental,2 S. Afford.1

    1Centre for Liver Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 2Liver Unit, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 3Athersys Inc., Cleveland, OH

    Normothermic machine perfusion of the liver (NMP-L) has been used for organ preservation and viability testing of donor livers. Although previously proposed, delivery of cellular…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    18 Month Analysis of the Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System on Deceased Donor Kidney Utilization at the Donor Service Area Level.

    W. Ally, K. Brayman, A. Agarwal.

    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

    In December 2014, UNOS implemented broad sweeping changes in the Kidney Allocation System (KAS). Recently, UNOS reported that key goals of the new policy have…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Organs Transplants When the Donor Is a Prior Recipient.

    G. Lee,1 D. Goldberg,2 M. Levine,1 P. Abt.1

    1Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    Introduction: Organ scarcity continues to limit the field of transplantation, which leads to death for patients on waiting lists. Organs from “Organ Donors After Transplant”…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Development of an Automatic Regulated Normothermic Kidney Preservation Device for Long-Term Organ Perfusion.

    A. Weissenbacher,1 O. Boubriak,2 L. Lo Faro,1 R. Ploeg,1 J. Hunter,1 D. Voyce,3 N. Mikov,3 A. Cook,3 C. Coussios,2 P. Friend.1

    1Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Oxford Transplant Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2Department of Engineering Science, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 3OrganOx Limited, Magdalen Centre, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, United Kingdom

    BackgroundNormothermic kidney perfusion for a period of 24 hours or longer would offer significant clinical advantages. It would enable clinicians to investigate the condition of…
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