2017 American Transplant Congress
KDPI Usefulness in Spain: A Comparison with Classical ECD/SCD.
Kidney donor shortage requires an expansion in selection criteria and objective tools to minimize discarded organs. Easy donor pretx variables such as age, standard/expanded criteria…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Technique to Increase Donor Utilization: Our Experience Using High-Dose Tissue Plasminogen Activator Flush in Donation-After-Cardiac-Death Donors for Liver Transplantation.
Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
The utilization of donation-after-cardiac-death (DCD) livers remains generally low. Strategies to address the perceived liabilities associated with DCD organs could influence their utilization in a…2017 American Transplant Congress
Inferior Graft and Patient Survival After Living Donor Renal Transplantation of Negatively Selected Right Kidneys.
Purpose: In living donor renal transplantation, the left kidney is usually chosen for anatomical reasons. The right kidney is sometimes chosen if it is believed…2017 American Transplant Congress
Successful Utilization of Deceased Donor Kidney Allografts with KDPI>85: A Single Center Experience.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
In December 2014, UNOS implemented broad changes in the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS). Recent UNOS summary reports suggest that nationally, organ discard rates have…2017 American Transplant Congress
Greater Emphasis on Non-Eligible Donors as a Strategy to Decrease the Organ Shortage.
Transplant, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Background: OPO performance is generally evaluated by the number of organ procurement procedures divided by the number of eligible deaths(brain dead donors under age 70),…2017 American Transplant Congress
Absence of Independent and Additional Predictive Ability of Preimplantation Kidney Allograft Biopsies for Long-Term Outcome: Population Based Study.
Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, Paris, France
BackgroundA significant number of kidneys are discarded worldwide due to the suboptimal use of large kidney resources. The mean cause is the result of the…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Kidneys from Deceased Donors Over 80 Years in Kidney Transplantation.
Patient survival is longer after kidney transplantation (KT) compared with remaining in the waiting list on dialysis. We have questioned if this is true also…2017 American Transplant Congress
Is It Safe to Use Older Donor Liver Grafts for Older Recipients?
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Aim: The safety of liver transplantation (LT) using older donor grafts into older recipients remains to be elucidated. The aim of this study was to…2016 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Initial Rise in Kidney Discard Rates Observed Post-KAS.
1UNOS, Richmond, VA; 2Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA; 3Univ Hosp Case Med Ctr, Cleveland, OH.
Background: Kidney discard rates increased by 10% -- from 18.3% to 20.2% (p=0.001) -- during the first 7 months of KAS but returned to pre-KAS…2016 American Transplant Congress
Is Donor Methamphetamine Use a Contraindication in Heart Transplantation?
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: Donor methamphetamine (meth) use has been a relative contraindication for the use of the donor hearts for patients awaiting heart transplantation. The concern is…
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