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  • 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…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Delayed Graft Function on Long Term Graft Survival Adjusted for Donor Kidney Quality Assessed by the KDPI.

    L. Lehner, F. Halleck, D. Khadzhynov, E. Schrezenmeier, M. Dürr, K. Budde, O. Staeck.

    Nephrology Charite Campus Mitte, Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    IntroductionDelayed graft function (DGF) is associated with impaired graft survival in kidney transplant recipients. The kidney donor profile index (KDPI) is increasingly evaluated as a…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Donor Asystole in Intestine Transplant.

    J. Schroering, C. Kubal, R. Mangus.

    Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

    Intestine transplantation has a high risk of post-transplant complications. For this reason, many intestine transplant centers are conservative in their choice of deceased donors, using…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of the Donor Risk Index on Tumor Free Survival in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation with Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

    D. Moonka,1 S. Nagai,2 A. Harper, R. Salgia.1

    1Division of Gastroenterology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI; 2Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI; 3Research Department, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA

    In this study, we look at the impact of donor quality on tumor free survival in patients undergoing liver transplant (LT) with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Genetic Background Determines the Severity of Delayed Graft Function Following Kidney Transplantation in Mice.

    L. Qiu, J.-J. Wang, X. Yeap, Z. Zheng, M. He, M. Abecassis, Z. Zhang.

    Comprehensive Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

    Background: Delayed graft function (DGF) has been associated with poor clinical transplant outcomes. Current mouse models of kidney transplant or acute kidney injury induced by…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    High KDPI Kidneys (>85%) Do Not Adversely Affect HRQOL After Kidney Transplantation.

    R. Forbes, I. Feurer, D. LaNeve, C. Gamble, D. Shaffer.

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.

    Background. Since December 2014, deceased donor kidneys are allocated based on a kidney donor profile index (KDPI) by four sequences, A thru D. Estimated kidney…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Clinical Correlation Between Pairs of Kidneys Transplanted from the Same Donor.

    A. Baheerathan, H. Beckwith, A. McLean, D. Taube, M. Willicombe.

    Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

    Introduction: Concordance of allograft outcomes between kidneys transplanted from the same donor has previously been reported. However recipient characteristics become increasingly important after the immediate…
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