Articles tagged "marginal"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Use of Elderly Donors in Liver Transplantation: A Paired-Match Analysis at a Single Center.
D. Ghinolfi, Q. Lai, P. DeSimone, D. Pezzati, G. Cirillo, F. Filipponi.
Liver Surgery and Transplantation, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy.
Introduction: Use of livers from very old donors is a way to expand the donor pool, but this practice is not universally implemented due to…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The “PHS Increased Risk” Label Is Associated with Non-Utilization of Hundreds of Organs Per Year.
M. Volk,¹ A. Wilk,² C. Wolfe,³ D. Kaul.⁴
¹Transplantation Institute, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA; ²United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ³Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University, Durham, NC; ⁴Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
The Public Health Service (PHS) guidelines use behavioral risk factors to designate certain organ donors as carrying increased risk for the transmission of hepatitis B,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Donor Profile Index Trend Analyses.
D. Vikraman, K. Ravindra, S. Sanoff, W. Irish, U. Patel, D. Sudan.
Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
IntroductionIn spite of improved outcomes associated with the usage of extended criteria donor (ECD) kidneys, the number of kidney transplants (KT) using this donor population…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit from Kidney Transplantation Using Kidneys from Deceased Donors Over 75 Years.
M. Pérez-Sáez,¹ E. Arcos,² J. Comas,² M. Crespo,¹ J. Lloveras,¹ J. Tort,² J. Pascual,¹ Catalan Renal Registry Committee.²
¹Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; ²Catalan Renal Registry, Organització Catalana de Trasplantaments, Barcelona, Spain.
Large registries have shown that end-stage renal disease patients have longer survival after kidney transplantation (KT) than remaining on dialysis. However, the outcome for kidneys…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Does Donor and Recipient Age Disparity Make a Difference with Expanded Criteria Donors?
M. Khan,¹ K. Jones,¹ H. El-Hennawy,¹ A. Farney,¹ J. Rogers,¹ G. Orlando,¹ A. Reeves-Daniel,² A. Palanisamy,² M. Gautreaux,³ S. Iskandar,³ W. Doares,⁴ S. Kaczmorski,⁴ R. Stratta.¹
¹Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ²Internal Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ³Pathology, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ⁴Pharmacy, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
The critical shortage of donor organs challenges the transplant community to optimize the use of organs from all consented deceased donors (DD). The purpose of…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Are We Refusing Good Organs? Outcomes of Ventilator Management of Sub-Optimal Lung Donors.
B. Scully,¹ D. Horne,¹ J. Heinle,¹ E. McKenzie,¹ K. Hosek,² W. Zhang,² G. Mallory,³ E. Melicoff.³
¹Congenital Heart Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; ²Outcomes and Impact Services, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; ³Pulmonology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX.
PurposeOptimizing donor lung function is essential for organ acceptance and successful lung transplantation (LTx). We hypothesized that ventilator management of sub-optimal donor lungs, PaO2<300 mmHg,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Superior Waitlist and Equivalent Transplant Outcomes Among Hepatitis C RNA-Positive Patients Who Are Willing to Accept Hepatitis C Seropositive Kidneys.
J. Sageshima,¹ A. de Mattos,² C. Troppmann,¹ C. Santhanakrishnan,¹ J. McVicar,¹ B. Gallay,² M. Gandhi,² M. Alnimri,² R. Perez.¹
¹Surgery, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA; ²Internal Medicine, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA.
Background: kidney transplantation from hepatitis C seropositive (HCV+) donors may benefit hepatitis C RNA-positive (RNA+) candidates, but it is not clear how the acceptance/listing status…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor AKI on Outcome Following High KDPI Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation.
D. Haakinson,¹ I. Qaqish,² M. Smith,³ H. Khamash,² K. Reddy,¹ R. Heilman.²
¹Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; ²Nephrology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; ³Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ.
Background: Transplanting deceased donor kidneys with AKI does not appear to have negative impact on graft survival, however the impact of AKI on high KDPI…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Replacing Cold Storage with Normothermic Ex Vivo Kidney Perfusion Improves Function of Grafts Retrieved After Circulatory Death (DCD).
J. Kaths,^1,2 Y.-M. Chun,¹ D. Cen,¹ J. Echeverri,¹ I. Linares,¹ P. Yip,³ R. John,³ D. Bagli,⁴ I. Mucsi,⁵ A. Ghanekar,¹ D. Grant,¹ L. Robinson,² M. Selzner.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Nephrology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴Departments of Surgery (Urology) & Physiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁵Department of Medicine, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Normothermic ex vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP) and avoidance of static cold storage (SCS) is an attractive strategy to minimize injury of DCD kidney grafts. We…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Pancreas Transplantation from Pediatric Donors: A UNOS Registry Analysis.
M. Spaggiari, I. Tzvetanov, H. Jeon, E. Benedetti, J. Oberholzer.
Division of Transplantation, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago.
Introduction: Major concerns about the utilization of pediatric pancreata are the cumulative islet mass and the increased technical complexity. The primary aim of this study…