Articles tagged "marginal"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Resolution of Donor Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Following Liver Transplantation.
A. Posner,¹ W. Twaddell,² S. Hanish,² D. Bruno,² W. Hutson,² L. Hebert,² R. Barth,² J. LaMattina.²
¹University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²Division of Transplantation, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Purpose: Severe and moderate degrees of donor liver steatosis have traditionally limited the transplantation of these organs. The natural history of successfully transplanted livers with…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Activated Cytoprotective Mechanisms in DBD Kidneys Correlate with Kidney Function in Transplant Recipients: A Study Using Clinical Samples from the UK QUOD Biobank.
M. Kaisar,¹ L. van Dullemen,² Z. Akhtar,¹ M. Lo Faro,¹ H. Huang,¹ H. Leuvenink,² B. Kessler,¹ R. Ploeg.¹
¹Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; ²UMCG, UMCG, Groningen, Netherlands.
The onset of abnormal pathophysiological changes following brain death adversely impact kidney function following transplantation. Understanding the biological mechanisms that affect kidney quality will allow…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Initial Rise in Kidney Discard Rates Observed Post-KAS.
D. Stewart,¹ A. Kucheryavaya,¹ R. Brown,¹ D. Klassen,¹ N. Turgeon,² M. Aeder.³
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?
M. Kittleson, J. Patel, L. Czer, A. Velleca, T. Aintablian, D. Chang, F. Esmailian, J. Kobashigawa.
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…
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,…