Articles tagged "marginal"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Impaired Outcome of Kidney Transplants from Donors with Acute Kidney Injury.
K. Schuette-Nuetgen,¹ G. Thölking,¹ H. Pavenstädt,¹ S. Ehlert,¹ B. Suwelack,¹ D. Palmes,² R. Bahde,² S. Reuter.¹
¹Department of Medicine D, Division of General Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Rheumatology, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster, Germany; ²Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Given the gap between patients in need of a kidney transplantation and organs available, transplantation centers increasingly accept lower quality organs, e.g. from donors with…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Eversion Endarterectomy of the Deceased Donor Renal Artery to Prevent Kidney Discard.
M. Khan, K. Jones, H. El-Hennawy, A. Farney, J. Rogers, G. Orlando, R. Stratta.
Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
Deceased donor (DD) kidneys exhibiting severe atherosclerosis with hard ulcerative occlusive plaque extending into the renal artery (RA) may represent a contraindication to utilization. Limited…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Differential Effect of Delayed Graft Function (DGF) on Kidney Transplant Outcomes: When Does DGF Not Make a Difference?
M. Khan,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.
Delayed graft function (DGF), defined as need for dialysis in 1st week following kidney transplant (KT), is an early surrogate marker of organ quality and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Delayed Graft Function in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in a Brazilian Center.
A. Ribeiro,¹ M. Helfer,² O. Costa,² A. Viccari,¹ R. Manfro.^1,2
¹Division of Nephrology, Renal Transplant Unit, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; ²School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Background. A high incidence of delayed graft function (DGF), after deceased donor kidney transplantation, occurs in Brazil and the reasons for such finding have not…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation from Diabetic Donors: Does Presence of Recipient Diabetes Matter?
J. Rogers,¹ A. Farney,¹ G. Orlando,¹ A. Reeves-Daniel,² A. Palanisamy,² H. El-Hennawy,¹ M. Khan,¹ M. Gautreaux,¹ S. Iskandar,³ W. Doares,⁴ S. Kaczmorski,⁴ R. Stratta.¹
¹Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC; ²Internal Medicine, WFBMC, Winston-Salem, NC; ³Pathology, WFBMC, Winston-Salem, NC; ⁴Pharmacy, WFBMC, Winston-Salem, NC.
Donor history of diabetes mellitus (DM) is a known risk factor for inferior graft survival after deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT) and is heavily weighted…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplants from Anuric Deceased Donors on Renal Replacement Therapy.
W. Bry, J. Bellingham, S. Katznelson, P. Patel, K. Ueda, H. Mahanty, N. Neidlinger, A. Hassoun, V. Peddi.
Transplantation, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.
Transplantation of deceased donor kidneys with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) has become a generally well accepted practice with excellent results documented in the literature. The…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Kidney Donors Older Than 80 Years Does Not Affect Graft Survival in the Medium Term.
A. Fernández,¹ J. González,² C. Galeano,¹ S. Elias,¹ S. Jimenez,¹ F. Caravaca,¹ S. Pampa,¹ R. Marcen.¹
¹Nephrology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain; ²Nephrology, Hospital de León, Leon, Spain.
INTRODUCTION:Kidney transplantation is the best option for renal replacement therapy. One of its main limitations is the organs shortage. We analyzed the results in kidney…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Dual Kidney Transplants as Policy to Optimize the Allocation of Marginal Donor Kidneys: Analysis of the French Cohort Since 2002.
E. Savoye,¹ R. Snanoudj,² C. Hiesse,³ M.-N. Peraldi,⁴ A. Durrbach,⁵ N. Ouali,⁶ M. Durand,⁷ L. Badet,⁸ M.-A. Macher.¹
¹Agence de la Biomédecine, Saint Denis, France; ²Necker hospital, Paris, France; ³Foch hospital, Suresnes, France; ⁴Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France; ⁵Bicêtre Hospital, Kremlin Bicetre, France; ⁶Tenon hospital, Paris, France; ⁷Pasteur hospital Nice, Nice, France; ⁸Department of Chirurgie de la Transplantation Pav V and Department of Immunologie Clinique Transplantation Pav P, Edouard Herriot Hospital Group, Lyon, France.
The aim of this national multicentre cohort study was to assess the safety of dual kidney transplantation (DKT) in terms of patient and graft survival…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Kidney Allocation System with Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Single Center Experience.
A. Agarwal, W. Ally, D. Maluf, S. Pelletier, K. Brayman.
University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA.
Background: In December 2014, UNOS implemented broad sweeping changes in the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS). Recent summary reports by UNOS suggest that nationally, key…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the National Overdose Death Epidemic on the Deceased-Donor Pool.
M. Bowring, A. Massie, L. Kucirka, E. Chow, M. Sulkowski, D. Segev, C. Durand.
JHU, Baltimore.
Beginning in 2010, there was a dramatic increase in heroin and other opioid overdose(OD) deaths in several regions across the country, primarily among young Caucasians.…