2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation (KTx) Using Kidneys from Deceased Donors (DD) with Severe Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Requiring Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT)
Background:Transplant centers are reluctant to accept kidneys from DD with severe AKI necessitating utilization of RRT. The aim of this study is to determine the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Maximizing Utilization in Pancreas Transplantation: Phenotypic CharacteristicsDifferentiating Aggressive from Nonaggressive Transplant Centers
OBJECTIVE: Given the increasing shortage of deceased donor pancreas allografts and their declining acceptance rate, maximizing utilization requires a balance between donor selection and transplant…2018 American Transplant Congress
Use of Hepatitis-C Treatments after Kidney Transplantation: Impact of the Direct-Acting Antiviral Era
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in kidney transplant (KTx) donors or recipients has correlated with adverse outcomes, partly due to limited treatment options. Development of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Examples of the Observer Effect in Transplantation- Unintended Consequences of Regulation and Selected Outcome Metrics
Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Introduction: The influence of an observer on the phenomena being observed is designated as the observer effect. It is our aim to demonstrate that an…2018 American Transplant Congress
A Study to Identify Marginal Factors for Donors of Pancreas Transplantation in Japan
ObjectiveAlthough pancreas transplantation is generally performed with donors in less-than-ideal condition in Japan, such as over 40% of donors being over 45 years of age…2018 American Transplant Congress
10-Year Outcomes of Renal Transplantation from Circulatory Death Donors with Increased Terminal Creatinine
Surgery III, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: To alleviate chronic renal graft shortages in Japan, donation after circulatory death (DCD) is an increasingly used organ resource. Organs from DCD donors with…2018 American Transplant Congress
Using the Remuzzi Score to Guide Single vs. Dual Transplantation Mitigates the Risk of Early Graft Failure
Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
BackgroundExpanded criteria circulatory death donors (DCD) may represent an underutilised donor pool. Our centre has used urgent pre-implantation biopsy (Remuzzi score) to guide single (SKT)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Preservation with Machine Perfusion and a New Human-Derived Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier Solution (HDHBOC)
1VirTech Bio, Inc, Natick, MA; 2University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Introduction: Machine perfusion (MP) is becoming the new standard for liver preservation following the successful implementation of devices for kidney and lung preservation ex-vivo. Liver…2018 American Transplant Congress
The THINKER Trial: Quality of Life Results at 6- and 12-Month Follow-Up among Hepatitis C-Negative Patients Who Received Kidney Transplants from Deceased Donors with Hepatitis C Infection
Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Background: Short-term (6-month) data from the first 10 subjects in the pilot THINKER-1 trial (NCT02743897; funder: Merck) suggested that kidneys from HCV-infected donors could be…2018 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Liver Transplantation with Older Liver Donors in the United States
As the US population ages, older liver donors (OLDs) represent a potential expansion of the donor pool. Historically, grafts from OLDs have been associated with…
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