2018 American Transplant Congress
A Decade of Dual Kidney Transplantation Reveals Excellent Patient Outcomes from Otherwise Discarded Organs
Department of Organ Transplantation, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom.
IntroductionBridging the disparity between the kidney waiting list and donor pool remains challenging. For highly sensitised patients and older recipients the wait is contributing to…2018 American Transplant Congress
Ex Vivo Bloodless Oxygen Carrier for Perfusion of DCD Kidneys during Subnormothermic Storage
Background: Non-oxygenated static or machine perfusion in cold (4[deg]C) remains the gold standard in transplantation and an optimal method of oxygen delivery to ischemic kidneys…2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor Acute Kidney Injury Does Not Affect Fibrosis on 1 Year Post-Transplant Kidney Biopsy
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
PurposeThe use of kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury (AKI) at the time of donation is a potential method by which to expand…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of DCD Renal Transplantation from Donors with Acute Kidney Injury
Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY.
BackgroundDeceased donor kidneys with acute kidney injury (AKI) are a viable source of organs, yet are frequently discarded. Outcomes of deceased donor renal transplantation (DDRT)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends, Predictive Factors, and Regional Differences in Discard of Increased-Risk Kidneys
Surgery, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME.
Purpose: Public Health Service (PHS) criteria designate certain deceased donors (DD) as entailing increased risk (IR) for disease transmission, and these constitute an expanding proportion…2018 American Transplant Congress
Short-Term Outcome Prediction Model in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients
1OSU, Columbus; 2UVA, Charlottesville; 3Montefiore, New York; 4NWU, Chicago.
Background: Lack of accurate outcome prediction models may be a reason for the increase in organ discard rate that further burdens the growing kidney transplant…2018 American Transplant Congress
Factors Predicting Viability Achievement on Discarded Donor Livers Submitted to Extra-Corporeal Machine Perfusion
Background: Ex-vivo machine perfusion of livers (MP) may offer superior preservation for marginal donor organs. During normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) is possible to assess liver…2018 American Transplant Congress
Elevated Donor Terminal Creatinine Does Not Appear to Be Associated with Worse Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation
There is justified reluctance to use kidneys from donors with significantly elevated creatinine as they may have severe, irreversible injury. Recently, thanks, in part to…2018 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Liver Allograft Steatosis on Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury
1Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
With the ongoing organ shortage, there has been an increased interest in using moderately steatotic liver allografts. The impact of such allografts on recipients' post-liver…2018 American Transplant Congress
Extended Criteria Donors Have Higher Expression of Inflammatory Genes Than Standard Donors
Background.Changes to an organ occur at the time of brain death where a series of inflammatory modify occur within the organ. Because it is not…
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