2018 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Survival after Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplants by Donor-Recipient Match: Who Can Tolerate a High-KDPI Kidney?
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Deceased-donor kidney transplantation (DDKT) with high-KDPI kidneys carries an additional risk of mortality and graft failure, which could be tolerable for some candidates but detrimental…2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Stiffness Measurement, but Not Controlled Attenuation Parameter, is Increased in Deceased Liver Donors at the Time of Transplant Procurement
Background & Aims: The growing obesity rate and IV drug use in the USA presage a higher usage of liver allografts with NAFLD or active…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
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
Outcomes from Brain Death Donors with Cardiac Arrest Accepted for Pancreas Transplantation
Donor selection has a major impact on pancreas transplantation. Cardiac arrest and hypoxemia produce an insult to endothelial cell and may increase the risk of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hard-To-Place Kidney Offers: Granular Examination of Donor Risk Factors for Discard
Background: Deceased-donor kidney discard rates remain high. Understanding risk factors for discard is difficult since most analyses lack granularity and sufficient sample of high disease…
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