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…2017 American Transplant Congress
KDPI and Small (<20 kg) Pediatric Kidney Donors.
1Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle; 2Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis
Use of small (≤20 kg) donor kidneys in pediatric candidates has declined under the new kidney allocation system (KAS), from 5.0% of pediatric kidney-alone transplants…2017 American Transplant Congress
Accepting a High-KDPI Kidney versus Waiting for Another Offer Can Improve Chances of a Functioning Graft.
1Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Less than 50% of waitlisted candidates undergo a first deceased donor transplant within 5 years. Yet approximately 20% of recovered kidneys and >50% of kidneys…2017 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Outcomes in Renal Transplantation Using Machine Perfusion for the Preservation of Kidneys from Expanded Criteria Donor.
Agence de la Biomedecine, Saint Denis La Plaine, France
Introduction:The shortage of kidney grafts led to retrieve organs from old donors with one or more co-morbidities, considered as “expanded criteria donors” (ECD). In France,…2017 American Transplant Congress
Abrogating MyD88 Signaling in Donor Lung Resident Hematopoietic Cells Promotes Cell Based Tolerance Induction in Lung Allografts in Mice.
Objectives: MyD88 signaling plays an important role in allograft rejection and tolerance induction. This study is designed to determine the cellular base of MyD88 expression…2017 American Transplant Congress
KDPI Usefulness in Spain: A Comparison with Classical ECD/SCD.
Kidney donor shortage requires an expansion in selection criteria and objective tools to minimize discarded organs. Easy donor pretx variables such as age, standard/expanded criteria…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Technique to Increase Donor Utilization: Our Experience Using High-Dose Tissue Plasminogen Activator Flush in Donation-After-Cardiac-Death Donors for Liver Transplantation.
Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
The utilization of donation-after-cardiac-death (DCD) livers remains generally low. Strategies to address the perceived liabilities associated with DCD organs could influence their utilization in a…2017 American Transplant Congress
Inferior Graft and Patient Survival After Living Donor Renal Transplantation of Negatively Selected Right Kidneys.
Purpose: In living donor renal transplantation, the left kidney is usually chosen for anatomical reasons. The right kidney is sometimes chosen if it is believed…
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