2018 American Transplant Congress
Should Kidneys from Donation after Cardiac Death Expanded Criteria Donors Be Transplanted?
Surgery, Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacy, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.
Introduction: Expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys increase the organ pool but their discard rate remains high, especially in the setting of donation after cardiac death…2018 American Transplant Congress
Improvement in Intermediate Graft Survival among Deceased Donor Recipients in the Last Decade Due to Improvements in Outcomes of Higher KDPI Kidney Recipients
Medicine, Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL, Turkey.
Previous research by our group showed that intermediate graft survival of adult deceased donor kidney transplants between six months and three years post-transplant improved in…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Renal Transplants from Donors with Positive Blood or Urine Cultures
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate outcomes in renal transplant recipients who received organs from donors with positive blood or urine cultures.METHODS: We performed a retrospective, single-center study…2017 American Transplant Congress
Elevated Donor HbA1C Confers Impaired Overall Survival Following Renal Allotransplantation in Recipients of Allografts from Donors with Diabetes Mellitus: A National Analysis.
Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Introduction: Donor diabetes mellitus (DM) is a risk factor for impaired outcomes following renal transplant. Donor DM is factored into the Kidney Donor Risk Index…2017 American Transplant Congress
Intended and Unexpected Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System on a Large Volume Transplant Program.
University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA
On December 4, 2014 the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) went into effect in the United States. The intentions of KAS were to increase the…2017 American Transplant Congress
Single Kidney Transplantation from Pediatric Donors Younger Than 3 Years to Adult Recipients.
Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Background: Traditionally, the criteria of splitting pediatric en bloc kidneys for transplantation into two adults includes: donor age > 3 years, donor weight > 12kg,…2017 American Transplant Congress
Center Volume Does Not Influence the Risk Associated with Using High DRI Donor Livers.
Background: High risk donor allografts potentially reduce survival after liver transplantation (LT), but increase access. We evaluated whether differences in patient mortality associated with using…2017 American Transplant Congress
Estimating Donor Organ Quality with Baseline Histology and Kidney Donor Risk Index for Predicting Graft Outcomes in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation.
Background: Donor organ quality is a key determinant of graft outcomes in deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT). The effect of baseline histology at the time…2017 American Transplant Congress
Combined Dual-Kidney Liver Transplantation in the United States: A Review of UNOS/OPTN Data Between 2002 and 2012.
Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
BackgroundSimultaneous liver-kidney transplantation (SLKT) has increased demand for donor kidneys during a national organ shortage. In kidney-alone recipients, dual kidney transplantation (DKT) using “marginal” donor…2017 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function[mdash]Less Ominous for ARF or DCD Recipients?
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Delayed Graft Function (DGF) is both a transplant outcome and risk factor for graft failure. Kidneys from donors with kidney injury--such as acute renal failure…
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