2020 American Transplant Congress
The Experience of 1000 Cases of Hand Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Due to the increasing number of kidney transplant candidates, living donor kidney transplantation becomes more necessary. For living donor kidney transplantation, safe and efficient…2020 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Nephrectomy of the Native Kidneys: Greater Cardiovascular Benefit in Renal Transplant Recipients?
Nephrology, CEMIC, Caba, Argentina
*Purpose: The survival of the graft in patients (px) with renal transplantation (RT) depends on multiple cardiovascular (CV) factors. With CKD progression, sympathetic activity increases,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Can a Patient with Von Willebrand Disease Donate a Kidney?
*Purpose: Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a haematological condition that can be challenging to deal with during any operative intervention. We report a successful example…2020 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy of Robotic-Assisted Bilateral Nephrectomy from a Single Approach
Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
*Purpose: Bilateral native nephrectomies have been established as beneficial for ESRD (end-stage renal disease) patients with select indications in pre-transplant settings to avoid related complications.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Native Nephrectomy at the Time of Transplant: Risk for Adrenal Injury?
*Purpose: Living donor studies have demonstrated that native nephrectomy (Nx) is associated with transient but symptomatic loss of adrenal function. Although surgical complications from simultaneous…2020 American Transplant Congress
Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy – Call for a Selective Radical Approach
*Purpose: Introduction: Retrieval of kidneys in obese donor with excessive peri-renal fat has been reported to be more technically challenging with increased incidence of surgical…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of African American Race on Morbidity for Donors Undergoing Living Kidney Donation: A Single Center Study
Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: To assess perioperative complication rates in African-Americans (AA) undergoing living donor nephrectomy in a large, single center program in the northeast.*Methods: We performed a…2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes for the Use of Native Small Capacity, Defunctionalized Bladders in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: Small capacity, defunctionalized urinary bladders present a challenge in pediatric kidney transplantation due to the inability to perform an adequate anti-reflux ureterocystostomy in a…2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes in the Us: Analysis of HCUP Data
*Purpose: To identify clinical outcomes and complications of living donor nephrectomies in the US from 2008 - 2015.*Methods: A retrospective analysis of 2008-2015 discharge data…2020 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Donation CKD-EPI GFR is Superior to Iothalamate Split Scan Results in Predicting 6-Month Post-Nephrectomy Donor Kidney Function
General Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Predicting post-donation GFR remains a challenge during living kidney donor (LKD) evaluation. Iothalamate split scans have been employed during LKD evaluation to document measured…
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