Articles tagged "non-heart-beating"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Reducing Non-Anastomotic Biliary Strictures After Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation, a Matter of Time?
N. Gilbo, I. Jochmans, M. Sainz, J. Pirenne, D. Monbaliu.
Abdominal Transplantation Surgery, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Liver Transplantation (LT) from donation after circulatory death (DCD) is associated with increased non-anastomotic biliary strictures (NAS) and graft loss. Donor and recipient demographics, transplant…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Mortem Cannulation and NECMO Preservation for DCD Liver Transplantation.
P. Ruiz,¹ M. Gastaca,¹ A. Valdivieso,¹ A. Ventoso,¹ I. Palomares,¹ M. Prieto,¹ J. Bustamante,² P. Salvador,² J. Ortiz de Urbina.¹
¹Liver Surgery and Liver Transplant Unit, Cruces University Hospital, Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain; ²Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit, Cruces University Hospital, Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain.
Introduction: Herein, we present the short-term results of a controlled DCD liver transplantation program with pre-mortem cannulation and normothermic extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (NECMO) preservation.Material and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Urologic Complications After Pediatric En-Bloc Donor Kidney Transplantation.
S. Kabagambe,¹ A. De Mattos,² R. Perez,¹ C. Santhanakrishnan,¹ J. Sageshima,¹ C. Troppmann,¹ J. McVicar.¹
¹Surgery, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA; ²Transplant Nephrology, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA.
Pediatric en-bloc kidney transplant (PEBKT) has expanded the donor pool. Association of donor characteristics and urologic complications is not well described. The objective of this…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Controlled DCD Pancreas Transplantation : A Single Centre Experience
M. Voskuil, S. Mittal, A. Muthusamy, J. Gilbert, S. Sinha, I. Quiroga, S. Reddy, P. Friend, E. Sharples, A. Vaidya, R. Ploeg.
Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Background: The use of DCD pancreata are gaining popularity in the UK. Isolated pancreas transplantation (IP) is known to have inferior outcomes in comparison to…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Lessons Learned from the Clinical Use of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (nRP) in Uncontrolled Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD)
C. Antoine,¹ E. Savoye,¹ F. Gaudez,² G. Cheisson,³ M. Videcoq,⁴ B. Barrou,⁵ National Steering Committee of Donation After Circulatory Death.¹
¹Medical and Scientific Department, Agence de la Biomedecine, LA Plaine Saint Denis, Saint Denis, France; ²Department of Urology, Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France; ³Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Bicetre Hospital, Kremlin Bicetre, Val de Marne, France; ⁴Department of Transplantation, Edouard Herriot Hospital Group, Lyon, Rhones Alpes, France; ⁵Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France; ⁶Department of Urology, University Hospital La Pitie, Paris, France.
The national protocol for the uDCD program restricts donor age < 55 y, no flow period < 30 min and total warm ischemia time (WIT)…
2015 American Transplant Congress
The use of Donation After Cardiac Death Liver Allografts does not increase Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
K. Croome, D. Lee, J. Burns, J. Nguyen, D. Perry, D. Harnois, C. Taner.
Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Background: Previous studies examining the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) database for liver transplantation (LT) have demonstrated inferior survival for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recipients…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Ischemic Cholangiopathy Following Liver Transplantation from Donation After Circulatory Death Donors: Role of Tissue Plasminogen Activator Flush
C. Kubal,¹ R. Mangus,¹ J. Fridell,¹ M. Wingler,² S. Nagai,¹ B. Ekser,¹ J. Tector.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; ²Indiana Organ Procurement Organization, Indianapolis, IN.
Background: Formation of microthrombi within the peribiliary arterial plexus causing necrosis of biliary epithelium may be responsible for ischemic cholangiopathy (IC) after donation after circulatory…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Cold Ischemia Time in Combination With Donor Ischemic Events on Kidney Transplant Outcomes
M. Lubetzky, Y. Xia, P. Friedmann, C. Cortes, L. Kayler.
Transplantation, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Deceased-donor kidneys may be exposed to various ischemic events either from donor instability as evidenced by acute kidney injury (AKI) or donation after circulatory death…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Receiving a Donation After Cardiac Death Liver Graft
W. Goldkamp,¹ J. Vanatta,^2,3 S. Nair,^2,3 E. Wong,³ N. Dbouk.^2,3
¹Internal Medicine, The Universty of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; ²Surgery, The Universty of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; ³Methodist Universty Hospital Transplant Institute, Memphis, TN.
Background: Recent data suggests that patients with Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who receive a donation after cardiac death (DCD) graft have inferior graft and patient survival…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Use of Tissue Plasminogen Activator (TPA) in Liver Transplantation from Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) Donors: A Controlled Randomized Trial
B. Eghtesad, K. Hashimoto, M. Watson, M. Nazzal, C. Quintini, D. Kelly, T. Diago, N. Kawamura, G. El-Gazzaz, M. Fujiki, F. Aucejo, C. Winans, C. Miller, J. Fung.
Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
To further evaluate the impact of tPA in reduction of ITBS in livers recovered from the DCD donors we conducted a controlled randomized trial. Between…