Articles tagged "non-heart-beating"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Persufflation Improves Viability and Function of Porcine Kidneys Relative to Static Cold Storage.
C. Min,¹ L. Steyn,² A. Pandey,³ R. Harland,² J.-P. Galons,⁴ K. Papas.²
¹Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; ²Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; ³Electrical and Chemical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; ⁴Medical Imaging, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
The use of marginal organs demands optimization of organ storage and quality assessments prior to transplantation. Organs from donors after cardiac death (DCD) are exposed…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation: UK Single Centre Study.
I. Umbro,^1,2 F. Tinti,^1,2 F. Evison,³ A. Sharif,⁴ B. Gunson,⁵ A. Mitterhofer,² J. Ferguson,¹ P. Muiesan.¹
¹The Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ²Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; ³Department of Health Informatics, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁴Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁵NIHR Birmingham Liver Biomedical Research Unit and Centre for Liver Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Aim of the study is to assess the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) after liver transplantation (LT) in DCD…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Missed Opportunities After Cardiac Death: Should Every Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) Referral Be Pursued? A Large Single US Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) Experience.
S. Rudich, R. Messer, R. Pietroski, P. Lange.
Medical Division, Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
We wished to evaluate in detail those DCD cases in which our OPO did not pursue organ donation but the potential DCD candidate expired within…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Short, Cool and Well Oxygenated – HOPE for DCD Kidneys.
P. Kron, A. Schlegel, O. de Rougemont, C. Oberkofler, P.-A. Clavien, P. Dutkowski.
University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
Background Organs from donors after cardiac death (DCD) suffer from severe loss of function requiring development of innovative methods of preservation. A novel perfusion approach,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of DCD Livers.
X. Luo, A. Massie, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore.
Liver transplantation benefits registrants with MELD≥18. However, this benefit no doubt varies by donor characteristics, and the benefit of DCD livers remains unclear.Methods: We used…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-Modular Approach for Training in Liver Procurement Accelerates Proficiency Gain.
I. Al Hasan,^1,2 H. Sharma,^1,2 M. Tun-Abraham,¹ D. Quan.^1,2
¹Department of Surgery, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; ²Multi-Organ Transplant Program, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada.
BACKGROUND: Modular training has been established as an educational tool in colorectal and urology surgery for the last 5 years. This modular operative approach is…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Perfusion of Livers Donated After Circulatory Death: A New Clinically Relevant Experimental Model.
Y. Cao,¹ H. Chew,^1,2 K. Fernandez,¹ L. Gao,¹ J. Villanueva,¹ M. Hicks,¹ P. Macdonald,^1,2 K. Dhital,^1,2 H. Pleass.³
¹Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ²Cardiac Transplant Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ³The Department of Surgery, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Aim. Transplantation using livers donation after circulatory death (DCD) is associated with worse outcomes compared to using donation after brain death (DBD). Considerable research resources…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Rapid Withdrawal of Donation After Cardiac Death Donors.
K. Mekeel,¹ J. Trageser,² W. Garrison,² J. Berumen,¹ L. Stocks,² A. Hemming.¹
¹Surgery, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA; ²Lifesharing, San Diego, CA.
Purpose: Potential organ donors may be lost if procurement needs to occur emergently due to hemodynamic instability or family request, in particular if serologies and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Hydrogen Sulfide Supplementation Helps Mitigate Effects of Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in a Murine Model of Donation After Cardiac Death Renal Transplantation.
J. Grewal,¹ I. Lobb,¹ M. Saha,² J. Jiang,² A. Haig,¹ A. Sener.^1,2
¹Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada; ²Matthew Mailing Centre for Translational Transplant Studies, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Canada.
Donation after cardiac death(DCD) renal grafts experience a combination of prolonged warm and cold ischemia leading to greater ischemia reperfusion injury(IRI) that results in higher…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Organ Donors with Zero Organs Transplanted: Why and How Can We Improve?
P. Lange,¹ S. Rudich,¹ N. Obaseki,¹ J. Punch.²
¹Medical Division, Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Organ recovery professionals and donor hospitals are under intense pressure to go to whatever lengths necessary to provide transplantable organs. However, such a mentality can…

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