Articles tagged "Preservation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Making History, Saving Lives: One OPOs Experience Making History by Being the First in the Nation to Successfully Allocate Seven Organs for Transplant from a Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) Donor
J. B. Nave, A. J. Boyer, C. A. Hostetler, C. C. Muse, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski
LifeShare Transplant Donors Services, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: At the time of this recovery, our OPO’s percentage of DCD donors was 41%. Continuing to maximize the gift successfully by increasing the percentage…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Deceased Donor Maintenance on the Incidence of Delayed Kidney Allograft Function
S. Costa¹, F. Barroso¹, C. Oliveira¹, E. Daher¹, P. Fernandes¹, L. Andrade², R. Esmeraldo³, T. Sandes-Freitas¹
¹Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, ²Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Botucatu, Brazil, ³Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil
*Purpose: To evaluate the risk factors for delayed graft function (DGF) in a Brazilian cohort with high DGF incidence, focusing on variables reflecting donor maintenance.*Methods:…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Scenario of Delayed Graft Function in Brazil
T. V. Sandes-Freitas¹, M. Mazzali², R. Manfro³, H. Tedesco-Silva⁴, L. Andrade⁵, V. Garcia⁶, E. Davi-Neto⁷, R. Esmeraldo⁸, C. Oliveira⁹, E. Lasmar¹⁰, R. Madeira¹¹, G. Ferreira¹², G. Meira¹³, F. Cavalcanti¹⁴, A. Bignelli¹⁵, D. Carvalho¹⁶, D. Pedroso¹⁷, L. Deboni¹⁸, A. Silva e Filho¹⁹, A. Vicari³, M. Sousa², .. on behalf of 'DGF multicêntrico' group²⁰
¹Department of Clinical Medicine, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, ²HC/UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil, ³HCPA/UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ⁴Hospital do Rim, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁵HC-Botucatu/UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil, ⁶Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ⁷HC/FMUSP, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁸H. Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil, ⁹HUWC/UFC, Fortaleza, Brazil, ¹⁰H. Universitário São José, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ¹¹H. Felício Rocho, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ¹²Santa Casa de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, ¹³Santa Casa de Montes Claros, Montes Claros, Brazil, ¹⁴Real Hospital Português, Recife, Brazil, ¹⁵H. Universitário Cajuru, Curitiba, Brazil, ¹⁶H. São Francisco na Providencia de Deus, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ¹⁷H. Santa Isabel, Blumenau, Brazil, ¹⁸H. Municipal São José, Joinville, Brazil, ¹⁹H. Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil, ²⁰ABTO, São Paulo, Brazil
*Purpose: Unicenter Brazilian studies reported high incidences (50-70%) of delayed graft function (DGF). This is a multicenter Brazilian study aimed to evaluate the incidence, the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
In-Depth Assessment of Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in a Murine Model of Hindlimb Transplantation
F. Messner¹, K. Kadono², Y. Guo¹, B. Oh¹, J. Kupiec-Weglinski², G. Brandacher¹
¹Department of Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Surgery, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Static cold storage (SCS) still represents the gold standard for organ and tissue preservation in transplantation. Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) that occurs due to the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Pumping in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation—Does it Matter?
M. MacConmara, J. Gattineni, D. Desai, P. Vagefi, C. S. Hwang
UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Pulsatile perfusion of deceased donor kidneys is commonly practiced in adult kidney transplantation. We examined the practice of pulsatile perfusion in pediatric patients undergoing…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Arterial Flow, Lactate and NGAL as a Decision Making Trinity in Normothermic Kidney Preservation
A. Weissenbacher¹, M. L. Lo Faro², C. C. Coussios², P. J. Friend²
¹Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria, ²University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
*Purpose: The aim of our study was to investigate biomarkers in a blood-based perfusate of normothermically perfused discarded human kidneys using urine recirculation as a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
End-Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion after Static Cold Storage versus Static Cold Storage Alone in Kidneys from Extended Criteria Brain-Dead Donors: An International Randomized Controlled Trial
P. Husen¹, C. Boffa², I. Jochmans³, C. Krikke⁴, L. Davies², H. Hofker⁴, J. Pirenne³, R. Ploeg², A. Paul¹
¹General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, ²Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ³University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁴University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
*Purpose: A prospective, randomized, single-blinded, multicenter trial comparing the effect of short-term 'in house' oxygenated hypothermic machine preservation (End-HMPO2) following static cold storage (SCS) versus…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Nlrp3 Inhibition Improves Heart Graft Function in Donation after Circulatory Death
S. Toldo, E. Mezzaroma, M. Quader
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors have the potential to increase the number of transplantable hearts, which today relies only on donation after brain…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Increased Mitochondrial Metabolic Enzymes are Associated with Superior Kidney Function after Normothermic Ex-Vivo Kidney Perfusion-A Proteomics Study
C. McEvoy¹, S. Clotet-Freixas¹, T. Tokar², C. Pastrello², S. Reid³, I. Batruch⁴, A. RaoPeters⁵, P. Urbanellis¹, M. Kaths¹, S. Farkona¹, J. Van³, B. Urquhart⁵, I. Jurisica², L. Robinson⁶, M. Selzner¹, A. Konvalinka¹
¹Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and Multi-Organ Transplant, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Krembil Research Institute, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology Institute, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, UWO, London, ON, Canada, ⁶The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Kidneys donated after circulatory death (DCD) contribute significantly to the donor pool, but have inferior outcomes. Normothermic ex-vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP) results in significantly…
2020 American Transplant Congress
New IGL-2 Perfusate in Liver HOPE Strategies
A. Panisello-Rosello¹, C. Castro-Benítez², E. Folch-Puy¹, J. Rosello-Catafau¹, R. Adam²
¹Experimental Pathology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Centre Hépato-Billiare, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Paris, France
*Purpose: HOPE has shown to optimize graft liver preservation. However, the most used perfusion solutions as such as Belzer-MPS and its generics were initially for…

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