Articles tagged "Preservation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Unsuccessful Resuscitative Thoracotomy Patients Are Potential Kidney Donors
K. Prins¹, H. B. Moore¹, A. Sauaia¹, R. Choudhury¹, R. C. McIntyre¹, A. Cralley², S. Urban¹, E. E. Moore², E. A. Pomfret¹, T. L. Nydam¹
¹University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, ²Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Renal transplantation remains the most effective therapy in patients with end-stage renal disease, offering exceptional survival benefits and quality of life improvement. However, a…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Redox State of HMGB1 Drives Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Human Liver Transplantation
R. A. Sosa¹, A. Q. Terry¹, J. Nevarez-Mejia¹, M. Rossetti¹, B. V. Naini¹, V. M. Groysberg¹, F. M. Kaldas², R. W. Busuttil², D. W. Gjertson¹, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski², E. F. Reed¹
¹Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major risk factor of acute and chronic graft rejection in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) involving a complex interplay between…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Partial Freezing: Subzero Whole Liver Preservation In The Presence Of Ice
S. E. Cronin¹, C. A. Pendexter¹, R. J. deVries¹, S. Kimura², S. Ozer¹, P. D. Banik¹, S. Nagpal¹, H. Yeh², S. N. Tessier¹, K. Uygun¹, M. Toner¹
¹Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: We aim to develop a protocol to bank organs for several days, enabling global organ matching and potentially the utilization of organs unusable with…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Regional Perfusion of Kidneys: A Single Non-Retrieval Centre Experience
R. Pearson, C. Geddes, M. Clancy, J. Asher
Renal Transplant, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
*Purpose: With the aim of safely expanding the pool of usable donors from circulatory death (DCD) there is increasing interest in normothermic regional (NRP) perfusion…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Combined Thoracic-Liver Transplants Using Normothermic Machine Perfusion for Liver Preservation: A Case Series
M. Rizzari, K. Crombez, S. Nagai, J. Stracke, A. Al-Kurd, K. Collins, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: There is minimal data describing combined thoracic-liver transplants (tx) with normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) used for liver preservation as the thoracic tx is done.…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Brief Normothermic Machine Perfusion is Superior to Cold Storage Alone – A Paired Discarded Human Kidney Analysis
A. Hameed¹, E. Patrick², D. B. Lu¹, C. P'ng¹, M. Hu², Y. Chew², R. De Roo¹, L. Yuen¹, W. Hawthorne¹, N. Rogers¹, H. Pleass¹
¹Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, ²Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
*Purpose: The use of marginal has increased due to ongoing donor shortages. These kidneys have higher rates of graft discard after procurement, and also have…
2019 American Transplant Congress
CEACAM1 – p38 Signaling Axis Alleviates Peri-Transplant Liver Injury: From Mouse-to-Human
H. Hirao¹, K. Nakamura¹, S. Kageyama¹, T. Ito¹, K. Kadono¹, M. Kujawski², K. J. Dery¹, R. A. Sosa¹, E. F. Reed¹, F. M. Kaldas¹, R. W. Busuttil¹, J. W. Kupiec‐Weglinski¹
¹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²City of Hope, Duarte, CA
*Purpose: Although CEACAM1 (CM1; carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1; CD66a) regulates hepatic metabolism, its role in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is unknown. A recent…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Patient Perspectives of Informed Consent for Deceased Donor Organ Intervention Research
E. Gordon¹, B. Knopf¹, A. Mussell², C. Phillips², R. Veatch³, P. Abt², P. Reese²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Georgetown University, Washington DC, DC
*Purpose: Interventions on deceased donors or their organs hold promise for increasing the quantity and quality of organs for transplantation by minimizing organ injury and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Ex-Vivo Kidney Perfusion Preservation Consistently Improves Extreme Marginal Graft Function Compared to Hypothermic Machine Perfusion
P. Urbanellis¹, M. Hamar¹, I. Linares¹, D. Kollmann¹, S. Ganesh¹, F. Oquendo¹, M. Sharma¹, R. John¹, A. Ghanekar¹, I. Mucsi¹, D. Bagli², A. Konvalinka¹, L. Robinson³, M. Selzner¹
¹Multi-Organ Transplantation Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Urology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Division of Nephrology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Normothermic ex-vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP) is an emerging technique for renal graft preservation. We investigated whether NEVKP promoted improved marginal graft function compared to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Multi-Thermic, Antiseptic, and Anthropomorphic System for Ex-Vivo Face Perfusion
J. W. Etra¹, J. Brassil², F. A. Chang¹, S. A. Fidder¹, D. S. Cooney¹, G. Brandacher¹
¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Functional Circulation LLC, Northbrook, IL
*Purpose: Facial disfigurement is profoundly disabling, and great relief follows resolution by facial transplantation, now a technical reality at multiple centers worldwide. However, distance between…