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Articles tagged "Procurement"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Organ Donation at a Centralized Donation Facility Compared to Donation at Referral Hospitals

    A. M. Hawxby1, R. Ketcham2, J. E. Leader1, D. Burch2, M. Benoit2, R. A. Squires2, C. Hostetler2, J. P. Orlowski2

    1Organ Recovery, LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, 2LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

    *Purpose: An emerging model of donor management includes utilization of a Specialized Donor Care Facility (SDCF) - essentially a stand-alone OPO-based procurement facility in which…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Direct Procurement of Heart and Lungs from a Controlled DCD Donor with Ongoing Abdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion (aNRP) – A Synchronized Retrieval

    M. Husain1, A. Jothidasan1, C. Zeschky1, M. Osman2, M. Berman2, R. Gaurav3, A. Butler3, C. Watson3, B. Stutchfield4, I. Currie5, G. Oniscu5, J. Dunning1, U. Stock1

    1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Transplantation and MCS, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Part of Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, 2Department of Heart and Lung Transplant, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3Roy Calne Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University NHS Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 4Edinburgh Transplant Centre, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 5Edinburgh Transplant Centre, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: With the increased number of aNRP in controlled DCD donors comes a high demand for techniques to directly procure cardiothoracic organs during the aNRP.…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Streamlining Donation Transplantation Communication Via HIPAA-compliant App

    J. Piano, W. Liu

    Transplant Connect, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Communication across the donation transplantation ecosystem is fractured and ineffectual, often necessitating the use of unsecured methods such as texting in order to accomplish…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Superoxide in Cardiac Allografts from Donors After Circulatory Death

    M. Urban1, T. Bruett2, K. F. Duncan1, N. W. Markin3, M. M. Chacon3, M. C. Zimmerman4

    1Department of Surgery. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 2College of Medicine. Department of Cellular and Integtrative Physiology., University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 3Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 4Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

    *Purpose: Quality of cardiac allografts from donors after circulatory death (DCD) is adversely impacted by warm ischemia and subsequent reperfusion during organ resuscitation. Post-transplant myocardial…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Enhancing Early Nerve Regeneration from Reconstruction of a Segmental Nerve Injury with Polyethylene Glycol

    A. Bernal1, C. Hinshaw1, J. Hinshaw1, C. Yang2, S. Margaux1, W. Zhang1, J. Nuelle1, C. Sabbag1, G. Bittner2, J. Shores3, E. Weitzel1, J. Alderete1

    1RESTOR FUSE Nerve Reconstruction Consortium, US Army Institute of Surgical Research/59th MDW, San Antonio, TX, 2University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 3John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Despite advancements in understanding and treating peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs), restoration of lost motor and sensory functions remain poor using current methods of clinical…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    An In Depth Assessment of Unsuccessful DCD Donor Procurement Attempts: Areas for Improvement

    M. Rosenzweig, M. Finotti, E. Martinez, S. Lee, A. Gupta, A. Wall, J. Bayer, H. Fernandez, N. Onaca, R. Ruiz, G. J. McKenna

    Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX

    *Purpose: DCD donors are a key way to expand allograft supply but an aggressive strategy of pursuing DCD liver allografts is associated with significant number…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The US Kidney Allocation System Should Not Allocate En Bloc Kidneys from Deceased Donors < 18 Kg as Equivalent to Top 20% KDPI Single Kidneys

    W. F. Parker1, A. Gallo2, L. Ross1

    1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

    *Purpose: In December 2020, the US Kidney Allocation System (KAS) revised the allocation rules for deceased donors under 18 kg, stating that both kidneys must…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation from Donors with Acute Kidney Injury: Realities and Costs

    S. Iskhagi1, R. Shahbazov1, A. Ball1, S. Loerzel1, E. Shaban2, B. Gallay2, R. Hod Dvorai3, J. Leggat2, M. Hanlon1, R. Saidi1

    1Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, 2Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, 3Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY

    *Purpose: The use of kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the options to expand donor pool. Several studied have…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Organ Transplant Outcomes from Donors with Positive SARS-CoV-2 PCRs in New York: A Case Series

    A. L. Friedman1, M. Pereira2, M. Rana3, J. Akpede4, A. Dhand5

    1LiveOnNY, New York, NY, 2New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, 3Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 4LiveOnNY, Long Island City, NY, 5Westchester Medical Center, Chappaqua, NY

    *Purpose: Rapid evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic over the past 24 months has demanded agility in managing selection criteria for deceased organ donors, with the…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Early Retrieval of the Right Kidney for Combined Heart and Kidney Transplantation is Feasible and Reduces Costs

    H. Podder1, R. McMillan2, S. Yi2, M. Hobeika3, D. Nguyen2, E. Graviss2, R. Whitehead2, R. J. Knight4, M. Ghobrial2, A. O. Gaber2

    1The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, 2Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, 3Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, 4Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: Combined heart and kidney transplants (cHKT) have increased in recent years. Standard procurement practice often necessitates kidney extraction and packaging after the heart team…
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