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Articles tagged "Procurement"

  • 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…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    OPO Education Spending and Donation Rates

    J. Roberts1, J. L. Bragg-Gresham2, T. Peters3, F. McCormick4

    1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 3University of Florida, Jacksonville, CA, 4Bank of America (former), Walnut Creek, CA

    *Purpose: The shortage of organs for transplantation in the United States has endured for decades despite the efforts of transplantation professionals, organ procurement organizations, volunteer…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Cost of Procuring Deceased Donor Livers: Evidence from OPO Cost Reports 2013-2018

    J. Bragg-Gresham1, T. Peters2, F. McCormick3, J. Roberts4

    1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, 3Bank of America (Former), Walnut Creek, CA, 4University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: The cost of procuring deceased donor organ for transplantation include costs for the assessment of potential organ donors, maintenance of the donor while waiting…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Feasibility and Short-Term Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation Following Donation After Circulatory Death Using Thoracic Normothermic Regional Perfusion in the United States

    L. Hickman, D. Shaffer, J. Hoffman, W. G. McMaster, A. S. Shah, R. Forbes

    Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

    *Purpose: Organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) is an important component of kidney transplants in the US. Cardiac transplantation from DCD donors has previously been…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Nonprocurement in Deceased Donors with Acute Kidney Injury

    K. Yu1, K. King1, S. Husain1, J. Stevens1, C. Parikh2, S. Mohan1

    1Division of Nephrology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Deceased donor acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with high rates of kidney discard by transplant centers, despite evidence of excellent post-transplant outcomes. High…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Management of Brain-Dead Organ Donors by a Dedicated ICU Team Improves Organ Yield

    G. L. Piper1, B. E. Sullivan1, G. Boulton1, T. C. Lewis1, J. Pavone1, C. Ezzell2, D. E. Smith III3, L. Angel1, N. Moazami3, R. Montgomery1

    1NYU Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY, 2LiveOnNY, New York, NY, 3Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Management of brain-dead (BD) donors can be challenging in hospitals with limited ICU bed availability, lack of accessible diagnostic capabilities, and a culture that…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Hospital Referrals of Potential Deceased Donors Slow Down on Weekends

    A. L. Friedman, E. Marquez, H. Ghali

    LiveOnNY, Long Island City, NY

    *Purpose: As a condition of participation, CMS requires the referral to an organ procurement organization (OPO) of patients with death or imminent death by every…
  • 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.…
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