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.
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
A Multi-Modular Approach for Training in Liver Procurement Accelerates Proficiency Gain.
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
Multiorgan Procurement a Learning Tool in General Surgical Resident Education.
Transplant Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
IntroductionRestricted duty hours and the growing use of minimally invasive techniques, is limiting the open surgical experience for general surgery (GS) residents. Multiorgan procurement (MP)…2016 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Organ Donors with Zero Organs Transplanted: Why and How Can We Improve?
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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Remote Ischemic Preconditioning Increases Transplantation of Abdominal Organs in Standard Criteria Neurological Death Donors
Background: Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) induces innate protective mechanisms in remote organs. We hypothesized RIPC soon after neurological death (ND) would improve donor organ function…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Prospective Comparison of the Completeness of Donor Kidney Biopsies
1Transplantation, University of Maryland, Baltimore; 2Pathology, University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Background: The use of expanded criteria kidneys has plateaued, possibly due to inadequate pathologic evaluation or lack of a universal grading system. We examined pre-transplant…2015 American Transplant Congress
Thymoglobulin Administration During Multi-Visceral and Isolated Small Bowel Procurement Does Not Adversely Affect the Survival of Harvested Organs
Anti-thymocyte globulin administration in donors before intestinal procurement may result in decreased graft versus-host disease (GVHD) due to reduced recipient lymphocyte trafficking after reperfusion. Reluctance…2015 American Transplant Congress
Nomogram for Predicting Patient Survival After Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment in Patients With Devastating Neurological Injury
Objective:Reliable prediction of time of death after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in patients with devastating neurological injury is crucial to successful donation after circulatory death.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Patients Referred to an OPO: Analysis of Potential for Additional DCD Donors
New York Organ Donor Network, New York, NY.
Performance improvement at our organ procurement organization (OPO) includes retrospective analysis of the triage process for newly referred patients to identify missed opportunities for donation…2015 American Transplant Congress
Day of Week Influences Kidney Utilization
Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
Background: From 2000 to 2013, 17% of all kidneys procured for transplantation from deceased organ donors in the United States were discarded. The high rate…
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