Articles tagged "Procurement"

2015 American Transplant Congress
European ELITA ELTR Multicenter Survey On the Management of Bile Duct During Liver Procurement, Preservation and Transplantation
N. Meurisse,¹ D. Monbaliu,¹ P. Muiesan,² A. Pascher,³ M. Oliverius,⁴ G. Berlakovich,⁵ R. Adam,⁶ I. Senesael,¹ J. Pirenne.¹
¹Abdominal Transplant Surgery Department, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ²Liver Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ³Department of Visceral & Transplantation Surgery, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; ⁴Transplant Surgery Department, IKEM Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; ⁵Department of Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ⁶Centre Hépato-Biliaire, University Paris Sud, Paris, France.
Background: Surgical donor/preservation/recipient factors may play a role in the development of biliary strictures. Only scarce data are described on what is the best practice…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Associations Between Deceased-Donor Urine Biomarkers of Kidney Injury and 6-Month Kidney Transplant Function
C. Parikh, I. Hall, M. Doshi, B. Schroppel, F. Weng, R. Hasz, P. Murray, V. Rao, H. Thiessen-Philbrook, J. Ficek, P. Reese.
TRIBE-AKI Consortium, New Haven, CT.
Assessment of organ quality is integral to allocation, yet existing tools have a limited ability to predict important transplant outcomes. We evaluated whether injury biomarkers,…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Screening for West Nile Virus in California: Resolving IgM Anti-WNV in the Area With Dengue Seroprevalence
C. Chinchilla-Reyes,^1,2 D. Tanglao,¹ T. Mone,³ M. Koss,¹ M. Nowicki.^1,2
¹Viracor-IBT Laboratories, Los Angeles; ²Mendez National Institute of Transplantation Foundation, Los Angeles; ³OneLegacy, Los Angeles.
West Nile Virus (WNV) symptoms develop 2-15 days after exposure with a short period of viremia (6-7 days). It is possible to detect WNV in…