Articles tagged "Procurement"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Day of Week Influences Kidney Utilization
K. Foley, M. Chiles, S. Mohan.
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…
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,…