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Articles tagged "Procurement"

  • 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…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Organ Decline Rate and Outcomes of Shared Kidneys from OneLegacy OPO Donation Service Area in Los Angeles

    M. Hussain1, P. Homkalrias1, K. Wheeler2, G. Danovitch1, S. Bunnapradist1

    1UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2OneLegacy, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Background: 20% recovered kidneys are discarded in the US. Southern California has a high number of End-Stage Kidney Disease patients and the waitlist time…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Center Cost is Not a Barrier to Aggressive Utilization of DCD Livers

    L. M. Brewer, D. M. Faulkner, A. J. Logan, J. M. Sneddon, G. N. Brock, N. Singh, W. K. Washburn, A. D. Schenk

    The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

    *Purpose: Only 7% of livers transplanted in 2018 were from deceased from cardiac death (DCD) donors and only a minority of transplant centers aggressively utilize…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Has the Proportional Rise in Deceased Organ Donation Rate Over Last 5 Years Been Optimal? A Data-based, Forecasting Model Analysis of UNOS/NHSBT UK Donor Data

    H. Sharma1, A. Sharma2

    1Transplant and Vascular Access Surgery, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2Data Analytics, Loyola University, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: The increase in deceased donor numbers since last decade has been widely reported. We aim to analyse if the trend in rise of numbers…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Factors Associated with In-field Decline of Heart Allografts

    L. Piechura, F. Yazdchi, M. Harloff, H. Shim, M. Keshk, A. Coppolino, III, D. Rinewalt, H. Mallidi

    Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: The decline of organs upon assessment within the field complicates optimal organ and resource utilization. We aimed to investigate if certain donor factors were…
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