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Articles tagged "Procurement"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Procurement Travel Safety: Current Practices, Accident Frequency, Perceptions of Safety and Means to Reduce Risk

    A. Schenk, A. Adams, R. Lynch.

    Emory Transplant Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

    Transplant procurement teams travel extensively. Though considered hazardous, little data on the necessity and risks of this travel exist. We conducted a survey of ASTS…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation for Fatty Liver Grafts in Human

    W. Ju, S. Huang, Z. Guo, G. Chen, X. He.

    Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

    BACKGROUND&AIMS: Fatty liver diseases have led to a continuous increase of available donor livers containing fat. Fatty liver grafts were identified as an independent risk…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Informed Clustering of Donor Service Areas for Better Benchmarking

    S. Noreen, R. Carrico, J. Rosendale.

    United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.

    The 58 Donor Service Areas (DSA) represent territories of varying geographic sizes, densities and populations. The intention of this project is to group DSA based…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Reducing Discards for Deceased Kidney Donors over Age 50 by Restricting Biopsy Criteria

    C. Hostetler, J. Rogge, B. Nicely, S. Rudich.

    Clinical Division, Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

    The placement of kidneys from deceased organ donors of advanced age is an ongoing challenge. An Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) evaluated its discard rate for…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Early Blockade of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Reduces Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury and Improves Islet Transplantation Outcomes

    C. Chang,1 M. Lawrence,2 R. Kane,1 B. Naziruddin.3

    1Institute of Biomedical Studies, Baylor University, Waco; 2Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, Dallas; 3Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute, Dallas.

    Purpose: Inflammatory damage to islets during isolation is a major hurdle for success in transplantation. We investigated the safety and therapeutic potential of pharmacological blockade…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    No Kidney Left Behind: Are We Maximizing Utilization of Deceased Donors with AKI?

    A. Bongu, R. Quillin, M. Chiles, S. Husain, M. Garcia, S. Mohan, L. Ratner.

    Renal Transplantation, Columbia University, New York City, NY.

    Introduction: Kidneys from donors with elevated terminal creatinine (Cr) and acute kidney injury (AKI) can be transplanted safely, yet many of these organs are not…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Donor Hepatectomy Time during Organ Procurement in Donation after Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation; The United Kingdom Experience

    S. Farid, A. Magdy, D. Vijayanand, V. Upasani, S. Willis, A. Barlow, H. Ernest, A. Niaz.

    St James University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom.

    IntroductionNo data exists to evaluate the impact of hepatectomy time (HT) during donation after cardiac death (DCD) procurement on short and long-term outcomes following liver…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Improving the Organ Donation Referral Process through Telemedicine

    M. Groveman,1 M. Perry,2 I. Berman,2 N. Benavides,1 A. Friedman.1

    1LiveOnNY, NY; 2Northwell Health, New Hyde Park.

    Development of a Tele-ICU serving multiple institutions within our donor service area stimulated a collaborative performance improvement project. To improve the referral and timeliness rates…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Despite the Growing Impact of the American Opioid Epidemic on Organ Donation, a Small Percentage of Drug Intoxication Deaths Result in Organ Donation

    L. Hickman,1 J. Killian,1 S. Windham.1,2

    1Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; 2Alabama Organ Center, Birmingham, AL.

    Purpose: This study seeks to understand the regional variation in donations after drug overdose (DO) and quantify the proportion of DO deaths that go on…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Diffuse Optical Non-Invasive Organ Risk (DONOR) Indexing Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy for Pre-Transplant Evaluation

    H. Borron,1 D. Piao,2 A. Hawxby,3 H. Wright,3 E. Rubin.4

    1College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK; 2School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; 3Oklahoma Transplant Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK; 4Pathology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK.

    Purpose: Due to large transplant waitlists, a rapid, non-invasive method to evaluate organ quality for transplantation is needed. Diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOSi) is an optical…
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