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Articles tagged "Procurement"

  • 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…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Implementing a New Specialist Requester Role to the United Kingdom to Address Consent Rates.

    S. Duncalf, M. Ryan.

    Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHSBT, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Organ donation consent rates in the UK have been stagnant over the last 10 years or more, despite the implementation of the taskforce recommendations, a…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Implementing a Successful DCD Heart Programme to the United Kingdom.

    M. Ryan, S. Duncalf.

    Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom

    The UK has the most successful DCD heart programme in the world which has primarily been developed in one region in England. Due to a…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Life Confocal Imaging of Murine Liver Biopsies as Novel Tool to Assess Graft Viability Prior to Transplantation.

    R. Oberhuber, M. Fodor, B. Cardini, M. Maglione, M. Hermann, J. Troppmaier.

    Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Prolonged ischemia time due to organ procurement and transport are main contributors to a decrease in organ quality, which is further enhanced during reperfusion. This…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Truth in Pathology: Autopsy Findings in Lungs Declined for Transplantation.

    A. Friedman, J. Lewis, H. Irving, K. Delli Carpini.

    LiveOnNY, New York, NY

    Healthy lungs are scarce among available organ donors who are becoming progressively older and have increasing numbers of comorbidities. Selection criteria that include excellent oxygenation…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Geographic Disparities in Access to Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant.

    S. Gustafson,1 A. Wey,1 B. Thompson,1 A. Massie,2 S. Zhou,2 N. Salkowski,1 D. Segev,1,2 S. Gentry,1,3 J. Snyder.1

    1Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; 3U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis

    In 2015, SRTR was asked by HRSA to investigate geographic disparities in access to deceased donor kidney transplant. To account for the potential impact of…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    The American Transplant Congress Effect on Kidney Discard Rates in the United States.

    D. Abdelwahab,1 G. Wei,2 I. Hall.2

    1Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

    Background: Deceased-donor kidneys with high kidney donor risk index (KDRI) are often discarded despite evidence that certain candidates would have better survival accepting these kidneys…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    An OPO Offer Acceptance Report for Hard-to-Place Kidneys.

    A. Wey, N. Salkowski, B. Kasiske, A. Israni, J. Snyder.

    Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN

    Transplant program offer acceptance behavior varies substantially for kidneys after 100 previous offers (i.e., “hard-to-place offers”). An organ procurement organization (OPO) offer acceptance report could…
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