2017 American Transplant Congress
Truth in Pathology: Autopsy Findings in Lungs Declined for Transplantation.
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.
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.
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…2016 American Transplant Congress
Is It Worth Risking Lives of Multiple Procurement Surgeons to Save One Life in Extreme Weather Conditions?
Multi Organ Transplantation Unit, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Canada.
Transplant needs highly skilled surgeons and allied medical staff to travel to distant locations on short notices and secure a deceased donor organ that is…2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Solid Organ Transplants Following Simultaneous Solid Organ and Vascularized Composite Allograft Procurements.
Background: Current knowledge of the impact of facial vascularized composite allograft (VCA) procurement on the transplantation outcomes of the concomitantly recovered life-saving organs is limited…2016 American Transplant Congress
Missed Opportunities After Cardiac Death: Should Every Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) Referral Be Pursued? A Large Single US Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) Experience.
Medical Division, Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
We wished to evaluate in detail those DCD cases in which our OPO did not pursue organ donation but the potential DCD candidate expired within…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-Modular Approach for Training in Liver Procurement Accelerates Proficiency Gain.
BACKGROUND: Modular training has been established as an educational tool in colorectal and urology surgery for the last 5 years. This modular operative approach is…2016 American Transplant Congress
Multiorgan Procurement a Learning Tool in General Surgical Resident Education.
Transplant Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
IntroductionRestricted duty hours and the growing use of minimally invasive techniques, is limiting the open surgical experience for general surgery (GS) residents. Multiorgan procurement (MP)…2016 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Organ Donors with Zero Organs Transplanted: Why and How Can We Improve?
Organ recovery professionals and donor hospitals are under intense pressure to go to whatever lengths necessary to provide transplantable organs. However, such a mentality can…2016 American Transplant Congress
Prolonged Cold Ischemia Time Negatively Impacts Graft and Recipient Survival in a Murine Orthotopic Hindlimb Transplant Model.
Department of Surgery, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: The safe maximum cold preservation time remains unknown in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA), yet is of critical clinical significance. VCAs with a large muscular…
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