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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Unique Recipient Benefits with Paired Kidney Donation

    J. Buggs,1 E. Rogers,2 V. Bowers.1

    1Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Medical Group, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; 2Transplant Research, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL.

    Introduction: Kidney transplantation is the treatment choice for ESRD with improved survival and cost benefit compared with dialysis. The imbalance of supply over demand along…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Clinical Impacts of Deceased Donor Oxygenation Status in Liver Transplant

    T. Okamoto,2 K. Sasaki,3 H. Niikawa,2 M. Fujiki,3 C. Quintini,3 K. Hashimoto,3 C. Miller,3 K. Abu-Elmagd,1 K. McCurry,2 J. Fung.4

    1Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; 2Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; 3Liver Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; 4Transplantation, University of Chicago, Chicago.

    Background: PaO2/FiO2 (P/F) ratio of > 300 mmHg in donors is a criterion of standard lung donors, while several studies demonstrated that the utilization of…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Desensitization to Facilitate Matching in a Large, National Kidney Paired Exchange Clearinghouse

    C. Holscher,1 A. Thomas,1 K. Jackson,1 C. Haugen,1 M. Ronin,2 A. Waterman,3,4 A. Massie,1,5 J. Garonzik Wang,1 D. Segev.1,5

    1Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; 2National Kidney Registry, New York; 3David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles; 4Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles; 5Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore.

    In kidney paired exchange (KPE) programs, the use of incompatible transplantation has been necessary to prevent long waiting times for sensitized candidates and to facilitate…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Excellent Long Term Outcomes Transplanting Single Pediatric Kidneys from Donors Five Years and Younger into Adult Recipients

    R. Shah,1 M. Aull,2 A. Watkins,2 S. Kapur.2

    1Department of Surgery, Lincoln Medical Center, New York, NY; 2Surgery/Transplant Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.

    Pediatric kidneys have been traditionally considered marginal organs for transplantation & are underutilized given concerns of poor outcomes. Furthermore, long term outcomes of single kidneys…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Do High-Risk Categories Convey the Wrong Message to Waitlisted Patients – Is It Time to Reconsider the Absolute Risk of Graft Loss?

    A. Zarinsefat, H. Braun, S. Syed, B. Orandi, G. Roll.

    Transplant Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.

    Many waitlisted patients (pts) do not consent to accept livers from “high-risk” donors (HRD), possibly due to lack of understanding of the absolute risk (AR)…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Multi-Center Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT) as an Enhancement to the Psychosocial Evaluation of Living Donors

    D. LaPointe Rudow,1 S. Jowsey-Gregoire,2 F. Desrosiers,3 J. Trompeta,4 LDAT Study Group.1

    1RMTI, Mount Sinai Hosptial, NY, NY; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 3NYPH, NY, NY; 4UCSF, San Francisco, CA.

    Purpose: The LDAT is the first psychosocial assessment tool developed to standardize live donor (LD) psychosocial evaluations (PsychE). It assesses motivation, LD knowledge/expectations, support, closeness…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Preoperative Patient Education to Improve the Inpatient Experience for Living Donors

    K. Ventura, K. Sigafus.

    Transplant Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    Purpose: Although the number of living organ donors is small, their altruistic sacrifice requires a dedicated approach to meet their unique needs. Living donors (LD)…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    The Continuous Debate of Older Donors into Older Recipients: Another Angle

    J. Patel, M. Kittleson, E. Kransdorf, S. Dimbil, R. Levine, D. Geft, D. Chang, L. Czer, J. Kobashigawa.

    Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

    Purpose: Heart transplantation (HTx) remains limited by donor availability. Many programs accept older donors (≥50 yrs) for older recipients (≥ 60 yrs) in an effort…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Increased Length of Stay of the Donor Decreases Heart Transplant Recipient Survival

    H. Copeland,1 R. Talluri,2 A. Panos,1 R. Cochran,1 L. Creswell,1 D. Baran.3

    1Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS; 2Biostatistics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS; 3Cardiology, Sentara Heart Hospital, Norfolk, VA.

    Purpose: We hypothesize that the longer the cardiac donor is in the hospital prior to procurement, the worse the heart transplant (tx) recipient outcome for…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Lack of Efficacy of Eculizumab for Prevention of Delayed Graft Function (DGF) in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients

    P. Heeger,1 E. Akalin,2 M. Baweja,1 R. Bloom,3 S. Florman,1 B. Haydel,1 D. Hricik,4 S. Kulkarni,5 A. Mehrotra,1 A. Patel,6 E. Poggio,7 L. Ratner,8 S. Schröppel,1 R. Shapiro.1

    1Mount Sinai Hosp, NY, NY; 2Montefiore Hosp, NY, NY; 3Hosp U Pa, Phila, PA; 4U Hosp Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; 5Yale U Hosp, New Haven, CT; 6St Barnabas Med Ctr, Livingston, NJ; 7Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 8Columbia-Presbyterian Hosp, NY, NY.

    DGF portends poor short- and long-term renal function, increases cost, and may reduce graft survival. We studied the safety/efficacy of eculizumab (ECU), a C5 convertase…
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