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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)…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Lung Preservation Solution Exposure at Cardiac Procurement Is Associated Increased Incidence of Coronary Arterial Vasculopathy.
H. Copeland,¹ V. Garcia,² A. Sima,² D. Baran,³ A. Mankind,⁴ G. Katlaps,¹ N. Lewis,⁴ B. Dharmaj,¹ J. Copeland.⁵
¹Cardiothoracic Surgery, McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA; ²Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; ³Cardiology, Beth Israel Medical Center Barnabas Health, Newark, NJ; ⁴Cardiology, McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA; ⁵Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Purpose: To evaluate cardiac recipient survival and incidence of coronary artery vasculopathy (CAV) in recipient hearts that have been exposed to lung preservation solution, Perfadex.Methods:…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Challenges for the Travelling Donor: Variability Between Donor Work-Up and Donor Surgery in the Canadian Kidney Paired Donation Program.
B. Reikie, T. Kroczak, T. McGregor.
Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Urology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Background: A primary obstacle to providing renal transplantation is limited access to donated kidneys. The living donor pool for renal allografts was greatly expanded through…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Expectations and Experiences of Follow-Up and Self-Care After Living Kidney Donation: A Focus Group Study.
K. Manera,^1,2 C. Hanson,^1,2 J. Chapman,³ J. Kanellis,^4,5 J. Gill,⁶ J. Craig,^1,2 S. Chadban,^7,8 G. Wong,^1,2,3 A. Ralph,^1,2 A. Tong.^1,2
¹Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; ³Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia; ⁴Department of Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, VIC, Australia; ⁵Department of Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia; ⁶Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; ⁷Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Background: Ensuring donor wellbeing warrants ongoing monitoring following living kidney donation. However, there is considerable variability in donor follow up processes, including information provided to…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Use of Forensic DNA Testing to Trace Unethical Organ Procurement and Organ Trafficking Practices.
M. He,^1,2 A. Corson,² Z. Wang,³ J. Russo,² T. Trey.²
¹Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; ²Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, Washington DC; ³World Organization To Investigate The Persecution of Falun Gong, New York, NY
The purpose of this study is to establish a methodology, which allows to identify evidence of transplant organs originating from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience…