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  • 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…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Radioisotopic Evaluation of Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) before and 1 Year after Kindey Donation for Transplantation: The Concept of Estimated Renal Functional Reserve (eRFR)

    V. Cantaluppi,1 G. Guglielmetti,1 M. Mora,1 A. Airoldi,1 F. Orsini,2 M. Quaglia,1 G. Sacchetti,2 C. Ronco.3

    1Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Unit, University of Piemonte Orientale (UPO), Novara, Italy; 2Nuclear Medicine Unit, Maggiore della Carità University Hospital, Novara, Italy; 3Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Unit, International Renal Research Institute (IRRIV), Vicenza, Italy.

    Kidney donors (KD) develop a partial loss of renal function defined as Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). Recovery from AKI is due to renal functional reserve…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    A Novel KPD Mechanism to Increase Transplants When Some Candidates Have Multiple Willing Donors.

    T. Sandholm,1 G. Farina,1 J. Dickerson,2 R. Leishman,3 D. Stewart,3 R. Formica,4 C. Thiessen,4 S. Kulkarni.4

    1Carnegie Mellon U, Pittsburgh; 2U of Maryland, College Park; 3UNOS, Richmond; 4Yale U, New Haven

    Purpose: Current kidney exchanges such as the OPTN Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) program allow candidates to list multiple willing donors, but only one will donate…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Living and Deceased Donor Uterus Transplantation – The 2-Arm Czech Uterus Transplant Trial: The First Year Report with Four Cases Done so Far.

    J. Fronek,1 R. Chmel,2 L. Janousek,1 M. Novackova,2 J. Matecha,2 M. Olausson.3

    1Transplant Surgery Department, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM), Prague, Czech Republic; 2Gynecology Department, University Motol Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; 3Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University, Goteborg, Sweden

    Introduction: Uterus transplantation (UTx) may become another organ transplantation. There is very limited worldwide experience so far. The Czech uterus transplant trial started in 2015.…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Chagas Disease and Outcome in Kidney Transplant.

    M. Taylor, A. Martinoia, S. Di PIetrantonio, M. Torres, H. Petrone.

    Renal Transplant Unit, CRAI Sur - CUCAIBA, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Introduction: Chagas disease is one of the most expanded endemic in Latin America with 8 people from every 10.000.000 being infected. In Argentina its estimated…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Post-Donation GFR Changes in Living Kidney Donors.

    E. Poggio,1 S. Arrigain,2 J. Augustine,1 S. Flechner,3 J. Schold.2

    1Nephrology and Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2Qualitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 3Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

    Living kidney donor transplantation is the preferred treatment for ESRD because it confers excellent outcomes for recipients and poses reasonable risks to donors. Post-donation glomerular…
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