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  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Donor-Recipient Relationship on Development of CKD.

    A. Matas, D. Vock, H. Ibrahim.

    UMN, Mpls, MN.

    Two studies have reported a small increase of ESRD in LDs compared to healthy matched controls. However, the majority of ESRD has been in relatives…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    A Kidney Paired Donation Standard Acquisition Charge Pilot Program.

    M. Rees,1 L. Reece,2 S. Rees,2 B. Crandall,2 A. Leichtman.4

    1UT, Toledo; 2APKD, Perrysburg; 3Arbor Res, Ann Arbor.

    Background/Purpose: A national non-profit Kidney Paired Dontion (KPD) organization undertook a demonstration project to redesign payment for KPD transplants with a payment model similar to…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Altruistic Kidney Donation: A Single US Transplant Center Experience.

    A. Aguire-Alarcon,1 M. Lubetzky,1 M. McKinney,1 L. Kayler.2

    1Transplantation, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; 2Transplantation, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

    Background: Altruistic donors (ADs) continue to make rising contributions to the donor pool. Increasing efforts have been made to assess ADs to understand the motivations…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Reciprocity for Compatible Pair Participation in Kidney Paired Donation.

    J. Gill,1 M.-C. Fortin,2 C. Rose,1 E. Cole,3 K. Tinckam,3 J. Gill.1

    1Nephrology, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2Nephrology, CHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada; 3Nephrology, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Participation of ABO and HLA compatible pairs (CPs) in kidney paired donation (KPD) could significantly increase living donor (LD) transplantation (TX). CPs may be more…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    What Are the Benefits of Transvaginal Route for Kidney Extraction in Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy ?

    S. Hurel,1 M. Ariane,1 F. Audenet,1 C. Legendre,2 A. Mejean,1 M.-O. Timsit.1

    1Hôpital Européen Georges Pomidou, Paris, France; 2Hôpital Necker, Paris, France.

    Rationale and objectivesTransvaginal route for kidney extraction (TVE) emerged as new surgical option during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy to minimize scar and presumably to offer donors…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Global Kidney Exchange.

    M. Rees,1 T. Dunn,1 S. Rees,1 J. Rogers,1 L. Reece,1 A. Roth,2 C. Kuhr,1 O. Ekwenna,1 D. Fumo,1 K. Krawiec,3 S. Jain,1 C. Marsh,1 M. Tan,1 S. Paloyo.4

    1Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation, Perrysburg; 2Stanford University, Palo Alto; 3Duke University, Durham; 4Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines.

    Introduction: Instead of thinking of the developing world as a place where there are desperate people who will sell their kidneys for money, we propose…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Altruistic Kidney Donation: From the Donor's Perspetive.

    R. Burge,1 S. Potts,2,3 S. Lundie.4

    1Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 3Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 4Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

    Introduction: Although all living kidney donors are offered yearly reviews post-transplant, the restricted contact time and medical focus limits understanding of the motivations and experiences…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Solid Organ Transplants Following Simultaneous Solid Organ and Vascularized Composite Allograft Procurements.

    M. Alhefzi,1 M. Aycart,1 G. Sharma,2 N. Krezdorn,1 E. Bueno,1 S. Talbot,1 M. Carty,1 B. Pomahac,1 S. Tullius.3

    1Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 3Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

    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

    Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: Experience with Over 2400 Cases at a Single Center.

    H. Li,1,2 M. Stegall,1 G. Chow,1 P. Dean,1 J. Heimbach,1 T. Taner,1 M. Prieto.1

    1Division of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 2Division of Transplant Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

    Objective: We reviewed retrospectively the 15 year experience with Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy (HALDN) at our institution.Methods: 2452 consecutive kidney donors underwent a HALDN between…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    NEAD Chains Do Not Disadvantage Blood Type O, Black, or Highly Sensitized Patients.

    M. Rees,1 J. Roberts,2 K. Lentine,3 A. Roth,4 A. Leichtman,5 H. Xiao,3 S. Rafizadeh,1 E. Neidich,2 M. Melcher.4

    1UT, Toledo; 2UCSF, SF; 3SLU, St Louis; 4Stanford, Palo Alto; 5Arbor Res, Ann Arbor.

    Introduction: NEAD chains raised concern that wait-listed blood type (BT) O patients and racial minorities would be disadvantaged by allocation of a non-directed donor (NDD)…
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