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2015 American Transplant Congress
Socioeconomic Status of Local Vs Exported Liver Recipients and Their Donors
J. Adler,¹ J. Hyder,² J. Markmann,¹ H. Yeh.¹
¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
INTRODUCTION: Broader sharing has been proposed as a solution to decrease geographic disparities in liver transplantation, with the hope that this will also neutralize the…
2015 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of CDC High Risk Donors on Patient and Graft Survival After Liver Transplantation
D. Moonka, A. Yoshida, A. Taylor.
Division of Gastroenterology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI; Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI; Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
We hypothesized that CDC high risk donors (HRD) might be younger than non-HRD and have other characteristics associated with favorable outcomes after liver transplant (LT).…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation of ABO- and Crossmatch-Incompatible Recipient-Donor Pairs Entered in Kidney Paired Donation Program
D. Dadhania, M. Charlton, M. Aull, R. Friedlander, T. Muthukumar, J. Lee, M. Goris, D. Serur, S. Kapur, V. Sharma.
Transplantation Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY.
Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) enables ABO-incompatible (ABOI) and crossmatch-incompatible (XMI) patients to undergo transplantation using a 'more compatible' donor. Identification of factors that predict early…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Tool to Evaluate Coercion, Pressure, and Motivation in Potential Live Kidney Donors
A. Shaffer,¹ E. King,¹ J. Kahn,² L. Erby,³ D. Segev.¹
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ²Bergman Institute for Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ³School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Live donor kidney transplantation yields improved graft survival and recipient longevity, as compared to deceased donors. However, one concern with living donation is the potential…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Lack of Utilization of Pre-Emptive Transplantation in Those With Living Donor Kidney Transplants
A. Sakhuja,¹ A. Naik,¹ R. Eikstadt,² P. Shrivastava,¹ D. Cibrik,¹ M. Samaniego.¹
¹Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²KECC, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Introduction: Time spent on dialysis before kidney transplantation (KTx) has been associated with worse outcomes. Pre-emptive transplants are not always possible due shortage of deceased…
2015 American Transplant Congress
A Single Centre Experience With the Living Donor Kidney Sharing Scheme: More Is Better!
K. Thomas, H. Crawshaw, S. Sinha, P. Mason, P. Harden, C. Winnearls, E. Sharples, S. Reddy, M. Sullivan, J. Gilbert, I. Quiroga, R. Ploeg, A. Vaidya, P. Friend.
Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Introduction: The living donor kidney sharing scheme was introduced in the UK to expand the donor pool. In this study we have reviewed our experience…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Risk of ESRD Attributable to Live Kidney Donation in Various Subgroups of Donors
A. Muzaale, A. Massie, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Risk of ESRD attributable to live donation in male, older, obese, related donors, and donors with high predonation eGFR remains uncharacterized.Methods: Various subgroups of individuals…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Spousal Donor Kidney Transplantation According to the Spousal Relationship
J. Kim,¹ K. Jun,¹ M.-H. Kim,¹ S. Ahn,¹ J. Hwang,¹ S. Kim,¹ S. Park,¹ B. Choi,² S. Kim,² C. Yang,² Y. Kim,² I. Moon.¹
¹Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; ²Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
We investigated long-term outcomes of spousal donor grafts and factors affecting graft survival in spousal kidney transplantation. Between July 1997 and December 2013, we performed…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Closing the Knowledge Gap: The Successful Launch of an Interactive Website Dedicated to Information on Living Kidney Donor Transplantation
D. Slaats,¹ W. Zuidema,¹ J. van de Wetering,¹ D. Hesselink,¹ T. Terkivatan,² M. Betjes.¹
¹Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Introduction. The internet is increasingly used to find reliable information about living kidney donation (LKD) and transplantation (LKT). Therefore, an easily accessible, interactive website was…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Learning from Failures: A 7-Year Analysis of a Multi-Institutional Kidney Paired Donation Registry
D. Fumo,^1,2 V. Kapoor,¹ L. Reece,² S. Rees,² J. Kopke,² S. Stepkowski,¹ C. Smith,^1,2 M. Rees.^1,2
¹University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH; ²Alliance for Paired Donation, Maumee, OH.
Failure to convert computer-identified possible Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) exchanges into transplants has prevented KPD from reaching its full potential. The purpose of this study…