2015 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Eating Disorders in Altruistic Organ Donor Candidates: Pitfalls, Red Flags and Practical Suggestions
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, New York, NY.
The preoperative psychosocial evaluation of potential altruistic organ donors is a means of exploring a patient's motivations for donation as well as identifying any obstacles…2015 American Transplant Congress
How Long Is Too Long? The Impact of Bridge Donor Waiting Time on Paired Donation Transplants
1University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH; 2Alliance for Paired Donation, Maumee, OH.
Non-simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor (NEAD) chains and bridge donors (BD) are increasingly utilized in the field of Kidney Paired Donation (KPD), but remain controversial due…2015 American Transplant Congress
Socioeconomic Predictors of Organ Donation in Pediatric Donors
Transplant Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
BACKGROUND: The availability of pediatric donors does not meet the demand for pediatric recipients who are listed and waiting transplantation. There is a need to…2015 American Transplant Congress
Paired Match Power and Challenges for O-Patients in Kidney Paired Donation
Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Introduction: In kidney paired donation (KPD), Paired Match Power (PMP), defined as Probability{Donor Compatible}×Probability{Patient Compatible}, can be used to prioritize difficult to match pairs. However,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Cultural Domains Affecting Organ Donation in Indian Country
Background: The prevalence of end-stage renal disease is 3.5 times greater among the >2.5 million Native Americans or Alaskan Natives (NAs) in the US than…2015 American Transplant Congress
Immunologic Long-Term Outcome of Living Kidney Transplantation Depending On the Donor-Recipient Relationship
Nephrology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Background. Only few data is available about long-term immunologic outcomes of living kidney transplantation (KTx) depending on the donor-recepient relationship.Patients and methods. This single center…2015 American Transplant Congress
Non-Inferiority of Graft Survival of Living Unrelated Kidney Transplant compared to Living Related Kidney Transplant as Analyzed by First Degree Relative
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI.
The perceived advantage of donating a kidney directly to a family member is difficult to uncouple in the setting of voluntary exchange or other kidney…2015 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Geographically Distant Living Kidney Donors: A Barrier to Living Donation?
Renal & Pancreas Transplant Division, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ.
Introduction: Living kidney donors often live far from the recovering transplant center where they donate. We sought to determine (1) characteristics of these geographically distant,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor Age on Longterm Outcomes in Asian Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Cohort Study
Background The living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is well known for best treatment of end-stage renal disease. Recently, kidney transplantation from elderly living donor has…2015 American Transplant Congress
Matching Strategies in Kidney Paired Donation: A 7-Year Analysis of a Multi-Institutional Registry
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…
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