Tissue and Organ Procurement

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A GPS for finding the route to transplantation for the sensitized patient. 
  • A Propensity-matched Survival Analysis: Do Simultaneous Liver-lung Transplant Recipients Need a Liver? 
  • A UNOS perspective on donor liver allocation. United Network for Organ Sharing. 
  • A call for full public disclosure for donation after circulatory determination of death in children. 
  • A change of heart: Preliminary results of the US 2018 adult heart allocation revision. 
  • A report of the first pediatric heart transplant following donation after circulatory death in the United States using ex-vivo perfusion. 
  • A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States. 
  • A three-tier system for evaluation of organ procurement organizations' willingness to pursue and utilize nonideal donor lungs. 
  • APOL1 Genotype and Kidney Transplantation Outcomes From Deceased African American Donors. 
  • Accessibility to and Quality of Human Eye Tissue for Research: A Cross-Sectional Survey of ARVO Members. 
  • Acute kidney injury after ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP). 
  • Age and comorbidities are effect modifiers of gender disparities in renal transplantation. 
  • Aggressive pursuit and utilization of non-ideal donor lungs does not compromise post-lung transplant survival. 
  • Agree on much, except it is time for change. 
  • Allocation of transplantable organs: do people want to punish patients for causing their illness? 
  • Allocation of vascularized composite allografts: what is it? 
  • Altruism, incentives, and organ donation: attitudes of the transplant community. 
  • An official American Thoracic Society/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation/Society of Critical Care Medicine/Association of Organ and Procurement Organizations/United Network of Organ Sharing Statement: ethical and policy considerations in organ donation after circulatory determination of death. 
  • Another Step Toward Becoming a Transplant Community. 
  • Are we ready to utilize non-heart-beating donors for clinical allotransplantation in China? 
  • Attitudes and knowledge of nurses regarding organ procurement. 
  • Attitudes of the American public toward organ donation after uncontrolled (sudden) cardiac death. 
  • Beyond utilitarianism: a method for analyzing competing ethical principles in a decision analysis of liver transplantation. 
  • Bridging Locoregional Therapy Prolongs Survival in Patients Listed for Liver Transplant with Hepatocellular Carcinoma. 
  • Buyer beware: The risks of donor-derived vaccine-induced thrombosis and thrombocytopenia. 
  • C4 article: Implications of COVID-19 in transplantation. 
  • C4: An experiment in academic dialogue. 
  • Cadaveric renal transplantation in the cyclosporine and OKT3 eras: an update of the University of Wisconsin-Madison experience. 
  • Cardiac transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Cardiovascular mechanism of donor brain death and heart recipient survival. 
  • Case 23-2005: a man with a mass in the liver. 
  • Casting a smaller net into a bigger donor pool: A single center's experience with the new kidney allocation system. 
  • Changes in United States heart allocation: A community energized to improve policy. 
  • Circulating mitochondria in deceased organ donors are associated with immune activation and early allograft dysfunction. 
  • Coccidioidomycosis Transmission Through Organ Transplantation: A Report of the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee. 
  • Combined liver-kidney and liver transplantation in patients with renal failure outcomes in the MELD era. 
  • Commentary: A longer agonal period in lungs donated after circulatory determination of death is a gamble worth taking. 
  • Commentary: An innovative strategy for expanding the donor pool. 
  • Compulsory Organ Retrieval: Morally, But Not Socially, Justified. 
  • Concordance of hypervascular liver nodule characterization between the organ procurement and transplant network and liver imaging reporting and data system classifications. 
  • Consensus conference report: maximizing use of organs recovered from the cadaver donor: cardiac recommendations, March 28-29, 2001, Crystal City, Va. 
  • Consent for organ donation after circulatory death at U.S. transplant centers. 
  • Contractarianism and the "trolley" problem. 
  • Cornea donation laws in the United States. 
  • Coronavirus disease 2019: Implications of emerging infections for transplantation. 
  • Critical care aspects of lung transplantation. 
  • Critically appraising the 2018 United Network for Organ Sharing donor allocation policy: adding life boats or rearranging the deck chairs? 
  • Cultural carrying capacity: Organ donation advocacy, discursive framing, and social media engagement. 
  • Current opinions in organ allocation. 
  • Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange 
  • Deciding to terminate treatment: a practical guide for physicians. 
  • Declined organ offers in liver transplantation: careful timing or missed opportunity? 
  • Decreased graft loss following implementation of the kidney allocation score (KAS). 
  • Defining best practices for tissue procurement in immuno-oncology clinical trials: consensus statement from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Surgery Committee. 
  • Depletion of myocardial high energy phosphates by induction of ventricular fibrillation prior to cardioplegic arrest. 
  • Determinants of willingness to donate living related and cadaveric organs: identifying opportunities for intervention. 
  • Differences in Phenotypes and Liver Transplantation Outcomes by Age Group in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. 
  • Differences in access to kidney transplantation between Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites by geographic location in the United States. 
  • Differential outcomes with early and late repeat transplantation in the era of the lung allocation score. 
  • Discussion: Guiding Strategies for the Future of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation: A Systematic Review of Organ Donation Campaigns. 
  • Disparities in liver transplantation before and after introduction of the MELD score. 
  • Do incentives matter? Providing benefits to families of organ donors. 
  • Does competition for transplantable hearts encourage 'gaming' of the waiting list? 
  • Does recipient age impact functional outcomes of orthotopic heart transplantation? 
  • Donation After Circulatory Death in Heart Transplantation: History, Outcomes, Clinical Challenges, and Opportunities to Expand the Donor Pool. 
  • Donation after cardiac death: the University of Wisconsin experience with liver transplantation. 
  • Donor derived hepatitis B virus infection: Analysis of the Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee. 
  • Donor evaluation in the era of HIV-positive organ transplantation: The importance of the infectious diseases specialist. 
  • Donor-Recipient Height Mismatch Is Associated With Decreased Survival in Pediatric-to-Adult Liver Transplant Recipients. 
  • Donor-derived hepatitis C in the era of increasing intravenous drug use: A report of the Disease Transmission Advisory Committee. 
  • Donor-derived transmission events in 2013: a report of the Organ Procurement Transplant Network Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee. 
  • Donor-derived tuberculosis among solid organ transplant recipients in the United States-2008 to 2018. 
  • Double renal allografts successfully increase utilization of kidneys from older donors within a single organ procurement organization. 
  • Dual Procurement of Lung and Heart Allografts Does Not Negatively Affect Lung Transplant Outcomes. 
  • Early experience with the use of hepatitis C antibody-positive, nucleic acid testing-negative donors in lung transplantation. 
  • Editorial position on publishing articles on human organ transplantation. 
  • Effect of sensitization in US heart transplant recipients bridged with a ventricular assist device: update in a modern cohort. 
  • Effectiveness of educational and social worker interventions to activate patients' discussion and pursuit of preemptive living donor kidney transplantation: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effectiveness of informational decision aids and a live donor financial assistance program on pursuit of live kidney transplants in African American hemodialysis patients. 
  • Electrocardiographic characteristics of potential organ donors and associations with cardiac allograft use. 
  • Elevated Donor Hemoglobin A1C Impairs Kidney Graft Survival From Deceased Donors With Diabetes Mellitus: A National Analysis. 
  • Ensuring long-term equity after pediatric liver transplantation. 
  • Equalizing MELD Scores Over Broad Geographies Is Not the Most Efficacious Way to Allocate a Scarce Resource in a Value-based Environment. 
  • Ethical issues in umbilical cord blood banking. Working Group on Ethical Issues in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking. 
  • Evaluating the role of blood collection centers in public health: a status report. 
  • Expanding donor availability in lung transplantation: A case report of 5000 miles traveled. 
  • Experience with 100 consecutive simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplants with bladder drainage. 
  • Experience with combined hepatic, pancreaticoduodenal, and renal procurement with UW solution. 
  • Eye Care Professionals' Perspectives on Eye Donation and an Eye Donation Registry for Research: A Single-Institution, Cross-Sectional Study. 
  • Finding a place for public preferences in liver allocation decisions. 
  • Foreigners traveling to the U.S. for transplantation may adversely affect organ donation: a national survey. 
  • Frequency and predictors of de novo hepatocellular carcinoma in patients awaiting orthotopic liver transplantation during the model for end-stage liver disease era. 
  • Getting to transplantation. 
  • Going the distance for procurement of donation after circulatory death livers for transplantation-Does reimbursement reflect reality? 
  • Hand transplantation in the United States: A review of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing Database. 
  • Hand transplantation in the United States: experience with 3 patients. 
  • Heart Transplantation: An In-Depth Survival Analysis. 
  • Hepatitis B core antibody positive donors as a safe and effective therapeutic option to increase available organs for lung transplantation. 
  • Identifying and addressing barriers to African American and non-African American families' discussions about preemptive living related kidney transplantation. 
  • Impact of ABO compatibility on outcomes after heart transplantation in a national cohort during the past decade. 
  • Impact of Donor Brain Death Duration on Outcomes After Lung Transplantation. 
  • Impact of donor-to-recipient weight ratio on survival after heart transplantation: analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database. 
  • Impact of the model for end-stage liver disease allocation policy on the use of high-risk organs for liver transplantation. 
  • Impact of the new heart allocation policy on patients with restrictive, hypertrophic, or congenital cardiomyopathies. 
  • Implications of blood group on lung transplantation rates: A propensity-matched registry analysis. 
  • Implications of declining donor offers with increased risk of disease transmission on waiting list survival in lung transplantation. 
  • Improved Outcomes in Severe Primary Graft Dysfunction After Heart Transplantation Following Donation After Circulatory Death Compared With Donation After Brain Death. 
  • Improvement in Liver Transplant Outcomes From Older Donors: A US National Analysis. 
  • Increased Calculated Panel Reactive Antigen Is Associated With Increased Waitlist Time and Mortality in Lung Transplantation. 
  • Increased mortality at low-volume orthotopic heart transplantation centers: should current standards change? 
  • Increasing the Availability and Quality of Donor Eyes for Research. 
  • Influence of donor brain death duration on outcomes following heart transplantation: A United Network for Organ Sharing Registry analysis. 
  • Innovations in Heart Transplantation: A Review. 
  • Is Functional Independence Associated With Improved Long-Term Survival After Lung Transplantation? 
  • Is it time for the United States to engage in heart transplantation using donation after circulatory death? 
  • It's Time to Revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act. 
  • Kidney and pancreas transplantation at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. 
  • Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: pro. 
  • Laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy and multiple renal arteries. 
  • Live donor liver transplantation with older donors: Increased long-term graft loss due to HCV recurrence. 
  • Liver Transplantation Outcomes in a U.S. Multicenter Cohort of 789 Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting Beyond Milan Criteria. 
  • Liver and intestine transplantation in the United States, 1997-2006. 
  • Liver transplant recipient survival benefit with living donation in the model for endstage liver disease allocation era. 
  • Liver transplantation for unresectable colorectal liver metastases: A systematic review. 
  • Liver transplantation from controlled non-heart-beating donors. 
  • Living donor follow-up: Unfunded mandates and the Hippocratic oath where perfect may be the enemy of good? 
  • Living donor liver transplantation: the historical and cultural basis of policy decisions and ongoing ethical questions. 
  • Living unrelated kidney donation: an underutilized resource? 
  • Living-unrelated renal donor transplantation: the UNOS experience, 1987-1991. United Network for Organ Sharing. 
  • Long-term quality of life after liver donation in the adult to adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study (A2ALL). 
  • Lung Donation After Death Resulting From a Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection. 
  • Lung Transplant Center Volume Ameliorates Adverse Influence of Prolonged Ischemic Time on Mortality. 
  • Lung transplantation at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Management of the Potential Organ Donor in the ICU: Society of Critical Care Medicine/American College of Chest Physicians/Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Consensus Statement. 
  • Marginal cardiac allografts do not have increased primary graft dysfunction in alternate list transplantation. 
  • Mitigating the Impact of Using Female Donor Hearts in Male Recipients Using BMI Difference. 
  • Model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) exception for cholangiocarcinoma or biliary dysplasia. 
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and American Association for Thoracic Surgery Workshop Report: Identifying collaborative clinical research priorities in lung transplantation. 
  • Need for improvements in simultaneous heart-kidney allocation: The limitation of pretransplant glomerular filtration rate. 
  • Noteworthy Literature Published in 2018 for Thoracic Organ Transplantation. 
  • Novel Use of Mobile Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion in Donation After Circulatory Death Lung Transplantation. 
  • OPTN/SRTR 2020 Annual Data Report: VCA. 
  • Offering more without offering compensation: non-compensating benefits for living kidney donors. 
  • One Size Does Not Fit All--Regional Variation in the Impact of the Share 35 Liver Allocation Policy. 
  • Organ Transplantation in Greece. 
  • Organ allocation around the world: insights from the ISHLT International Registry for Heart and Lung Transplantation. 
  • Organ allocation for transplantation in the USA and Korea: the changing roles of equity and utility. 
  • Organ donation and the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. 
  • Organ donation and treatment of the multi-organ donor. 
  • Organ donation during the coronavirus pandemic: an evolving saga in uncharted waters. 
  • Organ donation during the financial crisis in Greece. 
  • Organ procurement organization (OPO), best practices. 
  • Organ procurement: expenditures and financial incentives. 
  • Organ trafficking: global solutions for a global problem. 
  • Outcomes of transplantation using various hematopoietic cell sources in children with Hurler syndrome after myeloablative conditioning. 
  • Outcomes with an alternate list strategy for heart transplantation. 
  • Pancreas transplantation: the Nebraska experience. 
  • Patient and family attitudes about an eye donation registry for research. 
  • Pediatrics and donor-derived disease transmission: The US OPTN experience. 
  • Pennsylvania's voluntary benefits program: evaluating an innovative proposal for increasing organ donation. 
  • Perspectives on donor lung allocation from both sides of the Atlantic: The United States. 
  • Portable normothermic ex-vivo lung perfusion, ventilation, and functional assessment with the Organ Care System on donor lung use for transplantation from extended-criteria donors (EXPAND): a single-arm, pivotal trial. 
  • Portrayal of organ donation and transplantation on American primetime television. 
  • Potential for donation after circulatory death heart transplantation in the United States: Retrospective analysis of a limited UNOS dataset. 
  • Predictors of nonuse of donation after circulatory death lung allografts. 
  • Pretransplant predictors of recovery of renal function after liver transplantation. 
  • Prisoners on death row should be accepted as organ donors. 
  • Procurement, preservation, and transport of cadaver kidneys. 
  • Public preferences for efficiency and racial equity in kidney transplant allocation decisions. 
  • Radiation Therapy Oncology Group. Research Plan 2002-2006. Tumor Utilization Committee. 
  • Rapid brain autopsy. The Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center experience. 
  • Rationing failure. The ethical lessons of the retransplantation of scarce vital organs. 
  • Reassessing Recipient Mortality Under the New Heart Allocation System: An Updated UNOS Registry Analysis. 
  • Regional variability in symptom-based MELD exceptions: a response to organ shortage? 
  • Relationship between provider volume and outcomes for orthotopic liver transplantation. 
  • Renal Transplantation with grafts affected by tumors: learning from a 'near miss' case. 
  • Renal cell carcinoma suspected at time of organ donation 2008-2016: A report of the OPTN ad hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee Registry. 
  • Reply from the authors: We do not know what we do not know-Mechanism of donor brain death and transplant recipient outcomes. 
  • Reply: Heart Transplant Allocation Under New Policy: Perceived Risk and Gaming the System. 
  • Report from a forum on US heart allocation policy. 
  • Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body. 
  • Response to the Comment on "Improvement in Liver Transplant Outcomes From Older Donors: A US National Analysis". 
  • Results of combined hepatic, pancreaticoduodenal, and renal procurements. 
  • Results of the South-Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation strategy for transplanting sensitized patients. 
  • Role of patient factors, preferences, and distrust in health care and access to liver transplantation and organ donation. 
  • SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Serology Testing in a 3-Month-Old Organ Donor: A Case Report and Review of Available Literature. 
  • SRTR center-specific reporting tools: Posttransplant outcomes. 
  • Scientific and ethical concerns in neural fetal tissue transplantation. 
  • Sex Differences in Mortality Based on United Network for Organ Sharing Status While Awaiting Heart Transplantation. 
  • Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation at University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital. 
  • Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation from donation after cardiac death: successful long-term outcomes. 
  • Single-lung transplantation in the United States: what happens to the other lung? 
  • Solid organ transplantation at the National Institutes of Health: development of a research-based transplantation practice. 
  • Successful Implementation of a Program for Increasing Donor Eyes for Research: The Duke-Miracles In Sight Program. 
  • Successful organ donation after long-term circulatory support with nonpulsatile mechanical support. 
  • Surgical technique in transplantation: how much does it matter? 
  • Survival Benefit of Lung Transplantation in the Modern Era of Lung Allocation. 
  • Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors. 
  • Systemic Complement Activation in Donation After Brain Death Versus Donation After Circulatory Death Organ Donors. 
  • Techniques, Outcomes, and Complications of Preloaded, Trifolded Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty Using the DMEK EndoGlide. 
  • The "PHS Increased Risk" Label Is Associated With Nonutilization of Hundreds of Organs per Year. 
  • The Future of heart procurement with donation after circulatory death: Current practice and opportunities for advancement. 
  • The OPTN Deceased Donor Potential Study: Implications for Policy and Practice. 
  • The Preservation and Handling of Vein Grafts in Current Surgical Practice: Findings of a Survey Among Cardiovascular Surgeons of Top-Ranked US Hospitals. 
  • The TALKS study to improve communication, logistical, and financial barriers to live donor kidney transplantation in African Americans: protocol of a randomized clinical trial. 
  • The allocation of cadaver kidneys for transplantation in the United States: consensus and controversy. ASN Transplant Advisory Group. American Society of Nephrology. 
  • The association of donor age and survival is independent of ischemic time following deceased donor lung transplantation. 
  • The current status of living donor liver transplantation. 
  • The effect of the Statewide Sharing variance on geographic disparity in kidney transplantation in the United States. 
  • The extent and predictors of waiting time geographic disparity in kidney transplantation in the United States. 
  • The future direction of the adult heart allocation system in the United States. 
  • The heart transplant allocation change attenuates but does not eliminate blood group O waitlist outcome disadvantage. 
  • The impact of country and culture on end-of-life care for injured patients: results from an international survey. 
  • The impact of donor-recipient sex matching on survival after orthotopic heart transplantation: analysis of 18 000 transplants in the modern era. 
  • The impact of human leukocyte antigen donor and recipient serotyping and matching on liver transplant graft failure in primary sclerosing cholangitis, autoimmune hepatitis, and primary biliary cholangitis. 
  • The limits of refusal: An ethical review of solid organ transplantation and vaccine hesitancy. 
  • The new OPTN kidney allocation policy: potential for inequitable access among highly sensitized patients. 
  • The new United States heart allocation policy: Progress through collaborative revision. 
  • The problem of transplanting the sensitized patient: whose problem is it? 
  • Thyroid hormone use during cardiac transplant organ procurement. 
  • Time to transplantation as a predictor of hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation. 
  • Transplant Center Variability in Organ Offer Acceptance and Mortality Among US Patients on the Heart Transplant Waitlist. 
  • Transplantation and the end-stage renal disease program. 
  • Transplantation traffic--geography as destiny for transplant candidates. 
  • Transplanting the highly sensitized patient: trials and tribulations. 
  • Transplanting thoracic COVID-19 positive donors: An institutional protocol and report of the first 14 cases. 
  • Trends and outcomes of cardiac transplantation from donors dying of drug intoxication. 
  • Two hundred consecutive simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants with bladder drainage. 
  • Underutilization of pancreas donors. 
  • Unethical studies on transplantation in cardiothoracic surgery journals. 
  • Unrelated and HLA-nonidentical related donor marrow transplantation for thalassemia and leukemia. A combined report from the Seattle Marrow Transplant Team and the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry. 
  • Update in lung transplantation 2013. 
  • Use of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support for Management of Cardiogenic Shock Before and After the United Network for Organ Sharing Donor Heart Allocation System Changes. 
  • Validating posttransplant hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence data in the United Network for Organ Sharing database. 
  • Variability in donor organ offer acceptance and lung transplantation survival. 
  • Variables of importance in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients database predictive of heart transplant waitlist mortality. 
  • Vascularized composite allotransplantation in the United States: A descriptive analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Data. 
  • Vascularized composite allotransplantation in the United States: A retrospective analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data after 5 years of the Final Rule. 
  • Willingness of the United States general public to participate in kidney paired donation. 
  • Worldwide legal requirements for obtaining corneas: 1990. 
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  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma