Living Donors

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Cascade of Structural Barriers Contributing to Racial Kidney Transplant Inequities. 
  • A decade of minimally invasive donation: experience with more than 1200 laparoscopic donor nephrectomies at a single institution. 
  • A prospective, randomized, multicenter study evaluating early corticosteroid withdrawal with Thymoglobulin in living-donor kidney transplantation. 
  • A technical modification eliminates early ureteral complications after laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. 
  • Addition of adult-to-adult living donation to liver transplant programs improves survival but at an increased cost. 
  • Addressing racial and ethnic disparities in live donor kidney transplantation: priorities for research and intervention. 
  • African Americans' discussions about living-donor kidney transplants with family or friends: Who, what, and why not? 
  • Alemtuzumab induction and recurrence of glomerular disease after kidney transplantation. 
  • An alternative extraction site for laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. 
  • Association of Race and Ethnicity With Live Donor Kidney Transplantation in the United States From 1995 to 2014. 
  • Associations of perceived information adequacy and knowledge with pursuit of live donor kidney transplants and living donor inquiries among African American transplant candidates. 
  • Attitudes, psychology, and risk taking of potential live kidney donors: strangers, relatives, and the general public. 
  • Biliary reconstructive techniques and associated anatomic variants in adult living donor liver transplantations: The adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study experience. 
  • CT evaluation of the renal donor and recipient. 
  • CT volumetry is superior to nuclear renography for prediction of residual kidney function in living donors. 
  • Center-level Variation in HLA-incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Outcomes. 
  • Challenging choices: liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • Chronic allograft nephropathy uniformly affects recipients of cadaveric, nonidentical living-related, and living-unrelated grafts. 
  • Clinical relevance and IgG subclass determination of non-HLA antibodies identified using endothelial cell precursors isolated from donor blood. 
  • Concerns regarding the financial aspects of kidney transplantation: perspectives of pre-transplant patients and their family members. 
  • Contralateral inflow occlusion to optimize graft volume and to reduce blood loss during parenchymal dissection in living-related liver transplantation. 
  • Correlation of preoperative imaging characteristics with donor outcomes and operative difficulty in laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. 
  • Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange 
  • Database comparison of the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study (A2ALL) and the SRTR U.S. Transplant Registry. 
  • Death of a living liver donor from illicit drugs. 
  • Declining influence of race on the outcome of living-donor renal transplantation. 
  • Defining long-term outcomes with living donor liver transplantation in North America. 
  • Delayed graft function and acute rejection following HLA-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation. 
  • Determinants of willingness to donate living related and cadaveric organs: identifying opportunities for intervention. 
  • Development of a Telehealth Intervention to Improve Access to Live Donor Kidney Transplantation. 
  • Dialysis or transplantation: fitting the treatment to the patient. 
  • Diaphragmatic Hernias after Living Donor Hepatectomy: A Critical Reappraisal. 
  • Differential impact of inhibitory and activating Killer Ig-Like Receptors (KIR) on high-risk patients with myeloid and lymphoid malignancies undergoing reduced intensity transplantation from haploidentical related donors. 
  • Domino liver transplantation in maple syrup urine disease: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Donor kidney volume measured by computed tomography is a strong predictor of recipient eGFR in living donor kidney transplantation. 
  • Donor-Recipient Height Mismatch Is Associated With Decreased Survival in Pediatric-to-Adult Liver Transplant Recipients. 
  • Duct of Luschka Bile Leak Following Deceased Donor Liver Transplant. 
  • 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. 
  • Ex-vivo ureteroscopy at the time of live donor nephrectomy. 
  • Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia in the donor and recipient of a living related donor kidney transplant. 
  • Fatal and nonfatal hemorrhagic complications of living kidney donation. 
  • Feasibility and acceptability of the TALK social worker intervention to improve live kidney transplantation. 
  • Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: a need for caution in live-related renal transplantation. 
  • Graft loss due to recurrent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in renal transplant recipients in the United States. 
  • Helical CT of potential living renal donors: toward a greater understanding. 
  • Hemorrhagic cystitis after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in children: clinical characteristics and outcome. 
  • Hepatitis C disease severity in living versus deceased donor liver transplant recipients: an extended observation study. 
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence and death following living and deceased donor liver transplantation. 
  • Hospital readmissions following HLA-incompatible live donor kidney transplantation: A multi-center study. 
  • Hospitalization rates before and after adult-to-adult living donor or deceased donor liver transplantation. 
  • Human renal allograft rejection despite the absence of allogeneic passenger leukocytes. 
  • Identical twin small bowel transplant after resection of abdominal desmoid tumor. 
  • Identifying and addressing barriers to African American and non-African American families' discussions about preemptive living related kidney transplantation. 
  • Impact of donor and recipient age difference on long-term allograft survival after living donor renal transplantation: analysis of 478 cases. 
  • Impact of graft type on outcome in pediatric liver transplantation: a report From Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT). 
  • Improved contemporary outcomes of liver transplantation for pediatric hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • Improvement in survival associated with adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation. 
  • Incidence of Postreperfusion Hyperfibrinolysis in Liver Transplantation by Donor Type and Observed Treatment Strategies. 
  • Incidental detection of nutcracker phenomenon on multidetector CT in an asymptomatic population: prevalence and associated findings. 
  • Incidental living donor nephrectomy: a unique expansion of the donor pool. 
  • Increased living donor volunteer rates with a formal recipient family education program. 
  • Laboratory test results after living liver donation in the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study. 
  • Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy increases the supply of living donor kidneys: a center-specific microeconomic analysis. 
  • Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy with a 23-hour stay: a new standard for transplantation surgery. 
  • Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: pro. 
  • Laparoscopic kidney donation: looking more than skin deep. 
  • Laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy and multiple renal arteries. 
  • Laparoscopic versus open donor nephrectomy: comparing ureteral complications in the recipients and improving the laparoscopic technique. 
  • Left lateral segment liver volume is not correlated with anthropometric measures. 
  • Live donor liver transplantation with older donors: Increased long-term graft loss due to HCV recurrence. 
  • Liver Transplantation in 2016: An Update. 
  • Liver transplant recipient survival benefit with living donation in the model for endstage liver disease allocation era. 
  • Liver transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Living and deceased donor liver transplantation for unresectable hepatoblastoma at a single center. 
  • Living donor follow-up: Unfunded mandates and the Hippocratic oath where perfect may be the enemy of good? 
  • Living donor liver transplantation. 
  • Living donor liver transplantation: the historical and cultural basis of policy decisions and ongoing ethical questions. 
  • Living related versus deceased donor liver transplantation for maple syrup urine disease. 
  • Living unrelated renal donation: the University of Wisconsin experience. 
  • Living-related lobar lung transplantation. 
  • Living-unrelated renal transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Long-term outcome of early steroid withdrawal after kidney transplantation in African American recipients monitored by surveillance biopsy. 
  • Long-term quality of life after liver donation in the adult to adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study (A2ALL). 
  • Lymphocyte activation markers may predict the presence of donor specific alloreactivity in pediatric living related liver transplant recipients. 
  • Measuring and explaining racial and ethnic differences in willingness to donate live kidneys in the United States. 
  • Of ends and means. 
  • Offering more without offering compensation: non-compensating benefits for living kidney donors. 
  • Organ Transplantation in Greece. 
  • Organ donation and treatment of the multi-organ donor. 
  • Organ donation during the financial crisis in Greece. 
  • Outcome of transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children with Down syndrome. 
  • Outcomes in kidney transplant recipients from older living donors. 
  • Outcomes of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy in obese patients. 
  • Outcomes of liver retransplantation in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis. 
  • Outcomes of living and deceased donor liver transplant recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma: results of the A2ALL cohort. 
  • Patients with adenosine deaminase deficiency surviving after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation are at high risk of CNS complications. 
  • Perioperative Fresh Red Blood Cell Transfusion May Negatively Affect Recipient Survival After Liver Transplantation. 
  • Predictive Factors of Renal Adaptation After Nephrectomy in Kidney Donors. 
  • Predictors of low estimated glomerular filtration rate after living kidney donation in a Southeast Asian population from Singapore. 
  • Preferences, knowledge, communication and patient-physician discussion of living kidney transplantation in African American families. 
  • Prospective pilot study of living kidney donor decision-making and outcomes. 
  • Protocol of a randomized controlled trial of culturally sensitive interventions to improve African Americans' and non-African Americans' early, shared, and informed consideration of live kidney transplantation: the Talking About Live Kidney Donation (TALK) Study. 
  • Protocol of the KTFT-TALK study to reduce racial disparities in kidney transplant evaluation and living donor kidney transplantation. 
  • Public attitudes toward incentives for organ donation: a national study of different racial/ethnic and income groups. 
  • Quantifying renal allograft loss following early antibody-mediated rejection. 
  • Quantifying the risk of incompatible kidney transplantation: a multicenter study. 
  • Receipt and Sharing of Information to Improve Knowledge About Living Donor Kidney Transplant among Transplant Candidates with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Related peripheral blood stem cell donors experience more severe symptoms and less complete recovery at one year compared to unrelated donors. 
  • Renal response following perioperative ketorolac analgesia in living kidney donation. 
  • Rescue of a living donor with liver transplantation. 
  • Safety and efficacy of living donor liver preservation with HTK solution. 
  • Sex and Gender Differences in Kidney Transplantation. 
  • Sex and gender disparity in kidney transplantation: Historical and future perspectives. 
  • Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation and living related donor renal transplantation in patients with diabetes: is there a difference in survival? 
  • Single-center experience with renal transplantation in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis. 
  • Single-site laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy offers comparable perioperative outcomes to conventional laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy at a higher cost. 
  • Splenectomy is not indicated in living donor liver transplantation. 
  • Successful bone marrow transplantation with reduced intensity conditioning in a patient with delayed-onset adenosine deaminase deficiency. 
  • Surgical complications after living and deceased donor liver transplant: The NSQIP transplant experience. 
  • Surgical technique in transplantation: how much does it matter? 
  • Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors. 
  • Systemic inflammatory response syndrome after human syngeneic intestinal transplantation: evidence for disruption of enterocyte barrier function. 
  • Tacrolimus versus Cyclosporine after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Acquired Aplastic Anemia. 
  • The Effect of Psychiatric History on Pain and Related Outcomes Among Living Kidney Donors. 
  • The Impact of Primary Liver Disease and Social Determinants in a Mixed Donor Liver Transplant Program: A Single-Center Analysis. 
  • The Incremental Cost of Incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A National Cohort Analysis. 
  • 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 Virtual Crossmatch: An Essential Tool for Transplanting Sensitized Patients. 
  • The association of state and national legislation with living kidney donation rates in the United States: a national study. 
  • The current status of living donor liver transplantation. 
  • The general public's concerns about clinical risk in live kidney donation. 
  • The impact of donor variables on the outcome of orthotopic liver transplantation for hepatitis C. 
  • The providing resources to enhance African American patients' readiness to make decisions about kidney disease (PREPARED) study: protocol of a randomized controlled trial. 
  • The relationship between marijuana use and psychosocial variables in living kidney donor candidates. 
  • Three-dimensional CT of the genitourinary tract. 
  • Transplant social worker and donor financial assistance to increase living donor kidney transplants among African Americans: The TALKS Study, a randomized comparative effectiveness trial. 
  • Treatment of intestinal failure: intestinal transplantation. 
  • Trends in African Americans' Attitudes and Behaviors About Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. 
  • Understanding and overcoming barriers to living kidney donation among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. 
  • 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. 
  • Urological complications and vesicoureteral reflux following pediatric kidney transplantation. 
  • Using donor exchange paradigms with desensitization to enhance transplant rates among highly sensitized patients. 
  • 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. 
  • Who decides? Living donor liver transplantation for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. 
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  • Routh, Jonathan Charles, Paul H. Sherman, M.D. Distinguished Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics