Donor Selection

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • APOL1: a case in point for replacing race with genetics. 
  • Alternate analysis strategies for retrospective assessment of outcomes with a male donor-only plasma policy. 
  • Assessing the safety and efficacy of a test-based, targeted donor screening strategy to minimize transfusion transmitted malaria. 
  • Babesia screening: the importance of reporting and calibration in cost-effectiveness models. 
  • Blood donor eligibility criteria for medical conditions: A BEST collaborative study. 
  • Coccidioidomycosis Transmission Through Organ Transplantation: A Report of the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee. 
  • Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange 
  • Deceased donor multidrug resistance protein 1 and caveolin 1 gene variants may influence allograft survival in kidney transplantation. 
  • Decline of increased risk donor offers increases waitlist mortality in paediatric heart transplantation. 
  • Direct-Acting Antivirals and Organ Transplantation: Is There Anything We Can't Do? 
  • Domino liver transplantation in maple syrup urine disease: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Donor Iron Deficiency Study (DIDS): protocol of a study to test whether iron deficiency in blood donors affects red blood cell recovery after transfusion. 
  • Donor and recipient age matching in heart transplantation: analysis of the UNOS Registry. 
  • Donor predictors of allograft use and recipient outcomes after heart transplantation. 
  • Donor-derived hepatitis C in the era of increasing intravenous drug use: A report of the Disease Transmission Advisory Committee. 
  • Donor-derived infections in solid organ transplant patients: toward a holistic approach. 
  • Donor-derived infections: Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice. 
  • Donor-derived transmission events in 2013: a report of the Organ Procurement Transplant Network Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee. 
  • Dual Kidney Allocation Score: A Novel Algorithm Utilizing Expanded Donor Criteria for the Allocation of Dual Kidneys in Adults. 
  • Eighth Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 3-5, 2010. 
  • Electrocardiographic characteristics of potential organ donors and associations with cardiac allograft use. 
  • Endemic Fungal Infection Recommendations for Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients and Donors. 
  • Heart Transplantation Survival and the Use of Traumatically Brain-Injured Donors: UNOS Registry Propensity-Matched Analysis. 
  • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • Hepatitis B core antibody-positive donors in cardiac transplantation: a single-center experience. 
  • High clinical suspicion of donor-derived disease leads to timely recognition and early intervention to treat solid organ transplant-transmitted lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. 
  • How do we manage blood donors and recipients after a positive Zika screening result? 
  • Impact of ABO compatibility on outcomes after heart transplantation in a national cohort during the past decade. 
  • Implications of declining donor offers with increased risk of disease transmission on waiting list survival in lung transplantation. 
  • Increasing the United States heart transplant donor pool with donation after circulatory death. 
  • Invited commentary. 
  • Late first acute rejection in pediatric kidney transplantation: A North American Pediatric Renal Trials and Collaborative Studies special study. 
  • Living donor liver transplantation. 
  • Marginal Donor Use in Patients Undergoing Heart Transplantation With Left Ventricular Assist Device Explantation. 
  • Mitigating the Impact of Using Female Donor Hearts in Male Recipients Using BMI Difference. 
  • Organ Donation After Circulatory Death in Greece: Time to Consider. 
  • Outcomes in kidney transplant recipients from older living donors. 
  • Pulmonary, gonadal, and central nervous system status after bone marrow transplantation for sickle cell disease. 
  • Reliability of echocardiographic measurements of left ventricular systolic function in potential pediatric heart transplant donors. 
  • 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. 
  • Role of coronary artery calcium score in identifying occult coronary artery disease in patients evaluated for deceased-donor liver transplant - a preliminary report. 
  • Screening of blood donors for sickle cell trait using a DNA-based approach: Frequency in a multiethnic donor population. 
  • Surgical considerations in lung transplantation: transplant operation and early postoperative management. 
  • Temporal Changes in the Impact of HLA Mismatching Among Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients. 
  • 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 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 impact of donor-recipient sex matching on survival after orthotopic heart transplantation: analysis of 18 000 transplants in the modern era. 
  • The integration of high-throughput testing of blood donors for cardiovascular disease risk assessment and prevention. 
  • The trade-off of using positive-smoking donor lungs. 
  • Therapeutic apheresis in kidney transplantation: a review of renal transplant immunobiology and current interventions with apheresis medicine. 
  • Third-party reproduction in the Internet Age: the new, patient-centered landscape. 
  • Transfusion-transmitted babesiosis: achieving successful mitigation while balancing cost and donor loss. 
  • Transplanting a heart with a persistent left superior vena cava. 
  • Trends and outcomes of cardiac transplantation from donors dying of drug intoxication. 
  • Untying the Gordian knot: policies, practices, and ethical issues related to banking of umbilical cord blood. 
  • Variability in donor organ offer acceptance and lung transplantation survival. 
  • Zika virus and its implications on cord blood banking and transplantation.