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Bova S, Samet RE, Deering J, Gaines S, Weinrub A, Bhati C, Niederhaus S. Successful Opioid Minimization Following Kidney Transplant: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Cureus 2024; 16:e52917. [PMID: 38410295 PMCID: PMC10896457 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.52917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/01/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Opioid use after kidney transplant has been associated with an increased risk of death and graft loss. Several transplant centers have reported reductions in opioid use using multimodal analgesia and education. This study evaluated the impact of an opioid minimization protocol on inpatient opioid use and opioid prescribing on discharge. This was a single-center, retrospective study of adult kidney recipients transplanted from October 2021 to July 2022. Patients on chronic opioids prior to transplant were excluded. The protocol included an intra-operative ultrasound-guided lateral transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block combined with scheduled non-opioid analgesics and tramadol as needed. Acetaminophen 1000 mg and gabapentin 300 mg were given 1 hour prior to the procedure and continued three times daily after transplant. The gabapentin dose was reduced for patients with renal impairment. Additional analgesics including opioids could be added for uncontrolled pain. We hypothesized the protocol would decrease total inpatient morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) and opioid prescribing on discharge. Fifty-nine post-protocol patients were compared to 52 pre-protocol patients. After the protocol, there was a significant decrease in total inpatient MMEs per day administered and no patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) devices were required. In alignment with the protocol, there was a significant increase in the use of TAP blocks, acetaminophen, gabapentin, and lidocaine patches. While opioid use was lowest in post-protocol patients who received TAP blocks, significant reductions in MMEs per day were still seen in those post-protocol who did not receive TAP blocks. Opioid prescribing at the time of discharge decreased significantly after protocol. No difference was seen in patient-reported pain scores, return to operating room, readmission within 30 days, or length of stay. The use of scheduled acetaminophen and gabapentin with or without a TAP block allowed the elimination of PCA devices and led to significant minimizations in both inpatient opioid use and opioid prescribing on discharge.
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- Sarah Bova
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, USA
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Kandaswamy R, Stock PG, Miller J, White J, Booker SE, Israni AK, Snyder JJ, Niederhaus S, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. OPTN/SRTR 2020 Annual Data Report: Pancreas. Am J Transplant 2022; 22 Suppl 2:137-203. [PMID: 35266622 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.16979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- R Kandaswamy
- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN
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- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
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- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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Witkowski P, Anteby R, Olaitan OK, Forbes RC, Niederhaus S, Ricordi C, Fair JH, Harland RC. Pancreatic Islets Quality and Potency Cannot be Verified as Required for Drugs: Reflection on the FDA Review of a Biological License Application for Human Islets. Transplantation 2021; 105:e409-e410. [PMID: 34231527 DOI: 10.1097/tp.0000000000003880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Piotr Witkowski
- Department of Surgery, Transplantation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Diabetes Research Institute and Cell Transplant Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL
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- Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical branch, Galveston, TX
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Israni A, Wey A, Thompson B, Miller J, Casingal V, Pavlakis M, Niederhaus S, Forbes R, Wilk A, McKinney W, Kandaswamy R, Stock P, Snyder J. New Kidney and Pancreas Allocation Policy: Moving to a Circle as the First Unit of Allocation. J Am Soc Nephrol 2021; 32:1546-1550. [PMID: 34140395 PMCID: PMC8425664 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2020121679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/11/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Ajay Israni
- Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota,Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, Minnesota,Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, Minnesota,Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, Minnesota,Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess, Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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- United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota,Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, Minnesota,Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Witkowski P, Odorico J, Pyda J, Anteby R, Stratta RJ, Schrope BA, Hardy MA, Buse J, Leventhal JR, Cui W, Hussein S, Niederhaus S, Gaglia J, Desai CS, Wijkstrom M, Kandeel F, Bachul PJ, Becker YT, Wang LJ, Robertson RP, Olaitan OK, Kozlowski T, Abrams PL, Josephson MA, Andreoni KA, Harland RC, Kandaswamy R, Posselt AM, Szot GL, Ricordi C. Arguments against the Requirement of a Biological License Application for Human Pancreatic Islets: The Position Statement of the Islets for US Collaborative Presented during the FDA Advisory Committee Meeting. J Clin Med 2021; 10:jcm10132878. [PMID: 34209541 PMCID: PMC8269003 DOI: 10.3390/jcm10132878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 06/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been regulating human islets for allotransplantation as a biologic drug in the US. Consequently, the requirement of a biological license application (BLA) approval before clinical use of islet transplantation as a standard of care procedure has stalled the development of the field for the last 20 years. Herein, we provide our commentary to the multiple FDA’s position papers and guidance for industry arguing that BLA requirement has been inappropriately applied to allogeneic islets, which was delivered to the FDA Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee on 15 April 2021. We provided evidence that BLA requirement and drug related regulations are inadequate in reassuring islet product quality and potency as well as patient safety and clinical outcomes. As leaders in the field of transplantation and endocrinology under the “Islets for US Collaborative” designation, we examined the current regulatory status of islet transplantation in the US and identified several anticipated negative consequences of the BLA approval. In our commentary we also offer an alternative pathway for islet transplantation under the regulatory framework for organ transplantation, which would address deficiencies of in current system.
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- Piotr Witkowski
- Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; (P.J.B.); (Y.T.B.); (L.-J.W.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-773-834-3524
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- Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53792, USA;
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Section of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA;
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- Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA; (B.A.S.); (M.A.H.)
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- Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA; (B.A.S.); (M.A.H.)
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of NC, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA;
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- Department of Surgery, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA;
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- Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC 20007, USA;
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- Detroit Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Wayne State School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA;
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA;
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- Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA;
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- Department of Surgery, Section of Transplantation, University of NC, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA;
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA;
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- Department of Translational Research and Cellular Therapeutics, Diabetes and Metabolism Research Institute, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA;
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- Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; (P.J.B.); (Y.T.B.); (L.-J.W.)
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- Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; (P.J.B.); (Y.T.B.); (L.-J.W.)
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- Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; (P.J.B.); (Y.T.B.); (L.-J.W.)
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98133, USA;
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- Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA;
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- MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC 20007, USA;
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- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610-0118, USA;
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-5047, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85711, USA;
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;
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- Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; (A.M.P.); (G.L.S.)
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- Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; (A.M.P.); (G.L.S.)
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- Diabetes Research Institute and Cell Transplant Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA;
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Kandaswamy R, Stock PG, Miller J, Skeans MA, White J, Wainright J, Kyaw NTT, Niederhaus S, Israni AK, Snyder JJ. OPTN/SRTR 2019 Annual Data Report: Pancreas. Am J Transplant 2021; 21 Suppl 2:138-207. [PMID: 33595197 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.16496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Abstract
The overall number of pancreas transplants decreased slightly, from 1027 in 2018 to 1015, in 2019, up from a nadir of 947 in 2015. However, the number of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants (SPKs) increased in 2019, with a corresponding drop in pancreas-after-kidney transplants (PAKs) and pancreas transplants alone (PTAs). New waitlist registrations increased to 1772 in 2019, from 1606 in 2018. This was predominately driven by SPK listings, and those with type 2 diabetes. Waiting time for SPK decreased by 2 months, to a median of 12 months in 2019, but PTA recipient mean waiting time remained substantially higher, at 24 months, in 2018. Both short- and long-term outcomes, including patient survival, kidney graft survival, and acute rejection-free graft survival, have shown consistent improvement over the last decade. Pancreas graft survival data with the uniform definition of allograft failure is being collected by the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) and will be included in a future report.
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- R Kandaswamy
- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN
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- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
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- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
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- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN.,Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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Baglien B, Ngaage LM, Elegbede A, Gebran SG, Nam AJ, Niederhaus S, Scalea JR, Bromberg JS, Bartlett ST, Rasko YM. Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Maximizing Surgical Intervention at the Time of Living Donor Renal Transplantation. Transplant Proc 2020; 52:731-736. [DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2020.01.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Fridell JA, Niederhaus S, Urban R, Fox A, Odorico J. Yes, we do need to demonstrate the survival advantage of pancreas after kidney transplantation. Am J Transplant 2019; 19:1243-1244. [PMID: 30565399 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.15221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Jonathan A Fridell
- Departments of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
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- United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, Virginia
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- United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
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Fridell JA, Niederhaus S, Curry M, Urban R, Fox A, Odorico J. The survival advantage of pancreas after kidney transplant. Am J Transplant 2019; 19:823-830. [PMID: 30188614 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.15106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2018] [Revised: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Abstract
Patient survival after pancreas after kidney transplant (PAK) has been reported to be inferior to patient survival after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant (SPK). The authors examine national data to further explore allograft (kidney and pancreas) and patient survival after PAK. Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazard models were used to analyze Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data from 1995 to 2010. The analysis compared PAK and SPK candidates and recipients. Kaplan-Meier analysis results showed that PAK after either a living or a deceased donor kidney transplant is associated with increased kidney graft survival compared with recipients with type 1 diabetes who received only a kidney. The best kidney allograft survival was for patients who received a living donor kidney followed by PAK. Receiving a living donor kidney was associated with increased pancreas allograft survival compared with receiving a deceased donor kidney. PAK transplant recipients who receive both organs have a survival advantage compared with uremic candidates who receive neither (SPK waitlist). Compared with uremic diabetic waitlist patients, SPK and PAK recipients showed similar overall patient survival. Successful PAK offers a survival advantage compared with receiving neither a kidney nor a pancreas transplant. These data also suggest that receiving a pancreas (after kidney) transplant may have a protective effect on the kidney allograft.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jonathan A Fridell
- Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, USA
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- United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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Bellingham JM, Santhanakrishnan C, Neidlinger N, Wai P, Kim J, Niederhaus S, Leverson GE, Fernandez LA, Foley DP, Mezrich JD, Odorico JS, Love RB, De Oliveira N, Sollinger HW, D'Alessandro AM. Donation after cardiac death: a 29-year experience. Surgery 2011; 150:692-702. [PMID: 22000181 DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.07.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2011] [Accepted: 07/11/2011] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE To report the long-term outcomes of 1218 organs transplanted from donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors from January 1980 through December 2008. METHODS One-thousand two-hundred-eighteen organs were transplanted into 1137 recipients from 577 DCD donors. This includes 1038 kidneys (RTX), 87 livers (LTX), 72 pancreas (PTX), and 21 DCD lungs. The outcomes were compared with 3470 RTX, 1157 LTX, 903 PTX, and 409 lung transplants from donors after brain death (DBD). RESULTS Both patient and graft survival is comparable between DBD and DCD transplant recipients for kidney, pancreas, and lung after 1, 3, and 10 years. Our findings reveal a significant difference for patient and graft survival of DCD livers at each of these time points. In contrast to the overall kidney transplant experience, the most recent 16-year period (n = 396 DCD and 1,937 DBD) revealed no difference in patient and graft survival, rejection rates, or surgical complications but delayed graft function was higher (44.7% vs 22.0%; P < .001). In DCD LTX, biliary complications (51% vs 33.4%; P < .01) and retransplantation for ischemic cholangiopathy (13.9% vs 0.2%; P < .01) were increased. PTX recipients had no difference in surgical complications, rejection, and hemoglobin A1c levels. Surgical complications were equivalent between DCD and DBD lung recipients. CONCLUSION This series represents the largest single center experience with more than 1000 DCD transplants and given the critical demand for organs, demonstrates successful kidney, pancreas, liver, and lung allografts from DCD donors.
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- Janet M Bellingham
- Division of Organ Transplantation, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53792-7375, USA
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Torrealba JR, Niederhaus S, Gurney M, Pirsdh J, Sollinger H, Djamali A. 316 Donor and Allograft Histopathologic Parameters Associated with Kidney Transplant Outcomes. Am J Kidney Dis 2011. [DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2011.02.319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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