Transplant of organs from donors with positive SARS‐CoV‐2 nucleic acid testing: a report from the organ procurement and transplantation network ad hoc disease …

JD Goldman, SM Pouch, AE Woolley… - Transplant Infectious …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Decisions to transplant organs from severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) nucleic acid test‐positive (NAT+) donors must balance risk of …

Comparison of short-term outcomes in kidney transplant recipients from SARS-CoV-2–infected versus noninfected deceased donors

J Yamauchi, A Azhar, IE Hall, A Bhalla… - Clinical Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background Acceptable post-transplant outcomes were reported in kidney transplant
recipients from donors with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); however, there are no …

Patterns in use and transplant outcomes among adult recipients of kidneys from deceased donors with COVID-19

M Ji, AJ Vinson, SH Chang, M Merzkani… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance While the COVID-19 pandemic enters a new phase and the proportion of
individuals with a previous COVID-19 diagnosis increases, the national patterns in kidney …

Long-term and short-term outcomes of solid organ transplantation from donors with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test

A Dhand, A Gass, D John, M Kai, D Wolf, R Bodin… - …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Abhay Dhand, MD, 1, 2 Alan Gass, MD, 3 Devon John, MD, 2 Masashi Kai, MD, 2 David
Wolf, MD, 1, 2 Roxana Bodin, MD, 1, 2 Kenji Okumura, MD, 2 Gregory Veillette, MD, 2 Rajat …

Increased rates of kidney discard in the era of COVID-19 and recent KAS policy implementation

Y Özer, S Kaplan, B Sandikçi, G Gupta… - Transplantation, 2022 - journals.lww.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted transplant activity negatively across the United
States. 1, 2 The early phase of the pandemic witnessed decreased new waitlist additions …

Virologic Studies in COVID-Positive Donors

A Azhar, B Tanriover, AB Gungor, MZ Molnar… - Current Transplantation …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The demand and supply disparity of solid organs is a vital issue
affecting the survival of patients with advanced organ failures. The COVID-19 pandemic …

Chronological and Geographical Variations in the Incidence and Acceptance of COVID‐19–Positive Donors and Outcomes Among Abdominal Transplant Patients

J Yang, Y Endo, K Sasaki, A Schenk… - Clinical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Given the importance of understanding COVID‐19–positive donor incidence
and acceptance, we characterize chronological and geographic variations in COVID‐19 …

Detection of transmissible severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 from deceased kidney donors: implications for kidney transplant recipients

A Azhar, S Kleiboeker, S Khorsandi, MD Kilpatrick… - …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
We reported that in the United States, 388 organs from (SARS-CoV-2) nucleic acid test
(NAT) positive 150 donors were procured between August 2020 and September 2021. 1 …

The Challenges of Risk Aversion in Kidney Transplantation: Lessons From the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in Brazil

JM Pestana, MP Cristelli, HT Silva Jr - Transplantation, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Brazil registered> 37 million coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases with 704 000
COVID-19–related deaths as of July 8, 2023, resulting in an estimated 20% excess mortality …

[HTML][HTML] Utilization and discard of organs from donors with COVID‐19 in the United States

K Okumura, S Nishida, A Dhand - Clinical Transplantation, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Donor medical history 2 (1.0%) 33 (1.0%) 2 (1.1%) 1 (. 7%) Biopsy findings 15 (7.8%) 546
(16%) 15 (8.1%) 22 (15%) Poor organ function 3 (1.6%) 146 (4.4%) 3 (1.6%) 7 (4.7%) …