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Founded out of Stanford's Biodesign Innovation Fellowship & UCSF Transplant, we're working on a breakthrough approach to address the organ shortage, increase the longevity of transplanted organs, and improve outcomes - keeping patients off dialysis and out of the hospital while enabling the future of transplantation.

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Biodesign Summer Extension Provides Novel Solution to Vexing Kidney Transplant Issue - Fogarty InnovationApproximately 100,000 U.S. patients require a kidney transplant each year, with some waiting more than five years for a donor, and up to half of those dying in the interim. And even for the “lucky” ones who receive a transplant, there are still hurdles. In fact, one in three patients experiences delayed graft function (DGF), a failure […]

Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign on LinkedIn: #healthtech #innovation #training | 17 commentsCongratulations! Two teams of Biodesign Innovation Fellows have won summer extension funding to advance projects that address needs identified during their... 17 comments on LinkedIn

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Feuillu B, Cormier L, Frimat L, et al. Kidney warming during transplantation. Transplant International. 2003. <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1432-2277.2003.tb00305.x>
Marzouk K, Lawen J, Alwayn I, Kiberd BA. The impact of vascular anastomosis time on early kidney transplant outcomes. Transplant Res. 2013;2(1):8. doi:10.1186/2047-1440-2-8 <https://transplantationresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2047-1440-2-8>
Heylen L, Naesens M, Jochmans I, et al. The effect of anastomosis time on outcome in recipients of kidneys donated after brain death: a cohort study. Am J Transplant. 2015;15(11):2900-2907. doi:10.1111/ajt.13397 <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26484837/>
Kamińska D, Kościelska-Kasprzak K, Chudoba P, et al. The influence of warm ischemia elimination on kidney injury during transplantation – clinical and molecular study. Scientific Reports. 2016;6(1):36118. doi:10.1038/srep36118 <https://www.nature.com/articles/srep36118>
Heylen et al (2017): Heylen L, Pirenne J, Samuel U, et al. The Impact of Anastomosis Time During Kidney Transplantation on Graft Loss: A Eurotransplant Cohort Study. American Journal of Transplantation. 2017;17(3):724-732. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.14031 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajt.14031>
Heylen, L., Pirenne, J., Naesens, M., Sprangers, B. and Jochmans, I. (2021), “Time is tissue”—A minireview on the importance of donor nephrectomy, donor hepatectomy, and implantation times in kidney and liver transplantation. Am J Transplant, 21: 2653-2661. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.16580 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.16580>
Cron, David C MD, MS,; Murakami, Naoka MD, PhD; Xiang, Lingwei MPH; Markmann, James F MD, PhD, FACS; Yeh, Heidi MD, FACS; Adler, Joel T MD, MPH, Anastomosis Time and Outcomes after Donation after Circulatory Death Kidney Transplantation, Journal of the American College of Surgeons: June 2022 - Volume 234 - Issue 6 - p 999-1008 doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000174 <https://journals.lww.com/journalacs/Abstract/2022/06000/Anastomosis_Time_and_Outcomes_after_Donation_after.3.aspx>
Robotic Kidney Transplants Offer New Lease on Life to High-BMI Patients https://news.cuanschutz.edu/department-of-surgery/robotic-kidney-transplants-high-bmi-patients
Andras, I., Piana, A., Verri, P. et al. Systematic review of techniques and devices used to avoid warm ischemia time injury during kidney transplantation. World J Urol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-023-04328
Mahajan N, Heer MK, Trevillian PR. Renal transplant anastomotic time-Every minute counts! Front Med (Lausanne). 2023 Jan 18;9:1024137. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.1024137. PMID: 36743673; PMCID: PMC9889534. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889534/