2020 American Transplant Congress
Bypassing the Nearest Transplant Center for Care is Associated with Gains in Time to Living Donor but Not Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation or Improved Graft Outcomes
*Purpose: Some patients may gain an advantage if they choose to bypass their local transplant center and receive care at a center further away but…2020 American Transplant Congress
Acute Liver Failure Etiology is an Independent Predictor of Waitlist Outcome Accounting for Severity of Illness in a National Cohort
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Severity of illness and liver transplant (LT) waitlist outcome can differ according to acute liver failure (ALF) etiology. However, it is unknown whether ALF…2020 American Transplant Congress
Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Waiting List and Transplant Trends in the U.S
*Purpose: Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) transplantation is a rapidly changing field. *Methods: Since the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) implemented the VCA waiting list…2020 American Transplant Congress
Introducing the Smartphone App, EL-FIT (Exercise & Liver FITness), to Help Monitor and Prehabilitate Liver Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: Physical activity is key to liver transplant (LT) prehabilitation, and leveraging technologies to monitor physical performance and to generalize training may be advantageous. EL-FIT…2020 American Transplant Congress
Cross-Validation of Performance-Based Frailty against Daily Step Count from Personal Activity Trackers – Refining Prehabilitation Tools in Liver Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: The AST proposed a toolkit to identify frailty in liver transplant (LT) candidates, including the liver frailty index (LFI) and 6-min walk test (6MWT).…2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Waitlist Mortality is Not Associated with Urbanicity
*Purpose: Because of geographic disparity in transplant rates and organ usage, distance-based liver distribution has been proposed to replace Donor Service Area based distribution. However,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Center Effect on Acute Liver Failure Outcomes in a National Cohort
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Transplant centers coordinate complex care for patients with acute liver failure (ALF), in whom liver transplantation (LT) can be lifesaving. This study examines associations…2020 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence of Frailty and Cognitive Impairment at Time of Kidney Transplant Evaluation
Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
*Purpose: Frailty is highly prevalent in kidney disease, with prevalence estimates as high as 73% in patients at the time of dialysis initiation compared to…2020 American Transplant Congress
Ambient Air Pollution and Waitlist Mortality among Lung Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: Previous studies suggested that air pollution is associate with higher risk of respiratory diseases and accelerated decline in lung function among general population. However,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Black Patients with Cirrhosis Have Worse Liver-Related Outcomes: A Large Multicenter Study
*Purpose: Racial disparity is influential in liver cirrhosis. Estimates of its magnitude have been limited by lack of large, longitudinal data that track patients from…
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