2021 American Transplant Congress
Seasonality of Mortality for Solid Organ Waitlist Candidates
*Purpose: Analysis of the impact of policies or natural occurrences on transplant system outcomes requires comparison of a treatment (post-policy) period to a control (pre-policy)…2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation in Patients with Prior Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
*Purpose: We describe short-term outcomes as well as peri- and post-transplant complications in patients with prior coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who subsequently underwent kidney transplantation.*Methods:…2021 American Transplant Congress
Is Low Systemic Fibrinolytic Activity During the Anhepatic Phase Liver Transplant Surgery Associate with the Dreaded Post-Operative Complication of Hepatic Artery Thrombosis?
1University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 2Childrens Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Removal of the native liver during transplantation results in impaired clearance of clot degrading proteins and activation of fibrinolysis as appreciated by Starzl in…2021 American Transplant Congress
Body Mass Index >35 Does Not Impact Kidney Transplant Outcomes or Health Related Quality of Life Despite BMI Class or Recipient Race
*Purpose: Kidney transplant [KTx] in recipients with BMI > 35 remains controversial and has not often been studied in recipients with BMI >40. There is…2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Covid 19 in Candidates Waitlisted for Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
*Purpose: The COVID 19 pandemic has posed new challenges to transplant centers. The impact has been detrimental on wait-listed ESKD patients, reducing their access to…2021 American Transplant Congress
Pre-transplant Prognostic Nutritional Index Predicts Short-term Outcomes After Liver Transplantation
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: To understand the importance of pre-transplant nutritional status in optimizing liver transplant outcomes.*Methods: The prognostic nutritional index (PNI) is a serum marker of nutrition…2021 American Transplant Congress
Short Waiting Time is Not Associated with Decrease in Disease-free Survival in Liver Transplant Recipients with HCC
*Purpose: Studies have suggested that shorter waiting times (WT) for liver transplant (LT) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may be associated with increased HCC…2021 American Transplant Congress
Center Cost is Not a Barrier to Aggressive Utilization of DCD Livers
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: Only 7% of livers transplanted in 2018 were from deceased from cardiac death (DCD) donors and only a minority of transplant centers aggressively utilize…2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Liver Acuity Circles on Timing of Donor Procurements
University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: The Acuity Circles (AC) policy in liver transplantation led to broader organ sharing, whereby many organ procurement organization (OPOs) had to coordinate organ offers…2021 American Transplant Congress
Machine Learning Informs Utility-Based Non-Directed Living Liver Donor Allocation
1University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2Seattle Children's, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: To maximize non-directed living liver donor graft utility, we developed analytic models predicting 10-year graft survival post liver transplant (LT).*Methods: We analyzed OPTN living…
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