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2020 American Transplant Congress
11 Years Experience of Early Steroid Withdrawal Immunosupression Protocol in Kidney Allograft Recipient
O. Adebiyi, A. Sharfuddin, M. Yaqub, D. Mishler, T. Taber, W. Goggins
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Early Steroid Withdrawal (ESW) Immunosuppression protocol has become a viable alternative to steroid based regimen. Our transplant program has adopted ESW protocol since 2003…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Discard Disparities of Liver Allografts
P. I. Kenny Jr¹, A. Rana², J. Vierling²
¹Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The aim of this study is to demonstrate the significant geographic disparity in liver allograft discard.*Methods: Using the OPTN Diseased Donor Network database, we…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Risk Prediction in the Meld-NA Era: The Tremendous Impact of Liver Related Complications
N. R. Mazumder¹, K. Atiemo², K. Jackson³, A. Daud⁴, A. Kho³, J. Levitsky¹, D. P. Ladner⁴
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Transplant Surgery, Tulane, New Orleans, LA, ³Center for Health Information Partnerships, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The MELD-Na score widely used for medical decision making but is not a good predictor of patient outcomes at low scores. Although portal hypertensive…
2020 American Transplant Congress
MY-ATLAS: A Novel Simulation Algorithm for Liver Transplant Allocation
C. G. Rickert¹, H. Zhao², Z. Leung², M. Akan³, J. F. Markmann¹, S. Tayur³, H. Yeh¹
¹Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, ³Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Currently, the primary tool for modeling expected outcomes from changes in allocation policy is the SRTR-run Liver Simulated Allocation Model (LSAM), which is neither…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Link between Waitlist Mortality and Access to Transplant, an Imaginative Reality
R. Batra¹, D. Mulligan¹, D. Haakinson¹, S. Noreen², D. Stewart², G. Gan³, Y. Deng³, S. Kulkarni¹
¹Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Yale University, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Liver transplant waitlist mortality due to inadequate access to livers is the Achilles heel in liver transplantation in United States. This remains amongst the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
From Marginal to Meaningful: Donor Liver Biopsy Increases Donation Rates amongst Elderly Donors
J. A. Steggerda¹, M. B. Bloom¹, K. Mahendraraj¹, G. Voidonikolas¹, T. Todo¹, M. Noureddin², N. N. Nissen¹, A. S. Klein¹, I. K. Kim¹
¹Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²Hepatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Recently, there has been public scrutiny on the non-utilization of elderly donors in liver transplantation. Here, we evaluate the influence of donor liver biopsy…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Mortality and Transplant Probability for Inactively Listed Liver Patients Depends on Donor Service Areas’ Median MELD at Transplant
R. Batra¹, S. Noreen², D. Stewart², D. Haakinson¹, G. Gan³, Y. Deng³, S. Kulkarni¹
¹Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Yale University, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Presently, the outcome of patients listed inactive on liver transplant waiting list (WL) are unknown; as inactive patients cannot receive deceased donor organ offers,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Uncontrolled DCD vs DBD Liver Transplantation in the United States: Is it Safe to Push the Envelope?
R. A. Choudhury¹, D. Yoeli¹, H. Yaffe¹, H. B. Moore¹, G. Hoeltzel², A. Schulick¹, K. D. Conzen¹, J. J. Pomposelli¹, E. A. Pomfret¹, T. L. Nydam¹
¹Department of Surgery- Division of Transplantation Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, ²Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Uncontrolled donation after cardiac death (uDCD) liver transplantation has been theorized as a potential option to increase the donor pool due to the typical…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Patients in Donor Service Areas with Higher Median MELD at Transplant Have a Lower Probability of Liver Transplant Waitlist Activation
J. Merola¹, S. Noreen², D. Stewart², R. Batra¹, D. Haakinson¹, G. Gan³, Y. Deng³, S. Kulkarni¹
¹Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²United Network of Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ³Yale Center for Analytical Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: US allocation of hepatic allografts is prioritized based on medical need, however significant geographical disparities exist with median MELD at transplant across donor specific…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics and Outcomes of Acetaminophen Overdose Related Hospitalizations Requiring Liver Transplant
A. Khan¹, N. Saleem², M. Bilal³, R. Tariq⁴, S. Singh⁵
¹West Virginia University-Charleston division, Charleston, WV, ²University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ³Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁴Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY, ⁵Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV
*Purpose: Acetaminophen overdose (AO) may lead to severe liver damage requiring an urgent liver transplant (LT). The data on hospital-related outcomes in patients with AO…