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2020 American Transplant Congress
Managing the Road to Kidney Transplantation in the Elderly
R. S. Munjal, K. Kalra, A. Cherukuri, D. Jorgensen, S. Verma, P. Sood, R. Mehta, C. Puttarajappa, S. Hariharan, C. Wu
Nephrology, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: We hypothesize that careful patient selection and waitlist management minimizes the impact of advanced recipient age on kidney transplant outcomes.*Methods: A total of 3,521…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Socioeconomic Independence and Kidney Transplantation Outcomes: A Nationwide Study of South Korea
S. Park¹, J. Park², M. Kim³, J. Kim³, M. Yu⁴, K. Kim³, M. Park⁵, Y. Kim³, D. Kim³, K. Joo³, Y. Kim³, H. Lee³
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Armed Forces Capital Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: A nationwide study regarding the association between socioeconomic dependency accessibility to or prognosis of kidney transplantation has been rarely studied, particularly in an Asian…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Based Early Steroid Withdrawal Regimens: Differential Responses in African Americans and Non-African Americans
N. Wilson¹, A. R. Shields², A. L. Christianson¹, S. Tremblay¹, D. Kaufman³, A. Wiseman⁴, J. P. Leone⁵, P. West-Thielke⁶, A. J. Matas⁷, R. R. Alloway¹, E. S. Woodle¹
¹U Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ²The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ³U Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁴U Colorado, Denver, CO, ⁵Tampa General, Tampa, FL, ⁶U Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁷U Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Racial disparities in outcomes of kidney transplant recipients (KTxR) are well-described for early steroid withdrawal (ESW) under calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-based regimens, however little data…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Survey of Public Attitudes Towards Imminent Death Donation in the United States
L. Washburn¹, T. Galvan¹, P. Moolchandani¹, S. Rath¹, R. Ackah², S. Parsons³, R. P. Brown³, E. Ranova³, M. Goss⁴, A. Rana¹, J. A. Goss¹
¹Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Department of Surgery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ³Rice University, Houston, TX, ⁴Department of Bioethics, Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Imminent Death Donation (IDD) has been proposed as a method to increase the number of high-quality organs available for transplant. Although IDD was ethically…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Relative Transplant Center Organ Volumes are Associated with Patient and Graft Survival
J. T. Adler, T. C. Tsai, S. K. Malek, S. G. Tullius, J. S. Weissman
Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Transplant programs differ in relative volume of kidney and liver transplants. While there is a known volume-outcome relationship for organ-specific transplantation at an institutional…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Living Kidney Donor Candidates
Y. Lu¹, A. Naik¹, K. Woodside², R. Sung², R. Doshi³, R. Parasuraman¹, S. Norman¹, M. Doshi¹
¹Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Pre-donation renal function is an important determinant of future development of kidney disease in live kidney donors (LKD). In 2017, the Kidney Disease Improving…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improvements in Organ Donation: Riding the Coattails of a National Tragedy
D. Goldberg¹, R. Lynch²
¹Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, ²Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: The US organ donation system has received attention from the highest levels of government. It has been debated whether increased donation is attributable solely…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of County Health Rankings on Nationwide Liver Transplant Outcomes
S. K. Niazi¹, E. Vargas², A. Spaulding³, J. Crook⁴, A. P. Keaveny⁵, T. Schneekloth⁶, T. Rummans⁷, C. Taner⁵
¹Psychiatry & Psychology; Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ²Heath Services Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Health Services Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁴Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁵Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁶Psychiatry & Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁷Psychiatry & Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
*Purpose: We examined the impact of social determinants of health (SDOH) in LT recipients’ counties of residence and their associations with long-term patient and graft…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Implications for Facilitated Pancreas Transplant Allocation with the Removal of Donor Service Area
R. Forbes¹, R. Urban², A. Fox², J. Odorico³, S. Niederhaus⁴
¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ³University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁴University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Facilitated Pancreas (FP) Allocation, modified in August 2016 to be metric-based rather than opt-in, defines an eligible center as one that has transplanted at…
2020 American Transplant Congress
An Early Look at the National Liver Review Board
S. Noreen¹, R. Hirose², J. Trotter³, J. Heimbach⁴
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Texas Digestive Disease Consultants, Dallas, TX, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: On May 14, 2019, the National Liver Review Board (NLRB) was implemented, establishing a national structure for liver exceptions comprised of three specialty review…