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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
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
Geographic Distribution of End-Stage Renal Disease in the US: The First Description of an “ESRD Belt”
R. D. Reed¹, H. Qu¹, P. A. MacLennan¹, M. N. Mustian¹, D. Anderson¹, A. C. Kale¹, B. J. Orandi¹, B. A. Shelton¹, V. Kumar², M. J. Hanaway¹, J. E. Locke¹
¹Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Previous research has demonstrated that population health is associated with organ supply and transplantation; this is particularly true in the southeastern United States, which…
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
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
Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Assessing the Feasibility to Collect Organ Transplantation and Procurement Logistics Data
A. M. Placona, C. Humphries, R. Ehrensberger, J. Wainwright
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: There has been increased focus on the logistics of organ transplantation. Stemming from recent policies designed to facilitate broader sharing. Reliable methods of assessing…
2020 American Transplant Congress
PHS High Risk: Is this Classification Still Needed?
L. G. Smith
Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: The continued shortage of organs for the over 100,000 candidates on the waitlist has led transplant centers to consider organs that have historically higher…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Causal Relationship between Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction Therapy and Development of Monomorphic PTLD in Renal Transplant Recipients
K. Soliman¹, H. Ali², T. Fulop¹, A. Osman³, A. Halawa⁴
¹Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²Medicine, Royal Stoke, Royal Stoke, United Kingdom, ³Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, ⁴Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
*Purpose: The aim of our study is to explore the causality between ATG and different types of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) in renal transplant recipients…
2020 American Transplant Congress
No Correlation Between Program-Specific Report Performance of Different Organs at the Same Center
A. Massie¹, N. Salkowski², D. Zaun², J. Snyder², D. Segev¹
¹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ²SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Transplant programs which have too many early graft failures, as determined by the SRTR Program-Specific Reports (PSRs) risk decreased patient volume, regulatory sanction, and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Estimating the Potential Pool of Uncontrolled DCD Donors in the United States
B. J. Boyarsky, K. R. Jackson, A. B. Kernodle, J. V. Sakran, J. M. Garonzik Wang, S. E. Ottmann, D. L. Segev
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In contrast to donation after brain death (DBD), donation after circulatory death (DCD) involves recovery of organs from people with devastating neurologic injury who…