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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…
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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…
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What’s Lung Got to Do with It?: The Impact of the 2017 Lung Allocation Policy at a Single Organ Procurement Organization
A. J. Boyer, J. B. Nave, C. A. Hostetler, C. C. Muse, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski
LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: To describe the impact of the lung allocation change on a single organ procurement organization (OPO). The allocation change took place on 11/24/2017 and…
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Current Status of Pre-Transplant Mortality in Pediatric Organ Transplantation
G. Mazariegos¹, E. Hsu², .. OPTN Pediatric Committee³
¹UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Seattle Children's, Seattle, WA, ³UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Although NOTA states that organ allocation policy must recognize differences between children and adults, and adopt criteria, policies, and procedures that address the unique…
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Challenges in Examining Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Fontan-Associated Liver Disease
R. T. Fischer¹, M. H. Kim², A. Nguyen³, S. R. Kumar³, J. Bucuvalas⁴, E. F. Glynn¹, M. A. Hoffman¹, J. Emamaullee³
¹Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, ²Children's Hospital-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York, NY
*Purpose: The Fontan procedure has allowed patients born with single ventricle physiology to survive into adulthood. It is projected that the mean age of Fontan…
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Taking it to the Max: Extremely Low LDL May Provide Benefit for Prevention of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy
R. Lee¹, E. J. Henricksen¹, Y. Moayedi², K. Y. Feng³, J. Han³, W. Yang⁴, R. Imai¹, J. J. Teuteberg⁴, K. K. Khush⁴
¹Pharmacy, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, CA, ²University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁴Cardiac Transplant, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Routine use of statins is the only Class I ISHLT recommendation in heart transplantation (HT) to reduce cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) and improve survival.…
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Dosing and Outcomes of Conversion to Extended-Release Tacrolimus in Heart and Lung Transplant Recipients
C. Doligalski¹, K. Walter¹, P. Chang², L. J. Lobo²
¹University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
*Purpose: Extended release tacrolimus (LCP-Tac) is a novel once daily formulation with improved pharmacokinetic parameters compared to immediate release tacrolimus (IR-Tac). LCP-Tac use in renal…
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First Experience with a New Storage Device for Cold Heart Preservation
A. Zuckermann, J. Gökler, P. Kaiser, E. Ceran, N. Neuber, P. Angleitner, G. Laufer, A. Aliabadi-Zuckermann
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
*Purpose: The standard technology for heart preservation for transplantation is cold static storange on ice. No temperature control is performed routinley and therefore lower or…
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Domestic U.S. Transplant Tourism: Analysis of U.S. Citizens Who Travel to Another State for Transplant
R. S. Mangus, M. F. Mount
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Transplant tourism is a phenomenon where patients travel away from their home to receive organ transplantation where organs are more readily available. This flow…
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The Heart of the Matter: The Impact of the 2018 Heart Allocation Policy at a Single Organ Procurement Organization
A. J. Boyer, J. B. Nave, C. A. Hostetler, C. C. Muse, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski
LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: In 2018, allocation policy changed with the goal of lowering waitlist mortality by increasing access to donor hearts. We sought to describe the impact…