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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
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
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…
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Inactive Status Change is an Independent Predictor of Waitlist Mortality and Disproportionately Impacts Patients in Donor Service Areas with a Higher Median MELD at Transplant
R. Batra¹, S. Noreen², D. Stewart³, 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: Liver waitlist mortality is calculated by including both active and inactive patients. As inactive patients are unable to receive organ offers, models that adjust…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outreach as a Way to Improve Access to Kidney Transplants: A Model to Align with Future of Kidney Disease Care
A. Govil¹, P. Gudsoorkar¹, C. Siemer², C. King², T. Diwan¹, E. Woodle¹, S. Shah¹, C. V. Thakar¹
¹Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ²UC Health, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: In 2018, there were more than 100,000 patients wait-listed for kidney transplant whereas only around 21,000 patients received a kidney transplant. Increasing access to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Sequence Variations of the LMP1 Protein are Detected in Pediatric Transplant Recipients and May Increase the Risk of EBV Disease
B. Mbiribindi¹, M. Arvedson¹, J. Pena¹, O. Hatton², C. Esquivel¹, O. Martinez¹, S. Krams¹
¹Department of Surgery/Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford Univ School of Med, Stanford, CA, ²Molecular Biology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
*Purpose: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects more than 90% of adults worldwide and is associated with several malignancies, including post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD). PTLD is a…
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Adult Liver Transplant Recipients Show Increased Fibrinolysis Resistance Compared with Pediatric Recipients: The Potential Impact of Anticoagulation between the Two Populations
H. B. Moore, T. Nydam, R. Choudhury, A. Schulick, C. Walker, M. Wachs, M. A. Adams
University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Fibrinolytic changes in adult liver transplant patients have previously been demonstrated large transitions from excessive fibrinolysis (hyperfibrinolysis) to fibrinolysis resistance (shutdown) within 2 hours…
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Comparison of Intraoperative Cortical Renal Blood Flow after Reperfusion Using Laser Speckle Flowgraphy Device between Adult and Pediatric Kidney Transplants
M. Muramatsu, K. Sakurabayashi, Y. Itabashi, Y. Takahashi, T. Mizutani, K. Nishikawa, T. Yonekura, H. Oguchi, K. Shinoda, Y. Hamasaki, T. Kawamura, K. Sakai, S. Shishido
Nephrology, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: Laser speckle flowgraphy (LSFG) is a device to monitor cutaneous and ocular fundus blood flow. The aim of this study reveals that the differences…
2020 American Transplant Congress
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.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
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…