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2020 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Direct Acting Oral Anticoagulation in Solid Organ Transplant Patients: A National Survey of Institutional Practices
D. Pierce¹, A. Lichvar¹, D. Salerno², P. Klem³, G. Waldman⁴, J. M. Park⁵
¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, ³University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: The safety and efficacy of direct acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) and reversal strategies are not well established in the solid organ transplant population. This…
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
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
Immune-Mediated Injury and Eplet Mismatches – Profiling Population-Level Interactions
H. Mohammadhassanzadeh¹, W. Zhang², W. Klement³, H. Gebel⁴, P. Keown⁵, K. Oualkacha⁶, R. Sapir-Pichhadze¹
¹Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Organ Donation and Transplantation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁴Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, ⁵Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁶Université du Québec À Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: HLA genes are in linkage disequilibrium with each other. Sequence defined HLA targets (eplets) are associated with alleles and may be shared within and…
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…
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Geographical Disparities in Transplantation: Exploring the Association between County Health Rankings and an Individual’s Access to Transplantation
A. J. Carter, R. D. Reed, D. Hendricks, K. N. Baldwin, A. C. Kale, J. E. Locke
Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Since 2004, living kidney donation has declined, with the southeastern United States disproportionately affected. Programs such as the Living Donor Navigator (LDN), designed to…
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…
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…