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2019 American Transplant Congress
Integration Of Business Intelligence (BI) Solution In Tertiary Renal Transplant Centre To Drive Clinical Decisions.
M. Heer, S. Yausis, P. R. Trevillian
Newcastle Transplant Unit, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia
*Purpose: The future of medicine will be enabled by big data. With the promise of data-driven knowledge and decision-making, innovative big-data projects are ongoing in…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Medical Intensive Liver Unit: A Novel Multi-disciplinary Program For The Intensive Care Of Patients With Advanced Liver Disease
C. C. Lindenmeyer¹, G. Flocco¹, A. Sobotka¹, L. Kokoczka², B. Dolan², C. Strauser², C. Romero-Marrero¹, E. Mireles-Cabodevila², H. Khouli², C. Quintini³, A. Kapoor²
¹Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Transplantation Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Patients with advanced liver disease, particularly those with acute decompensation or acute liver failure (ALF) requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission, are at elevated…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Cost Saving Quality Improvement Project in Solid Organ Transplant Population Following Tacrolimus Switch from Prograf® to Adoport® Immunosuppression – A Single Centre Experience
L. Mulreid, M. Vincent, L. Laycock, A. Summers, S. Bhutani
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Tacrolimus is widely used immunosuppressive drugs in transplantation. The use of generic medications is cost saving and economically advantageous for the National Health Services…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Initial Single-Center Results from the Pilot Transplant Quality Improvement Project in Liver Transplant
A. Zarinsefat, S. M. Syed, R. Hirose
UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) has been an effective measure in improving the quality of surgical care, while also providing data to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
QA of MMR/VZV Protocol-Driven Serologic Screening and Infectious Disease Consultation (IDC) Are Strongly Recommended in Heart, Lung, Liver (HLL) SOTs
Z. Seckin, L. Brumble, C. Libertin
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
*Purpose: SOT recipients are at risk of acquiring life-threatening infections putting their graft and life at risk. Prevention, including immunization with live virus vaccines pre-transplantation…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Effect Of Missed Hemodialysis Treatment Prior To Transplant
A. Padiyar¹, A. Agrawal¹, D. Hricik¹, N. Sarabu¹, A. Jittirat¹, K. Yadav², E. Sanchez², M. Debroy², V. Humphreville², J. Rabets², A. Palanisamy², K. Chavin²
¹Medicine, Nephrology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ²Transplant Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Missed hemodialysis sessions confer heightened morbidity and mortality for ESRD patients. The effect of missed dialysis in the month prior to transplant on the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Sensitivity of 5-Tier System to Unadjusted Confounding
N. Salkowski, A. Wey, J. Snyder
SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) fits risk-adjusted models for its semiannual program-specific reports (PSRs). Although SRTR adjusts for as many important risk…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Performance Improvement Initiative: Ambulatory Tool to Improve Tacrolimus Intrapatient Variability (IPV) Monitoring in Kidney & Liver Transplant Recipients
T. E. Kaiser¹, N. S. Ejaz¹, S. Tremblay¹, N. J. Parrish², S. Schinasi², J. Harris², A. Govil¹, N. Anwar¹, R. R. Alloway¹
¹University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ²UC Health, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: High tacrolimus (TAC) intrapatient variability (IPV) is associated with poorer outcomes. Manual monitoring of TAC IPV is labor intensive and not always feasible. As…
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Mortality around the One-Year Survival Metric after Liver Transplantation in the United States
C. Blebea¹, P. Chatterjee², A. Nathan¹, J. Diamond¹, H. J. Goldberg², A. Courtwright¹
¹Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Liver transplant programs in the United States are evaluated on one-year survival, among other factors. This may create an unintended incentive to continue life-sustaining…
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Poor Nutritional And Bone-mineral Density Parameters Pretransplant Predict Complications Posttransplant
A. Padiyar¹, A. Agrawal¹, D. Hricik¹, J. Kerner², J. Benavides², N. Sarabu¹, A. Jittirat¹, K. Yadav², E. Sanchez², M. DeBroy², V. Humphreville², J. Rabets², A. Palanisamy², K. Chavin²
¹Medicine, Nephrology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ²Transplant Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Poor nutritional parameters in patients with ESRD on hemodialysis are associated with increased rates of hospitalization. The impact of malnutrition and inflammation and poor…