2018 American Transplant Congress
DSA-Level Liver Availability and Liver Utilization
DSA-level geographic disparity in access to deceased-donor liver transplantation is well described. However, understanding the relationship between liver availability in a DSA and exportation of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Do High-Risk Categories Convey the Wrong Message to Waitlisted Patients – Is It Time to Reconsider the Absolute Risk of Graft Loss?
Transplant Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Many waitlisted patients (pts) do not consent to accept livers from “high-risk” donors (HRD), possibly due to lack of understanding of the absolute risk (AR)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Cumulative United States Experience in Domino Liver Transplants
Surgery, State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, CA.
Background/Purpose: The ongoing shortage of livers in the setting of growing waiting lists remains a challenge in transplantation. First introduced in 1995, sequential or domino…2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Allocation: One OPO's Experience with Expedited versus Non-Expedited Placement
LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK.
Background: One organ procurement organization (OPO) sought to study expedited versus non-expedited livers recovered/transplanted after local/regional centers declined. The OPO sought to determine relative recipient…2018 American Transplant Congress
MELD Based Allocation Deteriorates Patient Survival without Improving Waiting List Mortality in a Low Donor Area
The MELD-based allocation system has been implemented in Germany in 2006 in order to decrease waiting list mortality in patients with end stage liver disease.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes and Predictors of Survival after Liver Transplantation for Wilson Disease (WD)
Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Background/Aims: Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is life-saving for patients with liver failure from Wilson Disease (WD). Our goal was to evaluate patient and graft survival…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Moderately Macrosteatotic Liver Allografts
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
Objectives: Liver transplantation remains the only effective long-term treatment option for patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD). Organs available for ESLD patients are scarce and…2018 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Older Donor after Cardiac Death Allografts in Liver Transplantation: An Opportunity to Increase the Donor Pool
Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
BackgroundDonors after cardiac death (DCD) liver allografts have been underutilized in liver transplantation especially in case of old donor age due to concerns of worse…2018 American Transplant Congress
Calibration of Updated LSAM
Purpose: The liver simulated allocation model (LSAM) is a discrete-event microsimulation of the liver allocation system used for policy evaluation and research. We investigated the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) is Not Inferior to Liver Donor Risk Index (LDRI) in Predicting Long-Term Liver Graft Survival
Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Background: The primary aim of this study was to assess liver graft survival as a function of Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI), and compare the…
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