2017 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Pharmaceutical Care Needs Identified Through Linked Transplant Registry and Pharmacy Claims Data.
Limited data are available on pharmaceutical care needs of living kidney donors (LKD).We integrated 1) national US Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data for LKD…2017 American Transplant Congress
Prominence of Graft-Infiltrating PD-L1hi Cross-Dressed Dendritic Cells in Mouse Liver Transplant Tolerance.
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background: The mechanism underlying spontaneous liver allograft tolerance remains unclear. Given recent reports on the key role of recipient mouse dendritic cells (DCs) in host…2017 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends and Variation in BMI Thresholds for Living Donation Across the US.
1U Michigan, Ann Arbor; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester; 3St. Louis U, St Louis
The acceptable BMI threshold for living kidney donation is controversial. We examined the variability in center acceptance of living donors with high Body Mass Index…2017 American Transplant Congress
Current Practice and Center-Level Variation in Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Listing.
The OPTN has proposed medical eligibility criteria to determine which transplant candidates are appropriate for SLK vs liver-alone transplantation. We investigated center variation of SLK…2017 American Transplant Congress
MELD Exception Score: LSAM Modeling of a Fixed Floor.
Current US liver allocation policy grants standard MELD score exceptions beginning at 22 points and rising every 3 months. Scores for hepatocellular cancer are delayed…2017 American Transplant Congress
Using Donors with False Positive HIV Tests – An Unexpected Benefit of the HOPE Act.
Deceased donors are screened for HIV infection using anti-HIV antibody (Ab) and nucleic acid testing (NAT). Historically, organs were discarded in cases of a suspected…2017 American Transplant Congress
When Does the Learning Curve End? A High-Volume Single Center Experience with Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy Over 16 Years.
Purpose: No studies for any type of surgery have examined learning curves beyond a decade or 100 cases because surgeon turnover and lack of complete…2017 American Transplant Congress
Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) Kidneys Are More Likely to Be Discarded than Kidneys from Neurologically Brain Dead Donors (NBD).
1UBC, Vancouver, Canada; 2LifeCenter, Seattle
Strategies to decrease organ discard are needed. We determined the adj odds of discard of DCD vs NBD kidneys in kidney donor profile index (KDPI)…2017 American Transplant Congress
Cultural Competency of a Mobile, Customized Patient Education Tool for Improving Potential Kidney Transplant Recipients' Knowledge and Decision-Making.
Patients with ESRD face a complex array of treatment options as a result of the revised kidney allocation system. Decision aids improve patient care through…2017 American Transplant Congress
Is There an Association Between Number of Outpatient Primary Care Visits (OPV) and Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation (KTP)?
Background: Periodic outpatient primary care visits (PCV) after KTP is recommended to achieve optimal outcomes, but annual rates of PCV by KTP recipients is not…
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