2018 American Transplant Congress » Concurrent Session: Liver: MELD, Allocation and Donor Issues - 1

Date: Monday, June 4, 2018

Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm

Location: Room 6B

Session Type: Concurrent Session

Meeting: 2018 American Transplant Congress

4:30pm-4:42pm: The Predictive Power of MELD is Decreasing in the Era of Older, Sicker Patients

E. Godfrey,¹ J. Lai,² T. Miloh,³ N. Galvan,¹ R. Cotton,¹ C. O'Mahony,¹ J. Vierling,¹ N. Sussman,¹ A. Rana.¹

4:42pm-4:54pm: Accepting a DCD Liver May Improve Patient Survival Compared to Waiting for a Non-DCD Liver

A. Wey,¹ N. Salkowski,¹ J. Lake,² W. Kim,³ B. Kasiske,¹ A. Israni,¹ J. Snyder.¹

4:54pm-5:06pm: A Novel Dropout Risk Score in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Patients Listed for Liver Transplant (LT) – Identifying a Threshold That Predicts Worse Post-LT Survival in Short Wait Regions

N. Mehta, J. Dodge, F. Yao.

5:06pm-5:18pm: Health and Economic Disparities in Waitlist Access and Liver Distribution Policy

R. Lynch,¹ K. Ross,¹ T. Pearson,¹ D. Goldberg,² R. Patzer.¹

5:18pm-5:30pm: Estimation of Mortality on the Wait List

S. Asrani, L. Jennings, J. Trotter, G. Klintmalm.

5:30pm-5:42pm: Deceased Pediatric Donor Livers: How Current Policy Drives Allocation and Transplantation

E. Hsu,² J. Ge,¹ J. Bucuvalas,³ J. Lai.¹

5:42pm-5:54pm: Development and Validation of FLF-Transplant Score to Predict Mortality of Status 1A Candidates

Z. Guo, B. Chen, Q. Zhao, E. Xin, Z. Zhang, L. Wang, X. He, G. Chen.

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