2018 American Transplant Congress » Poster Session A: Liver: MELD, Allocation and Donor Issues (DCD/ECD)

Date: Saturday, June 2, 2018

Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm

Location: Hall 4EF

Session Type: Poster Session

Meeting: 2018 American Transplant Congress

5:30pm-7:30pm: Calibration of Updated LSAM

J. Pyke,¹ T. Weaver,¹ D. Schladt,¹ N. Salkowski,¹ A. Wey,¹ J. Lake,² W. Kim,³ S. Gentry,⁴ A. Israni.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: Changes in Geographic Disparity Following Share 35

M. Bowring,¹ E. Chow,¹ A. Massie,¹ D. Segev,¹ S. Gentry.^1,2

5:30pm-7:30pm: Changes in Graft Gene Expression Contribute to Coagulopathy in UDCD Liver Transplantation

A. Hessheimer, M. Vendrell, D. Sabater, J. Muñoz, A. Blasi, J. García-Valdecasas, A. Ruíz, M. Navasa, C. Fondevila.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Cold Ischemia Time is an Important Risk Factor for Post-Liver Transplant Prolonged Length of Stay

E. Pan, D. Yoeli, N. Galvan, M. Kueht, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Contemporary Practice Patterns & Outcomes after Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) Placement: A Multicenter US Experience of 1,146 Patients

J. Boike,¹ J. Ge,⁵ M. German,³ N. Jest,² G. Morelli,² E. Spengler,³ A. Said,³ A. Lee,³ A. Hristov,³ K. Kolli,⁴ J. Lai,⁴ A. Desai,⁵ S. Junna,⁵ B. Pokhrel,⁵ T. Couri,⁶ S. Paul,⁶ N. Christian-Miller,⁷ C. Frenette,⁷ M. Laurito,⁸ E. Verna,⁸ U. Rahim,⁹ A. Goel,⁹ A. Das,¹ S. Pine,¹ D. Gregory,¹ L. VanWagner.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: Cumulative United States Experience in Domino Liver Transplants

K. Barrera, S. Sharma, A. Gruessner, R. Gruessner.

5:30pm-7:30pm: DCD Utilization in Cholestatic Liver Disease: Distinct Outcomes between PSC and PBC Recipients

J. Pasko, E. Maynard, E. Dewey, K. Roayaie, S. Orloff, D. Scott, W. Naugler, J. Ahn, C. Enestvedt.

5:30pm-7:30pm: DSA-Level Liver Availability and Liver Utilization

S. Zhou, M. Bowring, A. Massie, S. Gentry, D. Segev.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Development and Validation of Nomogram to Predict Primary Non Function in Liver Transplant Recipients Using Donation after Cardiac Death Donor Graft

Z. Guo, J. Zeng, Q. Zhao, B. Chen, Z. Zhang, L. Wang, X. He.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Differences in Liver Waitlist Mortality Due to Geographic Disparity in Organ Availability

A. Massie,¹ S. DiBrito,¹ J. Motter,¹ M. Henderson,¹ S. Zhou,¹ K. Jackson,¹ D. Segev,¹ S. Gentry.²

5:30pm-7:30pm: Diffuse Optical Non-Invasive Organ Risk (DONOR) Indexing Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy for Pre-Transplant Evaluation

H. Borron,¹ D. Piao,² A. Hawxby,³ H. Wright,³ E. Rubin.⁴

5:30pm-7:30pm: Do High-Risk Categories Convey the Wrong Message to Waitlisted Patients – Is It Time to Reconsider the Absolute Risk of Graft Loss?

A. Zarinsefat, H. Braun, S. Syed, B. Orandi, G. Roll.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Donor Hepatectomy Time in Donation after Circulatory Death Donors is an Independent Risk Factor for the Development of Biliary Strictures and Early Graft Loss after Transplantation

O. van Leeuwen,¹ M. van Reeven,² M. Fujiyoshi,¹ V. de Meijer,¹ R. de Kleine,¹ M. de Boer,¹ J. de Jonge,² J. Ijzermans,² W. Polak,² R. Porte.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: Donor and Procedural Variability in DCD Liver Transplant: Is It Time to Come to a Consensus?

L. Ruffolo, M. Balceniuk, R. Hernandez Alejandro.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Impact of Donation after Cardiac Death Allografts on Outcome Following Liver Transplantation for Fulminant Hepatic Failure: An Analysis of the UNOS Database

S. Kumar,¹ S. Lin,² J. Schold.²

5:30pm-7:30pm: Impact of On-Site Overestimation of Macrosteatosis on Donor Liver Biopsy

M. Wright, J. Seal, L. De Gregorio, H. Bohorquez, D. Bruce, E. Bugeaud, I. Carmody, A. Mathur, D. Sonnier, G. Galliano, I. Oliva, L. Bratton, G. Loss.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Impact of Total Graft Steatotic Mass in Liver Transplant Outcomes

L. De Gregorio,¹ E. Bugeaud,¹ G. Galliano,² H. Bohorquez,¹ D. Bruce,¹ I. Carmody,¹ A. Cohen,¹ J. Seal,¹ D. Sonnier,¹ A. Mathur,¹ G. Loss.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: Incidence Trends among Deceased Liver Transplant Recipients in the United States, 2011-2016: A Propensity Score-Matched Study

R. Schilke, M. Safwan, K. Collins, M. Rizzari, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud, S. Nagai.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Is Percent Exception at Transplant a Driver of MELD Inflation?

D. Schladt,¹ J. Snyder,¹ A. Israni,¹ W. Kim,² J. Lake.³

5:30pm-7:30pm: Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) is Not Inferior to Liver Donor Risk Index (LDRI) in Predicting Long-Term Liver Graft Survival

U. Scheuermann, K. Freischlag, Q. Gao, J. Yerxa, B. Ezekian, R. Davis, P. Schroder, A. Barbas.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Large Decrease in Liver Waiting List Dropout Rate for MELD > 14

D. Schladt,¹ J. Pyke,¹ A. Israni,¹ W. Kim,² J. Lake,³ J. Snyder.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: Liver Allocation: One OPO's Experience with Expedited versus Non-Expedited Placement

C. Muse, R. Squires, C. Trahan, J. Whaley, J. Orlowski.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Liver Transplant Patients with MELD>50 at Listing Have Poor Waitlist Outcomes and Similar Post Transplant Survival to Status 1A Patients

M. Safwan, R. Schilke, U. Nwagu, K. Collins, M. Rizzari, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud, S. Nagai.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Long-Term Outcomes and Predictors of Survival after Liver Transplantation for Wilson Disease (WD)

P. Jalal, S. May, A. Rana.

5:30pm-7:30pm: MELD Based Allocation Deteriorates Patient Survival without Improving Waiting List Mortality in a Low Donor Area

P. Ritschl, L. Wiering, F. Aigner, M. Biebl, D. Eurich, M. Schmelzle, I. Sauer, K. Kotsch, J. Pratschke, R. Öllinger.

5:30pm-7:30pm: MELD-Na Score Based Liver Allocation: Hyponatremia is No Longer a Risk Factor for Waitlist Mortality

S. Nagai,¹ L. Chau,¹ M. Safwan,¹ R. Schilke,¹ M. Rizzari,¹ K. Collins,¹ A. Yoshida,¹ M. Abouljoud,¹ D. Moonka.²

5:30pm-7:30pm: Measuring and Monitoring Equity in Access to Deceased Donor Liver Transplants

D. Stewart, A. Robinson, A. Harper, D. Klassen.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Non-US Citizen Liver Transplant Recipients (LTR) Have Superior Outcomes Compared to US Citizen LTR: A Retrospective Study of 50,422 Subjects Using the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) from 1992-2015

T. Butler,¹ A. Rana,² M. Garfinkel.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: Offer Acceptance Practices and Geographic Variability in Allocation MELD at Transplant

A. Wey,¹ S. Gentry,² J. Pyke,¹ D. Schladt,¹ T. Weaver,¹ N. Salkowski,¹ B. Kasiske,¹ A. Israni,¹ J. Snyder.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: Outcomes of Livers Allocated to High UNOS Match Sequence Number Recipients at a High Volume Transplant Center

M. Park, L. De Gregorio, H. Bohorquez, D. Bruce, E. Bugeaud, I. Carmody, A. Cohen, A. Mathur, D. Sonnier, J. Seal, G. Loss.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Outcomes of Moderately Macrosteatotic Liver Allografts

J. Alvikas, A-.P. Deeb, K. Lemon, X. Chen, S. Malik, G. Zeng, C. Hughes, A. Humar, A. Tevar.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Predicting Liver Allograft Discard: The Discard Risk Index

A. Rana, M. Kueht, N. Galvan, R. Cotton, T. Miloh, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Predictors of Graft Survival amongst Recipients of Liver Allografts with Prolonged Cold Ischemic Time (CIT)

J. Steggerda,¹ K. Kim,¹ D. Malinoski,² M. Bloom.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: Real-Time Expert Evaluation of Liver Biopsy for Transplant: The Significance of Smartphone and Microscope Adapter in Telepathology

N. Bath,¹ X. Wang,² J. Bledsoe,² M. Thijssen,¹ A. Ahearn,¹ B. Movahedi,¹ A. Bozorgzadeh,¹ P. Martins.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: Regional Variation in the Outcomes of MELD-Na Based Liver Allocation

L. Chau,¹ D. Moonka,² K. Collins,¹ M. Rizzari,¹ A. Yoshida,¹ M. Abouljoud,¹ S. Nagai.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: Survival Advantage from Accepting a Circulatory Death Liver Transplant

J. Richards,¹ R. Taylor,² E. Allen,² A. Goh,¹ J. Neuberger,³ D. Collett,² G. Pettigrew.¹

5:30pm-7:30pm: The Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio is Confounded by MELD in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation

J. McVey, K. Sasaki, F. Dan, Q. Cristiano, H. Koji, M. Charles, A. Federico.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Utilization of Older Donor after Cardiac Death Allografts in Liver Transplantation: An Opportunity to Increase the Donor Pool

F. Paterno, K. Wima, T. Diwan, M. Cuffy, N. Anwar, E. Woodle, S. Shah.

5:30pm-7:30pm: Waitlist Candidates Who Travel for Liver Transplantation and the Donor Organs They Receive

J. Ge, J. Lai.

5:30pm-7:30pm: When Does Donor Age Matter? A Review of over 70,000 Liver Transplants

D. Yoeli, E. Pan, M. Kueht, N. Galvan, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana.

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