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2018 American Transplant Congress » Poster Session B: Non-Organ Specific: Economics, Public Policy, Allocation, Ethics

Date: Sunday, June 3, 2018

Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm

Location: Hall 4EF

Session Type: Poster Session

Meeting: 2018 American Transplant Congress

6:00pm-7:00pm
A 5-Tier System for Categorizing Program-Specific Adjusted Transplant and Waitlist Mortality Rate Ratios

A. Wey, N. Salkowski, B. Kasiski, A. Israni, J. Snyder.

6:00pm-7:00pm
An Economic Analysis of the UK Pancreas Allocation Scheme

K. Burke,1 S. Birch,2,3 T. Augustine.1

6:00pm-7:00pm
Analysis of Cost Effectiveness of Treatment for Acute Antibody-Mediated Rejection

C. McDermott, K. Carsky, P. Ferrin, A. Gaines, D. Chernobylsky, M. Killackey, A. Paramesh, R. Zhang, J. Buell.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Analysis of NIH Research Funding in Transplantation: The Important Impact of Physician-Scientists in Abdominal Transplant Research

A. Narahari, J. Mehaffey, A. Chandrabhatla, P. Baderdinni, L. Kron, K. Brayman.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Blood Transfusion is a Critical Determinant of Resource Utilization and Total Hospital Cost in Liver Transplantation

C. Garcia, A. Dugan, D. Davenport, R. Gedaly.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Comparative Cost Analysis of ABO-Incompatible Living Kidney Transplantation

Y. Kakuta,1 M. Okumi,1 K. Unagami,2 M. Furusawa,1 H. Ishida,1 K. Tanabe.1

6:00pm-7:00pm
Cost Analysis of Biliary Strictures Following Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in the United States

J. Jones,1 N. Bhutiani,1 D. Wei,2 L. Goldstein,3 R. Martin,1 C. Jones,1 R. Cannon.1

6:00pm-7:00pm
Critical Care Management of Organ Donors with Uncertain Consent Status

M. Varma, J. LaRosa.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Development of an Expert Consensus Guideline for Skin Cancer Screening in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

L. Crow,1 S. Arron,1 C. Chung,2 A. Jambusaria-Pahlajani,3 S. Lowenstein,1 On behalf of the Transplant Skin Cancer Network.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Discriminative Accuracy of Physician Assessments of Kidney Transplant Candidate Function by Candidate Age, Sex, and Race

M. Harhay,1 K. Ranganna,1 L. Levin Mizrahi,1 G. Xiao,1 G. Malat,1 D. Reich,1 S. Guy,1 P. Reese.2

6:00pm-7:00pm
Evaluating Displays of Program Waitlist Mortality on Public Search Results

C. Schaffhausen,1,4 M. Bruin,3 S. Chu,3 A. Matas,5 J. Lake,6 W. Kim,7,4 S. Biggins,8 J. Snyder,2,4 B. Kasiske,1,4 A. Israni.1,2,4

6:00pm-7:00pm
Evaluation and Cost Burden of Inappropriately Drawn Immunosuppression Trough Levels in the Acute Care Setting at an Academic Medical Center

A. Brown, J. Geyston, A. Agarwal, B. Jones, W. Ally.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Evidence of a Clinically Significant Drug-Drug Interaction between Cannabidiol and Tacrolimus: A Case Report

A. Leino,1 C. Emoto,2 T. Fukuda,2 M. Privitera,1 A. Vinks,1,2 R. Alloway.1

6:00pm-7:00pm
Frailty and Kidney Transplantation: AST-KPCOP Survey of Center Practices

M. McAdams DeMarco, S. Rasmussen, R. Parsons, T. Alhamad, K. Johansen, S. Tullius, R. Lynch, M. Harhay, M. Rao, J. Berger, J. Lappin, J. Tan, X. Cheng, K. Woodside, S. Parajuli, K. Lentine, B. Kaplan, D. Segev, J. Kobashigawa, D. Dadhania.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Heart and Lung Offer Acceptance Practices Are Associated with Organ Yield and Local Placement

A. Wey, M. Skeans, N. Salkowski, B. Kasiske, A. Israni, J. Snyder.

6:00pm-7:00pm
High Grade Cytomegalovirus Viremia Events in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Description and Quality Improvement

M. Spinner,1 V. Athans,1 C. Koval.2

6:00pm-7:00pm
Hispanics' Perceptions of Shared Decision Making in the Transplant Context: A Mixed Methods Study

N. Alhalel,1 J. Caicedo,1 R. Ruiz,2 A. Salazar,2 S. Primeaux,2 E. Gordon.1

6:00pm-7:00pm
Hospital Readmission Patterns in the First Year after Kidney Transplantation: A Twelve-Year, Single-Center Experience

M. Nguyen, C. Avila, J. Benedict, A. El-Hinnawi, A. Rajab, R. Pelletier, M. Henry, G. Bumgardner.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Increasing Obesity and Diabetes Prevalence in the United States End-Stage Renal Disease Population

B. Shelton,1 D. McWilliams,1 P. MacLennan,1 R. Reed,1 M. Mustian,1 D. Sawinski,2 J. Locke.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Informed Clustering of Donor Service Areas for Better Benchmarking

S. Noreen, R. Carrico, J. Rosendale.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Is BMI > 35 a Barrier to Kidney Transplantation?

D. Walczak, E. Benedetti, C. Ryan.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Measles and Varicella Vaccination Status and Evidence of Immunity during Solid Organ Pre-Transplantation Evaluation

H. Daniels, C. Saracusa, S. Worley, B. Gonzalez.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Medical Contraindications to Solid Organ Transplant Listing: A Survey of Heart, Liver, Lung and Kidney Programs

A. Wall, G. Lee, J. Maldonado, D. Magnus.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Medicare Part D Plans Deny Coverage for Off-Label and Off-Compendia Immunosuppressant Use: A Case Series

L. Potter, E. Garrity.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Organ Procurement Organization Run Department of Motor Vehicle Office Leads to Increased Organ Donor Registry Enrollments

L. Dageforde,1 W. Muren,2 S-.H. Chang,1 N. Vachharajani,1 D. Brockmeier,2 B. Anderson,1 A. Khan,1 J. Wellen,1 S. Shenoy,1 Y. Lin,1 W. Chapman,1 M. Doyle.1

6:00pm-7:00pm
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (1): Scale

G. Yin,1 D. Li,1 M. Li,1 M. Fu.2

6:00pm-7:00pm
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (2): Continued Growth after Gaining International Attention

G. Yin,1 D. Li,1 M. Li,1 M. Fu.2

6:00pm-7:00pm
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (3): Transplants Conducted on Demand

G. Yin,1 D. Li,1 M. Fu,2 Y. Xia.3

6:00pm-7:00pm
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (4): Organ Sources

D. Li, G. Yin.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (5): Role of the Chinese State

D. Li,1 Y. Xia,2 M. Li,1 G. Yin.1

6:00pm-7:00pm
Overcoming Barriers to Transplant: An A2 to B Program Need Not Be Difficult, Expensive, or Time Consuming Even for Large Centers

S. Radomski, B. Diedrich, D. Li, M. Awwad, S. Rosen-Bronson, A. Langeberg, A-.A. Hamby, M. Cooper, A. Gilbert.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Patient-Centered Outcomes after Liver Transplantation: A Qualitative Study

G. Lee, J. Obayemi, E. Rubin.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Patient-Researcher Partnership Platform within the Canadian National Transplant Research Program: The First Year Experience

M-.C. Fortin,2,3,6 S. Bédard,1,2 J. Allard,2,3 F. Ballesteros,2,3 S. Anthony,2,4,5 A. Boivin,1,3 A. Lespérance,1,3 D. Hartell.2

6:00pm-7:00pm
Pediatric Transplantation within the ASTS: A Member Survey

W. Andrews, S. Chinnakotla, J. Nathan, A. Gallo, P. Healey, J. Dominique, C. Esquivel.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Perceptions, Motivations, and Concerns about Living Organ Donation among People Living with HIV

S. Rasmussen, M. Henderson, J. Bollinger, S. Seaman, C. Durand, D. Segev, J. Sugarman.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Procurement Travel Safety: Current Practices, Accident Frequency, Perceptions of Safety and Means to Reduce Risk

A. Schenk, A. Adams, R. Lynch.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Program-Specific Transplant Rate Ratios: Association with Allocation Priority at Listing and Posttransplant Outcomes

A. Wey, S. Gustafson, N. Salkowski, J. Pyke, B. Kasiske, A. Israni, J. Snyder.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Providing Transplant Candidates with Guidance about Differences in Acceptance Criteria across Programs

C. Schaffhausen,1,4 M. Bruin,3 S. Chu,3 A. Matas,5 J. Lake,6 W. Kim,4,7 S. Biggins,8 J. Snyder,2,4 B. Kasiske,1,4 A. Israni.1,2

6:00pm-7:00pm
Providing Transplant Candidates with Patient-Specific Public Reports about Programs That Transplant Patients Like Them

C. Schaffhausen,1,4 M. Bruin,3 S. Chu,3 A. Matas,5 J. Lake,6 W. Kim,7,4 S. Biggins,8 J. Snyder,2,4 B. Kasiske,1,4 A. Israni.1,2

6:00pm-7:00pm
Psychiatric Disorders and Disturbances in Transplant Listing Decisions

G. Lee, A. Wall, D. Magnus, J. Maldonado.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Reported Effects of the SRTR 5-Tier Rating System on US Transplant Centers

S. Rasmussen,1 A. Thomas,1 J. Garonzik-Wang,1 M. Henderson,1 S. Stith,2 D. Segev,1 L. Hersch Nicholas.1

6:00pm-7:00pm
Sustained Improvement in Patient Reported Outcomes 10 Years after Liver Transplantation by Protocol Longitudinal Assessment of Health Related Quality of Life

S. Elwir,1 A. Warren,1 G. Saracino,1 S. Asrani,1 T. Elliott,2 G. Klintmalm.1

6:00pm-7:00pm
The Effect of Pre-Transplant Insomnia and Post-Transplant Insomnia on Survival among Solid Organ Recipients

K-.F. Lee,2 Y. Tsai,1 C. Lin,1 C-.B. Hsieh,3,5 S. Wu,4 T. Chen,5 Y-.C. Lin,1 W-.H. Lee,6,7 F. Lin,8 C. Tsai.1,9,10

6:00pm-7:00pm
The Effect of an Organ Procurement Experience on Preclinical Medical Student Perceptions of Transplant Surgery

M. Feinstein, S. Marcus, D. Amara, B. Durcanova, G. Roll, B. Orandi.

6:00pm-7:00pm
The Impact of ABO Blood Type and Geography on Access to Lung Transplant

W. Tsuang, D. McMichael, X. Wang, M. Budev.

6:00pm-7:00pm
The Importance of Transplant Program Measures: Surveys of 3 National Patient Advocacy Groups

C. Schaffhausen,1,4 M. Bruin,3 S. Chu,3 J. Snyder,2,5 B. Kasiske,1,4 A. Israni.1,2,4

6:00pm-7:00pm
Transplant Trends in Young Adults: Silent Alcohol Epidemic

N. Kemmer,2 N. Bozanich,1 S. Agrawal,2 C. Albers,2 R. Syed,2 A. Alsina.2

6:00pm-7:00pm
Treatment Patterns and Burden among Chronic Graft versus Host Disease Patients on Second-Line Systemic Treatments Including Extracorporeal Photopheresis

X. Huang,2 N. Joshi,1 L. Luo,1 G. Mitri,3 B. Lovelace,2 A. Pham,3 X. Gao.1

6:00pm-7:00pm
Using Visual Icons to Present Program Transplant Rate Information to the Public: Results of a Randomized Trial

C. Schaffhausen,1,5 S. Chu,4 M. Bruin,4 J. Hibbard,3 J. Snyder,2,5 B. Kasiske,1,5 A. Israni.1,2,5

6:00pm-7:00pm
What Happened When the 'Soft Opt-Out' to Organ Donation Was Implemented in Wales? Family and Professional Views and Experiences, and Consent Rates for the First 18 Months

L. Mc Laughlin, J. Noyes, K. Morgan, P. Walton, A. Roberts, M. Stephens.

6:00pm-7:00pm
Why the Low Usage of HIV Positive Donors? A Survey of the Transplant Community

S. Nazarian,1 C. Watts,2 D. Sawinski,2 P. Reese,2 D. Goldberg,2 P. Abt,1 S. Halpern,2 J. Shea,2 E. Blumberg.2

6:00pm-7:00pm
Willingness to Accept HIV-Positive and Increased Infectious Risk Donor Organs among HIV-Positive Transplant Candidates

M. Waldram, A. Eno, E. Lee, S. Seaman, A. Nguyen, S. Halpern, S. Anjum, J. Sugarman, M. Henderson, A. Tobian, D. Segev, C. Durand.

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