Articles tagged "African-American"

2022 American Transplant Congress
A2/A2B to B Kidney Transplantation Outcomes: A Single-Center 5 Year Experience
A. El Chediak, S. Shawar, M. Fallahzadeh, I. Feurer, S. Rega, J. L. Triozzi, D. Shaffer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: The new kidney allocation system (KAS) instituted in 2014 allowed organ procurement organizations to allocate A2/A2B to B candidates preferentially was meant to improve…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Racial Equity in Living Donor Kidney Transplant: Center Variation and Opportunities for Progress
L. M. McElroy, T. Schappe, S. Peskoe, V. Wang, D. Mohottige, C. D. Scales, J. Pendergast, L. Boulware
Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To estimate racial differences in living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) rates relative to patient, center and regional characteristics that may influence access to transplant.*Methods:…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Differences in Post-Liver Transplant Hospitalizations by Patient Race
K. Ross-Driscoll¹, R. Lynch¹, J. Wedd², R. Patzer¹
¹Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Hospital admissions after liver transplant are common, costly, and associated with poor outcomes. While survival disparities are well-documented for Black liver recipients, little is…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Racial Barriers to Kidney Transplant After Listing, 2015 – 2020
W. T. McKinney¹, D. Schladt², J. Miller², T. Weaver², J. Pyke², T. Madhusoodanan³, A. K. Israni¹
¹Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN, ³Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: We sought to evaluate racial disparities in access to deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) following changes to kidney allocation system (KAS) implemented in 2014.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Low Socio-economic Status is Associated with Lower Kidney Graft Survival and Increased Risk of Graft Failure Due to Acute Rejection
W. Xie¹, G. Vrakas¹, S. H. Gray¹, A. Haririan², J. R. Scalea¹, J. S. Bromberg¹, D. G. Maluf¹, R. P. Meier¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Low socio-economic status (SES) has been shown to be associated with poor kidney graft outcomes. We aimed to characterize differences in high and low…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Black Transplant Recipients Reside in the Most Socially Vulnerable Communities
A. C. Killian¹, M. C. McLeod¹, B. Shelton¹, R. D. Reed¹, P. MacLennan¹, H. Qu¹, B. J. Orandi¹, D. Sawinski², J. E. Locke¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, AL, ²Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Racial and socioeconomic disparities in post-transplant outcomes have been described for all solid organ recipients. While the importance of the social determinants of health…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Age and Racial Disparities in Access to Re-kidney Transplantation
S. S. Patole¹, J. Ahn¹, S. Sandal², D. Segev¹, M. McAdams Demarco³
¹Department of Transplantation Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Graft failure is likely increasing among kidney transplant (KT) recipients due to improvements in patient survival. While the benefits of re-KT have been well…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Healthcare Disparities Amongst Dialysis Patients in North Carolina: Decreased Access to Transplant in Lowest Health Rank Counties
D. Leto¹, W. Irish², C. Haisch², B. Tuttle², D. Leeser²
¹Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC, ²East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: This study measured healthcare disparities amongst the counties in North Carolina with the best compared with counties with the worst healthcare outcomes, specifically the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Confluence of Race, Socioeconomic Deprivation, and Waitlist Mortality for Children Awaiting Liver Transplant
S. Wadhwani¹, J. Ge¹, L. Gottlieb¹, C. Lyles¹, A. F. Beck², J. Bucuvalas³, U. Kotagal², J. C. Lai¹
¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ³Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: Social determinants like racism, ethnocentrism, and neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation are associated with poor outcomes for children after liver transplant. We studied the relationship between…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Creating a Culturally Sensitive Report Card for African American Kidney Transplant Candidates: Preliminary Results from Pilot Interviews and Focus Groups
W. T. McKinney¹, M. Bruin², B. Kasiske³, A. Matas⁴, A. K. Israni³
¹Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Racial disparities in kidney transplantation continue to negatively impact African American (AA) patients despite changes to deceased donor allocation practices. AA patients are overrepresented…