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Articles tagged "Age factors"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Factors Linked with Evaluation to Wait Listing for Referred Patients at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Main Center and Outreach Clinic – A Step Towards Kidney Transplantation

    A. Rizvi1, M. Mujtaba2, S. Hussain3, J. Fair4, M. Kueht4, A. Gamilla-Crudo5

    1Internal Medicine, Nephrology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 2University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 3University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, TX, 4Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 5University of Texas Medical Branch, League City, TX

    *Purpose: Numerous factors can be associated with transplant candidates’ placement on the wait list. We herein set forth to assess patient characteristics and factors associated…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Characteristics of OPOs with Increased Education Spending, 2013-2018

    J. Roberts1, J. L. Bragg-Gresham2, T. Peters3, F. McCormick4

    1University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 3University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, 4Bank of America (former), Walnut Creek, CA

    *Purpose: OPO spending on education would be expected to increase donor registration and increase the number of donors. Using data from multiple sources, we examined…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Cognitive Impairment In Liver Transplant Recipients 6 Months Or More After Transplant

    K. Berry1, L. Gaynor1, F. Barry1, E. Tsoy1, C. Goode1, R. Wong1, S. Erlhoff1, L. VandeVrede1, K. Possin1, J. C. Lai2

    1University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: Patients with decompensated cirrhosis awaiting liver transplant (LT) exhibit a spectrum of neurocognitive disorders, largely attributed to hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and considered reversible after…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Transplant Centers That Assess Frailty as Part of Clinical Practice Have Better Outcomes

    X. Chen1, Y. Liu1, V. Thompson1, N. M. Chu1, E. A. King1, J. D. Walston2, J. A. Kobashigawa3, D. M. Dadhania4, D. L. Segev1, M. A. McAdams-DeMarco1

    1Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 3Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 4Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Frailty predicts adverse post-kidney transplant (KT) outcomes, yet impacts of frailty assessments on center-level outcomes remain unclear. We tested whether transplant centers assessing frailty…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Favorable Outcomes in Older Diabetics Receiving a Simultaneous Kidney Pancreas Transplant Compared to Those Receiving a Living Donor Kidney Transplant

    P. Budhiraja1, H. Me1, J. Ninan2, S. Reddy2, S. S. Misra1, R. Heilman1, H. Khamash1, K. Reddy1, C. Jadloweic1, N. Katariya1, H. Chakkera1

    1Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    *Purpose: To compare the long-term outcomes of older (50-65 yr) diabetic patients who received Simultaneous Kidney pancreas transplantation (SKP) vs. living donor (LD) kidney transplants.*Methods:…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Donor and Recipient Age Matching for Kidney Transplantation: A Machine Learning Approach

    J. Kim, J. Ahn, A. Massie, D. Segev, S. Bae

    Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Under the concept of ‘longevity matching,’ the Kidney Allocation System favors matching younger deceased donors with younger kidney transplant (KT) candidates. However, it remains…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Gender Disparities in Kidney Transplantation Referral Vary by Age and Race in the Southeast US

    L. Smothers1, R. Patzer1, S. Pastan1, D. DuBay2, J. Harding1

    1Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

    *Purpose: Men (vs. women) are more likely to be waitlisted or receive a kidney transplant. Whether gender disparities exist in earlier transplant steps (i.e., referral)…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Use of Frailty Assessment to Determine Fitness for Renal Transplant in a Veteran Dialysis Patient Population

    M. Samra1, A. Wadhwa1, T. Markossian2, R. Lopez-Soler3

    1Medicine, Edward Hine Jr., VA Medical Center, Hines, IL, 2Edward Hine Jr., VA Medical Center, Hines, IL, 3Surgery, Edward Hines VA Jr.,VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Frailty is a medical syndrome characterized by reduced physiologic function and strength. It is associated with an increased risk of mortality, hospital readmission and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Donor-Recipient Age Discrepancy in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation – The Need for Better Matching

    N. K. Prabhu1, V. Villani1, K. P. Samy1, D. Sudan1, K. Ravindra1, W. Irish2

    1Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 2Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

    *Purpose: The Kidney Allocation System (KAS) was implemented in 2014 to address donor-recipient matching in deceased donor kidney transplantation, with the goal of maximizing life-years…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Gender Imbalance in Kidney Transplantation in Japan

    Y. Nakagawa1, M. Mieno2, H. Date3, H. Sasaki3, Y. Takada4, T. Ito3, Y. Tanaka3, S. Horie4, D. Ogasa4

    1Department of Urology, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan, 3The Japan Society for Transplantation Gender Equality Committee, Tokyo, Japan, 4Department of Urology,, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

    *Purpose: Japan has a chronic shortage of donors. Therefore, kidney transplantation between elderly couples has increased. We examined how differences in gender and donor age…
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