Articles tagged "Age factors"

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Differential Impact of Subclinical Kidney Transplant Rejection in Young Adults
S. Raza¹, G. Agarwal¹, H. Fatima¹, R. Gaston¹, V. Hauptfeld-Dolesjek¹, B. Julian¹, C. Kew¹, V. Kumar¹, S. Mehta¹, S. Ong¹, F. Rosenblum¹, G. Towns¹, R. Mannon², M. Seifert¹
¹School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²College of Medicine, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
*Purpose: Serum creatinine, while an insensitive biomarker of allograft injury, is the current standard for assessing the stability of allograft function and guiding kidney transplant…