Articles tagged "Age factors"

2022 American Transplant Congress
A Retrospective Evaluation of Organ Donation in the United States: Trends in Donors and Organ Utilization Over 15-Years
J. A. Steggerda¹, I. K. Kim², D. Borja-Cacho¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The general population of the United States has changed considerably over the past 15 years. This study evaluates longitudinal changes in potential organ donors…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Left Digit Bias in Selection and Acceptance of Deceased Donor Organs
C. E. Jacobson¹, C. S. Brown², K. H. Sheetz³, S. A. Waits²
¹University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Organs suitable for donation are a scarce resource and maximizing the use of available donor organs is a public health priority. Transplantable organs may…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Correlation of Frailty Measures and Evaluation of Complementary Molecular Frailty Biomarker Candidates in a Prospective National Cohort of Liver Transplant Candidates
S. Cremen¹, M. Robinson², T. Gallagher¹
¹Department of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ²Department of Biology, Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland
*Purpose: Frailty is a clinical condition characterized by a loss of physiologic reserve and increased susceptibility to stressors. Molecular frailty biomarkers may reflect the dysregulation…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation in Septuagenarians
L. Egbert¹, D. Das¹, S. Ohara², J. Wagler³, G. Mahdi⁴, B. Aqel⁵, A. Moss⁵, K. S. Reddy⁵, C. Jadlowiec⁵
¹Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Scottsdale, AZ, ²Valleywise Health General Surgery Residency Program, Phoenix, AZ, ³HonorHealth John C. Lincoln, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: The average age of liver transplant (LT) recipients has continued to increase. In spite of this, with the ongoing organ shortage, liver transplantation in…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Covid-19 on Offer Acceptance Rates by Age and Race Groups
A. Wey¹, J. Miller¹, Y. Ahn¹, D. Musgrove¹, A. Hart¹, N. Salkowski¹, M. Skeans¹, R. Hirose², A. Israni¹, J. Snyder¹, B. Kasiske¹
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Univ of San Fransico, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: COVID-19 causes more severe complications in older patients and disproportionately leads to poor outcomes in racial minorities. High offer acceptance rates indicate better access…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Pre-Procurement Donor Liver Biopsy in Donation-after-circulatory-Death Liver Transplantation
A. C. Bolognese¹, N. Neidlinger¹, C. Sparks², A. Schneider², A. M. D'Alessandro¹, D. P. Foley¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ²UW Organ and Tissue Donation, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Careful selection of suitable DCD donor livers is critical to obtain optimal transplant outcomes. In order to identify potentially suitable livers prior to DCD…
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
The Impact of Lack of Access to Simultaneous Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Due to Insurance Ineligibility – A Single Center Analysis
Y. A. Qazi, E. Villalon, D. Samson, W. Mon, M. Smogorzewski
Keck Medical Center at USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation(SPK) provides a survival and quality of life advantage in young, low BMI insulin dependent diabetics with End Stage Renal…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Depressive Symptoms and Listing for Kidney Transplantation
X. Chen, N. Chu, P. Sharma Basyal, W. Vihokrut, D. Crews, D. Brennan, S. Andrews, T. Vannorsdall, D. Segev, M. McAdams DeMarco
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Among patients with kidney failure, depressive symptoms are common and may be a barrier to completing the complex process of kidney transplantation (KT) evaluation…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Implications of Trends in Child to Parent Kidney Donation in Whites and African Americans
N. Jean, S. Krishnamoorthy, Y. Kyeso, P. Cunningham, N. Murthy, R. McGill, M. Josephson
Nephrology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Racial disparities in access to transplantation referral, wait listing and transplant receipt are well described. African Americans (AA) receive fewer living donor transplants than…