2022 American Transplant Congress
The US Kidney Allocation System Should Not Allocate En Bloc Kidneys from Deceased Donors < 18 Kg as Equivalent to Top 20% KDPI Single Kidneys
1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: In December 2020, the US Kidney Allocation System (KAS) revised the allocation rules for deceased donors under 18 kg, stating that both kidneys must…2022 American Transplant Congress
Physician Preferences When Selecting Candidates for Marginal Quality Kidney Offers: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
*Purpose: This study assesses the tradeoffs that physicians make when accepting marginal-quality kidneys, and the extent to which recipient-specific factors influence the acceptability of these…2022 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Relevance of Class II HLA Mismatches in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: The benefit of class II HLA matching is primarily shown in deceased donor kidney transplantation. The objective of this study was to determine the…2022 American Transplant Congress
Designing Continuous Distribution for Liver Allocation
*Purpose: The continuous distribution framework is required for all future organ allocation policies. Continuous distribution changes the allocation paradigm, prioritizing candidates according to a composite…2022 American Transplant Congress
Racial Barriers to Kidney Transplant After Listing, 2015 – 2020
*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.…2022 American Transplant Congress
Are Autoimmune Conditions Disadvantaged Compared to Alcoholic Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma?
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is a lifesaving therapy for patients with irreversible liver damage caused by autoimmune liver diseases (ALD) including autoimmune hepatitis (AIH),…2022 American Transplant Congress
Patient Preferences for Waiting Time and Kidney Quality: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to elicit patient preferences involving tradeoffs between a lower quality kidney offered today and a higher quality, future…2022 American Transplant Congress
Prediction of Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates: Do Time-Varying Models Help?
*Purpose: In the United States, priority on the liver transplant waitlist is determined by the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD)-Na, a score composed of…2022 American Transplant Congress
Regional Variation in Early Effects of Acuity Circle-Based Liver Allocation
*Purpose: Liver allocation in the United States was updated on February 4th, 2020, byintroducing the acuity circle (AC)-based model. This study evaluated the early effects…2022 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP) Improves Access to Transplantation for Late Liver Re-Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: Late liver re-transplantation (LLrT) is a complex surgical procedure. Candidates for LLrT spend longer on the waitlist than primary transplant candidates due to selectivity…
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