Articles tagged "Allocation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison Between Combined Liver Kidney Transplants to Liver Transplants Alone: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
S. Bouari¹, E. A. Rijkse¹, H. J. Metselaar², M. W. van den Hoogen³, J. N. Ijzermans¹, J. de Jonge¹, W. G. Polak¹, R. C. Minnee¹
¹Surgery, Division of HPB & Transplant Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³Internal Medicine, Section of Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: Since the introduction of the Model for End-stage Liver disease (MELD) criteria in 2002, more combined liver kidney transplants are performed. Until 2017, no…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Electronic Donor Referral Technology on Deceased Donor Referrals
B. Boyarsky¹, J. R. DiRito², K. Vanterpool¹, J. Piano³, W. Liu³, J. Hewlett⁴, C. Trahan⁴, D. Segev¹, M. Levan¹, A. Massie¹, P. Niles⁴
¹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ²Yale, New Haven, CT, ³Transplant Connect, Santa Monica, CA, ⁴Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Hospitals likely fail to refer many medically eligible potential deceased donors to OPOs. As such, increasing eligible referrals may increase the donor pool. We…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Construction of a Waiting Time Predictive Model for Kidney Transplant with Deceased Donor in the State of São Paulo
J. Silva¹, M. Contti¹, M. Valiatti¹, H. Nga¹, G. Santos¹, M. Perosa², G. Ferreira³, L. Modelli de Andrade¹
¹UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil, ²Hospital Leforte, São Paulo, Brazil, ³Santa Casa de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
*Purpose: Chronic kidney disease is an important public health problem and kidney transplant is the therapy of choice when possible. The transplant system in the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Acute Dialysis, Mortality and Renal Failure After Heart Alone Transplant by Egfr and Dialysis Requirement in the United States
M. Aljuhani¹, T. Alexy¹, S. Jackson², C. Martin¹, R. Kandaswamy³, S. Riad¹
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: We examined the early acute dialysis, 90-day mortality and one-year ESRD among OHT recipients by eGFR and dialysis requirement before transplantation.*Methods: Utilizing the SRTR…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Proxies of Ischemia Time Do Not Predict 1-Year Posttransplant Survival
M. Skeans¹, A. Wey¹, E. Lease², C. Lehr³, J. Alcorn⁴, R. Goff⁴, D. Stewart⁴, M. Valapour³
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁴UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: A barrier to broader distribution of donor organs is a concern that increased donor-to-recipient (DtR) distances could increase ischemia times and compromise posttransplant (PT)…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Optimizing Usage of High KDPI Kidneys
Y. Ng¹, C. Kling², L. Sibulesky², J. Perkins²
¹Medicine/Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Surgery/Transplant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Among recipients of high kidney donor profile index (KDPI) kidneys, it is unclear if certain recipients fair better than others. Using data from the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Analysis of the Prognosis After Receiving a Liver Graft That Abandoned Transplantation Due to Poor Graft Conditions in the Centers Allocated as a Priority
H. Choi¹, G. Na²
¹Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary's hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: LT has the limitation of lack of donors compared to those waiting for a transplant. Depending on the recipient's condition, even liver grafts with…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Living Donor Transplantation in USA
N. Kemmer, C. Albers, S. Agrawal, R. Syed, M. Malespin, J. Buggs
Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Globally, living donation has improved access to organ transplantation and saved the lives of individuals with end-stage kidney disease and end-stage liver disease. In…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Community- Targeted Educational Campaign on Living Donor Transplants
S. Ganesh, A. Humar
Transplant, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: There is an urgent need to expand access to living donor liver transplants due to a wide gap in the availability of deceased donor…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Economic and Clinical Benefit of Cmv Matching in Kidney Transplantation
D. Axelrod¹, S. Chang², A. Olyaei³, D. Malinoski³, D. Norman³, K. Lentine⁴, M. Schnitzler⁴, D. Segev⁵, J. Lockridge³
¹Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²Washington Univ, Seattle, WA, ³Oregon Health Sciences Univ, Portland, OR, ⁴Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ⁵Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Recently, kidney transplant (KTx) centers in Oregon collaborated to preferentially allocate cytomegalovirus-seronegative (CMV D-) kidneys to seronegative recipients (CMV R-), successfully reducing high-risk CMV…