Articles tagged "Allocation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Profound Opportunities Lost: Patients with High Priority for Ideal Donor Kidneys That are Not Placed on the Kidney Transplant Waiting List
J. Schold¹, A. Huml¹, E. Poggio¹, J. Sedor¹, S. Husain², K. L. King², S. Mohan²
¹Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ²Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: The national Kidney Allocation System(KAS) prioritizes patients with high (top 20%) Estimated Post-Transplant Survival (EPTS) with expedited access to high quality deceased donor kidneys.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Intersection of Cost, Quality, and Volume in Liver Transplant
D. Axelrod¹, R. Balakrishnan¹, A. Harris², S. Hohmann², J. Snyder³, B. Kasiske³, M. Schnitzler⁴, K. Lentine⁴
¹Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²Vizient Inc., Irving, TX, ³SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO
*Purpose: As a consequence of changing allocation practices and the ongoing shortage of high-quality organs, the cost of liver transplant (LT) continues to increase throughout…
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
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
An Investigation of Surgeon’s Effect on Deceased-Donor Kidney Offers and Transplant Outcomes
A. C. Randa, J. P. Roberts
Department of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: We studied the transplant surgeons' effect on accepting or rejecting the deceased donor kidney offers and their subsequent effect on transplant outcomes.*Methods: There are…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Allocation Changes and Covid Effect on Waiting Time for Liver Transplantation
L. Dageforde¹, Q. Yuan², N. Elias¹
¹Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Organ Transplant Institute, 8th Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
*Purpose: On April 30, 2019 the National Liver Review Board (NLRB) was implemented and patients meeting criteria for hepatocellular carcinoma exception points received a score…