2021 American Transplant Congress
A Significantly Shorter Waiting Time to Subsequent Kidney Transplant After Liver Transplant by Using Safety Net Policy
Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: In August 2017, a new simultaneous liver-kidney transplant (SLK) allocation policy and medical eligibility criteria were introduced. These criteria aim to avoid dual organ…2021 American Transplant Congress
Assessing the Impact of the New Liver Allocation Policy on Transplant Center and Organ Procurement Organization Logistics
*Purpose: In February 2020, a new policy for liver allocation was instituted in an effort to reduce geographic disparity in median MELD at transplant. To…2021 American Transplant Congress
Characterizing the Early Impact of the Kidney Accelerated Placement Project on Hard-to-place Kidneys
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In 2019, the OPTN implemented the Kidney Accelerated Placement Project (KAPP) in an effort to increase the utilization of kidneys with a high Kidney…2021 American Transplant Congress
Disparities in Access to Listing in Rural Populations Post-KAS Implementation
*Purpose: One major goal of the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) was to improve access to transplantation. The impact of KAS on rural populations has been…2021 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Center Provisional Yes Practices for Deceased Donor Kidneys
1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank, Portland, OR
*Purpose: Improving organ allocation efficiency has been a focus of the OPTN. While the use of provisional yes (PY) by transplant centers has received recent…2021 American Transplant Congress
Chances of Renal Recovery in Liver Only Transplant Recipients Who Were Eligible for Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant
*Purpose: Progressive decline in renal function is common among patients with end-stage liver disease. Liver transplant (LT) candidates can often develop severely impaired renal function…2021 American Transplant Congress
Intensivist-Performed Transesophageal Echocardiography as a Screen for Organ Donation: A Four-Year, Single-Center Experience
*Purpose: Echocardiography is required for deceased heart donation, and transthoracic echocardiography is the traditional practice. At our institution, intensivists perform transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and since…2021 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Outcomes of Hepatitis C Virus (hcv) Nucleic Acid (nat) Positive Donor Between Hcv-naïVe and Hcv + Recpients – A Donor Mate Analysis
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Despite a growing mismatch between organ need and supply, organs from HCV+ donors were only offered to HCV+ recipients (HCV R+) to avoid complications…2021 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Donation During COVID-19 Pandemic
Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a decrease in transplantation throughout the United States. We examined the impact of the pandemic in regards to the…2021 American Transplant Congress
Changes to Allocation of En Bloc Deceased Donor Kidneys to Low Epts Patients
*Purpose: The OPTN implemented a policy on September 5, 2019 standardizing en bloc deceased donor kidney allocation in order to efficiently place and utilize kidneys…
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