2021 American Transplant Congress
First Promising Results of CIAT: A New Kidney Exchange Program for Difficult-to-match Patients
*Purpose: Computerised Integration of Alternative Transplantation (CIAT) programs was developed to increase the chances of highly immunized (HI) and longwaiting (LW) kidney transplant candidates. CIAT…2021 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Outcomes Using Nationally Allocated Grafts
*Purpose: There is national variation in acceptance criteria and utilization of livers across transplant centers. Data pertaining to outcomes of liver grafts declined by local…2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Recipient BSA Matching is Prognostically Significant in Solitary and En-bloc Kidney Transplantation from Pediatric Circulatory Death Donors
Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pernicious effects of inadequate functional nephron mass in size disparate donation after cardiac death (DCD)…2021 American Transplant Congress
Blood Type A2/a2b to B Renal Transplantation: A Single Center Retrospective Cohort Study
NYU Langone Transplant Institute, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
*Purpose: Blood type B candidates on the deceased donor kidney waitlist have a lower transplantation rate and longer wait time than candidates of other blood…2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Kidney Allocation System on Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Long Dialysis Treatment (> 10 Years)
Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: Prior to the new kidney allocation system (KAS), patients treated with dialysis for > 10 years before transplantation were shown to derive a survival…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
Impact of Liver Acuity Circles on Timing of Donor Procurements
University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: The Acuity Circles (AC) policy in liver transplantation led to broader organ sharing, whereby many organ procurement organization (OPOs) had to coordinate organ offers…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…
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