Articles tagged "Allocation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Chances of Renal Recovery in Liver Only Transplant Recipients Who Were Eligible for Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant
J. Cui¹, A. Spann², A. Shingina², H. M. Schaefer³, J. C. Slaughter⁴, S. Alexopoulos⁵, M. Izzy²
¹Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ³Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁴Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁵Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*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
Assessing the Impact of the New Liver Allocation Policy on Transplant Center and Organ Procurement Organization Logistics
W. P. Sawyer¹, A. Gracon²
¹General Surgery, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA, ²Transplant Surgery, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA
*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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donors in Kidney Paired Donation
J. D. Kalbfleisch¹, W. Wang¹, M. A. Rees², A. B. Leichtman³, P. X. Song¹, V. Ashby¹, T. Shearon¹
¹Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: A kidney paired donation pool (KPDP) consists of transplant candidates and their incompatible living donors along with nondirected living donors (NDDs). In a match…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of the New Heart Allocation Policy on the Treatment of United States Adult Heart Transplant Candidates
K. Chung¹, A. S. Anderson², M. Siegler¹, M. M. Churpek³, W. Parker¹
¹University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
*Purpose: In October 2018, the US heart allocation system expanded the number of priority “Status” tiers from 3 to 6 and added cardiogenic shock requirements.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Traveling For Transplant: A Comparison of Singly Listed, Multiply Listed, and Non-Citizen Non-Resident Liver Transplant Candidates
H. J. Braun¹, D. Amara¹, A. Shui¹, C. Huang¹, P. G. Stock¹, R. Hirose¹, F. L. Delmonico², N. L. Ascher¹
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Multiply listed (ML) and non-citizen non-resident (NCNR) patients comprise approximately 8% of the liver transplant (LT) waitlist (WL) and approximately 4% of LT recipients.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Rare HLA DRB1*10-DQB1*06 Linkage Disequilibrium: A Case Study That Emphasizes the Need of Having an HLA Toolbox
S. Dionne, L. Santiago, S. Shetty
VRL-Eurofins, Centennial, CO
*Purpose: This case study highlights the need to use different tools to derive and validate HLA typing results especially in instances of rare typing.*Methods: Low/intermediate…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Heart Transplantation Outcomes in Multiorgan Transplants
P. Kingsford¹, J. P. Li¹, C. J. Lum², A. Salimbangon³, G. Liu¹, A. M. Wolfson⁴, R. R. Chand⁵, P. Banankhah¹, P. A. Genyk¹, D. Vucicevic⁶, K. Pandya¹, J. Rahman¹, M. Fong¹, L. Grazette¹, A. Kiankhooy¹, J. Nattiv¹, S. Hashmi¹, S. B. Nuno¹, J. Pizula¹, D. J. Miklin¹, A. E. Lee¹, K. Yang¹, S. Shah¹, A. S. Vaidya¹, E. C. DePasquale¹
¹LAC+USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²The Queens Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, ³UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, AZ, ⁵Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶Newark Beth-Israel, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: We sought to elucidate the differences in outcomes between patients undergoing Heart-Lung (HL) Heart-Lung-Kidney (HLK) and Heart-Lung-Liver (HLL) multiorgan transplantation.*Methods: Using the UNOS registry,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Organ Donation in Perú: Why are We Failing? Conclusions from the Last 5 Years
M. Moreno Gonzales, J. Duran, O. Ponce, G. Navarro, M. Benavides
Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño de San Borja, Lima, Peru
*Purpose: The scarcity of deceased donor organs is still an unmet need in transplantation worldwide. This dilemma is significantly important in several Latin American nations.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Multi-Organ Procurement Organization Review of the Impact of Reactive Anti-HCV and HCV NAT Results
C. C. Muse, C. A. Hostetler, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski
LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: Previously a single organ procurement organization (OPO) reviewed data from a 15 month cohort (1/1/2016 to 3/31/17) and concluded that donors who tested positive…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characterizing the Waitlist Candidate Who Was Bypassed by the Successfully Transplanted Candidate with Alcoholic Hepatitis
J. Ge¹, C. L. Berg², F. Y. Yao¹, J. P. Roberts³, J. C. Lai¹
¹Medicine - Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Duke University, Durham, NC, ³Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Early liver transplantation (LT) for acute alcoholic hepatitis (AH) has increased dramatically in the US since 2016. Due to high MELD-Na scores, AH candidates…