2022 American Transplant Congress
Center Variation is the Major Driver of Geographic Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplants Among Waitlisted Candidates
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The OPTN’s monitoring of equity in access to deceased donor kidney (KI) transplants (tx) among waitlisted candidates has consistently found service area (DSA) of…2022 American Transplant Congress
Avoiding Cytomegalovirus Mismatching in Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation System in the US
*Purpose: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) mismatch, donor-positive/recipient-negative serostatus (D+/R-), carries a high risk of developing CMV infection, graft failure mortality. The current kidney allocation system (KAS) does…2022 American Transplant Congress
Failure to Account for Social Determinants of Health in Non-HCC MELD Exceptions Exacerbates Geographic Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Non-HCC MELD exceptions have been previously shown to give excess priority for transplant in certain UNOS Regions, but this phenomenon has not been examined…2022 American Transplant Congress
Disparities in Liver Transplant Access for HCC Patients Based on Patient Blood Type and the Intensity of Competition for Organs Under MMAT-3
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Recent policy changes (acuity circles and MMAT-3 for HCC MELD exception) aimed to reduce geographic disparities in access to liver transplant (LT) and mitigate…2022 American Transplant Congress
A Machine Learning Approach to Estimating Anticipated Waiting Time and Survival Benefit in Older Kidney Transplant Candidates
1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2U MN, Mpls, MN
*Purpose: Older kidney transplant (ktx) recipients face worse post-transplant survival due to increasing age and more comorbidities. Simultaneously, older ktx candidates are more likely to…2022 American Transplant Congress
Concurrent Use of Two Methods Prevents Erroneous HLA Typing of Deceased Organ Donors – An Essential Strategy for Patient Safety and Accurate Virtual Crossmatching for Broader Sharing
*Purpose: Comprehensive and accurate typing for ever-increasing alleles of all eleven HLA genes within a short turnaround time is a crucial initial step for allocating…2022 American Transplant Congress
Longevity Matching for Living Donor Renal Transplantation
1Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 2-, Garnet Valley, PA
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) continues to become a more prevalent treatment method for ESRD and is known to increase both organ availability and…2022 American Transplant Congress
Post-Allocation Policy and Changes in Gender Disparities in Access to Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Gender-based differences in receiving simultaneous liver-kidney transplant (SLKT) is not well-understood. We recently found that women are disadvantaged in access to SLKT, especially women…2022 American Transplant Congress
Sex Disparities in Access to Liver Transplant for Waitlisted Patients with Meld 40
*Purpose: Women with end-stage liver disease are less likely than men to receive a liver transplant, due in part to MELD’s reliance on creatinine and…2022 American Transplant Congress
Expanding Access to Robotic Kidney Transplantation for Candidates with High BMI. A Training Tool for Transplant Centers
Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Recently published literature has demonstrated favorable outcomes for Robotic Kidney Transplant (RKT) in high BMI recipients. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has…
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