Articles tagged "Allocation"

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.…
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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…
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Does the New Heart Transplantation Allocation System Improve Access to Transplantation for Restrictive and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients? A UNOS Database Analysis
R. Y. Loyaga-Rendon¹, D. R. Fermin¹, M. Jani¹, R. L. Grayburn¹, S. Lee¹, M. G. Dickinson¹, M. Gonzalez¹, N. K. Shrestha², T. Boeve³, S. Jovinge², M. Leacche³
¹Cardiology, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, ²DeVos Cardiovascular Research Program, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, ³Cardiothoracic Surgery, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI
*Purpose: Historically, patients with end-stage restrictive (RCM) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), experienced longer wait times and increased waitlist mortality while awaiting a heart transplant (HT)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Utilization and Outcomes of Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplants after Change in Allocation Policy
M. L. Samoylova¹, B. I. Shaw¹, S. J. Kesseli¹, S. Sanoff², Y. Patel², A. S. Barbas¹, L. McElroy¹
¹Surgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ²Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC
*Purpose: The July 10, 2017 change in simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) listing policy imposed more stringent criteria on recipient renal function. Recipient outcomes following this change…