2020 American Transplant Congress
UNOS Hard to Place Kidneys: Are We Working Too Hard?
Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Kidneys requiring more than 100 offers before acceptance are defined by UNOS as “hard to place," but many are suitable for transplantation. We sought…2020 American Transplant Congress
No Kidney after Liver Left Behind: An Analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network “Safety Net” Policy
Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: Liver transplant (LT) recipients who develop persistent renal dysfunction face increased morbidity and mortality. These patients may be eligible for prioritization on the kidney…2020 American Transplant Congress
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Deceased Organ Donor Rates Over Time in the United States
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Historically, deceased organ donation rates have varied across racial/ethnic groups within the US. To address these differences, the transplant community has investigated select minority…2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving Consent Rate for High Kidney Donor Profile Index Kidneys
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Many deceased donor kidneys remain unused in this country. The UNOS formed Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Networks (COIIN) to tackle this issue, in which…2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Mortality and Transplant Probability for Inactively Listed Liver Patients Depends on Donor Service Areas’ Median MELD at Transplant
*Purpose: Presently, the outcome of patients listed inactive on liver transplant waiting list (WL) are unknown; as inactive patients cannot receive deceased donor organ offers,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Double or Nothing: Reducing Organ Discards by Preemptive Dualization of ‘at Risk’ Single Kidney Offers
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate a protocol designed to (1) enhance early identification of “at risk” single kidney offers (SKO) and…2020 American Transplant Congress
Lowering Meld, Diminishing Length of Stay, and Increasing Liver Transplant Numbers Comes Through the Generosity of Others: Declined HCV-NAT Offers Subsequently Transplanted Have Excellent Outcomes
Transplant Services, Intermountain Healthcare, Murray, UT
*Purpose: There is variability between programs in the acceptance of organ offers. This paper examines offer, acceptance and program performance with HCV NAT positive donor…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Single-Center Analysis of Using Allele-Level 11 HLA Loci Information on cPRA and Organ-Allocation Points in Kidney Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: Calculated panel reactive antibodies (cPRA) is used by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to quantify degree of HLA sensitization and assign priority…2020 American Transplant Congress
Change in the Willingness of Transplant Candidates to Accept Hepatitis C Virus Positive Deceased Donor Organs in the Era of Direct-Acting Antivirals
Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital，Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medications’ advent in 2014 very effectively changed the hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment landscape and allowed post-transplant HCV therapy. We aimed…2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of HLAi Transplant in CPRA 98-100 after Desensitization: Single Center Experience
1Cedars Sinai Medical Ctr, Los Angeles, CA, 2Pathology, Cedars Sinai Medical Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The new KAS implementation aimed at increasing equity in organ allocation for broadly sensitized (HS) patients. However, recent data shows that for the most…
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