Articles tagged "Allocation"

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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Higher State-Level Demand for Renal Transplantation is Associated with Lower Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation Rate
A. C. Kale, H. Qu, P. MacLennan, R. Reed, D. Anderson, M. N. Mustian, B. Orandi, B. Shelton, V. Kumar, M. J. Hanaway, J. E. Locke
University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Geographic disparities in deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT) persist despite increased allocation system oversight and complexity. The association between poor population health and fewer…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the 2015 LAS Revisions on Lung Candidates with Pulmonary Vascular Disease
K. Lindblad¹, R. Goff¹, K. Chan²
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: On February 19, 2015 a major revision to the Lung Allocation Score (LAS) was implemented with the goal of more accurately reflecting waitlist urgency…