Articles tagged "Allocation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Kidney Allocation System on Waiting List Outcomes for Candidates Listed in Veterans Affairs Programs
J. Walker¹, B. Concepion², K. Birdwell², I. Feurer³, S. Rega⁴, D. Shaffer⁵, R. Forbes⁵
¹Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Nashville, TN, ²Nephrology, VUMC, Nashville, TN, ³Surgery and Biostatistics, VUMC, Nashville, TN, ⁴Transplant Center, VUMC, Nashville, TN, ⁵Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, VUMC, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Kidney Allocation System (KAS) changes in 2014 prioritized highly sensitized candidates and aimed to improve longevity matching. Given that veterans are older and less…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Criteria for Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation: Is it Applicable for Simultaneous Heart -Kidney Transplantation?
J. Yoo, D. Jain, A. Desai, S. Akkina
Department of Medicine, Division of Transplant Nephrology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
*Purpose: Simultaneous heart-kidney transplantation (SHK) proved its survival benefits in dialysis patients. However, criteria to allocate a kidney for SHK is lacking whereas criteria for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Analysis of Transplant Centers Performing High Volumes of Hard to Place Kidneys: An Update
D. Bahl¹, N. Mehta², Y. A. Qazi³
¹School of Medicine, St. George's University, West Indies, Grenada, ²University of California, Berkeley, Torrance, CA, ³School of Medicine, Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Despite a growing number of patients awaiting a kidney transplant, the discard rate remains significantly high. The UNOS SRTR data now provides information on…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Consequences of Turning Down High KDPI Kidney Organ Offers for Kidney Transplant Candidates
J. D. Motter, L. Liyanage, K. R. Jackson, M. G. Bowring, T. Ishaque, Y. Yu, S. Yu, J. M. Garonzik-Wang, A. B. Massie, D. L. Segev
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Kidneys with a high Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI, 80-100%) are frequently declined as they are associated with higher graft loss; yet, candidates that…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of 2015 T2 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Exception Policy Implementation on Waitlist Time and Tumor Characteristics
C. Durkin¹, D. E. Kaplan², T. Bittermann²
¹Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: A United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) policy change in 2015 created a 6-month delay in the receipt of T2 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) exception…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Discard Disparities of Liver Allografts
P. I. Kenny Jr¹, A. Rana², J. Vierling²
¹Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The aim of this study is to demonstrate the significant geographic disparity in liver allograft discard.*Methods: Using the OPTN Diseased Donor Network database, we…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Post-Transplant Rebound and Not Baseline Anti-A Titers are Associated with Acute Antibody-Mediated Rejection in A₂– to B/O Incompatible Kidney Transplantation
V. Kumar, D. Mompoint-Williams, M. Marques, P. MacLennan, M. Mustian, J. Locke
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Decreased antigen expression among blood group A subtype 2 (A2) donor kidneys allows these organs to be considered as universal donors; under the new…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Heart Transplant Outcomes for Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) Before and after the 2018 Revision of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Adult Heart Allocation System
J. Pizula¹, K. Yang¹, J. Li¹, S. Shah¹, G. Liu¹, A. Lee¹, P. Banankhah¹, J. Nattiv¹, D. Miklin¹, P. Genyk¹, P. Kingsford¹, K. Pandya¹, R. Joeseph¹, M. Fong¹, G. Luanda¹, A. Kiankhooy¹, S. Hashmi¹, S. Nuno¹, A. Wolfson², A. Salimbangon³, R. Chand⁴, D. Vucicevic⁵, L. Corey⁶, E. Depasquale¹, A. Vaidya¹
¹Cardiology, LAC-USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tuscon, AZ, ³UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Newark Beth-Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, ⁶The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
*Purpose: In October of 2018 UNOS chaged their adult heart allocation criteria to address disparity in waiting list survival. The implications of this policy change…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Kidneys from Pediatric Donors Are Preferentially Allocated to Adult Highly Sensitized and Not to Pediatrics Under the New Kidney Allocation System (KAS)
D. Puliyanda¹, H. Pizzo¹, J. Garrison¹, S. Williamson², I. Kim², E. Huang²
¹Pediatric Nephrology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: In 12/2014, the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) assigned allocation priority to highly sensitized (HS) recipients while maintaining access to donors for pediatric patients…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Financial Analysis of Donor HCV+ Kidney in HCV- Recipients
D. Axelrod¹, K. Lentine², R. Balakrishnan¹, T. Alhamad³, S. Chang³, H. Xiao², B. Kasiske⁴, M. Schnitzler², R. Bloom⁵
¹University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ³Washington Univ, Seattle, WA, ⁴SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Use of organs from viremic hepatitis C positive donors (dHCV+) in recipients without HCV has been demonstrated to improve access to kidney transplant (KTx).…