Articles tagged "Allocation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Concurrent Final Acceptance Associated with Decreased Deceased Donor Liver Utilization
A. Robinson¹, K. Shutterly², M. Sellers³, J. Rosendale¹, D. Brockmeier⁴
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Center for Organ Recovery and Education, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Emory University Hospital and LifeLink of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Mid-America Transplant Services, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: With broader sharing for candidates with high MELD scores, it is not unusual for liver candidates to receive offers from multiple donors. Accepting multiple…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The New UK National Kidney Allocation Scheme with Maximized ‘D4/R4’ Kidney Transplants: Appropriate Donor to Recipient Matching or System Overstretch?
R. Pearson, E. Murray, P. Thompson, P. Mark, M. Clancy, J. Asher
Renal Transplant, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
*Purpose: The UK national deceased donor kidney matching scheme changed in September 2019, aiming to better match graft and patient survival. Donors and recipients are…
2020 American Transplant Congress
5-Year Simulated Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys in 3 Contiguous States within Region 3 Under the Latest 250 nm Circle Distribution Proposal
C. Warren¹, N. Battula¹, A. Zarrinpar¹, T. Kozlowski¹, M. Johnson¹, K. Andreoni²
¹University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Abdominal Transplant, Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: The proposed kidney allocation replaces current local and regional by a 250 nautical mile (nm) radius circle from the actual donor hospital (DH) to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Investigating the 6-Month Effects of the UNOS Allocation System Changes on the Post Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Amyloidosis
P. Banankhah¹, G. Liu¹, J. Nattiv¹, C. Lum², A. Salimbangon³, A. Wolfson⁴, E. DePasquale¹, R. Chand⁵, P. Genyk¹, P. Kingsford¹, J. Li¹, D. Vucicevic⁶, A. Vaidya¹, K. Pandya¹, J. Rahman¹, M. Fong¹, L. Grazette¹, A. Kiankhooy¹, S. Hashmi¹, S. Nuno¹, J. Pizula¹, D. Miklin¹, A. E. Lee¹, K. Yang¹, S. Shah¹
¹Cardiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²Cardiology, The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, ³Cardiology, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Cardiology, University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, AZ, ⁵Cardiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶Cardiology, Newark Beth-Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ
*Purpose: Cardiac amyloidosis is an infiltrative cardiomyopathy with poor outcomes. Cardiac transplantation and increased utilization of mechanical support have led to improved outcomes in patients…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Removing DSA as a First Unit of Lung Allocation: Preliminary Results
R. R. Lehman¹, K. Uccellini², M. Skeans³, M. Valapour³, E. D. Lease⁴, R. Daly⁵, K. M. Chan⁶
¹Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Policy, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ³SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁶Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: In an emergency action on November 24, 2017 the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) altered US lung allocation policy by replacing the donor…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Of Single And En-bloc Pediatric Kidneys According To Kdpi
M. Sampaio, E. Lum, A. Gritsch, S. Bunnapradist
David Geffen Sch of Med at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: There is no consensus on whether a very young kidney should be used as en-bloc or single. We studied the association of KDPI in…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Eplet Mismatches on Kidney Transplant Outcome: A Single-Center Cohort Study
A. Senev¹, M. Coemans¹, V. Van Sandt², B. Sprangers³, D. Kuypers³, M. Emonds², M. Naesens³
¹Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium, ³University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
*Purpose: It has been shown that HLA-matching at classic antigen-level for HLA-A, -B and -DRB1 loci, provides benefits in matching and outcome after solid organ…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A New Risk Stratification Scoring System for Deceased Donor Kidneys and Suitable Candidates for Marginal Kidneys in Korea
T. Koo¹, J. Ryu¹, S. Park², S. Lee², J. Hwang², C. Ahn³, J. Yang¹
¹Transplantation Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The dichotomous criteria for expanded criteria donor (ECD) vs. standard criteria donor (SCD) have been useful for making decisions about accepting deceased donor kidney…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Organ Procurement Organization Surgeon Improves Utilization of Livers from Pediatric Donors
M. MacConmara¹, J. Reese², T. Anthony², A. Aqul³, S. Hanish¹, P. Vagefi¹, D. Desai¹, C. Hwang¹
¹Surgery (Division of Surgical Transplantation)I, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX, ³Childrens Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Pediatric liver transplant centers tend to send their own procurement team for organ assessment and recovery. TXSB organ procurement organization (OPO) hired a full-time…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Effects of Major Liver Allocation Policy Changes on Waitlist Outcomes in Multivisceral Transplantation
S. Nagai¹, M. Rizzari¹, Y. Muszkat², K. Collins¹, A. Yoshida¹, S. Jafri², M. Abouljoud¹
¹Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeryery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ²Gastroenterology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Liver-intestine allocation is determined in the liver waitlist. This study aimed to evaluate effects of recent updates in liver allocation policy on waitlist outcomes…