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Articles tagged "Allocation"

  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes Analysis of U.S. Transplant Centers Performing High Volumes of Hard to Place Kidneys

    Y. Qazi1, D. Bahl2, N. Mehta3, Z. Haddad4, M. Smogorzewski4

    1USC, Los Angeles, CA, 2UC Davis, Sacramento, CA, 3UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 4Keck Medical Center At USC, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Despite a growing number of patients awaiting a kidney transplant, discard rate remains significantly high. The UNOS SRTR data now provides information on all…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Donor Hepatitis C Virus Infection on Kidney Transplant Outcomes in the Direct Acting Antiretroviral Era: Time to Revise the KDPI?

    R. M. Cannon, E. G. Davis, L. Mackelaite, H. Dave, M. Eng, C. M. Jones

    University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

    *Purpose: The kidney donor risk index (KDRI), upon which the kidney donor profile index (KDPI) used for renal allocation is based, was derived before the…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Dialysis Facility Profit Status and Referral for Kidney Transplantation

    E. R. Walker1, L. J. McPherson1, J. C. Gander2, S. Pastan1, R. E. Patzer1

    1Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 2Kaiser Permanente Georgia, Atlanta, GA

    *Purpose: Patients receiving dialysis treatment in for-profit dialysis facilities have historically lower rates of kidney transplantation (KT) compared to non-profit facilities, but the impact of…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Improving Access to Lung Transplant through Donor Strategy: A Decision Analysis

    W. Tsuang, B. Udeh

    Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

    *Purpose: The use of Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) donors in addition to Donation after Brain Death (DBD) donors may increase patient access to lung…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    ilearnKAS: An Animated Video to Educate African Americans about Key Concepts of Kidney Allocation

    J. Narvaez, B. Dolph, T. Feeley, L. Kayler

    University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

    *Purpose: ilearnKAS is a iteratively-designed patient-engaged mobile educational animated video developed with guidance from patients, providers, Self-efficacy and Multimedia Learning Theories designed for African American…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Exploration of the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant with Psychosocial and Medical Outcomes in Kidney/Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipients

    G. Chen1, C. Bell2, P. Loughhead1, B. Ibeche2, J. S. Bynon2, D. R. Hall2, A. M. De Golovine2, A. Edwards2, W. A. Dar2

    1Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, 2The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: The Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant (SIPAT) is a psychometric instrument designed to improve organ transplant patient selection. However, limited studies have been…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Simulation vs. Reality: 250NM as First Unit of Lung Allocation

    M. Skeans1, J. Pyke1, C. Lehr2, R. Lehman3, K. Uccellini3, K. M. Chan4, E. D. Lease5, R. Daly6, M. Valapour2

    1SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, 2Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 3OPTN, Richmond, VA, 4Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 5Univ. of WA, Seattle, WA, 6Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    *Purpose: In November 2017, the OPTN Executive Committee removed donation service area as the first unit of donor allocation, replacing it with a circle of…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Exploring the Drivers of the Early Decline in One-Year Patient Survival after KAS

    K. Lindblad, A. Wilk, D. Stewart

    UNOS, Richmnd, VA

    *Purpose: The OPTN implemented a new kidney allocation system (KAS) on December 4, 2014, and initial post-implementation monitoring found a statistically significant decline in one-year…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Racial/Ethnic and Socio-Economic Disparities: Single versus Multi-Organ Transplant Recipients

    C. A. Custer1, K. Ladin2, J. Entwistle3, E. J. Gordon4

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2Tufts University, Medford, MA, 3Thomas Jefferson University, Washington, DC, 4Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Under current deceased donor kidney allocation policy, multi-organ transplant (MOT) candidates often receive priority over single organ transplant (SOT) candidates. We examined the distribution…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    The Increasing Financial Challenge of Liver Transplantation

    D. Axelrod1, S. Hohmann2, K. Lentine3, H. Xiao3, B. Kasiske4, J. Snyder4, M. Ostrander5, M. Schnitzler3

    1Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2Vizient Inc, Chicago, IL, 3Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO, 4SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, 5Visient, Inc., Minneapolis, IA

    *Purpose: Despite innovations in clinical care, liver transplant (LT) remains highly resource intensive due to medical complexity and organ quality. National allocation systems prioritize access…
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