2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Recipient Matching in Kidney Transplant: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
*Purpose: In deceased donor kidney transplantation, strategic organ allocation is expected to prolong patient and graft survival after transplant. The aim of this study was…2019 American Transplant Congress
Finding Opportunities for Increased Donation after Circulatory Death Liver Utilization: Results of an American Society of Transplant Surgeons/Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Survey
*Purpose: Liver allografts from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors remain underutilized in the U.S. Improved utilization requires expanded potential donor identification by organ procurement…2019 American Transplant Congress
Development of an Aggressiveness Report Card
*Purpose: Use of suboptimal kidneys (SOKs) is not uniform across centers. We hypothesize that creating an aggressiveness report card (ARC) that provides surgeons with timely…2019 American Transplant Congress
Accelerating Kidney Allocation: Simultaneously Expiring Offers
*Purpose: Placing kidneys quickly might reduce discard. Additionally, a faster allocation system that reduces cold ischemia time would yield benefits: decreased delayed graft function, shorter…2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes and Organ Acceptance Practice Patterns: Nationwide Analyses of the US and France
*Purpose: Approximately 3,500 donated kidneys are discarded in the US each year, drawing concern from Medicare and advocacy groups. We hypothesised that more aggressive organ…2019 American Transplant Congress
Disparities in Pediatric Liver Transplant Waitlist Access
1Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: While disparities in access to liver transplant are well documented among adults, differences in access to the waitlist for children in remote or underserved…2019 American Transplant Congress
Should First and Second Transplant Candidates Be Treated Equally?
Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: To inform future organ distribution policy.*Methods: We determined access to deceased donor transplantation, transplant survival, the duration of additional renal replacement therapy needed within…2019 American Transplant Congress
Moving from Local Allocation to National Allocation Using Gravity Model
*Purpose: Most allocation scheme are based on optimized or administrative boundaries that do not allow transplant candidates without national priority to access a graft from…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Changes in OPTN Oversight of Kidney Programs on Organ Yield and Offer Acceptance Practices
1SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, 2OPTN, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: In March 2017, the Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC) of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network implemented an operational rule to increase the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Significant Increase in Moderate to High KDPI Kidney Transplants Using a Multi-Operational Approach: Results from the COIIN (Collaborative Innovation and Improvement Network) Initiative
1Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2UNOS, Richmond, VA, 3Robert Wood Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
*Purpose: Kidney transplant (KTx) utilization of moderate to high KDPI (MH-KDPI) deceased donor kidneys remains an opportunity to reduce organ discards. We participated in COIIN,…
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