2019 American Transplant Congress
Simulation vs. Reality: 250NM as First Unit of Lung Allocation
*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
*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
*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
*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…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…
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