2019 American Transplant Congress
Lung Allocation Score Should Be Implemented in China
*Purpose: Lung transplantation (LTx) is an effective treatment for patients with end stage of respiratory disease. Two of the major candidates are patients with chronic…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Influential Yet Highly Variable Role of Biopsy Findings on Kidney Offer Acceptance Decisions: An Organ Offer Simulation Study
*Purpose: The use of procurement biopsies (Bx) to assess kidney quality is controversial. ‘Biopsy findings’ is an often cited discard reason, yet the association between…2019 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Kidney Offer Acceptance for Pediatric Candidates Post-KAS
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose:Stakeholders have expressed concerns regarding kidney transplant rates for pediatric candidates under KAS. To better understand what might be driving potential declines in access, we…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Immigrant Bonus: Non US Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients Have Superior Outcomes versus US Citizen Recipients. A Retrospective Study of 30,092 Subjects Using the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) from 1992-2015
*Purpose: In 2017, there were 19,849 kidney transplant recipients, and most of these patients were US Citizens1. There has been however, a significant amount non-US…2019 American Transplant Congress
Unos Analysis Of Deceased Donor Renal Transplant (ddrtx) Outcomes In Sensitized Patients After Implementation Of The Kidney Allocation System (kas)
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Introduction of KAS in 2014 prioritized access to DDRTx for highly-sensitized candidates although it was unclear whether the outcomes would be acceptable in this…2019 American Transplant Congress
Unifying Interpretation of Molecular HLA Typing Data between the Solid Organ Allocation Match Run and Virtual Crossmatch
*Purpose: Virtual crossmatch compares a transplant candidate’s HLA antibody assay results to the HLA typing of the donor before an organ offer is accepted. While…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact Of Donor And Recipient Race On Kidney Transplant Survivals Evaluated By The Physiochemically-calculated Hla Immunogenicity
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
*Purpose: Graft survivals are inferior for African American (AA) patients in comparison to Caucasian (CAU) patients in the United States. We examined how donor and…2019 American Transplant Congress
Simulation of DSA-Free Lung Allocation
*Purpose: In November 2017, the OPTN Executive Committee removed donation service area (DSA) as the first unit of adult donor lung allocation, replacing it with…2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Analysis of U.S. Transplant Centers Performing High Volumes of Hard to Place Kidneys
*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?
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…
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