2019 American Transplant Congress
The Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (COIIN): Impact on Deceased Donor Transplant Rates and Offer Acceptance Practices
1SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, 2OPTN, Richmond, VA, 3OPTN, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) completed the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (COIIN), a study to increase kidney transplants by reducing risk…2019 American Transplant Congress
Global Kidney Exchange
*Purpose: Poverty prevents more kidney transplants (KTs) worldwide than any other barrier. Global kidney Exchange (GKE) is a mechanism to overcome this barrier.*Methods: In high-income…2019 American Transplant Congress
Optimizing Opportunity and Benefits of Steroid Avoidance in the New KAS Era
New York Presbyterian / Weill Cornell, New York, NY
*Purpose: The introduction of the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) in 2014 has facilitated transplantation of sensitized patients with high CPRA. However, the CPRA value…2019 American Transplant Congress
Share 21 Rather Than Share 15: Balancing Transplant Opportunity without Compromising Waitlist Outcomes
*Purpose: We recently reported that, with the introduction of Meld-Na liver allocation, the score at which patients clearly benefit from liver transplant as opposed to…2019 American Transplant Congress
Modeling Multiple Registrations and the Impact at the National and Regional Scale
Computational Science and Informatics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
*Purpose: Current policies in the U.S. allow patients to register at multiple organ donor service areas (DSAs), provided they have physician approval and can cover…2019 American Transplant Congress
Differences in Wait Time, Graft Quality and Outcome for Pediatric Kidney Recipients in the Post-Kidney Allocation System Era
Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY
*Purpose: Though a purpose of the kidney allocation system (KAS) enacted in 2014 was to prioritize the transplantation of highly sensitized recipients, we explored the…2019 American Transplant Congress
OPO Aggressiveness Index: A Novel OPO Performance Metric That Incentivizes Pursuit of Marginal Deceased Donor Candidates
*Purpose: Of 2.5M deaths in the US every year, only 10,000 are recovered for transplantation; recovery of organs from older donors is rare although similar…2019 American Transplant Congress
Halt-hcc At The Time Of Listing Is Superior To Other Allocation Metrics At Predicting Waitlist Dropout; An Srtr Analysis
*Purpose: A recently developed liver allocation metric, Hazard Associated with Liver Transplant for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HALT-HCC), has been shown to predict post-transplantation survival and recurrence.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Illustration of Renal Recovery in SLK with Utilization of Most Recent Allocation Criteria
Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Single Center review of Renal recovery in Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation (SLKT) in patients who were approved for SLK based on the recent UNOS…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Power of Young Donor Liver; Elixir of Life for Sick Liver Transplant Recipient
*Purpose: Young donor organs are known to have significant prognostic benefits in liver transplantation (LT). However, details of short- and long-term prognostic benefits of young…
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