Articles tagged "Allocation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
DOME: A New Strategy for Prioritizing Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients on the Liver Transplant Waitlist
C. Rickert¹, M. Akan², Z. Leung³, J. F. Markmann¹, S. Tayur², H. Zhao³, H. Yeh¹
¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, ³City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
*Purpose: Currently, adult HCC patients are prioritized for liver transplantation by receiving MELD exception points, determined primarily by time on waitlist without regard to actual…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Pancreata From Donors With Renal Insufficiency: Viable For Transplant?
X. Luo¹, J. Garonzik Wang², M. B. Doyle¹, A. Khan¹, T. Alhamad³, W. C. Chapman¹, A. Massie², D. Segev², J. R. Wellen¹
¹Section of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ²Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³Division of Nephrology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Pancreata are declined for transplantation for a multitude of reasons. Some of those reasons are organ edema as well as the potential for ischemic…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Kidney Discards with Donor Admission Text
A. Placona, C. Martinez, B. Carrico
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Kidney discard rates have increased in part due to technological advancements and deceased donor policy updates that allow for recovery of organs at increased…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Outcomes of DCD Kidneys Recovered with vs. without Pre-Recovery Heparin Administration
J. Narvaez, L. Kayler
Division of Transplantation, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: DCD kidney transplants are associated with higher rates of delayed graft function (DGF) and primary non-function (PNF) likely due to ischemic events during recovery.…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Twin Epidemics: Drug Overdoses And Suicides Are Increasingly Fueling The United States Donor Liver Supply
M. Goss¹, M. Kueht¹, N. Galvan¹, J. Reece², A. Rana¹
¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: In 2010, 6893 donor livers were procured for United States (U.S.) transplant. A reduction from the former pinnacle of U.S. liver transplant in 2006,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Allograft Survival Among Kidney-pancreas Recipients Compared To Solitary Kidney Recipients: A Mate Analysis Of The Unos/optn Database
O. K. Serrano¹, R. Kandaswamy², E. B. Finger²
¹Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, ²Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Deceased donor kidney allocation policies differ between solitary organs and combined transplants. The estimated waiting time for a kidney as part of a simultaneous…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Prospective Multi-Regional Study of Down-Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma to within Milan Criteria before Liver Transplantation
N. Mehta¹, J. Guy², C. Frenette³, P. Tabrizian⁴, M. Hoteit⁵, R. Dhanasekaran⁶, J. Dodge¹, M. L. Holzner⁴, L. Frankul³, S. Florman⁴, N. Parikh⁷, F. Yao¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²CPMC, San Francisco, CA, ³Scripps Hospital, La Jolla, CA, ⁴Mt Sinai, New York, NY, ⁵U. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, ⁷U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Recent studies from United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) Region 5 reported excellent outcomes after liver transplantation (LT) after successful down-staging in HCC patients…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Association Of Kdpi And Dgf With Dcd Kidney Transplants Outcomes
M. Sampaio, B. Abdalla, S. Bunnapradist
David Geffen Sch of Med at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Donors of circulatory death (DCD) have similar outcomes compared to donors of brain death (DBD) in kidney transplants. It is unclear if this is…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A2 To B Kidney Transplants Under Kidney Allocation System: A Prospective Study Of Anti A Titers And Correlation With Outcomes
H. Schaefer, I. Feurer, S. Rega, R. Forbes, D. Shaffer
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: The UNOS KAS system incorporates A2 to B deceased donor kidney transplants (DDKTx) to improve access and reduce disparities in wait times for B…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Cold Ischemia Time on DCD Kidney Transplant Outcomes
J. Narvaez, L. Kayler
Transplant Surgery Division, Dept of Surgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation (KTX) from Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) donors is associated with high rates of delayed graft function (DGF) and potential worse graft…