2019 American Transplant Congress
Pancreas Allograft Importation Should Be Fostered by Any Transplant Center Challenged by Excessively Long Waitlist Times
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
*Purpose: Pancreas transplantation is a durable option for patients with insulin dependent diabetes. However, geographic inequity has created a supply side problem for our region.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Physiochemical Hla Properties Identify Low Immunogenic Donor/recipient Pairs Predicting Long-term Kidney Graft Survivals
1Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
*Purpose: Although it is well-recognized that HLA matching improves the long-term kidney graft survival, less than 10% of transplants are currently HLA matched. We measured…2019 American Transplant Congress
Association Of Kdpi And Dgf With Dcd Kidney Transplants Outcomes
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…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Transplant-Death Index: A Novel Method to Identify Disenfranchised Liver Transplant Waitlist Candidates
Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
The transplant field is seeing a shift in outcome priorities from just 1-year survival to include waitlist metrics such as the transplant rate. Identifying disenfranchised…2018 American Transplant Congress
Multi-Organ (M-O) Prioritization of Kidneys: ? Time for Policy Modification
The revised Kidney Allocation System (KAS) has been operational for 3 years. The bolus effects seen early following the introduction have abated and a steady…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio is Confounded by MELD in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation
Department of General Surgery Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Background: Biological markers such as the pre-operative neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) have been suggested to be valuable indicators of recurrence and overall survival after…2018 American Transplant Congress
“I'll Be Back”: Increasing Readmission Rates in the Era of the New Kidney Allocation System
Background: National analysis of the impact of the new KAS has indicated an increase in DGF rates, total inpatient hospital costs & 30 day readmission…2018 American Transplant Congress
A Long-Term Experience with Expansion of Milan Criteria for Liver Transplant Recipients
1Duke University, Durham, NC; 2Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Background: The Milan Criteria (MC) have historically determined eligibility for transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Region 4 expanded…2018 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Patients with CPRA>99.95% Likely to Be Offered Deceased Donor Kidneys
Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA.
The implementation of the new kidney allocation system and priority of kidneys for cPRA=100% subjects revealed a hierarchy difference in allocation to patients with cPRA=99.45%-100%.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Changes to the LAS Calculation
Purpose: On 2/19/2015 major revisions to the Lung Allocation Score (LAS) calculation were made to more appropriately reflect candidates' waiting list urgency and post-transplant survival.…
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