2018 American Transplant Congress
Broader Geographic Sharing and Impact on Lung Transplant Waitlist Time and Lung Allocation Score
Background: Donor lungs are preferentially offered to patients within a local geographic area before being offered to a broader region. This algorithm may prevent patients…2018 American Transplant Congress
Non-US Citizen Liver Transplant Recipients (LTR) Have Superior Outcomes Compared to US Citizen LTR: A Retrospective Study of 50,422 Subjects Using the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) from 1992-2015
The US performs over 7,000 liver transplants per year and a substantial subset of Non-US citizen recipients exist. United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) policy…2018 American Transplant Congress
A New Reality: Virtual Crossmatch Can Be Used Successfully as Pre-Transplant Compatibility Testing for Most Deceased Donor Transplants at a High Volume Center
Aim: We developed a reliable virtual crossmatch (VXM) method for use as pre-transplant XM for deceased donor (DD) kidney transplantation (KTx). Here we report the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Heart and Lung Offer Acceptance Practices Are Associated with Organ Yield and Local Placement
Below average offer acceptance practices could delay placement of donor hearts and lungs and may ultimately lead to organ discard. Recovered thoracic organs are rarely…2018 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Variation in the Survival Benefit of Heart Transplantation
1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Purpose: Heart transplant candidate selection and treatment practices vary substantially across the US. We aimed to determine if transplant center practices modify the survival benefit…2018 American Transplant Congress
Evaluating Center Performance beyond Patient and Graft Survival
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Introduction: LT centers are judged by patient survival at 1-yr post LT; however risk incurred on the waitlist or center specific practices post LT are…2018 American Transplant Congress
Offer Acceptance Practices and Geographic Variability in Allocation MELD at Transplant
1SRTR, Minneapolis; 2U.S. Navy, Anapolis.
Offer acceptance practices may cause geographic variability in allocation model for end-stage liver disease (aMELD) score at transplant and could magnify the apparent impact of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Many Highly Sensitized Candidates Still Waiting for Transplant Despite the Kidney Allocation System Change: Making the Case for Incompatible Transplantation
Introduction: The rate of kidney transplantation in highly sensitized individuals has increased since the kidney allocation system (KAS) change, but it remains unclear who has…2018 American Transplant Congress
Medical Contraindications to Solid Organ Transplant Listing: A Survey of Heart, Liver, Lung and Kidney Programs
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of advanced age, obesity and HIV seropositivity on solid organ transplant listing across liver,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Organ Transplantation from Donors with Cancer History
Purpose: The inherent challenges of selecting an acceptable donor for each of the increasing numbers and acuity of recipients has led programs to take increased…
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