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
Non-Immunologic Pairing of Kidney Transplant Donors and Recipients: How Important is HLA Match Status?
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Currently, allocation preference in deceased donor kidney transplantation is given to donors and recipients (D/R) with 0 human leukocyte antigen (HLA) mismatches (MM), with non-immunologic…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of ABO Blood Type and Geography on Access to Lung Transplant
Background: Rare blood types (B and AB) are increasingly a risk factor for lung transplant waitlist mortality when compared to common blood types (A and…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.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Early Considerations for Deceased Donor Chains
Background: The potential use of deceased kidney donors (DDs) to initiate kidney paired donation (KPD) chains (DD chains) has been of interest to the transplant…2018 American Transplant Congress
Large Decrease in Liver Waiting List Dropout Rate for MELD > 14
1SRTR, Minneapolis; 2Stanford University, Stanford; 3Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Median MELD at transplant has increased steadily over the past 10 years. One possible mechanism is decreased waitlist dropout rates, particularly among liver candidates with…2018 American Transplant Congress
Prospective Validation of Prediction Models for Kidney Discard
A large number of kidneys are discarded every year despite evidence that many could have provided survival benefit for waitlisted candidates. Identifying kidneys at high…2018 American Transplant Congress
Is BMI > 35 a Barrier to Kidney Transplantation?
Organ Transplant, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
Background:Although lower rates of patient and graft survival are reported for kidney transplant recipients with BMI > 35, kidney transplant in this group provides a…
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