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…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hard-To-Place Kidney Offers: System- Level Predictors of Discard
Background: Deceased-donor kidney discard rates remain high. Inefficiencies in the allocation of hard-to-place kidneys may be contributing to discard suggesting that system-level factors represent opportunities…2018 American Transplant Congress
Is Percent Exception at Transplant a Driver of MELD Inflation?
1SRTR, Minneapolis, MN; 2Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 3Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Before 2016, the proportion of deceased donor liver recipients with an exception status at liver transplant (LT) correlated strongly with median MELD at transplant (MMaT)…2018 American Transplant Congress
State of the Union: Outcomes of a Single Center's A2-to-B Transplants Two Years after the Implementation of KAS
Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
Introduction. Since the implementation of the new KAS there are few reports on both single center outcomes in the modern era of transplantation and the…2018 American Transplant Congress
An Economic Analysis of the UK Pancreas Allocation Scheme
Introduction: Economics provides input to decisions concerning the best use of available resources. In transplantation, limitations include organ availability and competing organ demands. This is…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Predictive Power of MELD is Decreasing in the Era of Older, Sicker Patients
PurposeThe field of liver transplantation has shifted considerably in the MELD era. Liver allocation, immunosuppression, and etiologies of liver failure have changed over time, and…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcome of Second Kidney Transplantation According to Previous Pediatric Donor Type: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis
Medicine-Nephrology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: With the prioritization of age ≤ 18 years old at the time of registration on the kidney transplant waiting list in the United States,…
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