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
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
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
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
Intentional Transplantation of Hepatitis C Positive Livers into Hepatitis Negative Recipients- Report of the First Case-Series in the World
Dept. of Surgery, Univ of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA.
Background: The current disparity between supply and demand of liver grafts has dramatically increased the waiting time and mortality on the waiting list. The recent…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Livers Allocated to High UNOS Match Sequence Number Recipients at a High Volume Transplant Center
Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA.
IntroductionImproved utilization of expanded criteria donor (ECD) allografts offers an opportunity to expand the donor pool, reduce wait-times and waitlist mortality. We analyzed outcomes at…
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