Articles tagged "Allocation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of ABO Non-Identical Pancreas Transplant
S. Nagaraju, R. Mangus, J. Fridell.
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.
A data review of all pancreas transplants since 2003 (n=606) at our institution revealed 41 recipients of a non-identical ABO donor pancreas. They were matched…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Greater Access to Kidney Transplantation in Competitive DSAs: Due to Improved Referral?
J. Adler,¹ D. Chang,² H. Yeh.²
¹Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI; ²Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
INTRODUCTION: For patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), access to kidney transplantation (ATT) varies across the 58 Donor Service Areas (DSAs) of the United States,…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Categorization Improve Outcomes and Organ Utilization in Liver Transplant
H. Bohorquez,^1,2 H. Sharma,¹ D. Bruce,¹ A. Cohen,^1,2 C. Carmody,^1,2 J. Seal,¹ E. Bugeaud,¹ D. Sonnier,¹ A. Mathur,¹ D. Marroquin,¹ M. Voltz,¹ D. Lucia,¹ G. Loss.^1,2
¹Multi-Organ Transplant Institute, Ochsner Helath System, New Orleans, LA; ²School of Medicine, University of Queensland, New Orleans, LA.
Background: Liver transplant (LT) varies greatly in technical complexity due to factors such as prior surgery, obesity, and portal vein thrombosis (PVT). This must be…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Demographic and Geographic Differences in the Proportion of Liver Disease Deaths Captured by the Transplant Waitlist in the United States, 2011 – 2015
K. Ross,¹ R. Lynch,² D. Goldberg,³ R. Patzer.^1,2
¹Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; ²Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA; ³Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Background: There are no population-based estimates of the prevalence of end-stage liver disease in the United States, creating challenges in measuring disease burden to inform…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Interactive Software for Simulation and Management of a Kidney Paired Donation Program
M. Bray,¹ W. Wang,¹ M. Rees,² P. Song,¹ A. Leichtman,³ V. Ashby,¹ J. Kalbfleisch.¹
¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²Alliance for Paired Donation, Maumee, OH; ³Arbor Research, Ann Arbor, MI.
In kidney paired donation (KPD), candidates with willing but incompatible donors are pooled together with the goal of finding new transplant opportunities by exchanging donors.…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Isolated Pancreas Transplantation: Does Rank List Position Matter for Imported Grafts?
J. Adler, R. Redfield, D. Kaufman, J. Odorico.
Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
INTRODUCTION: Pancreata are frequently not recovered or are discarded, resulting in a very low national utilization (~15%). There are many reasons why a transplant center…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Improving Participation in Non-A1/Non-A1B to B Deceased Donor Program Post Kidney Allocation System (KAS)- A Single Center Experience
H. Khamash, J. Adamski, R. Heilman, A. Mathur, A. Moss, A. Kumar, Q. Lu, K. Reddy.
Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix.
Blood type B kidney transplant candidates have a longer wait time on the deceased donor list, an average of 6 years compared to 3 years…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Implementation of the Lung Allocation Score is Associated with Decreased Mortality in Combined Liver-Lung Allograft Recipients
K. Freischlag,¹ P. Shroder,² B. Ezekian,² M. Mulvihill,² S. Knechtle.²
¹School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC; ²Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Objective: The current system for simultaneous liver-lung transplant (LLT) generally matches a recipient with a donor based on his or her lung allocation score (LAS),…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Increase in Post-Transplant Mortality Under KAS.
A. Massie, J. Garonzik-Wang, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore
Following implementation of the Kidney Allocation System (KAS), a major change to deceased donor kidney allocation in December 2014, transplantation rates increased for African-Americans and…
2017 American Transplant Congress
KDPI and Small (<20 kg) Pediatric Kidney Donors.
J. Smith,^1,2 S. Gustafson,² A. Wey,² J. Snyder,² A. Israni.²
¹Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle; ²Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis
Use of small (≤20 kg) donor kidneys in pediatric candidates has declined under the new kidney allocation system (KAS), from 5.0% of pediatric kidney-alone transplants…