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…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…2018 American Transplant Congress
Low Kidney Supply to Demand Ratio and Multi-Organ Transplant Centers Are Negatively Associated with Pediatric Renal Transplant Rates Post Kidney Allocation System Implementation: An Analysis of OPTN Data
Under the new kidney allocation system (KAS), pediatric (PED) renal (REN) transplant (Tx) candidates have priority to kidneys from donors with KDPI < 35%. We…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…2017 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Quality Dramatically Influences Patient and Death Censored Graft Survival in SLK Recipients.
Department of Transplant Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Introduction: Renal grafts used in simultaneous kidney liver (SLK) transplants are allocated on “center based” arbitrary clinical criteria without entering the kidney allocation algorithm. The…2017 American Transplant Congress
Candidate Sex and Size Disparity in Liver Offer Acceptance.
1JHU, Baltimore; 2US Naval Academy, Annapolis
Female liver transplant candidates face lower access to transplantation. Size match between the offered liver and the candidate is important but has not been considered…
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