2022 American Transplant Congress
Adding Epitope Compatibility To Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation Criteria: Recommendations From An Online Public Deliberation
*Purpose: With increasing demand for kidneys and a scarce supply, ways to reduce rejection and improve transplant outcomes are needed. One possibility is using epitope…2022 American Transplant Congress
Ethnic Variation in Adult and Pediatric Liver Transplantation
1Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, 2Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Despite several policy reforms over the years, disparities in the access to solid organ transplantation continues to exist remains a significant barrier to liver…2022 American Transplant Congress
The Rise in the Number of Eligible Donors for Liver Transplantation Has Been Driven by an Exponential Increase in Marginal Donors
1Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX
*Purpose: To determine which subcategories of marginal livers have seen advancements in utilization and which have not.*Methods: 181,992 eligible donors listed in the Organ Procurement…2022 American Transplant Congress
Late Liver Turn Downs: The Utilization and Impact of the Expedited Process
*Purpose: There is belief that the discard rates are higher for organs turned down late in the recovery process. The expedited liver (LI) pathway, allows…2022 American Transplant Congress
Association Between Histopathological Features on Implantation Renal Biopsies and Graft Outcomes and Kdpi
Nephrology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
*Purpose: The global shortage of organs and the increasing use of marginal kidneys for transplantation necessitates an accurate assessment of deceased donor kidneys. The kidney…2022 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Cold Ischemia Time and Transplantation Practices with the Concentric Model of Kidney Allocation
1University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Evaluate impact of the new concentric kidney allocation system (KAS250) on kidney utilization, allocation practices and cold ischemia time (CIT).*Methods: Using data from the…2022 American Transplant Congress
Growing Use of Perfusion for Heart, Liver, and Lung and Early Outcomes
1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: In 2015 the OPTN began collecting data on perfusion for heart, liver, and lung deceased donors (DD) on the DD registration form. Since 2015,…2022 American Transplant Congress
What Does It Mean—and How Common is It—For Deceased-Donor Kidneys to ‘Cross in the Air’ En Route to a Recipient?
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Recent initiatives to broaden organ allocation beyond “local” boundaries (replacing with circle-based or continuous allocation) have brought logistical concerns into sharper focus than ever…2022 American Transplant Congress
Increased Costs, Cold Ischemia Time, and Sharing Associated with Removing DSA and OPTN Region from Kidney Allocation: A Single-Center Analysis
*Purpose: On March 15, 2021, Donation Service Area (DSA) and OPTN Region were removed from kidney allocation and replaced with a 250 nautical mile (NM)…2022 American Transplant Congress
Eliminating Hepatitis C Positive Status from Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) Calculations Results in Improved Transplant Rates and Outcomes in an Elderly Veteran Population
*Purpose: Overall mortality on the kidney transplant waiting list is higher for older patients. The average age of waitlisted veteran patients is 64, with patients…
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