Articles tagged "Allocation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Validation of the Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) in the Australian and New Zealand Kidney Transplant Population.
P. Clayton,^1,2,3 S. White,^1,4 S. McDonald,^1,2,3 S. Chadban.^1,4,5
¹Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia; ²Central Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplantation Service, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia; ³School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; ⁴Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ⁵Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Purpose: The kidney donor risk index (KDRI), developed by the United States Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), was designed to quantify donor kidney quality.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
National Trends in Liver Discards: The Weekend Effect.
D. Carpenter,¹ S. Mohan,² K. Halazun,³ E. Verna,⁵ M. Chiles,² G. Charak,¹ L. Ratner.⁴
¹Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ²Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ³Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York City, NY; ⁴Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; ⁵Department of Medicine, Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY.
Overall organ discard rates have increased over the last decade. Given the current organ shortage, understanding factors that contribute to the discard of livers is…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Kidney Transplantation and Mortality: Distance to Transplant Center Matters.
J. Adler, Y. Bababekov, J. Markmann, D. Chang, H. Yeh.
Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
INTRODUCTION: The distance traveled by adults to kidney transplant centers contributes to disparities in access and outcomes. We hypothesized that distance would adversely affect the…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Early Post-Transplant Patient, Graft Survival and Rejection Rates Under KAS.
A. Kucheryavaya, D. Stewart, D. Klassen.
UNOS, Richmond.
Background: KAS, implemented on 12/4/14, resulted in changes in recipient, donor/recipient and tx characteristics that have the potential to affect post-tx outcomes.Data and Methods: We…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Thoracic Simulation Allocation Modeling (TSAM) of a 6-Tier Allocation Strategy.
M. Colvin,¹ M. Skeans,¹ L. Robbins Callahan,² L. Edwards,² J. Zeglin,¹ S. Silvestry,³ R. Davies,⁴ M. Farr,⁵ A. Israni,¹ J. Rogers.⁶
¹SRTR, Minneapolis; ²UNOS, Richmond; ³Florida Hospital Transplant Inst, Orlando; ⁴Nemours/AI duPont Hosp for Children, Wilmington; ⁵Columbia Univ Medical Center, New York; ⁶Duke Univ, Durham.
Heart allocation policy (OPTN policy 6) is in development. To stratify medical urgency, the Heart Subcommittee of the OPTN Thoracic Committee developed a 6-tier algorithm…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Global Kidney Exchange.
M. Rees,¹ T. Dunn,¹ S. Rees,¹ J. Rogers,¹ L. Reece,¹ A. Roth,² C. Kuhr,¹ O. Ekwenna,¹ D. Fumo,¹ K. Krawiec,³ S. Jain,¹ C. Marsh,¹ M. Tan,¹ S. Paloyo.⁴
¹Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation, Perrysburg; ²Stanford University, Palo Alto; ³Duke University, Durham; ⁴Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines.
Introduction: Instead of thinking of the developing world as a place where there are desperate people who will sell their kidneys for money, we propose…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Same Policy, Different Impact: Center and Regional Effects of SHARE 35 Liver Allocation.
D. Murken,¹ A. Peng,¹ D. Aufhauser Jr,¹ D. Goldberg,² M. Levine.¹
¹Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Introduction: Early studies of national data suggest that Share-35 implementation was associated with more liver transplants, fewer discards, and lower waitlist mortality, without worsening of…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Do All cPRA 100% Candidates Have Equal Access to Organ Allocation?
H. Gebel,^1,2 S. Gustafson,¹ D. Segev,^1,3 B. Kasiske,¹ A. Israni.¹
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; ²Pathology, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta; ³Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Renal transplant candidates with cPRA values of 98%, 99%, and 100% received local, regional, and national priority, respectively, for deceased donor kidneys with the new…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Non-A₂ Donor ABO-Incompatible Liver Transplantation – Promising Results with Anti-A/B Antibody Reduction Both Pre- and Post-Transplant.
U. Dahlgren,¹ G. Herlenius,¹ J. Mölne,² L. Rydberg,³ O. Samuelsson,⁴ W. Bennet.¹
¹Transplant Institute, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; ²Department of Pathology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; ³Department of Clinical Chemistry and Transfusion Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; ⁴Department of Nephrology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
IntroductionOne way to expand the donor pool for patients with acute liver failure could be to use deceased donor (DD) ABO-incompatible (ABOi) liver grafts. However,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Sociodemographic and Comorbidity Differences Between Dialysis, Waitlisted and Transplant Patients in the UK: Findings from the ATTOM Study.
D. Wu,¹ M. Robb,² C. Watson,³ R. Ravanan,⁴ J. Forsythe,¹ A. Bradley,³ G. Oniscu.¹
¹Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; ²NHSBT, Bristol, United Kingdom; ³University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; ⁴Southmead Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom.
IntroductionAccess to Transplantation and Transplant Outcome Measures (ATTOM) is a prospective cohort study involving all 72 UK renal units, investigating factors affecting access to and…