2016 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Kidney Transplantation and Mortality: Distance to Transplant Center Matters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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…2016 American Transplant Congress
Informing Informed Consent for High KDPI Kidneys.
Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
The standard approach to informed consent for high KDPI (KDPI 86-100%) deceased donor kidneys (DDK) relies on anticipated graft half-life and may not provide candidates…2016 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Liver Transplant Rates and Waitlist Survival.
Long term changes in access to deceased-donor liver transplantation(DDLT) due to persistent growth of the waitlist, stagnant organ availability, and intermittent allocation policy changes have…
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