2015 American Transplant Congress
Discard of Kidneys at the Margin: ECD Versus KDPI Era
BACKGROUND: Since 3/26/2012, the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI), a percentile score reflecting donor-associated risk, has been provided with all deceased-donor kidney offers. We investigated…2015 American Transplant Congress
Regional Variations: Liver Transplant Tourism Within the US
Aim: Given the current geographic disparities in average MELD scores at liver transplantation (OLT), there is increasing interest in patients who travel for OLT and…2015 American Transplant Congress
Comparative Survival Benefits and Costs of an Eplet and Broad Antigen Based Matching System in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Allocation Among Indigenous Australians
Aim: To compare the benefits and costs of incorporating an eplet-based matching algorithm to the current allocation of deceased donor kidneys to indigenous Australians.Background: The…2015 American Transplant Congress
Arterial Blood Pressure at Time of Liver Transplant (LT) Evaluation Correlates With Kidney Biopsy Findings in LT Candidates With Renal Dysfunction
Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Renal dysfunction is common in LT candidates; however, predicting post-LT renal recovery is sometimes difficult. Kidney biopsy is helpful in identifying reversible renal injury but…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Relative Survival Model to Compare the Risk of Mortality in Patients Awaiting Kidney Transplantation Versus Already Transplanted Patients
Introduction: It would be useful for physicians in some specific cases to identify whom patients could not benefit of kidney transplantations.Patients and method: To answer…2015 American Transplant Congress
An Analysis of Health-Related Quality of Life in Liver Transplantion for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
Background:There is a disproportionate waiting time and an unclear survival benefit between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) versus non-HCC liver transplant recipients. However, there is paucity of…2015 American Transplant Congress
UNOS KDPI Score Is Significantly Overestimated for Pediatric En-Bloc Kidneys
Transplant Center, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA.
When Rao, et al, published the Kidney Donor Risk Index model (KDRI) (Transplantation 2009;88:231-236), they found coefficients for HLA match, cold ischemic time, en-bloc (EB)…2015 American Transplant Congress
Low Expanded Criteria Donor Listing Rates by Organ Procurement Organization Is Associated With Increased Differential in Waiting Time for Candidates Willing to Accept Marginal Organs in the US
Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Organ procurement organization (OPO) listing rates for expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys vary greatly across the US. The goal of ECD listing is to shorten…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Single Center Study of the Implementation Costs of the New Kidney Allocation System
Transplantation, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.
Background: Changes to the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) required transplant programs to utilize resources to prepare for its implementation. A complex strategy was developed which…2015 American Transplant Congress
Integrated Clinical-Histological (ICH) Score System for the Evaluation of “Marginal” Donors in Kidney Transplantation
INTRODUCTION: The organ shortage has led to increase the procurement of kidney from “marginal” donors and to improve the strategies to better evaluate the quality…
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