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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Does DSA Market Competition Influence OPO Performance?
INTRODUCTION: Increased market competition within a Donor Service Area (DSA) is associated with a greater number of liver and kidney transplants, but its effect on…2015 American Transplant Congress
Artificial Neural Networks in Kidney Allocation in Patients With Dual Organ (Liver-Kidney) Failure
Background: Simultaneous liver / kidney transplantation has increased after the adoption of the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score in 2002 by the United Network…2015 American Transplant Congress
Should Only Active Candidates Define the EPTS Top 20% in the New Kidney Allocation System (KAS)?
1UNOS, Richmond, VA; 2Univ Hosp Case Med Ctr, Cleveland, OH; 3Yale, New Haven, CT.
Background: The 20% of kidney candidates with the highest Estimated Post-Transplant Survival (EPTS) receive priority for a high longevity kidney in the Organ Procurement and…2015 American Transplant Congress
Emerging Strategies to Screen Kidney Offers Based on the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI)
Background: In the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network's (OPTN) new kidney allocation system, kidney offers are screened by setting for each candidate a maximum acceptable…
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