Articles tagged "Allocation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Sex Disparities in Access to Liver Transplant for Waitlisted Patients with Meld 40
D. C. Cron¹, H. Yeh¹, H. J. Braun², N. L. Ascher², D. C. Chang¹, J. T. Adler³
¹Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Surgery and Perioperative Care, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
*Purpose: Women with end-stage liver disease are less likely than men to receive a liver transplant, due in part to MELD’s reliance on creatinine and…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Expanding Access to Robotic Kidney Transplantation for Candidates with High BMI. A Training Tool for Transplant Centers
J. A. Almario Alvarez, G. Aguiluz, V. Valle, R. Bustos, S. Akshelyan, A. M. Fratti, P. D. Cocco, M. Spaggiari, I. G. Tzvetanov, E. Benedetti
Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Recently published literature has demonstrated favorable outcomes for Robotic Kidney Transplant (RKT) in high BMI recipients. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Improving Efficiency in Kidney Distribution: A Comparison of UNet Deceased Donor Criteria to Actual Kidney Acceptance Practices
L. B. Zeiser, J. Ruck, D. Segev, A. Massie
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Efficient utilization of UNet deceased-donor criteria could help streamline kidney allocation by reducing the number of unwanted offers made to transplant centers. We compared…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Health Equity Under Liver Acuity Circles Allocation
S. Noreen, J. Foutz, A. Henderson, D. Stewart
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Acuity circles (AC) allocation was implemented on 2/4/2020 with a goal of removing DSA and region from liver allocation and sharing livers more broadly.…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Implication of Donor Race on the Post-Liver Transplant Prognosis of Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: Analysis of UNOS Database
D. U. Lee¹, J. Han², J. Kwon², K. Chang², K. Lee², G. Fan², N. Urranaga¹, D. Maluf³, C. Bhati¹, K. Shetty¹
¹Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ²Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Prior studies have suggested liver transplant (LT) recipients who receive their grafts from minority donors may potentially suffer higher rates of graft complications. In…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Portable Device to Quantify Hepatic Steatosis in Donated Livers Using an AI Algorithm
S. Klinkachorn¹, C. J. Tsoi-A-Sue², R. R. Narayan², M. L. Melcher²
¹Computer Science, Stanford, Stanford, CA, ²Surgery, Stanford, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: An accurate estimation of liver fat content is necessary to predict how a donor liver will function after transplantation. This can be challenging at…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Hepatitis C (HCV) Viremic Grafts to HCV Negative Recipients in Heart Transplantation: A Multicenter Study of Differing Treatment Strategies
K. Ryland¹, B. Aqel², D. Steidley², P. Patel¹, S. Pungpapong³
¹Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ²Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, ³Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL
*Purpose: Using HCV viremic grafts for heart transplantation (HT) improves donor supply and shortens wait times. However, treatment strategies are variable post-transplant. This study aims…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Successful Kidney Transplantation from a Deceased Donor with Severe COVID-19: Undetectable SARS-CoV-2 in Donor Kidney and Aorta by Sensitive Molecular Testing
K. Lee¹, N. M. Desai¹, J. Resnick², M. Li², A. Johanson¹, A. Pekosz², H. Rabb¹, J. L. Mankowski¹
¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation (KT) from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) positive donors has been avoided due to concerns for donor-derived transmission and possibility of the kidney…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Healthcare Cost And Kidney Allocation In Liver Recipients With Kidney Disease
Y. Lu¹, X. Cheng², S. Sanoff³, L. McElroy³
¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ³Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: End stage kidney disease (ESKD) in liver transplant (LT) candidates is associated with worse survival. We sought to identify the predictors of ESKD in…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Role of Geography in Adult Heart Allocation Over the Last 5 Years
K. Bradbrook¹, R. Goff¹, R. Daly², S. Hall³
¹Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: In the last 5 years two policies have impacted the role of geography in adult heart allocation including the 2018 adult heart policy which…

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