2022 American Transplant Congress
Escalating Waitlist Mortality Above MELD 40: A Rationale to Uncap MELD 3.0?
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: MELD 3.0 is a recently proposed model that improves upon MELD-Na, incorporating sex and albumin as additional variables, updating existing coefficients and adding relevant…2022 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Removing DSA and OPTN Region from Pancreas Allocation
*Purpose: Donation Service Area (DSA) and OPTN Region were removed from pancreas allocation on 3/15/21 and replaced with a 250 nautical mile (NM) fixed circle…2022 American Transplant Congress
Left Digit Bias in Selection and Acceptance of Deceased Donor Organs
*Purpose: Organs suitable for donation are a scarce resource and maximizing the use of available donor organs is a public health priority. Transplantable organs may…2022 American Transplant Congress
Impact of End-of-Chain Kidney Allocation on Access to Kidney Transplantation of Minority Patients: Implications for Reducing Disparities
*Purpose: Disparities in access to kidney transplantation (KT) among non-White patients is well-known, especially as it relates to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT). We investigated…2021 American Transplant Congress
Assessing the Accuracy of the Lung Allocation Score
1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
*Purpose: The Lung Allocation Score (LAS) relies on the performance of two cox proportional hazards models that estimate waitlist and post-transplant survival. These models were…2021 American Transplant Congress
Towards National Organ Sharing: Fair Distribution of Eplets in Canada
McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Eplet matching is being promoted as a rational approach to prevent immune-mediated injuries in transplantation. We studied the frequencies of eplets in a Canadian…2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Deceased Donor Transplants with Donor Specific Antibodies Before and After the New Kidney Allocation System
Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: KAS forced centers to list unacceptable HLA antigens. Some centers excluded antigens at any level of anti-HLA Ab. Our center only excluded antibodies posing…2021 American Transplant Congress
A2 to B Deceased Donor Renal Transplantation Outcome Analysis: Single Center Experience
Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Initial experience under kidney allocation system (KAS) implemented in December 2014 showed equivalent outcomes for A2 to B kidney transplantation compared with ABO compatible…2021 American Transplant Congress
Early Effects of Acuity Circle-Based Liver Allocation During Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: One month before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, liver transplant (LT) allocation in the US was updated (February 4th, 2020), by introducing the acuity…2021 American Transplant Congress
Allograft Discard Risk Index for Lung Transplantation
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The demand for donor lungs continues to outpace the supply, yet nearly 80% of donor lungs consented for lung transplantation (LTx) are discarded.*Methods: We…
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