2022 American Transplant Congress
Adding Epitope Compatibility To Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation Criteria: Recommendations From An Online Public Deliberation
*Purpose: With increasing demand for kidneys and a scarce supply, ways to reduce rejection and improve transplant outcomes are needed. One possibility is using epitope…2022 American Transplant Congress
Ethnic Variation in Adult and Pediatric Liver Transplantation
1Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, 2Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Despite several policy reforms over the years, disparities in the access to solid organ transplantation continues to exist remains a significant barrier to liver…2022 American Transplant Congress
The Rise in the Number of Eligible Donors for Liver Transplantation Has Been Driven by an Exponential Increase in Marginal Donors
1Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX
*Purpose: To determine which subcategories of marginal livers have seen advancements in utilization and which have not.*Methods: 181,992 eligible donors listed in the Organ Procurement…2022 American Transplant Congress
Late Liver Turn Downs: The Utilization and Impact of the Expedited Process
*Purpose: There is belief that the discard rates are higher for organs turned down late in the recovery process. The expedited liver (LI) pathway, allows…2021 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Outcomes of Hepatitis C Virus (hcv) Nucleic Acid (nat) Positive Donor Between Hcv-naïVe and Hcv + Recpients – A Donor Mate Analysis
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Despite a growing mismatch between organ need and supply, organs from HCV+ donors were only offered to HCV+ recipients (HCV R+) to avoid complications…2021 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Donation During COVID-19 Pandemic
Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a decrease in transplantation throughout the United States. We examined the impact of the pandemic in regards to the…2021 American Transplant Congress
Changes to Allocation of En Bloc Deceased Donor Kidneys to Low Epts Patients
*Purpose: The OPTN implemented a policy on September 5, 2019 standardizing en bloc deceased donor kidney allocation in order to efficiently place and utilize kidneys…2021 American Transplant Congress
Regional Trends in Liver Transplantation for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
*Purpose: This study aims to evaluate regional trends in liver transplantation (LT) among adults in the United States (US) with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), with particular…2021 American Transplant Congress
Intensivist-Performed Transesophageal Echocardiography as a Screen for Organ Donation: A Four-Year, Single-Center Experience
*Purpose: Echocardiography is required for deceased heart donation, and transthoracic echocardiography is the traditional practice. At our institution, intensivists perform transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and since…2021 American Transplant Congress
Centers Avoided 67% of Kidney Offers by Participating in the OPTN’s Multifactorial Offer Filter Pilot Project
Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Evaluate if multifactorial filters can reduce unwanted kidney offers to centers, thereby reducing administrative burden and getting to the accepting candidate quicker.*Methods: 40 centers…
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