2022 American Transplant Congress
Longevity Matching for Living Donor Renal Transplantation
1Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 2-, Garnet Valley, PA
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) continues to become a more prevalent treatment method for ESRD and is known to increase both organ availability and…2022 American Transplant Congress
Post-Allocation Policy and Changes in Gender Disparities in Access to Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Gender-based differences in receiving simultaneous liver-kidney transplant (SLKT) is not well-understood. We recently found that women are disadvantaged in access to SLKT, especially women…2022 American Transplant Congress
Sex Disparities in Access to Liver Transplant for Waitlisted Patients with Meld 40
*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
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…2021 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist and Post-Transplant Outcomes of Candidates With Lvad: Comparison of Old and New Heart Allocation Policies
*Purpose: The new heart allocation policy took effect in October 2018. Its risk stratification scheme prioritizes patients with short-term devices, raising concern that candidates with…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Donor and Recipient Age Differenceon Long Term Prognosis in Young Liver Transplant Recipients
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Although the importance of donor and recipient age in liver transplant (LT) are well-studied, the prognostic influences of donor and recipient age differences are…2021 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Living Donor Liver Transplant for Patients Who Travel for Transplant in the United States
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: We have previously shown that United States (US) liver transplant (LT) candidates listed at a single center (SL) are disadvantaged compared with patients who…2021 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Health-System Level Barriers and Facilitators to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Comparative Case Study
*Purpose: Despite the well-known advantages of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), rates at many centers have stagnated or declined. In Canada, there are large interprovincial…2021 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Outcomes for Exception Candidates Following the Implementation of MMaT/250 Score
1Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, 2Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Starting in May 2019, exception points were allocated based on DSA-level median-MELD-at-transplant (MMaT/DSA). In February 2020, the exception point system was further modified based…2021 American Transplant Congress
Summary of the OPTN’s Policy and System Modifications in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
*Purpose: In April 2020, the OPTN made several policy and system modifications in response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic including updates to candidate lab data,…
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