2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Programs Can Filter Off a Majority of Their Unwanted Organ Offers without Harming Transplant Volumes
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: 34 centers…2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid Studies in 208 Patients with Consent for Donation
*Purpose: To prevent transmission of SARS CoV 2 via solid organ donation from deceased donors.*Methods: Comprehensive medical and psychosocial evaluation of potential deceased organ donors…2021 American Transplant Congress
Not Always as it Seems: Lack of Hepatitis C Virus Transmission from Nucleic Acid Testing Positive Deceased Donors
1Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) + organs are increasingly use to transplant HCV naive candidates with good short-term outcomes. HCV transmission with HCV nucleic acid…2021 American Transplant Congress
Sharing Under KAS – What is the Impact According to KDPI?
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem, NC
*Purpose: The new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) implemented in 2014 was designed to facilitate sharing of kidneys due to changes in prioritization of highly sensitized…2021 American Transplant Congress
Simulation Model for Cytomegalovirus Matching in Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation System in the U.S.
*Purpose: The prevalence of positive and negative cytomegalovirus (CMV) serology among transplant recipients and donors are approximately 60-65% and 30-35%, respectively. CMV mismatch, donor-positive/recipient-negative status…2021 American Transplant Congress
Optimizing Usage of High KDPI Kidneys
*Purpose: Among recipients of high kidney donor profile index (KDPI) kidneys, it is unclear if certain recipients fair better than others. Using data from the…2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes After Usage of Organs from Deceased Organ Donors with Sepsis – A Single-center Experience
*Purpose: The deceased Organ Donation rate is around 0.8/million in our nation. There remains a severe shortage of organs worldwide, leading to a trend towards…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Edge of Glory: Determinants of Success and Failure for Prolonged Cold Ischemia in Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Prolonged cold ischemia time (CIT>30 hours) is associated with an increased risk of primary non-function and early graft loss in kidney transplantation, although this…2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Recipient BSA Matching is Prognostically Significant in Solitary and En-bloc Kidney Transplantation from Pediatric Circulatory Death Donors
Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pernicious effects of inadequate functional nephron mass in size disparate donation after cardiac death (DCD)…2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor CPR and Solid Organ Transplantation
*Purpose: In 2010, the American Heart Association and Emergency Cardiac Care (AHA ECC) set a 10-year impact goal of doubling cardiac arrest survival by 2020.…
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