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…2021 American Transplant Congress
Black Transplant Recipients Reside in the Most Socially Vulnerable Communities
*Purpose: Racial and socioeconomic disparities in post-transplant outcomes have been described for all solid organ recipients. While the importance of the social determinants of health…2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTRs) Comparing Brain Dead Donors’ vs Donation After Cardiac Death Stratified by KDPI, Focus on Marginal Kidneys: A UNOS Database Analysis
*Purpose: In deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT), donation after cardiac death (DCD) is associated with increased cytokine release and renal tubular injury with consequent increase…2020 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Families and Authorization for Research: Differences among Ethnic Groups
Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Clinical research in transplantation is key to advancement of the field. NIH-sponsored trials such as HOPE in Action and APOLLO network require deceased donor…2020 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Liver Transplantation in Patients with Renal Failure Since Implementation of Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Allocation Policy
Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: To reduce potentially unnecessary kidney utilization, as of August 10, 2017 a new allocation policy was implemented restricting Simultaneous Liver Kidney (SLK) transplant to…2020 American Transplant Congress
Human Organ Culture: A Novel Method for Evaluation of Reperfusion Injury in Human Kidney
*Purpose: Evaluate the ability of human organ culture to assess protein secretion during a model of reperfusion injury.*Methods: Biopsies are obtained from transplanted-declined human kidneys…2020 American Transplant Congress
Easier Said Than Done? Stated versus Actual Usage of Less-Than-Ideal Kidneys
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Despite long candidate waiting times and a persistent supply to demand gap, less-than-ideal (LTI) kidneys continue to be underutilized in the U.S. Usage rates…2020 American Transplant Congress
Enhancing Kidney Allograft Decision Making: An Organ Offer Simulation Study
*Purpose: This study was designed to identify opportunities to improve UNOS organ allocation as well as providers’ decision-making process for cadaveric kidney offers. Using its…2020 American Transplant Congress
Getting to Yes Faster: Multifactorial Filters to Reduce Unwanted Offers
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: Using recursive…2020 American Transplant Congress
Gross Morphological Score for Deceased Donor Kidneys Can Predict Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Department of Kidney Transplantation, London Health Sciences Center, London, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Both microscopy and kidney donor profile index (KDPI) scoring systems have been used to predict kidney transplant outcomes. Utilizing gross renal morphology, we designed…
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