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…2020 American Transplant Congress
Modelling Patient Outcomes after Listing for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in the UK: A Novel Technique
*Purpose: Novel methods of data analysis and communication are needed to aid clinician and patient understanding of clinical outcomes. We aimed to demonstrate patient outcomes…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Organ Donor Infections on Kidney Transplant Recipient Outcomes
*Purpose: Donor-derived infections can lead to significant morbidity and mortality in organ transplant recipients. There is variability by center on treatment of positive donor cultures…2020 American Transplant Congress
Longer-Term Outcomes from the THINKER and EXPANDER Trials of Transplantation Using HCV-Viremic Kidneys
*Purpose: The practice of transplanting HCV-viremic kidneys into HCV-negative recipients has become more common, but longer-term outcomes have not been reported. We present data on…2020 American Transplant Congress
Tetramethylpyrazine Activated Pparγ in Resuscitating the Liver Graft Donatedafter Cardiac Death
Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
*Purpose: to identify whether Tetramethylpyrazine (TMP) pretreatment can protect DCD grafts preserved during cold storage or/and HMP and transplanted.The protective mechanisms of TMP were also…2020 American Transplant Congress
Successful Heart Utilization and Outcomes with Long-Distance Transport of Deceased Donor Hearts: One Large Organ Procurement Organization’s Five-Year Experience
LifeCenter Northwest, Bellevue, WA
*Purpose: Long-distance transport of deceased donor hearts has been associated with reduced organ utilization rates and risk of inferior outcomes. One U.S. Organ Procurement Organization’s…2020 American Transplant Congress
Maximizing Utilization of Marginal Kidneys in a Small, Geographically Isolated Transplant Program: 10 Year Experience
Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV
*Purpose: The initial experience with the kidney allocation system (KAS) resulted in an alarming decrease in the number of transplants in our small and isolated…2020 American Transplant Congress
Feasibilty of Hepatitis C NAT Positive Kidney Transplant into Hepatitis C Negative Recipients as Standard of Care
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: With advent of direct acting antivirals (DAA) for Hepatitis (Hep) C which have a 96-100% sustained viral remission(SVR), doors have opened for using Hep…
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