2022 American Transplant Congress
Variation Exists in Hospital Policies for Donation After Circulatory Death Within a Single Donor Service Area
*Purpose: The Joint Commission mandates that all hospitals have a donation after circulatory death (DCD) policy. Previous studies have demonstrated variability in DCD policy elements.…2022 American Transplant Congress
Feasibility and Short-Term Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation Following Donation After Circulatory Death Using Thoracic Normothermic Regional Perfusion in the United States
Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) is an important component of kidney transplants in the US. Cardiac transplantation from DCD donors has previously been…2022 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Desensitization Utilizing Intravenous Immune-Globulin and Tocilizumab: A Single Center Experience
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Highly sensitized end stage kidney disease patients face a huge barrier to transplant due to lack of effective pre-transplant desensitization therapies. Various strategies have…2022 American Transplant Congress
Healthcare Worker Attitudes On Living Donations Prior To Withdrawal Of Care
*Purpose: This study aims to assess the attitudes of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in transplant and critical care towards Living Donation Prior to…2022 American Transplant Congress
A Hybrid Model Combining Survival Analysis, Knapsack Optimization and Supervised Learning to Extrapolate the Evolution of Kidney Transplantation Patients from Donors with Expanded Criteria After Controlled Circulatory Death
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation (KT) with expanded criteria donors (ECD) after controlled circulatory death (cDCD) in high-risk patients is being debated. We categorize patients via a…2022 American Transplant Congress
Can We Predict Progression of Potential Donation After Cardiac Death Donors (DCD) Using DonorNet?
*Purpose: DCD utilization of livers is limited by unpredictability of progression, perceived worse outcome, and costs related to deployment of resources. We aimed to predict…2022 American Transplant Congress
Liver and Kidney Transplantation from Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Donors in the US: Better Early Outcomes with Normothermic Regional Perfusion versus Cold Flush
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart donation is increasingly common in the US. The two methods for DCD heart donation are normothermic regional perfusion…2022 American Transplant Congress
Analysis and Outcomes of Liver Re Transplantation After Initial DCD Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: DCD livers were more prone for ischemic cholangiopathy and graft failure than DBD livers due to multi factorial reasons. With all the available data…2022 American Transplant Congress
Metabolic Outcomes After Pancreas Transplant Alone from Donation After Circulatory Death Donor – The UK Registry Analysis
*Purpose: Extrapolating data from early DCD (donation after circulatory death) kidney transplantation, pancreas transplants from DCD grafts were feared to have worse metabolic outcomes. Hence,…2022 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Outcomes in High Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation Usage Centers in the Acuity Circles Era
*Purpose: The recent acuity circles (AC) liver allocation policy has increased rates of donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplantation. We hypothesize transplant centers with…
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