2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of DSA-Free Heart Allocation
1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, 3UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Currently, donation service area (DSA) is the first geographic unit for heart allocation, which creates discrepancies in access for high-urgency candidates. We studied the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Deceased Organ Donor Rates Over Time in the United States
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Historically, deceased organ donation rates have varied across racial/ethnic groups within the US. To address these differences, the transplant community has investigated select minority…2020 American Transplant Congress
Concurrent Final Acceptance Associated with Decreased Deceased Donor Liver Utilization
*Purpose: With broader sharing for candidates with high MELD scores, it is not unusual for liver candidates to receive offers from multiple donors. Accepting multiple…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of African American Race on Morbidity for Donors Undergoing Living Kidney Donation: A Single Center Study
Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: To assess perioperative complication rates in African-Americans (AA) undergoing living donor nephrectomy in a large, single center program in the northeast.*Methods: We performed a…2020 American Transplant Congress
Heart Transplantation Outcomes in Patients with Marfan Syndrome: A UNOS Registry Analysis
*Purpose: Marfan syndrome (MS) is an autosomal dominant connective tissue disorder due to a defect in the fibrillin-1 gene. MS patients can develop a discrete…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Patients’ Perception of Hospital Experience on Organ Donation Rates
1Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, 2Transplant, Live On NY, New York, NY
*Purpose: The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a validated data collection methodology for measuring a patient’s perception of his/her…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Single-Center Experience in Transfusion-Free Liver Transplantation: Referrals and Outcomes from 2005 to 2019
*Purpose: The Jehovah’s Witnesses is a religious group known to the medical community for its non-acceptance of blood products. This poses a significant challenge in…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
New and Unknown: VCA Acceptability to the General Public
Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Despite the promise of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) as a viable alternative to available reconstructive procedures or prosthetics, its future relies heavily on families’…2020 American Transplant Congress
High Rate of Positive Cultures from Deceased Donors, A Review of 500 Deceased Donors and More Than 700 Recipients from a Single Center in Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Limited organ supply is one of the major challenges facing organ transplantation. Donor-derived multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria have been documented with variable outcomes. In Saudi…
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