2019 American Transplant Congress
GFR Outcomes for Recipients and Donors with IgA, FSGS, Alports and Thin Basement Membrane Disease: A Comparison of Living Related to Unrelated Donors
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Prior studies have shown an increase rate of graft loss in patients that receive living donor kidney transplants from relatives in IgA, FSGS, and…2019 American Transplant Congress
Qualitative Recovery Outcomes of Living Kidney Donors
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the qualitative outcomes of living kidney donors by gender.*Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of…2019 American Transplant Congress
Using a Massive Open Online Course on Clinical Kidney, Prancreas and Islet Transplantion in Different Settings of Transplant Education
*Purpose: In 2016 our center launched a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Kidney, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation. As opposed to on-campus education, this course…2019 American Transplant Congress
Is Narrative Storytelling Ethical to Use to Educate the Public about Living Donation? Transplant Professionals Weigh In
*Purpose: Recent studies suggest that integrating health information through narrative stories can improve understanding of complex health conditions in diverse populations, especially those with low…2019 American Transplant Congress
Real World Impact of HCV Viremic Solid Organs on Waitlist Times
*Purpose: The advent of direct acting antiviral agents (DAAs) has led to a paradigm shift in the approach to hepatitis C (HCV) infected organs. The…2019 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Candidate Attitudes towards Organs from Increased Risk Donors: A Single Center Survey
University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Increased Risk Donors (IRDs) are a significant proportion of the deceased organ donor pool but may be declined by patients on the liver transplant…2019 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Program of Directed Domino and Split Liver Donations Increases Liver Transplants
Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Liver transplants have not been performed in directed donor chains as have evolved for kidney transplants. We report an initial experience using domino and…2019 American Transplant Congress
Concentric Circles, One Year in: Concentrated Organ Discard and Waitlist Deaths in High Traffic Areas
1Emory, Atlanta, GA, 2Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, 3Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Lung transplantation was the first organ system to entirely dispense with Donor Service Areas (DSAs) and Regions in favor of 250 nautical mile (NM)…2019 American Transplant Congress
Implementation of Novel Machine-Learning Techniques to Tailor Donornet® Organ Offers to Center and Surgeon Preference
Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Real-time communication regarding organ placement is critical. For this purpose, UNOS launched DonorNet®, a computerized allocation algorithm, to aid and facilitate organ placement. However,…2019 American Transplant Congress
Enhanced Advocacy and Health Systems Training through Patient Navigation Increases Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL
*Purpose: No living donation program has addressed transplant candidate factors by separating the advocacy role from the candidates while simultaneously addressing potential living donor concerns…
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