2018 American Transplant Congress
Cumulative United States Experience in Domino Liver Transplants
Surgery, State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, CA.
Background/Purpose: The ongoing shortage of livers in the setting of growing waiting lists remains a challenge in transplantation. First introduced in 1995, sequential or domino…2018 American Transplant Congress
Exploring the Impact of Recipient Age with Kidney Donor Risk Index and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate at One Year Following Kidney Transplant
Background: Various kidney donor risk indexes (KDRI) have been developed to predict graft survival with various combinations of donor and recipient characteristics. The aim of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Informed Clustering of Donor Service Areas for Better Benchmarking
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
The 58 Donor Service Areas (DSA) represent territories of varying geographic sizes, densities and populations. The intention of this project is to group DSA based…2018 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Financial Well-Being of Living Kidney Donor Candidates
Despite the known benefits of living donor kidney transplantation, the rate of living kidney donation in Canada has not increased. Potential reasons include the lack…2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Derived Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Infection: Analysis of the OPTN/UNOS Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)
DTAC, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
Introduction: HBV can be transmitted from organ donor to recipient and is one of the viruses targeted by US Public Health Service increased risk (IR)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Diagnostic Performance of Blood Pressure Measurement Modality in Prospective Living Kidney Donors
Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Background: Precise blood pressure (BP) measurement to exclude hypertension (HTN) is critical in evaluating living kidney donors (LKDs). 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is…2018 American Transplant Congress
Providing Actual Echocardiographic Images to Centers Markedly Increases Transplantation of Deceased Donor Hearts
Organ Procurement, Lifesharing of San Diego, San Diego, CA.
US transplant centers are cautious in accepting deceased donor hearts (DDHs). Even in previously healthy, young brain dead donors, wall motion and other echographic abnormalities…2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Liver Donor Follow-Up: Fewer Than Half of Centers Meet Follow-Up Requirements in the US
OPTN/UNOS began requiring 1-year living donor follow-up (LDF) for living liver donors (LLDs) in 2014. Compliance with a similar policy for living kidney donors was…2018 American Transplant Congress
HCV Ab+/NAT- Organ Donors, and the Challenges of 'Eclipse Windows': Analysis of the OPTN/UNOS Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)
DTAC, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
Introduction: In 2017, CDC reported new hepatitis C (HCV) cases had tripled over 5 years, mainly due to intravenous drug use (IVDU). As the proportion…2018 American Transplant Congress
MELD Based Allocation Deteriorates Patient Survival without Improving Waiting List Mortality in a Low Donor Area
The MELD-based allocation system has been implemented in Germany in 2006 in order to decrease waiting list mortality in patients with end stage liver disease.…
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