2021 American Transplant Congress
Improved Outcomes Over Time of Extended Criteria Donor Grafts for Acute-on-chronic Liver Failure
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Given the high waitlist mortality of patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), liver transplant (LT) with an extended criteria donor (ECD) can be considered.…2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Older Recipients Receiving Kidneys from Donors with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
*Purpose: Older patients are perceived to tolerate delayed graft function (DGF) poorly and there is a reluctance to transplant a kidney from an AKI donor…2021 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Procurement Cardiac Arrest in Lung Allograft Donors and Effects on Recipient Outcomes
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: This study seeks to help expand the lung transplant donor pool by demonstrating the safe use of lung allografts from donors who underwent pre-procurement…2021 American Transplant Congress
Developing and Validation of a Liver Transplantation Donation After Cardiac Death Risk Index Using the UNOS Database
Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Donation after cardiac death (DCD) liver transplantation is an increasing form of organ donation. Shlegal et. al. identified seven factors predicting 1-year DCD graft…2021 American Transplant Congress
Optimizing Usage of High KDPI Kidneys
*Purpose: Among recipients of high kidney donor profile index (KDPI) kidneys, it is unclear if certain recipients fair better than others. Using data from the…2021 American Transplant Congress
Dual Lactate Clearance in the Liver Viability Assessment During Normothermic Machine Perfusion
*Purpose: Liver normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) has been increasingly performed as a tool of organ preservation and to evaluate donor function. The perfusate lactate clearance…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Association Between Environmental Determinants and High KDRI Organ Offer Acceptance Ratios
United Network for Organ Sharing, Henrico, VA
*Purpose: Increasing the number of transplants could be realized by increasing high KDRI organ utilization. While the impact of transplant center (TXC) aggressiveness and competition…2021 American Transplant Congress
One-year Outcomes of a Multicenter Trial of Transplantation of Hcv Viremic Kidney Donors into Hcv Uninfected Recipients
*Purpose: As interest in transplantation of Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-viremic kidneys into HCV-uninfected (HCV+ to HCV- KT) recipients increases, understanding clinical outcomes beyond HCV clearance…2021 American Transplant Congress
Use of Hepatitis B N.A.T. Positive Kidneys in Hepatitis B Immune Recipients
*Purpose: There is an increasing demand for kidney donations as roughly 4000 people die on the waitlist each year while the number of kidneys being…2020 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Nonclinical Factors on Adult Liver Organ Donor Offer Decision Making in the United States
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA
*Purpose: Liver donor graft discard rate remained at approximately 10% in the United States despite the critical organ shortage. We sought to understand practice patterns…
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