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Articles tagged "Ethics"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Variation Exists in Hospital Policies for Donation After Circulatory Death Within a Single Donor Service Area

    R. Shabbir1, S. Chebrolu2, E. Vines3, C. Trahan3, P. Niles3, G. Testa1, A. Wall1

    1Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 2Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Dallas, TX, 3Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX

    *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

    Liver Transplant Recipient Gender and Race: Impact on Clinical Outcomes

    M. M. French1, R. Mangus1, R. Holmes1, A. Krause1, J. Sumner1, C. Kubal2, B. Ekser3, P. Mihaylov4, J. Fridell5, A. Lutz6

    1Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 2Department of Surgery, Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, 3Surgery, Indiana University - Transplant Surgery, Indianapolis, IN, 4Department of Surgery, Indiana Univ School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 5Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 6Indiana University, Fishers, IN

    *Purpose: Background. Health disparities are present in transplantation. This is a retrospective review of liver transplant (LT) recipients determining the impact of race/gender on early…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Significant Improvements, but Consistent Disparities in Survival for African Americans After Liver Transplantation

    S. S. Keeling

    Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: Despite improvements in survival for all races in the past twenty years, African American patients have worse liver transplant outcomes after undergoing orthotopic liver…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    No Difference in Graft Survival Among Low Socioeconomic Kidney Allograft Recipients

    A. Desai1, S. Akkina1, K. Cmunt2, D. Jain1, R. Garcia-Roca3

    1Transplant Nephrology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, 2Gift Of Hope Community Foundation, Itasca, IL, 3Transplant Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL

    *Purpose: Low socioeconomic status remains a barrier in access and equity in kidney transplantation with limited data assessing post-transplant outcomes. Alternative options to transplantation include…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Differences in Medication Adherence Between Preemptive and Post-Dialysis Young Kidney Transplant Recipients

    Y. Vaisbourd1, E. Samson2, A. De Simone2, M. Dahhou2, B. Foster3

    1Pediatrics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, 2McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, 3Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada

    *Purpose: The mechanisms underlying the superior graft survival associated with pre-emptive kidney transplantation, compared with transplantation following a period of dialysis, are unknown. Selection for…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplant Professionals’, Recipients’ and Caregivers’ Perspectives on the Use of Precision Medicine in Kidney Transplantation

    F. Ballesteros Gallego1, A. Affdal1, M. Malo2, R. Sapir-Pichhadze3, M. Fortin1

    1CRCHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 3McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    *Purpose: Kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment for end-stage kidney disease. However, antibody-mediated rejection can lead to graft loss. The use of Precision Medicine (PM)…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Navigating the Ethics of Transplant Research Involving Newly Deceased

    B. Parent1, T. Schiff2, E. Weldon3, N. Lawson4, S. Mehta5, R. A. Montgomery6

    1Medical Ethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, 3NYU Langone Health-Transplant Institute, New York, NY, 4NYU Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY, 5New York University Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY, 6NYU Langone, New York, NY

    *Purpose: The most promising innovations for overcoming the organ shortage include novel organ sources such as xenotransplant and bioengineered organs. Studying these organs in mechanically…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Financial Impact of a Culturally Sensitive Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program

    J. Caicedo1, A. Wang2, A. Mathur3, R. Ruiz4, E. J. Gordon1

    1Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 3Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, 4Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX

    *Purpose: Hispanic/Latinx patients receive disproportionately fewer living donor kidney transplants (LDKTs) than non-Hispanic Whites. [Institution name's] culturally targeted Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program (HKTP) was found…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Center Variation is the Major Driver of Geographic Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplants Among Waitlisted Candidates

    D. Stewart, A. Robinson, A. Wilk, D. Klassen

    United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA

    *Purpose: The OPTN’s monitoring of equity in access to deceased donor kidney (KI) transplants (tx) among waitlisted candidates has consistently found service area (DSA) of…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Use of Ancestral Genetic SNP Phenotyping to Define Genotypic Ethnicity in Solid Organ Transplant Patients

    P. Jindra, T. Tu, N. D'Silva, C. T. Stewart, J. Magana, N. Chitnis

    Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: Transplantation research has mainly categorized ethnicity into four main groups African American, Caucasian, Hispanic, and Asian Pacific Islander. Our world has increased in admixure…
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