Articles tagged "Ethics"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Culturally Sensitive Chatbot to Inform Living Donor Candidates of African Ancestry About Apol1 Genetic Testing
E. J. Gordon¹, P. Waite², J. Gacki-Smith², D. Duquette³, A. Agrawal¹, J. Friedewald¹, S. Savage⁴, E. Simmons⁵, M. Cooper⁶, A. Gilbert⁶, C. Wicklund⁷
¹Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁴Invitae, Inc, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Invitae, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Surgery, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, DC, ⁷Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Living kidney donor candidates of African ancestry are increasingly asked to undergo Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) genetic testing to better understand their risk of kidney…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Patient Definitions of Transplant Success of Upper Extremity VCA
M. Downey¹, B. Kuramitsu², J. Gacki-Smith², K. Vanterpool¹, M. Luken³, M. Nordstrom³, T. Riggleman³, C. Cooney¹, M. Levan¹, S. Tintle³, G. Brandacher¹, S. Jensen², G. Dumanian², E. Gordon²
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
*Purpose: Little is known about how to measure "success" of upper extremity (UE) vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) given its relative novelty and low frequency. While…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Consent to Organ Offers from Public Health Service Increased Risk Donors Decreases Time to Transplant and Waitlist Mortality
Y. Kelly, A. Zarinsefat, M. Tavakol, A. Shui, C. Huang, J. P. Roberts
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: The Public Health Service Increased Risk designation identified organ donors at increased risk of transmitting hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus. Despite…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Survey of Current Transplant Center Practices Regarding Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates in the United States
B. E. Hippen¹, D. Axelrod², K. Maher³, R. Xi³, D. Kumar⁴, M. Schnitzler³, K. Lentine³
¹Head of Transplant Medicine, Fresenius Medical Care, Charlotte, NC, ²University of Iowa Transplant Clinic, Iowa City, IA, ³St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ⁴Ajmera Transplant Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: We surveyed current policies of transplant centers regarding a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and rationales for or against a mandate policy.*Methods: An electronic survey was…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Phenotypes of Non-Citizen Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States by Machine Learning Consensus Clustering
P. Vaitla¹, C. Thongprayoon², C. Jadlowiec³, N. Leeaphorn⁴, S. Mao², M. Mao², A. Prakrati⁵, M. Cooper⁶, W. Cheungpasitporn²
¹University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochestor, MN, ³Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Saint Luke, Kansas City, MO, ⁵Texas Tech, El Paso, TX, ⁶Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Health care policies and coverage for non-US citizens vary significantly across the country. Kidney transplant outcomes in non-US citizens are at par or better…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Association of Pre-Transplant Dialysis Time and the Survival Benefit of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
W. F. Parker¹, Y. Becker², R. Gibbons¹
¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²University of Chicago, Hinsdale, IL
*Purpose: The US Kidney Allocation System (KAS) allows for deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) candidates not yet on dialysis to accrue waiting time points by…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Self-Report of Length of Sobriety is Not Significantly Related to Early Return to Alcohol Use Post Transplant
J. Esswein¹, A. Powell¹, H. Bruschwein², S. Weinland¹
¹Psychiatry, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, ²The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Many transplant centers in the United States require six months of abstinence from alcohol prior to liver transplant. Recently, there has been an increased…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Superiority of Renal Transplantation in ESRD Management Over Long Term Dialysis in Octogenerians
s. karhadkar, J. Kolansky, K. Wirshup, A. Gregor, J. Dawes, A. DiCarlo
Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: In the last 2 decades there has been an increase in the number of patients aged 65 years and older who were placed on…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Recipient History of Criminality: Impact on Clinical Outcomes
M. M. French¹, R. Mangus¹, R. Holmes¹, A. Krause¹, J. Sumner¹, C. Kubal¹, B. Ekser², P. Mihaylov³, A. Lutz⁴, J. Fridell⁵
¹Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²Surgery, Indiana University - Transplant Surgery, Indianapolis, IN, ³Department of Surgery, Indiana Univ School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Fishers, IN, ⁵Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Health disparities are present in transplantation, just as in other areas of medicine. This is a retrospective review of liver transplant (LT) recipients to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Sex Disparities in Access to Liver Transplant for Waitlisted Patients with Meld 40
D. C. Cron¹, H. Yeh¹, H. J. Braun², N. L. Ascher², D. C. Chang¹, J. T. Adler³
¹Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Surgery and Perioperative Care, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
*Purpose: Women with end-stage liver disease are less likely than men to receive a liver transplant, due in part to MELD’s reliance on creatinine and…