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Articles tagged "Ethics"

  • 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…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Variation in Definition of Death in Donation After Circulatory Death Policies

    D. Cassidy1, M. J. Englesbe2, V. S. Valbuena2

    1University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    *Purpose: Organ transplantation operates through a shared network requiring organizations, hospitals, and individuals to work towards a common goal. However, the policies that govern each…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Lung Transplant Waitlist Outcomes for Blood Group O Candidates After the Expansion of the Primary Allocation Unit in November 2017

    S. Greissman1, M. Anderson2, S. Arcasoy3, A. Dimango3, M. Gabriela3, H. Grewal3, H. Robbins3, L. Shah3, J. Costa3, F. D'Ovidio3, M. Leiva Juarez3, P. Lemaitre3, J. Sonett3, L. Benvenuto3

    1Department of Internal Medicine, New York Presbyterian, New York, NY, 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3Columbia University, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Blood group O is associated with decreased lung transplant rates. Occasionally, blood group donor O lungs are allocated to non-blood group O recipients. Since…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplantation in Mentally Challenged Patients; a Single Center Experience

    J. Yagan1, T. S. Mahmoud1, O. Gheith1, P. Nair1, T. Alotaibi2

    1Nephrology, Hamed Al-Essa Organ Transplant Center, Kuwait, Kuwait, 2Pathology, Hamed Al-Essa Organ Transplant Center, Kuwait, Kuwait

    *Purpose: Kidney transplant is the best choice of treatment for patients with end stage kidney disease. There are medical conditions that may pose an ethical…
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