2020 American Transplant Congress
Health Professional Level Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Mixed Methods Study
1McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Despite the benefits of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), rates have stagnated. Efforts to increase LDKT have focused on patient level barriers. Health professionals…2020 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Families and Authorization for Research: Differences among Ethnic Groups
Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Clinical research in transplantation is key to advancement of the field. NIH-sponsored trials such as HOPE in Action and APOLLO network require deceased donor…2019 American Transplant Congress
Patient Response to a Formal Living Donor Liver Transplant Educational Program
Transplantation Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Informed consent for liver waitlist candidates is required and includes discussion of donor graft options. Living donor liver transplant (LDLT) is an established option…2019 American Transplant Congress
Attitude towards Organ Donation among Medical Students: Relationship to Knowledge and Beliefs
Nephrology/Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of organ donation may underlie physician unwillingness to refer patients for organ donation. We examined baseline knowledge and beliefs…2019 American Transplant Congress
Moving from Local Allocation to National Allocation Using Gravity Model
*Purpose: Most allocation scheme are based on optimized or administrative boundaries that do not allow transplant candidates without national priority to access a graft from…2019 American Transplant Congress
A Cost Saving Quality Improvement Project in Solid Organ Transplant Population Following Tacrolimus Switch from Prograf® to Adoport® Immunosuppression – A Single Centre Experience
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Tacrolimus is widely used immunosuppressive drugs in transplantation. The use of generic medications is cost saving and economically advantageous for the National Health Services…2019 American Transplant Congress
Forensic Transplant Psychiatry: Ethical Issues and the Unique Assessment Needs of Candidates with Forensic Psychiatric Problems
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: To establish what, if any, currently available guidelines or assessment instruments can help transplant programs perform fair, and objective evaluations of patients with forensic…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Changing Paradigm of Ethics in Uterus Transplantation: A Systematic Review
*Purpose: The first uterus transplantation (UTx) was performed in 2000 and sparked ethical debate. As key milestones are reached (successful human UTx in 2011, and…2019 American Transplant Congress
African American Living Kidney Donors’ Perceptions of APOL1 Genetic Testing and Its Impact on Ethnic Identity
1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) risk variants may contribute to live kidney donors’ (“donors”) kidney failure post-donation. Because professional guidelines suggest informing potential donors with African…2019 American Transplant Congress
Barriers to Listing for Kidney Transplantation in LMICs: A Single Center Retrospective Cohort Study in Brazil
*Purpose: Incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is increasing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), but citizens of LMICs face barriers to transplantation that are…
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