2019 American Transplant Congress
Specific Reasons for Public Health Service (PHS) Increased Risk (IR) Designation Had Little Influence on Doctors’ Kidney Offer Acceptance Decisions in Controlled “Lab” Experiment
*Purpose: Over 25% of donors are labeled as PHS “increased risk,” a designation associated with reduced organ utilization despite favorable risk/benefit calculations for most patients.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Extreme Hyponatremia as a Risk Factor for Early Mortality after Liver Transplantation in the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-Sodium Period
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: While we reported that implementation of MELD-Na based liver allocation improved waitlist outcomes in patients with hyponatremia, its impact on post-transplant outcomes in this…2019 American Transplant Congress
Identifying the Proverbial “Needle in the Arm” with Natural Language Processing
Department of Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Donors with a history of IVDU are associated with increased disease transmission risk; However, OPTN forms only request broad historical details relating to donor…2019 American Transplant Congress
Utility Of SIPAT Scoring System In Predicting Risk Of Recidivism In Patients With Alcoholic Liver Disease.
*Purpose: The Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant (SIPAT) score is a comprehensive tool that was developed to standardize pretransplant psychosocial evaluations and has been…2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Analysis of U.S. Transplant Centers Performing High Volumes of Hard to Place Kidneys
*Purpose: Despite a growing number of patients awaiting a kidney transplant, discard rate remains significantly high. The UNOS SRTR data now provides information on all…2019 American Transplant Congress
Cholecystitis in High-Acuity Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation: A Five-Year Analysis of Incidence, Causes and Impact
Dumont-UCLA Liver Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: While the incidence of gallbladder pathology is well described in the general population, there is almost no data on cholecystitis in liver transplant candidates…2019 American Transplant Congress
Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin (rATG) Induction in Heart Transplant Recipients at High Risk for Rejection
*Purpose: To assess the safety and efficacy of rATG induction in heart transplant recipients at high risk for rejection.*Methods: This was a single-center, retrospective study…2019 American Transplant Congress
Bortezomib Based Induction Therapy Decreases Delayed Graft Function in High Risk Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Over 100,000 candidates await a kidney transplant on the national United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) waitlist. Among these candidates, one-third have pre-formed antibodies…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Organ Procurement Organization Surgeon on Utilization of High KDPI Kidneys
*Purpose: In 2014, TXSB organ procurement organization (OPO) employed a full-time donor surgeon. We previously demonstrated that presence of a donor surgeon had a beneficial…2019 American Transplant Congress
Hard-to-Place Kidney Offers: Through the Lens of the United Network for Organ Sharing Organ Center
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: In 2016, the rate of deceased donor kidney discard continued to increase to 20%. It is well documented that multiple factors contribute to lower…
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