2020 American Transplant Congress
The Time is Now: Improving Waiting Times in Minority Populations
Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL
*Purpose: A significant limiting factor to transplantation resides on waiting time based on blood type. Historically candidates in blood groups B and O experience higher…2020 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation in the United States
Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: Despite research into the effects of race, ethnicity, and insurance status in liver transplantation, disparities persist. Access to care even in insured populations endures…2020 American Transplant Congress
New Onset Diabetes after Transplant (NODAT) in Hispanic Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multi-Center Retrospective Study
*Purpose: Hispanic ethnicity is one of the reported risk factors for NODAT in kidney transplant recipients (KTR). The purpose of our study is to determine…2020 American Transplant Congress
Unresolved Disparities: Sex, Racial, Ethnic, and Insurance Differences in Performance Status at Listing for Liver Transplant
Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, New York, NY
*Purpose: Cirrhosis is a chronic disease characterized by progressive worsening in physical functioning. We hypothesized that poor performance status at time of listing was an…2020 American Transplant Congress
Associations of Chronic Kidney Disease with Temperature, Ancestry and Employment
Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: We sought to assess the suggested associations of chronic kidney disease (CKD) of unknown origin, also known as Mesoamerican Nephropathy, with temperature, ancestry and…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Immigrant Bonus: Non US Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients Have Superior Outcomes versus US Citizen Recipients. A Retrospective Study of 30,092 Subjects Using the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) from 1992-2015
*Purpose: In 2017, there were 19,849 kidney transplant recipients, and most of these patients were US Citizens1. There has been however, a significant amount non-US…2019 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in the US: Have We Made Any Progress among Pediatric Candidates over the Last Twenty Years?
1Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: A recent JAMA study demonstrated worsening disparities in access to living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among adults in the US. We examined twenty-year trends…2019 American Transplant Congress
Facilitators and Barriers to the Implementation of Culturally Competent Care to Increase Living Kidney Donation in Transplant Centers
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Hispanics/Latinos are disproportionately less likely than non-Hispanic whites to receive a live donor kidney transplant (LDKT). Cultural beliefs and linguistic barriers contribute to LDKT…2019 American Transplant Congress
Lack of Linguistically and Culturally Tailored Initiatives in Kidney Transplant Programs in the United States
*Purpose: Although minorities are the majorities in the kidney transplant waiting list, it is unknown if kidney transplant programs in United States have implemented linguistically…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System A2/A2B –> B Policy on Access to Transplantation among Minority Candidates
1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; 2ASTS Diversity Affairs Committee, Arlington.
Introduction: Blood group B kidney transplant candidates, many of whom represent ethnic minorities, have historically had diminished access to deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT). However,…
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