2021 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Prolonged Length of Stay in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: Changes Over the Last Three Decades
Department of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Hospital length of stay (LOS) following kidney transplantation, particularly prolonged LOS, has not shown much improvement since the early 2000s. This study explores changes…2021 American Transplant Congress
Admission to the Intensive Care Unit Post-liver Transplantation: One Academic Center’s Experience
Transplant Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
*Purpose: Historically, liver transplant (LT) patients have been admitted directly from the operating room (OR) to the intensive care unit (ICU) for post-operative complex hemodynamic…2020 American Transplant Congress
Textbook Outcome as a Composite Quality Metric in Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Textbook outcomes (TO) describe ideal patient outcomes following specific surgical procedures and are useful composite quality metrics for patients, providers and payors. We aimed…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Center Volume and MELD on Textbook Outcome Rates in Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Textbook outcome (TO) is a composite quality metric used in liver transplantation (LT) and defined as patient and graft survival > 1 year, length…2020 American Transplant Congress
Healthcare Utilization and Costs of Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis
*Purpose: To determine the healthcare utilization and costs of a liver transplantation (LT) for severe alcoholic hepatitis (AH) program.*Methods: We performed a retrospective healthcare utilization…2020 American Transplant Congress
The New UK National Kidney Allocation Scheme with Maximized ‘D4/R4’ Kidney Transplants: Appropriate Donor to Recipient Matching or System Overstretch?
Renal Transplant, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
*Purpose: The UK national deceased donor kidney matching scheme changed in September 2019, aiming to better match graft and patient survival. Donors and recipients are…2020 American Transplant Congress
Association between Pre-Transplant Frailty and Increased Length of Stay after Lung Transplantation
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Given the growing numbers of older lung transplant candidates, there has been increasing interest in using frailty assessment for risk stratification of transplant candidates.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Early Multidrug-Resistant Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: How Impactful Are Donor-Derived Infections?
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate risk factors for early post-transplant infections by multi-drug resistant gram-negative bacilli (MDRGNB).*Methods: We retrospectively assessed the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Association between Longer Hospitalization and Development of De Novo Donor Specific Antibody in Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: De novo Donor Specific Antibodies (DSA) are considered a risk factor for worsening kidney allograft outcomes in recipients after simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation (SLK). No…2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Times, Hospital Length of Stay, and Immediate Post-Operative Outcomes of HCV Positive Donors in HCV Negative Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients
*Purpose:Introduction The advent of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has significantly changed liver and kidney transplantation for patients with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infection. Successful and relatively…
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