2020 American Transplant Congress
Standardization of Pre-Transplant Cardiac Testing in Kidney Transplant Recipients is Associated with Lower Post-Transplant Cardiac Events
*Purpose: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality after kidney transplantation and optimal approaches to pre-transplant cardiac testing are not well defined. We applied…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Data-Driven Approach to Defining the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Liver Transplantation
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) who undergo liver transplantation experience significant survival benefit, with a 1-year survival rate after liver transplantation of 91%.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Four Years of KAS: A Pediatric Specific Report
*Purpose: On 12/4/14, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) implemented a new Kidney Allocation System (KAS). To maintain pediatric priority, KAS gave pediatric candidates…2020 American Transplant Congress
Consequences of Turning Down High KDPI Kidney Organ Offers for Kidney Transplant Candidates
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Kidneys with a high Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI, 80-100%) are frequently declined as they are associated with higher graft loss; yet, candidates that…2020 American Transplant Congress
Assessing the Complex Causes of Kidney Allograft Loss
*Purpose: Although graft loss is a primary endpoint in many studies in kidney transplantation and a broad spectrum of risk factors has been identified, the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Time to Graft Loss by Dialysis Vintage
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: Preemptive transplantation has been shown to be beneficial regarding all-cause graft failure compared to transplantation after dialysis initiation, and transplantation after a shorter time…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Link between Waitlist Mortality and Access to Transplant, an Imaginative Reality
*Purpose: Liver transplant waitlist mortality due to inadequate access to livers is the Achilles heel in liver transplantation in United States. This remains amongst the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Predictive Validity of Functional Status on Mortality in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Frailty and disabilities, though not routinely measured, are highly prevalent in kidney transplant (KT) recipients and predict poor post-transplant outcomes. The Karnofsky Performance Scale…2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Mortality and Transplant Probability for Inactively Listed Liver Patients Depends on Donor Service Areas’ Median MELD at Transplant
*Purpose: Presently, the outcome of patients listed inactive on liver transplant waiting list (WL) are unknown; as inactive patients cannot receive deceased donor organ offers,…2020 American Transplant Congress
MELD is MELD is MELD? Geographic/ Center-Level Variation in Mortality for Patients with the Same MELD Score
*Purpose: Waitlist candidates living in areas with poor access to health care may have higher mortality risk compared to candidates with same MELD in other…
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