2020 American Transplant Congress
Renal Transplantation in Jehovah’s Witnesses: A Single-Center Experience
Transplant Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Transplant in Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) has been controversial due to their religious beliefs resulting in frequent refusal to accept a wide range of blood…2020 American Transplant Congress
Identifying an Optimal Liver Frailty Index Cutoff to Predict Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: Frailty is associated with mortality in liver transplant (LT) waitlist candidates. We developed the Liver Frailty Index (LFI) to assess frailty in patients with…2020 American Transplant Congress
Distance and Community Characteristics are Associated with Waitlist Mortality Prior to Lung Transplantation
Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: While specific clinical characteristics known to impact lung transplant waitlist mortality and proximity to the transplant center have been associated with outcomes in other…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…
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