2019 American Transplant Congress
Unfair Waiting Time Calculation? Impact of Accumulated Wait Time Restart with a Decrease in Status from 1A to 1B or 2 on Mortality of Heart Transplant Candidates
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Between two heart transplant (HT) candidates listed at the same status, the candidate with longer accumulated wait time receives higher waitlist priority; under current…2019 American Transplant Congress
Racial Differences in Cancer Mortality for Kidney Transplant Recipients
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Cancer is the second leading cause of post-transplant mortality. Since racial disparities have been reported in many aspects of transplant care, we sought to…2019 American Transplant Congress
Cognitive Function & Risk Of Adverse Outcomes In Kidney Transplant Candidates
1JHU, Baltimore, MD, 2Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: With a high prevalence of cognitive impairment and underreported dementia--severe cognitive impairment that impairs activities of daily living--patients with ESRD may have reduced chance…2019 American Transplant Congress
Association Between Cumulative Pre-transplant Amiodarone Dose And Post-transplant Outcomes After Heart Transplantation
*Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated a correlation between pre-transplant amiodarone use and post-operative bradycardia, primary graft dysfunction, and mortality in heart transplant (HT) recipients; this…2019 American Transplant Congress
Incidence and Mortality of Renal Cell Carcinoma after Kidney Transplantation: A Meta-Analysis
*Purpose: The incidence and mortality of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) after kidney transplantation (KTx) remain unclear. This study's aims were 1) to investigate the pooled…2019 American Transplant Congress
Diminishing Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Risk-Adjusted Mortality: Reaction to Flagging, Artifact of Modeling, or Both?
*Purpose: To examine longitudinal trends in SRTR risk-adjusted patient and graft survival rates.*Methods: Current, and archived versions of The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR)…2019 American Transplant Congress
No Plan is a Bad Plan! Results of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) Living Donor Community of Practice Mortality Workgroup Survey on Disaster Planning Following a Living Donor Death
*Purpose: The risk of perioperative mortality following living kidney and liver donation, although extremely low, must not be considered a ‘never event’. While the risks…2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Patients with ESRD Due to Myeloma
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Recent literature has suggested that certain patients with multiple myeloma can successfully undergo renal transplantation after stem transplantation with consideration for maintenance therapy. Outcomes…2019 American Transplant Congress
Association of Pretransplant and Posttransplant 5-Tier Ratings with Candidate Mortality after Listing
*Purpose: The OPTN Final Rule mandates the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) to publish understandable reports of transplant rate, waitlist mortality, and posttransplant outcomes.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Variables Associated with Intracardiac Thrombus during Orthotopic Liver Transplant: A Retrospective Single-Center Study
*Purpose: Intracardiac thrombus (ICT) is an intraoperative complication during orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) with high mortality. Patients with end stage liver disease have compromised coagulation…
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