2016 American Transplant Congress
Age and Education Level Are Predictors of Patient Preferences for Educational Formats in ESRD Patients Undergoing Transplant Education.
Background: Health literacy impacts hospitalizations and mortality. ESRD patients have reduced health literacy due to a high proportion of lower educational background and socioeconomic resources.…2016 American Transplant Congress
Have We Gone Too Far Defining Performance Outliers? One-Third of Kidney Transplant Programs Now Identified for Low Performance within Three Years.
Transplant center report cards developed by SRTR are publicly available and utilized for regulatory oversight and insurance contracting. There are significant associations of performance oversight…2016 American Transplant Congress
Simulating Alternative Bayesian Criteria to Identify Transplant Center Performance Outliers.
The newly constructed Bayesian models to evaluate transplant center performance were implemented in 2014. The rates and impact of the assumptions used for flagging centers…2016 American Transplant Congress
Antithymocyte Globulin (ATG) versus Anti-interleukin-2 Receptor (Anti-IL-2R) as Induction Therapy for Kidney Transplantation After a Nonrenal Transplant.
Patients undergoing kidney transplant after a previous nonrenal organ transplant (NRT) present a small but emerging subpopulation of kidney transplant recipients. Little is known about…2016 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Social Barriers to Health Literacy in ESRD Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplant Evaluation.
Background: Low health literacy is associated with increased hospitalizations and mortality. ESRD patients have reduced health literacy as ESRD disproportionately affects the elderly and individuals…2016 American Transplant Congress
Probability of Transplant (POT) Index: A Novel Method to Predict the Likelihood of an Adult Liver Transplant.
Background: Access to liver transplantation is limited by a multitude of factors, which are quite variable among transplant candidates, and is underscored by the shortage…2016 American Transplant Congress
Factors Associated with Increased Risk of MELD Progression Among a Large Population of Patients with Cirrhosis and an Initial Low MELD Score (<15).
Northwestern University, Chicago.
AimsLiving donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an underutilized resource. Timely identification of patients with cirrhosis and a low MELD who's MELD score is likely to…2015 American Transplant Congress
Tobacco Use Is a Significant Risk Factor for Post-Transplant Biliary Complications
Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
Purpose: Biliary complications following liver transplantation are a significant source of morbidity, potentially leading to graft failure necessitating retransplantation. Smoking precipitates both microvascular and macrovascular…2015 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of IgG Subclass Significance for Early Graft Rejection and Long-Term Survival in HLA-Antibody Incompatible Renal Transplantation: Multivariate Approach
Donor HLA specific antibodies (DSA) can cause acute rejection and graft lost after renal transplantation. However neither the damaging antibody types, nor their acceptable levels…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pharmacoepidemiology of Cytomegalovirus Prophylaxis in a Large Multicenter Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO.
Background: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) prophylaxis or preemptive treatment are recommended for seronegative recipients of kidneys from seropositive donors (D+/R-) and seropositive patients (R+), but not D-/R-…
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