2020 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Graft Survival by the Teaching Status of a Transplant Center (2008-2019)
*Purpose: Graft survival is an important metric in which transplant centers are graded, yet center-level variation in kidney graft survival still exist after accounting for…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Patients’ Perception of Hospital Experience on Organ Donation Rates
1Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, 2Transplant, Live On NY, New York, NY
*Purpose: The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a validated data collection methodology for measuring a patient’s perception of his/her…2020 American Transplant Congress
Flagging of Transplant Centers Associated with Increased Waitlist Mortality among Liver Candidates
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated decreased transplant rates among poor performing transplant centers meeting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) flagging criteria. However, no…2020 American Transplant Congress
Graft Survival after Liver Transplantation for Patients with Cholangiocarcinoma
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Liver transplantation (LT) with neoadjuvant chemoradiation is increasingly utilized for the treatment for unresectable cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), however, post-LT graft survival is not well described.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence and Predictors of Sensory Polyneuropathic Signs and Symptoms in Renal Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Sensory polyneuropathy is a common finding in renal transplant recipients (RTR). Patients with end stage renal disease are at a high risk to develop…2020 American Transplant Congress
Suspected Vape Use in Lung Donor
*Purpose: E-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) is a recently described disease entity prominently reported throughout many sources. Thus far, diagnosis is primarily…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Association between Alloimmunity and De Novo Glomerulonephritis Post Kidney Transplantation
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: In contrast to recurrent immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis (ICGN), de novo ICGN of the allograft is poorly characterized. We hypothesize that alloimmunity results in immune-complex…
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