Articles tagged "Organ Selection/Allocation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Donor Liver Rejection Rates for Donor Quality Among US Transplant Centers
M. Anderson¹, T. Gilbert², M. Englesbe¹, S. Waits¹
¹Michigan Medicine Transplant Center, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Optimal utilization of all viable donor livers is a public health imperative. As no standardized criteria exist for assessment of donor quality, differential utilization…
2022 American Transplant Congress
A New Chapter In An Evolving Pandemic: Successful Pediatric Liver Transplantation With Covid+ Donors
M. B. Goss¹, F. Munoz², E. A. Moulton³, S. Pouch⁴, S. Koohmaraie⁵, N. Moreno¹, J. Goss³, N. Galvan³
¹McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ²Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, ³Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ⁴Emory University School of Medicine, Decatur, GA, ⁵Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: We report the first two pediatric liver transplants utilizing allografts from COVID+ donors, infected at time of organ procurement, demonstrating a pivotal step toward…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Regulation of Cell Death During Cold Preservation of Marginal Human Kidneys
J. R. DiRito¹, G. Chickering¹, J. Langford¹, D. Stern¹, D. Qin², S. Hosgood³, M. Nicholson³, J. Pober⁴, E. Gavathiotis⁵, R. Kitsis⁵, G. Tietjen¹
¹Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ³Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁴Immunology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ⁵Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NM
*Purpose: Each year thousands of kidneys from marginal donors are discarded due to an increased sensitivity to injury during cold storage and consequently a high…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Lung Transplant Waitlist Outcomes for Blood Group O Candidates After the Expansion of the Primary Allocation Unit in November 2017
S. Greissman¹, M. Anderson², S. Arcasoy³, A. Dimango³, M. Gabriela³, H. Grewal³, H. Robbins³, L. Shah³, J. Costa³, F. D'Ovidio³, M. Leiva Juarez³, P. Lemaitre³, J. Sonett³, L. Benvenuto³
¹Department of Internal Medicine, New York Presbyterian, New York, NY, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Blood group O is associated with decreased lung transplant rates. Occasionally, blood group donor O lungs are allocated to non-blood group O recipients. Since…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Very Small Pediatric Donors May Help Address the Sex Disparity in Access to Kidney Transplantation
J. Yu, J. Sageshima, M. Nuño, N. Mineyev, N. Goussous, R. Perez
UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
*Purpose: Women with end-stage renal disease have lower access to deceased donor kidney transplantation than men. Expanding the donor pool to include kidneys from very…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Successful Kidney Transplantation from a Deceased Donor with Severe COVID-19: Undetectable SARS-CoV-2 in Donor Kidney and Aorta by Sensitive Molecular Testing
K. Lee¹, N. M. Desai¹, J. Resnick², M. Li², A. Johanson¹, A. Pekosz², H. Rabb¹, J. L. Mankowski¹
¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation (KT) from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) positive donors has been avoided due to concerns for donor-derived transmission and possibility of the kidney…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Case Times For Brain Dead Donors: Longer Is Not Better, No Impact Of Longer Case Time On Organ Yield Or OPO Performance Tier
M. J. Moritz¹, R. Hasz¹, H. Nathan¹, E. Hunt², S. Noreen³, A. Toll⁴
¹Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA, ²Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA, ³United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ⁴Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Silverdale, WA
*Purpose: Having observed the steady increase in case times, we wished to examine if this has impacted organ yield*Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Sex- and Insurance- Based Disparities in Listing for and Benefit from Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Transplant
B. Wayda¹, X. S. Cheng¹, P. Garcia¹, S. Sanoff², L. M. McElroy², K. K. Khush¹
¹Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ²Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Rates of simultaneous heart-kidney (SHK) transplant vary widely in the United States (US). Absent uniform eligibility criteria, sex and insurance status could influence patient…
2022 American Transplant Congress
OPO Education Spending and Donation Rates
J. Roberts¹, J. L. Bragg-Gresham², T. Peters³, F. McCormick⁴
¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³University of Florida, Jacksonville, CA, ⁴Bank of America (former), Walnut Creek, CA
*Purpose: The shortage of organs for transplantation in the United States has endured for decades despite the efforts of transplantation professionals, organ procurement organizations, volunteer…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Immunologic Disparities Impact Access to Repeat Kidney Transplantation Among Patients with Previous Failed Kidney Allograft
B. P. Lovasik¹, R. Zhang¹, R. Lynch¹, R. Patzer¹, A. Adams²
¹Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The number of patients with a failed kidney transplant who are being considered for retransplantation is increasing steadily. However, disparities in access to repeat…

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