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Articles tagged "Organ Selection/Allocation"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Assessing Safety of Using ECMO-Supported Donors in Abdominal Transplantation

    P. J. Altshuler1, A. P. Shah1, J. M. Glorioso1, W. R. Maley1, A. M. Frank1, C. B. Ramirez1, H. Dang1, S. West2, R. Hasz, Jr.2, A. S. Bodzin1

    1Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 2Gift Of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Organ donors supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are historically considered high-risk and are judiciously utilized. Here we explore the safety of using organs…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Allocation System Promotes Racial Equality Not Equity in Access to Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation

    C. Killian1, B. Shelton1, P. MacLennan1, M. McLeod1, A. Carter1, R. Reed1, H. Qu1, B. Orandi1, V. Kumar1, D. Sawinski2, J. Locke1

    1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, NY

    *Purpose: While the 2014 Kidney Allocation System (KAS) reduced deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) racial disparities, candidates’ community-level vulnerability has not been considered. The purpose…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    National Landscape of the Utilization of Living Donor Liver Allografts in Redo Liver Transplantation

    J. I. López, K. Nijhar, J. Mitchell, L. Bowles Zeiser, K. Key, A. Asamoah-Mensah, A. Thomas, R. Haneda, S. K. Romano, J. Huang, A. Massie, A. M. Cameron, D. L. Segev, E. A. King

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: To examine the use of living donor liver allografts in patient’s requiring redo liver transplantation.*Methods: Using data from SRTR 2009-2020, we evaluated the number…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Biopsy Characteristics of Kidneys from a Single Large OPO

    S. Bunnapradist1, T. Seto2, A. Cohen2, T. Rosenthal1, G. Danovitch1

    1David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2One Legacy, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: As deceased donor pool have expanded, kidney biopsy has been increasingly used to help determine organ suitability for transplant. There are concerns that biopsy…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Higher Hepatocellular Carcinoma Tumor Burden Score is Associated with Grater Liver Transplant Survival Benefit

    H. Liu1, W. Zhang2, M. Di3, H. Lee4, R. Cruz1, X. Wang2, C. Kaltenmeier1, A. Thompson1, D. Reddy1, E. Ashwat1, M. D'Alesio1, S. Lebowitz1, S. Tohme1, D. Geller1, A. Tevar1, C. Hughes1, A. Humar1, J. Behari5, R. Bataller5, S. Hariharan5, M. Molinari1

    1Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Mathematics and Statistics, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, 3Medicine, Medical Oncology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 4Biostatistics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 5Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

    *Purpose: Liver transplantation(LT) is the best treatment option for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) and cirrhosis. However, patients with various tumor burdens receive identical listing priority, despite…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Early Impact of the Mission Act on Utilization of Veterans Affairs Transplant Centers

    J. C. Walker1, C. Roumie2, I. D. Feurer3, R. Forbes4

    1General Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Nashville, TN, 2Internal Medicine, VUMC, Nashville, TN, 3Surgery and Biostatistics, VUMC, Nashville, TN, 4VUMC, Nashville, TN

    *Purpose: The Veterans Affairs (VA) Maintaining Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act of 2018 was implemented in 2019 to increase veteran access to…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Resource Expenditure in the Evaluation of Older Donors for Heart Transplant: An Impediment to Donor Pool Expansion?

    B. Wayda1, J. G. Zaroff2, N. Neidlinger3, P. Geraghty4, R. P. Wood5, J. Nieto5, T. C. Pearson6, B. Nicely7, K. K. Khush1

    1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 2Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, 3University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI, 4Donor Network of Arizona, Tempe, AZ, 5LifeGift, Houston, TX, 6Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 7Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    *Purpose: Using older donors for heart transplant (HT) could alleviate donor scarcity but the resource implications of this strategy - and whether evaluation of older…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplant Professionals’, Recipients’ and Caregivers’ Perspectives on the Use of Precision Medicine in Kidney Transplantation

    F. Ballesteros Gallego1, A. Affdal1, M. Malo2, R. Sapir-Pichhadze3, M. Fortin1

    1CRCHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 3McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    *Purpose: Kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment for end-stage kidney disease. However, antibody-mediated rejection can lead to graft loss. The use of Precision Medicine (PM)…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Waitlisted and Transplant Patient Perspectives on Expanding Access to Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants

    C. Rosaasen1, N. Rosaasen2, R. Mainra3, A. Trachtenberg4, J. Ho5, C. Parsons6, S. Delaney6, H. Mansell7

    1Johnson Shoyama School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 2Saskatchewan Transplant Program, Saskatchewan Health Authority, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 3Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 4, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 5Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Immunology, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 6Canadian Blood Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 7University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    *Purpose: A concerning number of kidneys (expanded donor criteria, extended criteria, or marginal kidneys) are discarded yearly, and novel solutions are needed to solve the…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Rapid Formalin-Fixed Deceased Donor Kidney Biopsy Protocol – A Proof Of Concept

    M. R. Marvin1, G. Chen2, A. Kotru1, C. Koo1, P. Sanghi3, M. Moritz4, J. Clarke4, R. Hasz4

    1Transplant, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, 2Pathology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, 3Transplant Nephrology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, 4Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Reducing kidney discard is a major priority for the transplant community. While frozen section biopsies are the current standard, they are fraught with technical…
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