Articles tagged "Organ Selection/Allocation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
A Single Center Analysis of Organ Offers and Workload for Liver and Kidney Allocation
V. Reddy, T. Ma, R. Ruiz, H. Fernandez, J. Bayer, N. Onaca, E. Martinez, A. Gupta, S. Lee, G. J. McKenna, G. Testa, A. Wall
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: UNOS/OPTN transitioned to Acuity Circles allocation for kidneys and livers which has increased the complexity of the network of organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and…
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…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Holes in the Safety-Net: Examining the Path to Kidney Transplantation for Liver Transplant Recipients with Persistent Kidney Dysfunction
A. J. Erhardt, M. J. Hobeika, T. Menser, A. Saharia, O. Okidi, C. Mobley, R. McMillan, L. W. Moore, H. Podder, S. Yi, R. J. Knight, A. Gaber, R. Ghobrial
Department of Surgery; J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The 2017 combined liver-kidney allocation modification provided early access to kidney transplantation (KT) for liver transplant (LT) recipients with severe post-LT kidney dysfunction. Although…
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
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
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…