Articles tagged "Organ Selection/Allocation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Estimating the Effect of Increased Donor Heart Ischemic Time on Post-Transplant Survival Using Instrumental Variables
G. Ran¹, K. Lazenby¹, N. Narang², W. F. Parker³
¹Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Medicine, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Isolate the impact of organ ischemic time on post-transplant survival using the recent change in heart allocation policy as a natural experiment.*Methods: We examined…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Effects of Race-Matching in Small Intestine Transplantation
C. G. Yergin¹, C. Warren², S. Duarte³, T. Beduschi⁴, A. Zarrinpar⁵
¹College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²-, -, AL, ³University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁵University of California Los Angeles, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: We sought to investigate whether race-matching in small intestine (SI) transplantation correlates with better transplantation outcomes, as well as lower odds of graft rejection.*Methods:…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Deep-Learning Based Pathological Assessment of Frozen Procurement Kidney Biopsies
Z. Yi¹, C. Xi¹, M. Menon², P. Cravedi¹, B. Murphy¹, S. Ward¹, F. Salem¹, W. Zhang¹
¹Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ²Yale University School of Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Organ shortage in kidney transplantation is a major issue for ESKD individuals on the waiting list. Sclerotic glomeruli or interstitial fibrosis on procurement donor…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Manufactured Organ Procurement Facility Collaboration and Authorization Approach for Xenotransplant Research
E. P. Weldon, N. S. Lawson, B. E. Sullivan, B. S. Parent, C. L. Deterville, R. A. Dieter, R. A. Montgomery
NYU Langone Health-Transplant Institute, New York, NY
*Purpose: A Manufactured Organ Research Facility (MORF) was created at our institution to provide a safe environment for testing xenograft organs in deceased brain dead…