Articles tagged "Outcome"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Data Platform – An Augmented Clinical Intelligence Framework
C. Focht, W. Tian, J. Zeng, N. Dzebisashvili, S. Ghosh
CareDx, Brisbane, CA
*Purpose: UNOS, SRTR, USRDS registries are rich in patient baseline data. However, all suffer from data attrition as patients move further out post-transplant or between…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Improved Patient Survival in DCD Liver Transplantation
O. Bushara¹, J. Alhalel¹, H. Azad¹, T. Cerri², S. Zafer², J. C. Caicedo¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Rosalind Franklin Medical School, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: We aim to investigate longitudinal outcomes in DCD liver transplantation over a 10-year period and elucidate trends in patient survival, biliary complication rates, and…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Single Center Experience on SARS-CoV-2 Testing of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
H. Pizzo¹, P. R. Soni², S. Nadipuram², J. Garrison¹, D. Puliyanda¹
¹Pediatric Nephrology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Pediatric Infectious Disease, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: As of late November 2020, there have been 61.5 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) worldwide resulting in 1.44 million deaths. Despite the outstanding number…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Preemptive Second Kidney Transplant Outcomes by Induction Type in the United States
S. Riad¹, G. Larrieux², S. Jackson³, R. Kandaswamy²
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Complex Care Analytics, M-Health Fairview, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Failed kidney allograft is the fourth leading indication for kidney transplantation. A significant portion of second kidney transplant recipients undergo preemptive transplantation while on…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Titer Stability vs. Terminal Pre-transplant Titer: Titer History is Irrelevant for A₂ to B Transplantation
A. Gilbert¹, S. Radomski², J. Vucci¹, B. Thomas¹, M. Cooper¹
¹Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ²Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Minor ABO incompatibile (ABOi) transplants from blood group A2 or A2B donors have increased since 2014, but initial guidance suggested that establishing an anti-A…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Dietary Intake and Mycophenolate Mofetil-related Diarrhea Following Kidney Transplantation
G. Onyeaghala¹, L. Teigen², B. Guo², Y. Doronin¹, M. Al-Kofahi², B. Wu², W. Guan², C. Staley², S. Riad², A. Matas², R. Remmel², W. Oetting², C. Dorr¹, P. Jacobson², A. Israni¹
¹Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The treatment of Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) related diarrhea in kidney transplants recipients involves providing lower MMF doses more frequently to maintain the same daily…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Psychosocial Determinants of Regimen Adherence Among Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Balakrishnan, S. Bailey, D. Mroczek, M. Serper, D. P. Ladner, M. S. Wolf
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: There is increasing evidence suggesting a high prevalence of inadequate medication adherence among kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) and its subsequent consequences on health outcomes.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Center Use of Technical Variant Grafts Impacts Pediatric Liver Transplant Waitlist and Recipient Outcomes in the United States
G. Mazariegos¹, E. R. Perito², J. Squires¹, K. Soltys¹, A. Griesemer³, S. A. Taylor⁴, E. Pahl⁵
¹Childrens Hosp of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ³Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁴Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁵Omnilife, Lexington, KY
*Purpose: Assessing composite outcome measures are critical when evaluating graft type selection in pediatric liver transplantation (LT).*Methods: OPTN data on children listed for first-time LT…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Classification of Distinct Patterns of Ischemic Cholangiopathy Following DCD Liver Transplantation: Distinct Clinical Courses and Long-Term Outcomes from a Multicenter Cohort
K. P. Croome¹, A. K. Mathur², B. Aqel², L. Yang¹, J. K. Heimbach³, T. Taner³, C. B. Rosen³, R. Paz-Fumagalli¹, C. Taner¹
¹Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, ²Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, ³Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: As the number of donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplants (LTs) performed in the United States continues to increase annually, there has been…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Insurance Status, Waitlist, and Transplant Outcomes in Liver Transplantation
B. I. Shaw¹, M. L. Samoylova¹, V. Wang², T. Risoli Jr³, S. Peskoe³, K. Caddell³, L. M. McElroy¹
¹Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Population Health Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, ³Biostatistics, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) intended to expand Medicaid to cover all adults with income below 138% of federal poverty level. We describe the…

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