Articles tagged "Outcome"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Center-Level Variability in DDLT Rate Before and After the Implementation of MMaT/250 Score
T. Ishaque, J. Beckett, B. King, J. G. Wang, D. Segev, A. Massie
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In 02/2020, OPTN replaced DSA/regional boundaries with acuity circles and substituted exception scores for individual patients to median-MELD-at-transplant within 250 nautical miles of a…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Older Living Donor Kidneys Are Associated with Worse Recipient and Graft Survival Compared to Younger Donors
A. P. Bregman¹, R. Spong¹, R. El-Rifai¹, K. Swanson¹, S. Jackson², S. Riad¹
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Analytics, Mhealth-Fairview, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Older living donors (LDs) are accepted more frequently to expand the donor pool. We sought to evaluate recipient outcomes from older LDs >70y.*Methods: Utilizing…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Establishing a New Hepatobiliary Surgery Program in a Level 1 Trauma Center Community Teaching Hospital (Our Open and Robotic Experience)
J. S. Han, S. A. Neubauer, C. E. Renner, C. M. Dunham, T. J. Chirichella
General Surgery, St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, Youngstown, OH
*Purpose: To improve access to quality care, the surgical outcomes and influencing factors were investigated for a new hepatobiliary surgery program established by a transplant…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor and Recipient Characteristics on Early Post-Transplant Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA (dd-cfDNA) Scores
A. Alam¹, J. Zeng², J. Teuteberg³, S. Hall¹
¹Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²CareDx, Brisbane, CA, ³Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Dd-cfDNA (AlloSure, CareDx; Brisbane, CA) has been demonstrated to detect allograft injury after heart transplantation in a large and diverse patient cohort in the…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Revisiting Late Graft Loss or Death in Pediatric Liver Transplantation Through Analysis of the SPLIT Database
J. E. Squires¹, J. Bilhartz², K. Soltys¹, E. Hafberg³, G. V. Mazariegos¹, N. Gupta⁴, R. Anand⁵, S. G. Anderson⁵, T. Miloh⁶
¹UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, ⁴Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Attlanta, GA, ⁵The Emmes Company, Rockville, MD, ⁶University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: With advances in surgical techniques, medical management, and more equitable allocation systems, children who receive a liver transplant today can expect remarkable outcomes early…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Ontario Anatomic Kidney Score (OAKS) : Quantitative Macroscopic Assessment versus Histological Grading in Pre-transplant Evaluation of Donor Kidneys
J. Mello Offerni¹, D. Matty², H. Abed³, P. Roshanov⁴, A. Sener¹, P. Luke¹
¹Urology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, ²Undergraduate Medical Education, Western University, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London, ON, Canada, ³Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada, ⁴Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Quantitative gross assessment of a kidney has not been used to influence the evaluation to utilize a kidney for transplantation. The Ontario Anatomic Kidney…
2022 American Transplant Congress
National Consortium Registry Insights on Management and Outcome of Hepatitis C Viremic Heart Transplants
R. Gottlieb¹, M. Salem¹, A. Ravichandran², J. Kennedy³, J. Strope⁴, S. Lin⁵, J. Chow⁶, P. Eckman⁷, S. Desai⁸, O. Larkins¹, J. Vanzyl¹, S. Hall¹
¹Baylor Scott & White Healthcare, Dallas, TX, ²Ascension Medical Group, Indianapolis, IN, ³Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA, ⁴Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁵University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, ⁶Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁷Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ⁸Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: Multicenter US registry of clinical management of HCV NAT+ hearts.*Methods: An ongoing 8-center retrospective IRB-approved registry collected baseline characteristics, labs, management, and outcomes after…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Phenotypes of Non-Citizen Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States by Machine Learning Consensus Clustering
P. Vaitla¹, C. Thongprayoon², C. Jadlowiec³, N. Leeaphorn⁴, S. Mao², M. Mao², A. Prakrati⁵, M. Cooper⁶, W. Cheungpasitporn²
¹University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochestor, MN, ³Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Saint Luke, Kansas City, MO, ⁵Texas Tech, El Paso, TX, ⁶Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Health care policies and coverage for non-US citizens vary significantly across the country. Kidney transplant outcomes in non-US citizens are at par or better…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Successful Implementation of a Rural Appalachian Kidney Transplant Program; One Year Outcomes
F. Afridi¹, B. Gillis¹, R. Lopez¹, D. Kannabhiran¹, V. Chaudhary¹, M. Thornberg¹, R. Zomak¹, K. Meyer¹, C. Newman¹, L. Biondi²
¹Department of Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, ²Department of Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, WV
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation has become the optimal treatment for end stage renal disease (ESRD), allowing dialysis free survival. Despite widespread availability of transplant programs; rural…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Do Early Trends of Donor-Derived Cell Free DNA Predict Long Term Kidney Allograft Outcomes?
S. Park¹, K. Guo², L. Zhao², C. Rebello², J. Friedewald²
¹Transplant Nephrology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) has been studied and established for acute rejection detection but the impact of early dd-cfDNA changes on graft outcomes has…