Articles tagged "Outcome"

2015 American Transplant Congress
National Outcomes of Kidney Tranplantation from Diabetic Donors: A Mate-Kidney Analysis
J. Cohen,¹ P. Reese,¹ P. Porrett,² R. Bloom,¹ K. Forde,³ D. Sawinski.¹
¹Renal Division, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA; ²Dept of Surgery, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA; ³Division of Gastroenterology, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA.
Utilization of diabetic donor kidneys has increased, though scarce patient and allograft survival data are available for recipients of these organs. Using United Network for…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Metrics of Global Health Status Signal Early Hospital Readmission Risk After Kidney Transplantation
M. Harhay,¹ A. Hill,² W. Wang,² O. Even-Shoshan,² A. Mussell,¹ J. Karlawish,³ R. Bloom,¹ H. Feldman,¹ J. Silber,² P. Reese.¹
¹Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; ³Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Background: Early (≤30 days) hospital readmission (EHR) after kidney transplantation (KT) is common, with diverse causes that likely include poor pre-KT health status. Transplant providers…
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Center-Level Experience and Kidney Transplant Outcomes in HIV-Infected Recipients
J. Locke,¹ R. Reed,¹ S. Mehta,¹ C. Durand,² R. Mannon,¹ P. MacLennan,¹ B. Shelton,¹ M. Martin,¹ H. Qu,¹ R. Shewchuk,¹ D. Segev.²
¹Comprehensive Transplant Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore.
Background: Excellent outcomes among HIV+ kidney transplant (KT) recipients have been reported by the NIH consortium, but it is unclear if experience with HIV+ KT…
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Body Mass Index (BMI) Mismatch in Deceased Kidney Donation Is an Independent Risk Factor for Graft Failure
O. Staeck,¹ D. Khadzhynov,¹ M. Mahn,² K. Budde,¹ F. Fuller,² F. Halleck.¹
¹Nephrology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany; ²Urology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
IntroductionThe influence of this BMI-mismatch in deceased kidney donors and their recipients on graft survival is so far not well characterized.MethodsRetrospective long-term observational study of…
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Outcomes of Solid Organ Transplantation in a National Private Health Plan: Comparison to SRTR Reports
F. Irwin,¹ C. Wu,¹ W. Bannister,² M. Schnitzler,¹ A. Bonagura.¹
¹Optum, Minneapolis; ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
The majority of transplant recipients have private health plans. However, there have been few reports using private health plan data describing the outcomes of this…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donation in the Elderly: The United Kingdom Experience
Z. Ahmed,¹ R. Tamburrini,¹ L. Pankhurst,² N. Kessaris,¹ N. Mamode.¹
¹Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom; ²Department of Clinicsl Trials and Statistics, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Introduction: The increasing demand for organs has led many institutions to accept elderly patients onto their living donor programmes. However no large UK based datasets…
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Validating Outcomes Reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network for Deceased Donor Kidney Recipients
V. Potluri,¹ C. Parikh,² I. Hall,² J. Ficek,² M. Doshi,³ I. Butrymowicz,² F. Weng,⁴ B. Schröppel,⁵ H. Thiessen-Philbrook,⁶ P. Reese.⁷
¹Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia; ²Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven; ³Wayne State University, Detroit; ⁴Barnabas Health, Livingston, NJ; ⁵University Hospital, Ulm, Germany; ⁶Western University, Ontario, Canada; ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Data reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) is used in kidney transplant research, quality metrics and in policy development, but the accuracy…
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Prediction of Post-Operative Length of Stay and Unplanned Reoperation in Patients Transplanted for Alcoholic Liver Disease: An Artificial Neural Network Approach
E. Wise, K. Williamson, K. Hocking.
Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Purpose:Using artificial neural network (ANN) modeling, this study aims to optimize the prediction of prolonged length of stay (LOS) and need for unplanned reoperation (UR)…
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Pyridoxine Deficiency After Solid Organ Transplant
S. Van Arsdale,¹ S. Yost,² M. Meer,¹ S. Schoentag,¹ P. Kadambi,³ S. Habib.³
¹Department of Nutrition Services, University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, AZ; ²Department of Pharmacy, University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, AZ; ³Department of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ.
BackgroundMicronutrient deficiencies have been discussed in the literature regarding post-transplant recipients. A proposed theory is that immunosuppressive medications or altered immune system cause pyridoxine deficiency…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Association of Transplant Volume and Survival in Pediatric Kidney Transplants
W. Cherikh,¹ A. Wilk,¹ C. Flavin,¹ E. Brewer.²
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ²Baylor Coll Med & Texas Children's Hosp., Houston, TX.
Background. Center specific volume has been shown to correlate with outcomes for many procedures in the adult population. The current analysis was conducted to determine…