2015 American Transplant Congress
Metrics of Global Health Status Signal Early Hospital Readmission Risk After Kidney Transplantation
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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Center-Level Experience and Kidney Transplant Outcomes in HIV-Infected Recipients
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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Body Mass Index (BMI) Mismatch in Deceased Kidney Donation Is an Independent Risk Factor for Graft Failure
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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Solid Organ Transplantation in a National Private Health Plan: Comparison to SRTR Reports
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
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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Validating Outcomes Reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network for Deceased Donor Kidney Recipients
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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Prediction of Post-Operative Length of Stay and Unplanned Reoperation in Patients Transplanted for Alcoholic Liver Disease: An Artificial Neural Network Approach
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)…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pyridoxine Deficiency After Solid Organ Transplant
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
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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics and Outcomes of Kidneys Procured from Donors With KDPI > 80%
TRIBE Consortium, New Haven, CT.
Kidneys procured from donors with KDPI>80% are often biopsied and pumped, yet frequently discarded. The accuracy of these quality assessment tools remain controversial but contribute…
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