Articles tagged "Outcome"

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…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor Factors Associated with In-field Decline of Heart Allografts
L. Piechura, F. Yazdchi, M. Harloff, H. Shim, M. Keshk, A. Coppolino, III, D. Rinewalt, H. Mallidi
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: The decline of organs upon assessment within the field complicates optimal organ and resource utilization. We aimed to investigate if certain donor factors were…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Propensity Matched Analysis of Death and Non-favorable Discharge Among Hospitalized Transplant Recipients with COVID-19
J. T. Swan¹, E. Rizk², S. L. Jones¹, N. Nwana¹, J. C. Nicolas¹, A. Tran¹, T. Nisar¹, T. Menser¹, S. G. Yi², L. W. Moore¹, A. O. Gaber², R. J. Knight²
¹Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, ²Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: This study compared death and non-favorable discharge following a hospital admission for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) management for patients with a history of solid…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Early Outcome of Heart-Kidney Transplantation in the Current Heart Allocation System in the United States
S. Rao¹, A. Doyle¹, D. Brennan², S. Constantinescu³
¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ²Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD, ³Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: In the United States, heart allograft allocation is a primary determinant for heart-kidney transplantation (HKT). We analyzed the OPTN dataset and compared the outcomes…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid-19 Incidence Was Initially Associated with Posttransplant Kidney Graft Failure
A. Wey¹, J. Miller¹, D. Musgrove¹, N. Salkowski¹, M. Tabaka¹, R. Hirose², A. Massie³, D. Segev³, A. Israni¹, J. Snyder¹, B. Kasiske¹
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Univ of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: To better understand the effect of COVID-19 on kidney posttransplant outcomes, we estimated the association of county-level COVID-19 incidence with kidney posttransplant graft failure.*Methods:…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Australian and New Zealand Living Kidney Donor Profile Index
G. L. Irish¹, S. Chadban¹, N. Boudville², S. B. Campbell³, J. Kanellis⁴, P. A. Clayton¹
¹Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia, ²Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, ³Department of Nephrology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴Department of Nephrology, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia
*Purpose: Risk scores may aid risk quantification and decision-making in kidney transplantation. The Living Kidney Donor Profile Index (LKDPI) was developed to choose between living…
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Is Subclinical Allograft Rejection by 2019 Banff Criteria Associated with Worse Kidney Allograft Outcomes? Comparison Between 2007 and 2019 Banff Criteria
M. T. Victor¹, S. Park², K. Guo¹, L. Zhao¹, J. Friedewald³
¹Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Transplant Nephrology, Northwestern Univeristy, Chicago, IL, ³Transplant Nephrology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: We hypothesize that Subclinical Acute Rejection (SubAR) under the new Banff 2019 criteria will be more strongly associated with a 2-year composite endpoint (2Y-CCE)…