2020 American Transplant Congress
Lowering Meld, Diminishing Length of Stay, and Increasing Liver Transplant Numbers Comes Through the Generosity of Others: Declined HCV-NAT Offers Subsequently Transplanted Have Excellent Outcomes
Transplant Services, Intermountain Healthcare, Murray, UT
*Purpose: There is variability between programs in the acceptance of organ offers. This paper examines offer, acceptance and program performance with HCV NAT positive donor…2020 American Transplant Congress
Racial Disparities in Long-Term Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation from Elderly Donors in United States
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation offers survival benefit and improved quality of life in end-stage renal disease patients. Because the waiting list continues to grow, there has…2020 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept versus Tacrolimus Combined with Antithymocyte Globulin in Kidney Transplantation
1Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 2SUNY, Brooklyn, NY, 3Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, CA
*Purpose: Belatacept (BELA) used for maintenance immunosuppression (IS) after kidney transplant (KT) shows similar graft and patient survival, but improved allograft function, despite more rejection…2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Analysis of Transplant Centers Performing High Volumes of Hard to Place Kidneys: An Update
*Purpose: Despite a growing number of patients awaiting a kidney transplant, the discard rate remains significantly high. The UNOS SRTR data now provides information on…2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Stone Former Donors at the University of Minnesota
1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: As the National kidney shortage continues to rise, efforts to expand the donor pool by utilizing living kidneys from stone-forming donors have become widely…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Machine-Learning Approach for Estimating Likelihood of Transplant Benefit from Older-Donor Kidneys
*Purpose: There is a shortage of transplantable kidneys in the US. Yet, the discard rate among older donors (55+) is approx. 38% per year. The…2020 American Transplant Congress
Can Predonation Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Predict Postdonation Renal Function?
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Data on living kidney donor outcomes are of topical interest to the transplant community. Despite thorough pre-donation screening and risk assessment, a minority of…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison Study of Liver Regeneration in Laparoscopic versus Open Right Hemihepatectomy for Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: This study aims to compare differences between laparoscopic donor right hemihepatectomy (LDRH) and open donor right hemihepatectomy (ODRH) in the quality of the operation,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Contract a Virus to Save a Life: A Comparison of Short Term Outcomes between Adult Hepatitis C Negative Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving a Hepatitis C NAT Positive versus Hepatitis C Negative Deceased Donor Kidney
1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: The United States opioid use epidemic over the past decade has coincided with an increase in hepatitis C positive (HCV+) kidney donors. Our aim…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of African American Race on Morbidity for Donors Undergoing Living Kidney Donation: A Single Center Study
Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: To assess perioperative complication rates in African-Americans (AA) undergoing living donor nephrectomy in a large, single center program in the northeast.*Methods: We performed a…
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