Articles tagged "Outcome"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcome of over 65 Years Old ESRD Patients Referred for Pre-Kidney Transplant Evaluation
A. M. Alabadi¹, A. H. Shaqaq¹, K. F. Hamawi¹, A. A. Alqatari², M. Alaskar², B. S. Alsadah², A. A. Alomran², K. B. Akkari¹
¹Multi Organ Transplant Center, King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, ²Faculty of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Potential kidney transplant recipients over the age of 65 years of age form a significant proportion of the total referred for kidney transplant evaluation.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Outcomes, Risk Factors, and Regional Variation in Selection of Morbidly Obese Liver Transplant Candidates in the US
T. Lian¹, N. Kaur², J. Emamaullee², M. Lo³, P. Ender⁴, J. Kahn⁵, L. Sher²
¹Keck School of Medicine at USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Los Angeles, CA, ³Department of Preventative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Statistical Consulting Group, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Body Mass Index (BMI) limits for liver transplant (LT) candidacy are controversial. We evaluated waitlist and post-LT outcomes, prognostic factors, and regional patterns of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate Use in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients and its Effect on Potassium and Immunosuppression
R. Winstead, M. Demehin, I. Yakubu, C. Song, A. Brown, M. Levy, L. Kamal, G. Gupta
VCU Health, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Transplant recipients often suffer from hyperkalemia which can limit pharmacotherapy. The cause of hyperkalemia is often multifactorial including kidney dysfunction, calcineurin inhibitor use, and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
HIV+ Living Kidney Donors in the United States: Cases and a Clinical Paradigm
D. Segev¹, C. Wolfe², D. Brown³, D. Fine³, K. Neumann⁴, N. Martinez⁵, D. Ostrander³, F. Al Ammary³, A. Tobian³, A. W. Baker⁶, C. Durand³
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ³Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Unaffiliated, N/A, VA, ⁵Unaffiliated, N/A, GA, ⁶Duke University, School of Medicine, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To report clinical characteristics and outcomes of two people living with HIV who underwent laparoscopic donor nephrectomy*Methods: To facilitate donor selection, we first conducted…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Proposed New Kidney Allocation Policy: Moving to Concentric Circles as the First Unit of Allocation
A. Israni¹, S. Gustafson¹, A. Wey¹, B. Thompson¹, V. Casingal², M. Pavlakis³, S. Castro⁴, A. Wilk⁴, B. Kasiske¹, J. Snyder¹
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Carolinas Healthcare, Charlotte, NC, ³Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston, MA, ⁴UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) proposed a new national deceased donor kidney allocation policy that removes donor service area and OPTN region…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Predonation Hypertension and Early Postdonation Systolic Blood Pressure among Older Living Kidney Donors
F. Al Ammary¹, A. D. Muzaale², D. C. Brennan¹, D. L. Segev², A. B. Massie²
¹Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: One mechanism underlying predonation hypertension in older (age≥50) living kidney donors is a reduced number of nephrons. The 50% nephron mass reduction associated with…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Early Experience Transplanting Undocumented Immigrants with ESRD at a Single Institution: Outcomes and Challenges
R. T. Christie¹, R. M. Nygaard², C. J. Richardson¹, M. J. Hill¹, T. Anderson-Haag³, A. Israni⁴, P. A. Stahler¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, ²Surgery, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, ³Transplant Pharmacy, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: In July of 2016, Minnesota became the second state in the nation to provide coverage for kidney transplantation to patients, regardless of immigration status,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Between-Center Variation in the Survival Benefit of Liver Transplant in the United States
A. Plana¹, S. Paul¹, A. Pillai¹, M. M. Churpek², E. Huang¹, R. Gibbons¹, W. H. Parker¹
¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Survival benefit of liver transplantation is strongly correlated with Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score at transplant. Variability in organ supply across…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Incisional Hernia Recurrence and Surgical Site Infection in the Transplant Population
O. Andacoglu¹, U. Ozbek², F. Cheema¹, L. Sanchez¹, F. Malcher¹
¹General Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ²Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: To investigate recurrence and surgical site infection (SSI) rates and risk factors after incisional hernia (IH) repair following abdominal transplantation.*Methods: A retrospective review of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
From Nudge to Nudges: Organizational Factors Explaining Different Incentives but Similarly Low Kidney Donation Outcomes in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
W. Lu
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The research asks why global living and deceased donor rates of the past 15 years in advanced economies far exceed those occurring in Singapore,…