2020 American Transplant Congress
Proposed New Kidney Allocation Policy: Moving to Concentric Circles as the First Unit of Allocation
*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
*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
*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
*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
*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
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,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Focal Cortical Necrosis (CN) in Preimplantation Biopsy (PBx) on Outcomes after Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: The data on outcomes of focal CN in PBx after deceased donor transplantation is sparse. We studied the prognostic value of focal CN on…2020 American Transplant Congress
Cumulative United States Experience with Domino Liver Transplants
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: The ongoing shortage of livers in the setting of growing waiting lists remains a challenge in transplantation. First introduced in 1996, domino liver transplantation…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Composite Molecular and Cellular Instability Score Identifies the Sub-Phenotypes of Histologically Stable Kidney Transplants
Department of Surgery, BCHSI, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Recent molecular studies have highlighted the unrecognized burden of sub-clinical graft rejection of a histologically stable allograft, defined as transplants with absence of clinical…2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Liver Transplant Outcomes: A Single Center Cohort Study
Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
*Purpose: This single center study reviews long-term outcomes of liver transplantation identifying morbidity differences between post-transplant liver patients surviving greater than five years versus those…
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