Articles tagged "Prediction models"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Survival after Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplants by Donor-Recipient Match: Who Can Tolerate a High-KDPI Kidney?
S. Bae, J. Garonzik Wang, K. Jackson, A. Thomas, X. Luo, A. Massie, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Deceased-donor kidney transplantation (DDKT) with high-KDPI kidneys carries an additional risk of mortality and graft failure, which could be tolerable for some candidates but detrimental…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Prediction of 90 Days Readmission after Kidney Transplantation Including Natural Language Processing
X. Zhang,¹ M. Arenson,⁴ J. Kim,⁴ G. Karadkhele,¹ J. Hogan,^1,5 Y. Zhang,⁶ A. Adams,¹ R. Patzer.^1,2,3
¹Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta; ²Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta; ³Emory Transplant Center, Emory Healthcare, Atlanta; ⁴School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta; ⁵Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta; ⁶Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta.
Early identification of hospital readmission for End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients who obtained kidney transplantation potentially help decrease their risk of readmission after transplantation,…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Estimated GFR at Donor Screening and Achieved Measured GFR after Living Kidney Donation
M. van Londen, J. van der Weijden, S. Bakker, S. Berger, J. Sanders, G. Navis, M. de Borst.
Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Study Purpose: Accurate pre-donation renal function estimation is important to minimize the risk of future severe renal function impairment in living kidney donors. Recent studies…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Hospitalization and Life Support before Liver Transplantation – Easily Available Predictors for Post-Transplant Patient Survival
L. Wiering, P. Ritschl, M. Hippler-Benscheidt, F. Aigner, M. Biebl, D. Eurich, M. Schmelzle, I. Sauer, K. Kotsch, J. Pratschke, R. Öllinger.
Chirurgische Klinik Campus Charité Mitte / Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
IntroductionCurrently liver allocation -in contrast to allocation of other organs- is based on urgency in many countries and survival benefit is not included. Aim of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Score for Predicting Mortality and Graft Failure after Kidney Transplant
C. Parsons, F. Shamoun, S. Patel, S. Cha, R. Heilman, M. Keddis.
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale.
Purpose:To develop a novel score for predicting mortality and graft failure after kidney transplant.Methods:We reviewed a cohort of 783 kidney transplant recipients and analyzed pertinent…
2018 American Transplant Congress
A Novel, Dose-Adjusted Tacrolimus Intrapatient Variability Model Identifies High-Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients Better Than Existing Methodologies
J. Kim, S. Wilson, Y. Song, J. Schwartz.
Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc., Northbrook.
Intrapatient variability (IPV) of tacrolimus trough concentration (TTC) is a risk factor for inferior transplant outcomes. However, assessing IPV is problematic, relying on fixed dose…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Predictive Power of MELD is Decreasing in the Era of Older, Sicker Patients
E. Godfrey,¹ J. Lai,² T. Miloh,³ N. Galvan,¹ R. Cotton,¹ C. O'Mahony,¹ J. Vierling,¹ N. Sussman,¹ A. Rana.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; ²Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ³Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
PurposeThe field of liver transplantation has shifted considerably in the MELD era. Liver allocation, immunosuppression, and etiologies of liver failure have changed over time, and…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Maximizing Utilization in Pancreas Transplantation: Phenotypic CharacteristicsDifferentiating Aggressive from Nonaggressive Transplant Centers
O. K. Serrano,¹ D. M. Vock,² T. B. Dunn,¹ R. Kandaswamy,¹ E. B. Finger.¹
¹Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
OBJECTIVE: Given the increasing shortage of deceased donor pancreas allografts and their declining acceptance rate, maximizing utilization requires a balance between donor selection and transplant…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Accepting a DCD Liver May Improve Patient Survival Compared to Waiting for a Non-DCD Liver
A. Wey,¹ N. Salkowski,¹ J. Lake,² W. Kim,³ B. Kasiske,¹ A. Israni,¹ J. Snyder.¹
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; ²Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis; ³Stanford University, Palo Alto.
Only ~50% of liver candidates undergo deceased donor transplant; 17% die on the waiting list and 20% are removed from the list as too sick…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Estimation of Mortality on the Wait List
S. Asrani, L. Jennings, J. Trotter, G. Klintmalm.
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Background: Since the introduction of MELD and MELDNa, the waitlist population has changed. Further, serum creatinine is a poor surrogate of renal dysfunction in patients…