2016 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Six-Minute-Walk Distance in Predicting Lung Transplant Benefit in the Lung Allocation Score Era.
Transplant physicians evaluate patients for lung transplant (LTx) who are on ventilators and ECMO with high lung allocation scores (LAS). Six-minute walk distance (6MWD) predicts…2016 American Transplant Congress
Three-Year Graft Loss Risk in Kidney Transplants: Dynamic Patient Level Data Improve Predictive Efficacy.
Background: Predictive models in kidney transplantation using national data (UNOS, SRTR) lack longitudinal patient level data, limiting accuracy. Adding patient level data capturing dynamic clinical…2016 American Transplant Congress
Composite Score to Define the Risk of Allograft Loss After Standard-of-Care Treatment of Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation.
The development of a reliable surrogate endpoint for allograft survival after AMR treatment is a current unmet need in clinical transplantation (FDA AMR Workshop). We…2016 American Transplant Congress
Cytokine Networks in Kidney Transplant Patients.
As key mediators of the intercellular communication, cytokines play a crucial role in many processes following transplantation, including inflammation, tissue regeneration, and anti-microbial defense. Locally…2016 American Transplant Congress
One-Year Graft Loss Risk in Kidney Transplants – A Big Data Approach.
MUSC, Charleston, SC; IBM Corp., Armonk.
Background Predictive models using national data are limited by lack of evolving patient level data. A Big Data approach using both static and dynamic variables…2016 American Transplant Congress
Renal Risk Index and Acute Kidney Injury in Liver Transplant Patients.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Purpose: Renal risk index (RRI) has been validated in liver transplant (LT) to predict post-transplant ESRD. We examined the clinical utility of RRI as a…2016 American Transplant Congress
Probability of Transplant (POT) Index: A Novel Method to Predict the Likelihood of an Adult Liver Transplant.
Background: Access to liver transplantation is limited by a multitude of factors, which are quite variable among transplant candidates, and is underscored by the shortage…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Call for a New Paradigm of Organ Allocation within the Confines of MELD for Those Who Are Not “the Sickest”.
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
BACKGROUND: Liver Allocation policy in the United States is in dynamic flux, with revisions in policy reflecting designs to optimize access to and outcomes for…2016 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics and Outcome of Patients Placed on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as Bridge to Lung Transplantation.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
BackgroundExtracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is increasingly utilized as bridge to lung transplantation (LT), with studies reporting one-year survival of 50-90%. Lower than expected survival has…2016 American Transplant Congress
Understanding the Dynamics of a Suddenly Plateauing Kidney Waiting List.
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
Background: The number of candidates on the kidney (KI) wait list (WL) abruptly flattened around the time the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) was implemented…
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