2019 American Transplant Congress
Lifelong Immunosuppression, I Am Sure We Told Them That?: Long Term Medication Adherence in Liver Transplant Patients
*Purpose: Current literature describes demographic information of non-adherent patients and identifies that non-adherence may be predictive of post-txp outcomes. We suspect that patients with private…2019 American Transplant Congress
Attitudes and Knowledge about Organ Donation in a Cohort of Medical Students: Association of Religion and Ethnicity
Nephrology/Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Physicians often do not refer appropriate candidates for organ donation and the reasons may be rooted in personal beliefs about transplantation. Students come to…2019 American Transplant Congress
Patient-Reported Self-Management in Lung Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: Pre-transplant risk factors are strongly associated with worse post-transplant survival (e.g. frailty); however, effective pre-transplant strategies to improve outcomes are lacking. We hypothesize that…2019 American Transplant Congress
Multilevel Correlates of Immunosuppressive Nonadherence in Kidney Transplant Patients – The Multicenter ADHERE BRAZIL Study
*Purpose: Nonadherence to immunosuppressive therapy is a risk factor for poor clinical and economic outcomes after kidney transplantation (KT). Brazil, having the largest public and…2018 American Transplant Congress
Modifiable Causes of Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplant
Racial disparities between White and non-White patients in receiving living donor kidney transplants (LDKT) are large and widespread. Yet, the causes of this disparity are…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hospitality Houses and Transplant Patients: Assessing the Impact of a Hospitality House Dedicated to Transplant Patients and Their Families
Hospitality houses exclusively for transplant patients and their families are a relatively new concept and their connection to medical outcomes is untested. One hospitality house…2018 American Transplant Congress
What Happened When the 'Soft Opt-Out' to Organ Donation Was Implemented in Wales? Family and Professional Views and Experiences, and Consent Rates for the First 18 Months
On 01.12.15 Wales introduced a 'soft opt-out' system of organ donation.Co-productive, mixed-methods study partnered with NHS Blood and Transplant and patient and public representatives. Data…2018 American Transplant Congress
Multi-Center Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT) as an Enhancement to the Psychosocial Evaluation of Living Donors
Purpose: The LDAT is the first psychosocial assessment tool developed to standardize live donor (LD) psychosocial evaluations (PsychE). It assesses motivation, LD knowledge/expectations, support, closeness…2018 American Transplant Congress
Quality of Social Support Network and Access to Transplant: What Matters?
Recovery after kidney transplant (KT) requires adequate social support. Caregivers are asked to attend transplant evaluation and complete a caregiver contract. Little is known about…2018 American Transplant Congress
Objective Markers of Frailty Predict Successful Listing and Survival for Renal Transplant
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Background: Across all medical specialties, frailty has been shown to be a predictor of poor health outcomes. Previous studies have shown that gait speed and…
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