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  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    A Comparison of Kidney Paired Donation Education Delivery Across 68 National Kidney Registry-Affiliated Centers

    A. Waterman1, E. H. Wood1, O. N. Ranasinghe1, J. L. Beaumont2, S. McGuire3, K. Miller4, V. Chipman5, J. Sinacore6, M. Cooper7

    1Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 3UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, 4UW Health, Madison, WI, 5UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, 6National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, 7Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC

    *Purpose: To understand the kidney paired donation (KPD) educational delivery process and variation across centers affiliated with the National Kidney Registry (NKR) we surveyed transplant…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Is Total Ischemic Time a Measure of OPTN Efficiency? Monitoring the Impact of Lung Allocation Policy on Ischemic Time

    A. M. Placona1, R. R. Goff1, P. Shay2, B. Carrico1

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2Health Administration, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

    *Purpose: There is concern that the shift to circle based organ allocation policy may increase coordination costs. Within both public comment and the peer reviewed…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Challenges to National Kidney Paired Donation Education and Opportunities for Improvement

    A. Waterman1, E. H. Wood1, O. N. Ranasinghe1, J. L. Beaumont2, S. McGuire3, K. Miller4, V. Chipman5, J. Sinacore6, M. Cooper7

    1Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 3UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, 4UW Health, Madison, WI, 5UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, 6National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, 7Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC

    *Purpose: To increase kidney paired donation (KPD) rates nationally, we need to overcome systematic barriers to educating potential donors and recipients consistently about the option…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Waitlisted Patients’ Preferences for Accepting and Consenting to Transplantation with Experimentally Manipulated Organs

    E. J. Gordon1, P. Abt2, C. Phillips2, F. Bermudez2, B. Knopf1, J. Lee1, R. Veatch3, R. Knight4, P. T. Conway4, J. Goldstein5, S. Dunn6, P. Reese2

    1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 4American Association of Kidney Patients, Tampa, FL, 5Lung Transplant Foundation, Raleigh, NC, 6Donor Alliance, Denver, CO

    *Purpose: Organ donor intervention research (“intervention research”) aims to increase organ quality and quantity for transplantation by protecting against organ injury and enhancing functionality. Given…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Health Professional Level Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Mixed Methods Study

    R. Iskander1, M. Cantarovich1, N. Dendukuri1, M. Fortin2, S. Sandal1

    1McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    *Purpose: Despite the benefits of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), rates have stagnated. Efforts to increase LDKT have focused on patient level barriers. Health professionals…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    The Use of Interviews to Explore the Public Attitudes on the Use of Imminent Death Donation

    P. Moolchandani1, L. Washburn1, M. Goss2, S. Parsons3, R. Brown3, E. Ranova3, R. Ackah1, K. Myer4, R. Wood4, A. Rana1, J. Goss1, T. Galván1

    1Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 3Rice University, Houston, TX, 4LifeGift, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: Imminent death donation (IDD) describes non-fatal recovery of a living donor organ (a single kidney or partial liver) prior to a planned withdrawal of…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Validation of New Measures of Self-Efficacy and Decision-Making for Living Donors

    A. D. Waterman1, D. Peipert2, J. L. Beaumont3, F. Weng4

    1Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 3Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 4St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

    *Purpose: Kidney transplants from living donors (LD) impart the best clinical outcomes but have declined substantially over the past 15 years. To intervene with LDs…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Single Center Kidney Costs and Transplant Outcomes Analysis of Undocumented Aliens

    Y. A. Qazi, E. Villalon, T. Sadiq, E. Qazi, E. Mir, A. Reza, M. Smogorzewski

    USC, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: The purpose of the study was to perform an outcomes and cost comparison analysis between dialysis and kidney transplantation in individuals identified as undocumented…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Multi-Organ Transplant Allocation Priority on Wait-Listed Isolated Kidney Transplant Candidates

    S. Westphal1, E. Langewisch1, A. Robinson2, A. Wilk2, T. Plumb1, R. Mullane1, S. Merani1, A. Hoffman1, A. Maskin1, C. Miles1

    1University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 2United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA

    *Purpose: Multi-Organ Transplant (MOT) candidates involving a kidney receive higher allocation priority than kidney alone transplant (KAT) candidates. The increasing utilization of MOT has the…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Understanding the Decision-Making of 2576 Potential Living Kidney Donors of Different Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds

    A. Waterman1, G. H. Kim1, Y. Cui2, O. N. Ranasinghe1, J. L. Beaumont2, D. Adey3, U. Reddy4, B. Campbell5, F. L. Weng6

    1Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 3UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, 4UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, 5Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 6St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

    *Purpose: To better understand racial/ethnic disparities associated with kidney living donation, this study examined differences in potential living kidney donors’ decision-making, resistance to donation, and…
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