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  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Assessing the Feasibility to Collect Organ Transplantation and Procurement Logistics Data

    A. M. Placona, C. Humphries, R. Ehrensberger, J. Wainwright

    United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA

    *Purpose: There has been increased focus on the logistics of organ transplantation. Stemming from recent policies designed to facilitate broader sharing. Reliable methods of assessing…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Variability in Educational Content about Kidney Paired Donation at 68 National Kidney Registry-Affiliated Centers

    A. D. Waterman1, O. N. Ranasinghe1, E. H. Wood1, 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: Equipping patients and donors with in-depth information about kidney paired donation (KPD) processes, risks, benefits, and protections is necessary for informed decision-making and comfort.…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    How Prepared are Potential Donors to Donate?: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Potential Kidney Donors’ Knowledge and Education Before Starting Evaluation

    A. Waterman1, O. N. Ranasinghe1, Y. Cui2, 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, 3Division of Nephrology, UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, 4UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, 5Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 6St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

    *Purpose: Potential living donors of different races/ethnicities present for kidney donor evaluation with varying levels of knowledge.*Methods: We surveyed potential living donors about how they…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Survey of Public Attitudes Towards Imminent Death Donation in the United States

    L. Washburn1, T. Galvan1, P. Moolchandani1, S. Rath1, R. Ackah2, S. Parsons3, R. P. Brown3, E. Ranova3, M. Goss4, A. Rana1, J. A. Goss1

    1Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2Department of Surgery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 3Rice University, Houston, TX, 4Department of Bioethics, Columbia University, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Imminent Death Donation (IDD) has been proposed as a method to increase the number of high-quality organs available for transplant. Although IDD was ethically…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Characterizing the Waitlist Candidate Who Was Bypassed by the Successfully Transplanted Candidate with Alcoholic Hepatitis

    J. Ge1, C. L. Berg2, F. Y. Yao1, J. P. Roberts3, J. C. Lai1

    1Medicine - Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2Duke University, Durham, NC, 3Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: Early liver transplantation (LT) for acute alcoholic hepatitis (AH) has increased dramatically in the US since 2016. Due to high MELD-Na scores, AH candidates…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    The Influence of Spirituality and Other Motivations on Potential Kidney Living Donors’ Decisions to Donate by Race/Ethnicity

    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: Few studies have explored potential kidney living donors’ motivations to donate, particularly their spirituality, and assessed whether these motivations vary by race/ethnicity.*Methods: 2576 potential…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    An Early Look at the National Liver Review Board

    S. Noreen1, R. Hirose2, J. Trotter3, J. Heimbach4

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 3Texas Digestive Disease Consultants, Dallas, TX, 4Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    *Purpose: On May 14, 2019, the National Liver Review Board (NLRB) was implemented, establishing a national structure for liver exceptions comprised of three specialty review…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Your Path to Transplant Tailored Education Increases Living Donation Transplant Actions and Wait-Listing Rates: Final Randomized Controlled Trial Findings

    A. Waterman1, Y. Cui2, J. L. Beaumont2, J. D. Peipert3, A. Paiva4, M. L. Robbins4

    1Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 3Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 4Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

    *Purpose: Tailoring education and behavior change interventions to address gaps in individual patients’ knowledge, readiness, and socio-economic challenges may help more end-stage kidney disease patients…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Implementing a Height Based Rule for Allocation of Pediatric Donor Livers to Adults – A Liver Simulated Allocation Model (LSAM) Study

    J. Ge1, W. L. Nicholas2, S. Gentry2, J. C. Lai1

    1Medicine-Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2Mathematics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

    *Purpose: Candidate height contributes to transplant rate and waitlist (WL) mortality disparities seen amongst adult women liver transplant (LT) candidates. 72% of adult women on…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Determinants of Kidney Transplant Candidates’ Willingness to Accept Deceased Donor Organ Intervention Research: A Conjoint Analysis

    E. Gordon1, P. Reese2, J. Lee1, L. Krishnamurthi1, R. Veatch3, R. Knight4, P. T. Conway4, S. Dunn5, P. Abt2

    1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 4American Association of Kidney Diseases, Tampa, FL, 5Organ Alliance, Denver, CO

    *Purpose: Deceased donor organ intervention research (“intervention research”) aims to increase organ quality and quantity for transplantation by protecting against organ injury and enhancing functionality.…
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