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  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    A Brief Frailty Assessment and Outcomes Among Candidates for Liver Transplantation.

    M. Serper, K. Dwinnells, T. Bittermann, K. Olthoff.

    Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    Introduction: As frailty correlates with post-transplant outcomes, brief frailty measures are needed in clinical practice to appropriately risk stratify LT candidates. We used an abbreviated…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    An OPO Offer Acceptance Report for Hard-to-Place Kidneys.

    A. Wey, N. Salkowski, B. Kasiske, A. Israni, J. Snyder.

    Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN

    Transplant program offer acceptance behavior varies substantially for kidneys after 100 previous offers (i.e., “hard-to-place offers”). An organ procurement organization (OPO) offer acceptance report could…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of the Kidney Allocation System on Outcomes for Kidneys with KDPI > 85%.

    A. Perry,1 J. Sageshima,1 C. Santhanakrishnan,1 J. McVicar,1 C. Troppmann,1 A. De Mattos,2 J. Woloszyn,1 R. Perez.1

    1Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA; 2Division of Transplant Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA

    Single center outcomes were examined to assess the impact of the implementation of the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) on outcomes for kidneys with KDPI >85%.Methods:…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Retroactive Application of a New Risk Index for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (LKDPI) to Renal Transplants in Veracruz, Mexico.

    G. Martinez-Mier,1,2 E. Soto-Miranda,1 S. Avila-Pardo,2 L. Budar-Fernandez,1 M. Mendez-Lopez,1 P. Moreno-Ley,1 E. Aguilar-Sandoval,1 G. Coello-Torres,3 F. Diaz-Trueba.3

    1Organ Transplantation, IMSS UMAE HE 14, Veracruz, Mexico; 2Organ Transplantation, HRAEV, Veracruz, Mexico; 3Research, IMSS UMAE HE 14, Veracruz, Mexico

    Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) was designed to estimate the graft loss risk in deceased donor transplants. Recently, the Epidemiology Research Group for Organ Transplantation…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Using Scheduled Commercial Flights for Transport of Liver for Transplant.

    V. Gupta,1 A. Chandra,1 M. Singh,1 V. Gupta,1 S. Kumar,1 P. Joshi,1 P. Sharma,2 H. Hasan,3 P. Srivastava,4 M. Khan,1 Z. Arshad,1 R. Kant.1

    1King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 2Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Office, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 3Traffic Directorate, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 4Airport Director, Amausi Airport, Airports Authority of India, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Transport of liver procured from a brain dead donor (BDD) to the receiving hospital by chartered private flight (PF) is a costly endeavour. Also the…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Vendor to Center in 0-60: A Cost-Effective Blueprint for Creating an In-House On-Call System for Abdominal Organ Offers.

    J. Davenport, D. Cassidy, A. Hauser, A. Milling, K. Driggers, H. Crego, J. Anderson, L. Curry, P. Baliga, N. Pilch, D. Dubay.

    Transplant, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

    Introduction: Our center decided to return to an in-house nurse coordinator on-call program 7/2016 after using a vendor from 11/2012 to 7/2016 for organ allocation.…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Healthcare Resource Utilization for Patients with Donor-Specific Antibodies Post-Kidney Transplantation.

    B. Ho,1 H. Bhagat,2 E. Lee,2,3 K. Atiemo,1 A. Daud,1 R. Kang,1 S. Montag,1,4 L. Zhao,1,4 J. Schwartz,2 D. Ladner.1

    1Northwestern University Transplant and Outcomes Research Collaborative (NUTORC), Chicago; 2Astellas Pharma Global Development, Northbrook; 3Now with UCB, Atlanta; 4Dept of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago

    Formation of de novo donor-specific antibodies (dnDSA) against human leukocyte antigens (HLA) contributes to inferior kidney transplant (KT) outcomes. No data exist on healthcare resource…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    National Variation in US Kidney Transplant Induction Therapy.

    V. Dharnidharka,1 A. Naik,2 T. Alhamad,1 D. Axelrod,3 M. Schnitzler,4,6 Z. Zhang,4 S. Bae,5 D. Brennan,1 D. Segev,5 H. Randall,4 M. Nazzal,4 R. Ouseph,4 B. Kasiske,6 K. Lentine.4

    1Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO; 2U Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 3East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC; 4St. Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO; 5Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; 6Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN

    Antibody induction (IND) therapy in kidney transplantation (KTx) reduces acute rejection risk but adds to transplant cost. Currently, only IL2 Receptor antibodies (IL2R-Ab) have FDA…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Readmissions After Liver Transplantation–They May Be Predictable, but Are They Inevitable?

    B. O'Brien, C. Mardis, A. Mardis, J. Fleming, H. Meadows, N. Patel, N. Pilch, C. Perez, M. Sell, A. Rogers, I. Lee, J. McGillicuddy, K. Chavin, D. DuBay, D. Taber.

    Dept of Tx Surgery, Tx ICCE, Dept of Pharmacy, MUSC, Charleston, SC

    Purpose: Published studies suggest that approximately 40% of OLTx recipients are readmitted within 30 days. The aim of this study is to analyze the risk…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Ethnocultural Barriers to Pre-Emptive Kidney Transplantation: A Single Centre Retrospective Cohort Study.

    A. Bansal, M. Kwok, S. Cao, O. Famure, S. Kim, I. Mucsi.

    University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

    BackgroundPre-emptive kidney transplant (PKT) may offer better outcomes compared to kidney transplant (KT) after starting dialysis. There is a well-documented disparity in access to PKT…
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