2016 American Transplant Congress
Older Patients Reliably Participate in Automated Living Donor Follow Up Rather Than Avoiding This New Technology.
Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Introduction: UCSF implemented automated living donor follow up to increase access to patients, improve communication, efficiency of data collection, and UNOS compliance. Using a modified…2016 American Transplant Congress
Post-Transplant Vaccine Initiative Collaboration (VIC) in a Multidisciplinary, Transplant Ambulatory Setting.
1Colonia Natural Pharmacy, Colonia; 2Medicine/Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia.
Introduction We describe the implementation of a vaccine initiative in an ambulatory transplant setting.Methods In 2014, Hahnemann University Hospital (HUH) and Colonia Natural Pharmacy transplant…2016 American Transplant Congress
Young Recipients Receiving Kidneys from Older Donors Have Poorer Allograft Outcomes.
Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Introduction: An increasing number of marginal donors are being used in order to expand the donor pool. Age is one of the major criteria in…2016 American Transplant Congress
National Trends in Liver Discards: The Weekend Effect.
Overall organ discard rates have increased over the last decade. Given the current organ shortage, understanding factors that contribute to the discard of livers is…2016 American Transplant Congress
Managing the Kidney Waiting List: Pride and Prejudice.
1Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; 2Internal Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
Management of the kidney waiting list (WL) is an essential and dynamic aspect of the pretransplant process; however, it remains under-studied and underappreciated. The study…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Microfluidic Device for Purification of Pancreatic Islet Preparations.
Purpose: Demonstrate that novel continuous flow microfluidic designs can be utilized to remove contaminating acinar tissue and sort the purified islets, based on size and…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Web-Based Survey of Academic Transplant Nephrologists in the U.S. on Relative Value Unit (RVU)-Based Productivity Assessment and Financial Compensation.
Background: It is unknown how productivity of transplant nephrologists in the U.S. is measured. Methods: We conducted a web-based survey to ascertain the current RVU…2015 American Transplant Congress
Health Utilities in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
Pediatrics, Northwestern U, Chicago.
Health Utilities (HU) are preference based measures of health states required for cost effectiveness studies. We measured HU and health related quality of life (HRQOL)…2015 American Transplant Congress
Successful Consolidation of Two Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Programs
Renal & Pancreas Transplant, Barnabas Health, Livingston.
The decision to consolidate two kidney/pancreas transplant programs within the same healthcare system and within a 10 mile radius, was a pro-active approach in an…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Critical Illness and Pre-Transplant Hospitalization on Cost of Liver Transplantation
Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
In order to understand the cost impact of hospitalization and ICU admission immediately prior to liver transplantation (LT), we obtained all hospital costs associated with…
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