2022 American Transplant Congress
Reducing Financial Burden for Living Donors: A Single Center Experience of Increased National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) Support
Transplant Center, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) offers assistance to overcome some of the financial barriers associated with Living Donation. From 2015 to 2020, an…2022 American Transplant Congress
Establishing a New Hepatobiliary Surgery Program in a Level 1 Trauma Center Community Teaching Hospital (Our Open and Robotic Experience)
General Surgery, St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, Youngstown, OH
*Purpose: To improve access to quality care, the surgical outcomes and influencing factors were investigated for a new hepatobiliary surgery program established by a transplant…2022 American Transplant Congress
Costs Associated with Induction Therapy for Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Choice of induction agent for pediatric kidney transplantation (KTx) is often based upon patient characteristics and center practice; costs associated with this choice have…2022 American Transplant Congress
Quantification of Center Aggressiveness in Accepting Sub-Optimal Kidney Donations from Deceased Donors in the US
*Purpose: Understanding center-level differences in usage of marginal deceased-donor kidneys (suboptimal kidneys, SOK) can help centers increase their deceased-donor transplant rate (DDKT), and to direct…2022 American Transplant Congress
Patient and Provider Perspectives on Telehealth Clinic Visits Precipitated by the Covid-19 Viral Pandemic
*Purpose: The transplant community had to adjust to a new way of practicing medicine during the COVID-19 viral pandemic. Our transplant center quickly adapted to…2022 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends of Optn Hope Act Variance Participation
*Purpose: The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) created a research variance allowing for transplantation of HIV+ donor kidneys and livers into HIV+ recipients after…2022 American Transplant Congress
The Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Liver Transplant Centers
Keck Medical Center at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Care for the liver transplant (LT) recipient requires expertise and consistency. Due to the rotation of trainees and the emphasis on surgical experience for…2022 American Transplant Congress
Early Impact of the Mission Act on Utilization of Veterans Affairs Transplant Centers
*Purpose: The Veterans Affairs (VA) Maintaining Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act of 2018 was implemented in 2019 to increase veteran access to…2022 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Kidney Allocation Change on Low Volume Kidney Transplant Centers
*Purpose: Effective March 15, 2021, the OPTN launched a new policy for matching kidney and pancreas transplant candidates with organs from deceased donors. The new…2022 American Transplant Congress
Thromboelastography in Liver Transplantation: A Target Group
*Purpose: Liver dysfunction results in derangement of hemostasis and thrombosis. Thromboelastography (TEG) has emerged as a tool to guide resuscitative efforts. However, its utilization and…
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