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Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Multi-drug Resistant Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients, a New Era of Risk

    L. A. Morais, D. Reynoso, A. Lea, M. Mujtaba, S. Merwat, R. Kulkarni, J. Fair, M. Kueht

    University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

    *Purpose: Antibiotic drug resistant organisms (DRO) [extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL), vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE), and carbapenem resistant bacteria (CRB)] are becoming more prevalent and pose a…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Organ Decline Rate and Outcomes of Shared Kidneys from OneLegacy OPO Donation Service Area in Los Angeles

    M. Hussain1, P. Homkalrias1, K. Wheeler2, G. Danovitch1, S. Bunnapradist1

    1UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2OneLegacy, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Background: 20% recovered kidneys are discarded in the US. Southern California has a high number of End-Stage Kidney Disease patients and the waitlist time…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Elevated Initial Donor Creatinine on Outcomes After Transplanting Kidney from Deceased Donor with Severe AKI

    L. Kodali, K. Reddy, P. Budhiraja, S. Nair, G. Mour, J. Huskey, C. Jadloweic, H. Khamash, H. Chakkera, R. Heilman

    Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Arizona, Phoenix, AZ

    *Purpose: Several studies have shown good outcomes with transplanting kidneys from deceased donors with AKI; however, the impact of having elevated initial donor creatinine has…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Simulated Allocation Model (LSAM) of a Height-Based Policy Change to Improve Sex Disparity in Liver Transplantation (LT)

    S. Bernards1, E. Lee1, N. Leung2, H. Zhao2, M. Akan3, M. Sarkar1, S. Tayur3, N. Mehta1

    1UCSF, SF, CA, 2City U, HK, Hong Kong, 3CMU, Pittsburgh, PA

    *Purpose: Since the introduction of the MELD-based allocation system, women are now 30% less likely than men to undergo LT and have 20% higher waitlist…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Utilization of Pre-Procurement Donor Liver Biopsy in Donation-after-circulatory-Death Liver Transplantation

    A. C. Bolognese1, N. Neidlinger1, C. Sparks2, A. Schneider2, A. M. D'Alessandro1, D. P. Foley1

    1Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 2UW Organ and Tissue Donation, Madison, WI

    *Purpose: Careful selection of suitable DCD donor livers is critical to obtain optimal transplant outcomes. In order to identify potentially suitable livers prior to DCD…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Center Cost is Not a Barrier to Aggressive Utilization of DCD Livers

    L. M. Brewer, D. M. Faulkner, A. J. Logan, J. M. Sneddon, G. N. Brock, N. Singh, W. K. Washburn, A. D. Schenk

    The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

    *Purpose: Only 7% of livers transplanted in 2018 were from deceased from cardiac death (DCD) donors and only a minority of transplant centers aggressively utilize…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Assessing the Impact of the New Liver Allocation Policy on Transplant Center and Organ Procurement Organization Logistics

    W. P. Sawyer1, A. Gracon2

    1General Surgery, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA, 2Transplant Surgery, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA

    *Purpose: In February 2020, a new policy for liver allocation was instituted in an effort to reduce geographic disparity in median MELD at transplant. To…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Hospital-Level Metrics and Interventions to Increase Deceased Organ Donation: A Systematic Review

    M. Castillo-Angeles1, G. Li2, P. Bain3, A. Salim1, J. T. Adler1

    1Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: The shortage of transplantable organs available for the ever-growing transplant waiting list is well-described. Efforts to ameliorate this have predominantly focused on improving processes…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplant Recipients Who Had Covid-19 Prior to Transplant: A Single-center Experience

    S. Sultan, M. Aull, R. Craig-Schapiro, E. C. Liu, J. H. Lee, S. Kapur

    New York Presbyterian / Weill Cornell, New York, NY

    *Purpose: In the early recovery phase after the initial surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, a question emerged in the context of resuming transplant activity: should…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Public Perceptions of Presumed Consent for Organ Donation in Canada: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Public Comments from News Articles

    D. E. Fox1, M. Donald2, C. Chong1, R. R. Quinn3, P. E. Ronksley1, M. J. Elliott3, N. N. Lam3

    1The Department of Community Health Sciences, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, 2Cumming School of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, 3The Cumming School of Medicine and Department of Community Health Sciences, The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    *Purpose: In 2019, two Canadian provinces (Alberta and Nova Scotia) became the first jurisdictions in North America to pass presumed consent legislation to increase deceased…
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