2021 American Transplant Congress
A Payer’s Perspective: The Cost of Hemodialysis versus Living Donor Kidney Transplant for Kidney Failure Patients in Nigeria
*Purpose: To primarily quantify the costs of LDKT and HD in Nigeria from a ‘payer’s perspective’ and secondarily inform future cost-effectiveness studies to guide health…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Data-Driven Approach to Defining the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Liver Transplantation
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) who undergo liver transplantation experience significant survival benefit, with a 1-year survival rate after liver transplantation of 91%.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Safely Increasing the Number of Renal Transplants Performed in a Small Center Through the Use of Acute Kidney Injury Donors
*Purpose: New Mexico is medically underserved state with a significant end-stage renal disease population. This study aims to further demonstrate the safety of utilizing AKI…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Machine-Learning Approach for Estimating Likelihood of Transplant Benefit from Older-Donor Kidneys
*Purpose: There is a shortage of transplantable kidneys in the US. Yet, the discard rate among older donors (55+) is approx. 38% per year. The…2020 American Transplant Congress
Has Every Possible Life Been Saved?: Rummaging Through the Discard Heap
*Purpose: To determine the reasons that deceased donor organs were allocated but not transplanted (TXP) in a large organ procurement organization (OPO).*Methods: All organs allocated…2020 American Transplant Congress
Paired Exchange Living Donor Liver Transplantation Using Compatible Pairs- U.S. Single Center Experience
University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: ABO and size incompatibility are common reasons for non-acceptance of otherwise suitable donors in Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT). Paired exchange LDLT has been…2020 American Transplant Congress
Facebunk: Does Social Media Have a Positive Impact on Living Kidney Donation
*Purpose: More kidney transplant recipients are reaching out beyond their immediate contacts in order to find potential living donors. In addition, transplant centers and organizations…2020 American Transplant Congress
Traveling For Transplant: A Comparison of Singly Listed, Multiply Listed, and Non-Citizen Non-Resident Liver Transplant Candidates
1University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Multiply listed (ML) and non-citizen non-resident (NCNR) patients comprise approximately 8% of the liver transplant (LT) waitlist (WL) and approximately 4% of LT recipients.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Relative Transplant Center Organ Volumes are Associated with Patient and Graft Survival
Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Transplant programs differ in relative volume of kidney and liver transplants. While there is a known volume-outcome relationship for organ-specific transplantation at an institutional…2020 American Transplant Congress
Automated Electronic Donor Referrals Have Increased Donation
Transplant Connect, Santa Monica, CA
*Purpose: It is broadly understood and supported by previous studies that disruptive inefficiencies exist in the hospital to Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) donor referral process,…
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