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Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Has Every Possible Life Been Saved?: Rummaging Through the Discard Heap

    A. L. Friedman, E. Marquez

    LiveOnNY, NY, NY

    *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

    T. Klair, D. Fritze, E. Thomas, G. Abrahamian, G. Halff, K. Speeg, F. Cigarroa

    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

    E. K. Venniro1, R. Kashyap2, J. G. Taylor1

    1Nephrology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 2Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    *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

    H. J. Braun1, D. Amara1, A. Shui1, C. Huang1, P. G. Stock1, R. Hirose1, F. L. Delmonico2, N. L. Ascher1

    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

    J. T. Adler, T. C. Tsai, S. K. Malek, S. G. Tullius, J. S. Weissman

    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

    J. Piano

    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,…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Outcome of over 65 Years Old ESRD Patients Referred for Pre-Kidney Transplant Evaluation

    A. M. Alabadi1, A. H. Shaqaq1, K. F. Hamawi1, A. A. Alqatari2, M. Alaskar2, B. S. Alsadah2, A. A. Alomran2, K. B. Akkari1

    1Multi Organ Transplant Center, King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 2Faculty of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

    *Purpose: Potential kidney transplant recipients over the age of 65 years of age form a significant proportion of the total referred for kidney transplant evaluation.…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Diabetes Burnout: An Under-Recognized Risk-Factor in Post-Transplant Care Management

    N. Pilch, P. Baliga, V. Rao, V. Rohan, K. Foster, H. Perkins, N. Patel, D. Dubay, D. Taber

    Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

    *Purpose: One-third of dialysis patients will have spontaneous glycemic control improvement, necessitating discontinuation of antihyperglycemic therapy, termed diabetes burnout. The aim of this study was…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Predicting the Safe Use of Deceased after Circulatory Death Liver Allografts in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

    V. Fleetwood, A. Gracon, D. Aufhauser, C. Papageorge, K. Janek, G. Leverson, D. Foley, J. Mezrich, A. D'Alessandro, L. Fernandez, D. Al-Adra

    Department of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

    *Purpose: The use of deceased after circulatory donation (DCD) liver allografts in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is controversial given the already-increased risk of…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Utilization of Kidneys with Microthrombi and Acute Kidney Injury

    W. De Faria, E. Shipman, G. Ciancio, G. Guerra

    Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL

    *Purpose: Kidneys continue to be discarded for reasons such as surgical damage, high kidney donor profile index (KDPI), prolonged cold ischemia time, and acute kidney…
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