2020 American Transplant Congress
Getting to Yes Faster: Multifactorial Filters to Reduce Unwanted Offers
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Evaluate if multifactorial filters can reduce unwanted kidney offers to centers, thereby reducing administrative burden and getting to the accepting candidate quicker.*Methods: Using recursive…2020 American Transplant Congress
Do Higher Remuzzi Scores Make Good Kidneys Bad? Examining Histologic Criteria within the Framework of Single Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: The Remuzzi score (RS), a histologic tool to assess chronic allograft damage, can guide allocation to single (SKT) or dual (DKT) kidney implantation. RS…2020 American Transplant Congress
Empowering Recipients Through a Champion Program: A Life Saving Initiative
Transplantation, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
*Purpose: Our purpose was to increase access to living donor kidney transplantation for patients referred at our center. With our interventions, our patients and their…2020 American Transplant Congress
Standardization of Pre-Transplant Cardiac Testing in Kidney Transplant Recipients is Associated with Lower Post-Transplant Cardiac Events
*Purpose: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality after kidney transplantation and optimal approaches to pre-transplant cardiac testing are not well defined. We applied…2020 American Transplant Congress
Optimal Perioperative Management of Patients Undergoing Living Donor Nephrectomy Reduces Postoperative Length of Stay and Nausea and Vomiting
*Purpose: Renal transplantation with organs from living donors saves thousands of lives every year. In the perioperative period, poorly controlled nausea and pain can prolong…2020 American Transplant Congress
Split Liver Transplantation in a Combined Adult/Pediatric Transplant Program
School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Parktown, South Africa
*Purpose: Split liver transplantation (SLT) is an accepted surgical strategy to decrease waitlist mortality for pediatric recipients, concerns regarding increased morbidity right tri-segment graft (RTG)…2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparative Review of Adult Kidney Transplant Medicare Cost Report Reimbursement in U. S. Transplant Hospitals
1Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2Transplant Management Group, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: Medicare organ acquisition reimbursement (MOAR) from the Medicare Cost Report (MCR) includes but is not limited to costs associated with candidate evaluation, maintenance on…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Data-Driven Approach to Defining the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Renal Transplantation
*Purpose: Advances in immunosuppression and management continually improve short- and long-term outcomes of renal transplantation. However, center volume and expertise, while commonly believed to affect…2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes and Health Care Utilization after Early Hospital Dismissal in Kidney Transplantation: An Analysis of 1001 Consecutive Cases
*Purpose: Perioperative care after kidney transplantation has improved with reduction in length of operative stay to as low as two days, but this has an…2020 American Transplant Congress
Factors Influencing Emergency Department Utilization and Hospital Re-Admissions in an Adult Urban Renal Transplant Population
1University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Emergency department (ED) visits and hospital re-admissions increase morbidity, decrease quality of life, and increase healthcare costs after renal transplant (RT). The purpose of…
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