Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Bridging the Gap: Normothermic Perfusion of Discarded Livers Significantly Alleviates the Donor Shortage
S. Raigani, R. J. De Vries, C. Carroll, Y. Chen, D. C. Chang, K. Uygun, H. Yeh
Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: European studies have shown that discarded liver grafts can be successfully transplanted if they meet viability criteria during normothermic machine perfusion (NMP). The potential…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donors in Kidney Paired Donation
J. D. Kalbfleisch¹, W. Wang¹, M. A. Rees², A. B. Leichtman³, P. X. Song¹, V. Ashby¹, T. Shearon¹
¹Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: A kidney paired donation pool (KPDP) consists of transplant candidates and their incompatible living donors along with nondirected living donors (NDDs). In a match…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Human Organ Culture: A Novel Method for Evaluation of Reperfusion Injury in Human Kidney
J. T. Langford¹, C. Edwards¹, J. DiRito², M. Harris¹, S. A. Hosgood³, M. L. Nicholson³, J. S. Pober⁴, D. Haakinson¹, G. T. Tietjen¹
¹Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, ³Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Evaluate the ability of human organ culture to assess protein secretion during a model of reperfusion injury.*Methods: Biopsies are obtained from transplanted-declined human kidneys…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving DRG Based Reimbursement to Reflect Complexity of Kidney Transplant
I. R. Schwantes¹, M. Schnitzler², K. Lentine², A. Reed¹, D. A. Axelrod³
¹Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ³Surgery, Universtiy of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: More than 90,000 individuals await a kidney transplant (KTx) in the US, yet up to 20% of recovered kidneys are discarded. Organ Transplant Centers…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Center Practices Are the Primary Drivers of United States Donation after Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation
L. Beal¹, D. T. Nguyen², T. Menser³, S. Zajac¹, E. A. Graviss², M. J. Hobeika¹
¹Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, ³Center for Outcomes Research, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX
*Purpose: We hypothesize that a few high-utilization donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver centers are the primary drivers of the dissimilar rates of DCD liver…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Lower Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment (SIPAT) for Transplantation Score is Predictive of Successful Listing for Kidney Transplant Candidates
A. Kumar¹, J. Salaway², M. Dorris², J. Newman³, A. Doyle¹, S. Rao¹
¹Nephrology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ²Transplant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ³University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Psychosocial evaluation is an integral part of transplant recipient evaluation. SIPAT is a tool designed to assess psychological health of transplant candidates. Lower SIPAT…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Hard-to-Place Kidney Offers: Through the Lens of the United Network for Organ Sharing Organ Center
S. M. Noreen, R. S. Brown, M. Lane, B. Wolford, C. A. Humphries
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: In 2016, the rate of deceased donor kidney discard continued to increase to 20%. It is well documented that multiple factors contribute to lower…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Education outside the Transplant Center – Initial Experience with an On-Line Transplant Education Hub
D. Belenko¹, C. Richardson¹, A. Li¹, N. Edwards¹, J. Lam¹, A. D. Waterman², A. Garg³, M. Novak⁴, I. Mucsi¹
¹Division of Nephrology and Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Nephrology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Division of Nephrology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, ⁴Centre for Mental Health, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Limited knowledge about kidney transplant (KT) is a potential barrier that may prevent patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) from pursuing KT. Dialysis and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Trends in Drug Intoxicated Deceased Donor Recovery and Utilization
R. Urban, D. Klassen, J. Rosendale
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The impact of the current opioid epidemic has been felt throughout the nation, and has seen significant geographic variation in the impact on decease…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Identifying a Clinically Relevant Cut-Off for Height That is Associated with a Higher Risk of Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates
J. Ge, J. C. Lai
University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: We have previously demonstrated that candidate height explains a substantial proportion of sex-based disparity in waitlist (WL) mortality among liver transplant (LT) candidates. To…

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