2020 American Transplant Congress
Telehealth Medicine: A Novel Tool to Make Living Donation Simple and Financially Neutral
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Live kidney donation can be an overwhelming process even for the highly motivated individuals. Live donors may have to spend up to $5000 for…2020 American Transplant Congress
Transient Elastography to Evaluate Steatosis in Candidate Living Donors for Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) increases the donor pool and affords a life-saving cure to recipients who do not have MELD-based access to allografts.…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Association between Timed-Up-and-Go Test and Montreal Cognitive Assessment on Outcomes of Renal Transplant Candidates
Transplant Surgery, Queens Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
*Purpose: Patients with frailty who undergo renal transplantation (RT) have a higher incidence of delayed graft function and rehospitalization, however little is known about the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Pretransplant Serologies and Vaccination Rates in Kidney Transplant Candidates
Department of Pharmacy Services, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
*Purpose: Assessing serologic status presents opportunities to provide live vaccinations to solid organ transplant (SOT) candidates. This is especially important given the increased risk of…2020 American Transplant Congress
Frailty Predicts Increased Length of Stay after Kidney Transplantation: An Implementation Study
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Our objective was to implement a standardized an assessment of physical frailty and other aging-associated syndromes during routine evaluation of kidney transplant candidates over…2020 American Transplant Congress
Immunosurveillance with Donor Derived Cellular Free DNA Assay Plus Donor Specific Antibody, an Alternative to Renal Allograft Biopsy
Transplant Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Surveillance allograft biopsies (SVAB) are used by many centers to identify subclinical immunologic injury. SVAB entails bleeding risks. Non-invasive modalities such as donor-derived cell-free…2020 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Kidney Transplant Evaluation Attendance
*Purpose: Given that clinic non-attendance is associated with worse health outcomes for patients and increased burden for providers, we examined whether patient worry about harm…2020 American Transplant Congress
Medication Adherence Assessment Findings in Kidney Transplant Candidates Undergoing Living Donor Transplant
1Hosp of Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2Renal Div, Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Medication adherence is key to kidney transplant (KTx) success. Our center implemented standardized medication adherence assessment and education in KTx candidates undergoing living donor…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
Because That is Not How The Hierarchy Works: Primary Care Provider Perspectives on Liver Transplant Referral and Access to Transplant
*Purpose: In rural America, the road to obtaining a liver transplant (LTX) often starts at the primary care provider’s (PCP) office. Patients in rural communities…
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