Articles tagged "Survival"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes for Living Kidney Donors: A Japanese Single-Center Experience
K. Hotta, D. Iwami, N. Iwahara, N. Shinohara
Urology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
*Purpose: Previous studies suggested that live kidney donors do not have a higher risk of death or end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) than the general population.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Frailty Attenuates the Gender Gap in Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates: A Multi-Center Study with 1,240 Patients with Cirrhosis
J. C. Lai¹, D. R. Ganger², M. L. Volk³, J. L. Dodge¹, M. A. Dunn⁴, A. Duarte-Rojo⁵, M. R. Kappus⁶, R. S. Rahimi⁷, D. Ladner², B. Boyarsky⁸, M. McAdams-DeMarco⁸, D. L. Segev⁸, C. E. McCulloch¹, E. Verna⁹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²NW, Chicago, IL, ³Loma Linda Univ, Loma Linda, CA, ⁴UPMC, Pittsburgh, CA, ⁵UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Duke, Durham, NC, ⁷Baylor, Dallas, TX, ⁸JHMI, Baltimore, MD, ⁹Columbia, New York, NY
*Purpose: Women LT candidates experience higher rates of waitlist mortality than men. Frailty is a critical determinant of mortality in patients with cirrhosis but it…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Does the Type of Procurement and Preservation Influence the Results after Non-Heart-Beating Kidney Transplant from a Maastricht III Donor?
V. López, C. Casas, J. Alonso, M. Cabello, D. Hernández
Nephrology Services, Regional University Hospital, University of Malaga, IBIMA, REDinREN (RD16/0009/0006), Málaga, Spain
*Purpose: The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) systems for the preservation of organs from a controlled non-heart-beating donor has greatly increased over recent years.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Non-Active Hepatitis B after Renal Transplantation
M. G. Naik, W. Duettmann, M. Mayrdorfer, F. Halleck, K. Budde, M. Duerr
Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Charité, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: Hepatitis B (HB) is more frequent in dialysis patients (pts) than in the general population. Patient and graft survival in pts with chronic HB…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Causes of Kidney Allograft Loss (GL) in the Current Era of Donor-Specific Alloantibody (DSA) Testing
M. Merzkani¹, X. Benavides¹, M. D'Costa¹, B. Smith¹, W. Park¹, A. Rule¹, H. Chakkera², K. Reddy², M. Alexander¹, H. Amer¹, M. El Ters¹, C. Schinstock¹, R. Heilman², A. Bentall¹, M. Stegall¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
*Purpose: The goal of this study was to examine the causes and risk factors (RF) for renal GL in the era since the widespread adoption…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcome Disparities of Primary Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients by Payor, Ethnicity and Gender in the United States
S. M. Riad¹, S. Jackson², A. Matas³, S. Chinnakotla³, P. Verghese⁴
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Pediatric, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Racial disparity outcome in pediatric kidney recipients has been reported. We sought to assess other predictors of outcomes disparities.*Methods: Using the SRTR database, between…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparing Early Kidney after Liver Transplant (KALT) and Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant (SLK): Evaluating Racial Disparities. Will Everyone Have the Same “Safety Net”?
C. Jay¹, R. Stratta¹, W. Washburn², J. Rogers¹, S. Rudnick¹, A. Reeves-Daniel¹, J. Heimbach³
¹Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC, ²The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ³Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, MN
*Purpose: In 2017, UNOS implemented simultaneous liver-kidney transplant (SLK) guidelines that included medical eligibility criteria and a “safety net” providing prioritization on the kidney transplant…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Survival of Right and Left Living Donor Renal Allografts is Equivalent Even with Higher-Than-Average Rates of Right Graft Utilization
D. C. O'Brien, J. Fridell, W. C. Goggins
Surgery, Indiana University, indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated comparable rates of graft survival for right and left living donor renal allografts, however such analyses have been conducted among…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Ozone Exposure of Lung Donors and Recipients on All-Cause Mortality after Lung Transplant
T. Egan¹, S. Arunachalam², C. Chang², P. Strassle¹
¹Surgery, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Institute of the Environment, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
*Purpose: A Belgian study found proximity to a motorway increased risk of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung transplant (LT). Using zip codes as a surrogate…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Distribution of High-Urgency Listing and Regional Variation before and after Implementation of the 2018 US Heart Allocation Policy
T. Cascino¹, M. Skeans², V. Patel¹, M. Colvin¹
¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The demand for heart transplant exceeds organ availability. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing (OPTN/UNOS) updated heart allocation policy in…