Articles tagged "Survival"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes and Predictors of Survival after Liver Transplantation for Wilson Disease (WD)
P. Jalal, S. May, A. Rana.
Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Background/Aims: Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is life-saving for patients with liver failure from Wilson Disease (WD). Our goal was to evaluate patient and graft survival…
2018 American Transplant Congress
One-Year Graft Survival for Longevity Matched Kidneys in the Post-KAS Era
A. Wilk,¹ M. Aeder,² V. Casingal,³ N. Turgeon.⁴
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ²University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; ³Carolina's Healthcare, Charlotte, NC; ⁴Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
One of the key goals and achievements of KAS was to make better use of available kidneys by improving longevity matching between donor kidneys and…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Role of Obesity in Pediatric Liver Transplantation
K. Covarrubias, M. Denhard, X. Luo, J. Garonzik-Wang, A. Cameron, D. Segev, D. Mogul.
JHU, Baltimore, MD.
PURPOSE: Pediatric obesity rates are climbing and the prevalence of obesity in children undergoing liver transplantation now exceeds that of the general population. Studies in…
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Trends of Racial and Education Disparity in Post-Kidney-Transplant Graft Survival and Patient Survival: Do Different Metrics Lead to Different Conclusions?
M. Garber, K. Ross, R. Hamoda, L. Plantinga, R. Patzer.
Emory University, Atlanta.
Background: Monitoring trends in racial and socioeconomic disparity in disease outcomes is a Healthy People 2020 priority. For some chronic disease outcomes, such as cancer…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Delivery of Culturally-Competent Transplant Care among Hmong Kidney Transplant Recipients: Outcomes from a Single Institution
M. Odegard,¹ O. Serrano,¹ K. Peterson,¹ S. Mongin,² D. Berglund,³ D. Vock,⁴ S. Chinnakotla,¹ T. Dunn,¹ E. Finger,¹ R. Kandaswamy,¹ T. Pruett,¹ A. Matas.¹
¹Division of Transplantation, Division of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Biostatistical Design and Analysis Center, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ³Informatics Services for Research and Reporting, Fairview, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ⁴Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
OBJECTIVE: Kidney transplantation (KT) entails delivery of complex, well-coordinated, multidisciplinary care. Cultural and linguistic discordance among transplant providers and patients can lead to healthcare disparities.…
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Risk Factors and Outcomes with Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Bloodstream Infections among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
J. Anesi,¹ E. Blumberg,¹ E. Lautenbach,¹ P. Tamma,² K. Thom,³ K. Alby,¹ W. Bilker,¹ J. Omorogbe,¹ P. Tolomeo,¹ A. Werzen,³ K. Nemati,² J. Han.¹
¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ³University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
Objective: Solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) have been significantly impacted by the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria, including extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae (EB). We determined the…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Initial Tumor Burden and Wait Times on Post-Transplant Outcomes after Down-Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
N. Mehta, J. Dodge, F. Yao.
UCSF, San Francisco.
Background: A new national policy has adopted the UNOS Region 5 down-staging protocol for liver transplant (LT) in HCC meeting the following inclusion criteria -…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Racial Disparities in Post-Liver Transplant Survival before and after Share 35 Implementation
K. Ross,¹ R. Lynch,² R. Patzer.^1,2
¹Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; ²Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA.
Background: The Share 35 policy was intended to improve equity in access to liver transplantation by broadening regional sharing of livers for the sickest patients…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Two Decades of Eurotransplant Senior Program (ESP): Time on Dialysis Independently Impacts Patient Survival, Allograft Survival and Quality of Life after Kidney Transplantation
T. Schachtner,^1,2,3 N. Otto,¹ P. Reinke.^1,2
¹Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ²Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ³Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Charite and Max Delbrueck Center, Berlin, Germany.
In 1999, the Eurotransplant Senior Program (ESP) was implemented and allocates kidneys from deceased-donors ≥65 years to kidney transplant recipients ≥65 years (ESP-KTRs). The ESP…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Hospital Readmission Patterns in the First Year after Kidney Transplantation: A Twelve-Year, Single-Center Experience
M. Nguyen, C. Avila, J. Benedict, A. El-Hinnawi, A. Rajab, R. Pelletier, M. Henry, G. Bumgardner.
Transplant Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
Purpose: The majority of studies examining hospital readmissions (HR) after kidney transplantation (KT) focus on 30-day HR rates using multi-institutional data with non-uniform clinical protocols.…