2022 American Transplant Congress
Cost-Effectiveness of Transplanting Hepatitis C Donor Hearts Into Hepatitis C Uninfected Recipients
*Purpose: To examine the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C viremic (HCV+) heart organ donation in the United States.*Methods: We used a microsimulation model…2022 American Transplant Congress
Sex Disparities in Access to Liver Transplant for Waitlisted Patients with Meld 40
*Purpose: Women with end-stage liver disease are less likely than men to receive a liver transplant, due in part to MELD’s reliance on creatinine and…2022 American Transplant Congress
Functional Status Assessment in Kidney Transplant Candidates and Recipients: A Single-Center Experience
UC Davis Transplant Center, Sacramento, CA
*Purpose: Functional status assessment (FSA) is important to kidney transplant (KT) candidacy evaluation; a low Fried Frailty score (FFS) is associated with poor waitlist and…2022 American Transplant Congress
Increase in Exception and Extension Requests for Higher-Urgency Patients Under the New Heart Allocation Policy
*Purpose: In October 2018, a new heart allocation policy was introduced that expanded the number of listing statuses and established a national review board, abolishing…2022 American Transplant Congress
Increased Waitlist Mortality in Pediatric Liver Transplant Candidates with Greater Distance from Transplant Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Greater distance from transplant center in adult liver transplant (LT) candidates is associated with increased waitlist mortality. Pediatric LT candidates have higher waitlist mortality…2022 American Transplant Congress
Status 7: Parking Lot or Loading Zone?
Transplant Institute, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA
*Purpose: Kidney waitlist management continues to be a challenge for many transplant centers for a variety of reasons. Over the years, the number of Status…2022 American Transplant Congress
Escalating Waitlist Mortality Above MELD 40: A Rationale to Uncap MELD 3.0?
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: MELD 3.0 is a recently proposed model that improves upon MELD-Na, incorporating sex and albumin as additional variables, updating existing coefficients and adding relevant…2022 American Transplant Congress
Why is Adolescent Waitlist Mortality Higher for Status 1A Girls?
*Purpose: Although adolescent pediatric liver transplant candidates are a vulnerable population, they are often excluded from analyses due to small sample size and assignment of…2022 American Transplant Congress
Barriers to Completing the Transplant Evaluation Process: A Mixed-Methods Study
*Purpose: Little is known about patient-reported factors affecting patients’ access to the kidney transplant waitlist after starting evaluation. We qualitatively assessed patients’ perceived barriers to…2022 American Transplant Congress
18 Month Impact of the National Liver Review Board
*Purpose: The National Liver Review Board (NLRB) was implemented 5/14/2019, establishing a national structure for liver exceptions comprised of three specialty review boards and a…
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