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Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Transplant Centers That Assess Frailty as Part of Clinical Practice Have Better Outcomes

    X. Chen1, Y. Liu1, V. Thompson1, N. M. Chu1, E. A. King1, J. D. Walston2, J. A. Kobashigawa3, D. M. Dadhania4, D. L. Segev1, M. A. McAdams-DeMarco1

    1Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 3Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 4Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Frailty predicts adverse post-kidney transplant (KT) outcomes, yet impacts of frailty assessments on center-level outcomes remain unclear. We tested whether transplant centers assessing frailty…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Knowledge Gaps and Perceptions of Liver Disease and Liver Transplant Referral Serve as Barriers to Transplant Among Primary Care Providers in Non-Urban America

    M. Wright1, V. Madabhushi1, A. R. Garcia2, N. Pope2, A. Murphy3, C. N. Taylor1, R. Gedaly1, M. Gupta1

    1Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 3School of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

    *Purpose: The path to liver transplant (LTX) typically begins with primary care providers(PCPs), and is dependent on timely referral to transplant centers. The referral patterns…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    International Practices on COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Transplant Candidates

    Y. Caliskan1, B. E. Hippen2, D. Axelrod3, M. Schnitzler1, K. Maher1, T. Alhamad4, S. Anwar5, V. Kute6, K. Lentine1

    1Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, 2Transplant Medicine, Fresenius Medical Care, Charlotte, NC, 3University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 4Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, 5Sheikh Shakhbout Medical Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 6Dr. H L Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, India

    *Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created unprecedented challenges and there are practice differences for solid organ transplant programs worldwide. We sought to…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Process Evaluation of the Ascent Study: A Hybrid Type 1 Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of a Multi-Level Intervention to Improve Dialysis Provider Knowledge of Kidney Allocation Policy Changes and Increase Kidney Transplant Waitlisting

    M. A. Urbanski1, Y. Lee1, M. Basu1, C. Escoffery2, R. Hamoda1, L. Plantinga3, S. O. Pastan1, R. E. Patzer1

    1Division of Transplantation, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 3Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

    *Purpose: Kidney transplant is the optimal treatment for end-stage kidney disease, yet only a fifth of patients are on the waitlist and inequities in access…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Normothermic Organ Preservation: The New Standard?

    K. Mistry

    Sanford Health, Fargo, ND

    *Purpose: Normothermic perfusion (NMP) is a new technique that has been introduced into transplantation expanding capacity for organ utilization. NMP has been shown to be…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Surging Liver Transplant Rates for Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease May Exacerbate Waitlist Death of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma in MMAT-3 Era

    L. Yuan1, J. L. Dodge1, K. Zhou1, N. Terrault2

    1Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Rates of liver transplantation (LT) for alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) have increased significantly, in part related to broader acceptance of severe alcohol hepatitis (AH)…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Factors Linked with Evaluation to Wait Listing for Referred Patients at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Main Center and Outreach Clinic – A Step Towards Kidney Transplantation

    A. Rizvi1, M. Mujtaba2, S. Hussain3, J. Fair4, M. Kueht4, A. Gamilla-Crudo5

    1Internal Medicine, Nephrology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 2University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 3University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, TX, 4Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 5University of Texas Medical Branch, League City, TX

    *Purpose: Numerous factors can be associated with transplant candidates’ placement on the wait list. We herein set forth to assess patient characteristics and factors associated…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Differences in Acceptance to the Kidney Transplant List

    J. Cotton1, K. Perry2, N. Costa3, S. Niederhaus1

    1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, 3Georgetown University, Washington, DC

    *Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, kidney transplant (KT) evaluations shifted from in-person evaluation (IPE) to telemedicine evaluation (TME). Given differences in access to electronics and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Waitlisted and Transplant Patient Perspectives on Expanding Access to Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants

    C. Rosaasen1, N. Rosaasen2, R. Mainra3, A. Trachtenberg4, J. Ho5, C. Parsons6, S. Delaney6, H. Mansell7

    1Johnson Shoyama School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 2Saskatchewan Transplant Program, Saskatchewan Health Authority, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 3Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 4, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 5Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Immunology, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 6Canadian Blood Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 7University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    *Purpose: A concerning number of kidneys (expanded donor criteria, extended criteria, or marginal kidneys) are discarded yearly, and novel solutions are needed to solve the…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Survival Comparison of Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant with Pancreas After Living-Donor Kidney Transplant by Wait Time and Organ Quality

    G. R. Lyden1, E. S. Helgeson2, E. B. Finger3, A. J. Matas3, J. J. Snyder4, D. M. Vock2

    1Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute; Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Mpls, MN, 2Div Biostatistics U MN, Mpls, MN, 3Dept Surg U MN, Mpls, MN, 4Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Mpls, MN

    *Purpose: The survival benefit of simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) compared to pancreas after living-donor kidney (PALK) transplant is controversial. Wait times for SPK and donor risk…
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