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Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    National Trends in Locoregional Therapy among Liver Transplant (LT) Candidates with Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) in the United States

    A. Kwong1, W. Kim1, F. Yao2, N. Mehta2

    1Stanford University, Redwood City, CA, 2University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: Advances in locoregional therapy (LRT) have expanded treatment options for patients with HCC. As recent policy changes in the United States (US) have lengthened…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Inactive Status Changes Disproportionately Impacts the Probability of Obtaining a Deceased Donor Liver Transplant in Donation Service Areas with Higher MMaT

    D. Haakinson1, S. Noreen2, D. Stewart2, R. Batra1, G. Gan1, Y. Deng1, S. Kulkarni1

    1Yale, New Haven, CT, 2UNOS, Richmond, VA

    *Purpose: Liver transplant (LT) rate is typically calculated by including both active and inactive patients, despite the fact that inactive patients are unable to receive…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Geographic Variation in Listing for Kidney Transplantation: A State-Level Assessment of Access among Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States

    M. N. Mustian, H. Qu, D. Anderson, P. A. MacLennan, R. D. Reed, C. Kale, B. Orandi, B. A. Shelton, V. Kumar, M. Hanaway, J. E. Locke

    University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

    *Purpose: Barriers to deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT) exist, including referral for transplant and waitlist addition, which may vary regionally. The objective of this study…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Association between Alcoholic Liver Disease and Alcohol Tax

    S. Melo1, A. Ermekbaeva2, J. Buggs3, E. Rogers3, A. Kumar4, N. Kemmer5

    1School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 2Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 3Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, 4Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 5Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL

    *Purpose: The incidence of Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD) has increased, causing ALD to become a primary indication for liver transplantation in the United States. We…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Survival of ESRD Patients with an EPTS > 90% Listed for Kidney Transplant

    M. S. Sampaio1, E. Lum1, P. Homkrailas1, G. Danovitch1, H. Gritsch2, S. Bunnapradist1

    1UCLA - Division of Nephrology, Los Angeles, CA, 2UCLA - Division of Urology, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Mortality on the kidney transplant waitlist is high especially in candidates with a high Estimated Post Transplant Survival (EPTS) score. We examined outcomes of…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    MELD is MELD is MELD? Geographic/ Center-Level Variation in Mortality for Patients with the Same MELD Score

    T. Ishaque1, A. B. Massie1, A. B. Kernodle1, S. Getsin1, P. Chaing1, J. G. Jacqueline Garonzik Wang1, S. Gentry2, D. Segev1

    1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2Department of Mathematics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

    *Purpose: Waitlist candidates living in areas with poor access to health care may have higher mortality risk compared to candidates with same MELD in other…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    One Year of the OPTN’s SLK Allocation Policy

    A. Wilk1, R. Formica2, A. Wiseman3, R. Hirose4, D. Mulligan2, D. Stewart1

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 3Univ of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 4UCSF, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: Simultaneous Liver-Kidney (SLK) allocation policy went into effect on 8/10/17, establishing medical eligibility criteria for adult SLK candidates and creating a “Safety Net” for…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Worsening Renal Function While Waiting for Heart Transplantation

    A. Kumar1, C. P. Thomas2

    1Internal Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 2Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    *Purpose: Pre transplant renal function has been shown to be a strong predictor of long term renal as well as patient survival in heart transplant…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    No Kidney after Liver Left Behind: An Analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network “Safety Net” Policy

    T. C. Lee, K. Wima, M. C. Morris, A. Kassam, S. A. Shah, R. Quillin

    Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

    *Purpose: Liver transplant (LT) recipients who develop persistent renal dysfunction face increased morbidity and mortality. These patients may be eligible for prioritization on the kidney…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Pediatric National Liver Review Board: Impact on Children on the Waitlist

    J. Foutz1, S. Noreen1, E. Hsu2, E. Perito3, G. Mazariegos4

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, 3UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, CA, 4Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA

    *Purpose: On 5/14/19 changes were made to the exceptions review process for pediatric liver transplant candidates, with transition from 11 Regional Review Boards to one…
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