Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Covid 19 in Candidates Waitlisted for Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
R. El-Rifai¹, S. Riad¹, R. Belina², A. Matas²
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The COVID 19 pandemic has posed new challenges to transplant centers. The impact has been detrimental on wait-listed ESKD patients, reducing their access to…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Evolution of the National Liver Review Board
S. Noreen¹, J. Trotter², J. Pomposelli³, M. Cafarella¹, J. Heimbach⁴
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²BSWHealth, Dallas, TX, ³UCHealth, Aurora, CO, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*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…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Launching a National Living Donor Registry
J. E. Milton¹, M. Cooper², B. Hippen³
¹Transplant Center, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, ²MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, Colombia, ³Metrolina Nephrology Associates, PA, Charlotte, NC
*Purpose: The National Donate Life Living Donor Registry launching in 2021 will allow 4000 persons a day the opportunity to become a living donor offering…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Short Waiting Time is Not Associated with Decrease in Disease-free Survival in Liver Transplant Recipients with HCC
J. Daum¹, N. Gupta¹, B. Aqel², L. Mi³, J. Harbell⁴
¹School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ²Hepatology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ³Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Studies have suggested that shorter waiting times (WT) for liver transplant (LT) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may be associated with increased HCC…
2021 American Transplant Congress
One-Year Monitoring of Changes to Kidney-Pancreas Waiting Time Criteria: An OPTN Analysis
R. C. Forbes¹, B. Plucinski², J. White², N. T. Kyaw², R. Kandaswamy³, S. V. Niederhaus⁴
¹Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In 2018, the OPTN board approved changes to kidney-pancreas (KP) waiting time criteria. KP candidates accrued waiting time if they were (1) on insulin…
2020 American Transplant Congress
UNOS Hard to Place Kidneys: Are We Working Too Hard?
S. Chaudhry, K. L. King, S. A. Husain, D. Cohen, L. Ratner, S. Mohan
Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Kidneys requiring more than 100 offers before acceptance are defined by UNOS as “hard to place," but many are suitable for transplantation. We sought…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist-Conditioned Transplant Rate is Not an Appropriate Metric for Benchmarking Access to Kidney Transplantation
D. Anderson, H. Qu, P. MacLennan, M. Mustian, R. Reed, A. C. Kale, B. Orandi, B. Shelton, V. Kumar, J. Locke, M. Hanaway
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Transplant rate is used as a primary metric of center performance as reported by the SRTR. However, the calculation of transplant rate can be…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Contract a Virus to Save a Life: A Comparison of Short Term Outcomes between Adult Hepatitis C Negative Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving a Hepatitis C NAT Positive versus Hepatitis C Negative Deceased Donor Kidney
H. Schaefer¹, B. Concepcion¹, A. Sudhakar², S. Rega¹, I. Feurer¹, S. Shawar¹, B. Dubrey¹, D. Shaffer¹, R. Forbes¹
¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ²Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: The United States opioid use epidemic over the past decade has coincided with an increase in hepatitis C positive (HCV+) kidney donors. Our aim…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Bariatric Surgery to Improve Candidacy for Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
J. Purvis¹, R. Stahl¹, J. Grams¹, M. Gray¹, D. Eckhoff¹, R. Cannon¹, C. Lewis¹, N. Terrault², J. Locke¹, B. Orandi¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: As non-alcoholic steatohepatitis grows as an indication for liver transplant, the challenge managing obese pre-liver transplant patients will become more pronounced, especially because most…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Successful Transplantation of Murine Hearts Preserved 24h Under Subzero Ischemia Using Novel Bio-Inspired Next Generation Cryoprotectants
B. Oh¹, A. Callegari², M. Kline², A. Childs², M. Iglesias Lozano¹, G. Brandacher¹, X. Wei²
¹Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²X-Therma Inc., Richmond, CA
*Purpose: Extension of the organ ischemia window is of paramount importance to prolong viability of transplantable organs and to improve overall outcomes. Transport using a…