Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Accounting for Survivor Bias in Transplant Benefit Models
E. M. Schnellinger¹, E. Cantu², M. O. Harhay¹, D. E. Schaubel¹, S. E. Kimmel¹, A. J. Stephens-Shields¹
¹Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ²Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: The lung allocation system in the U.S. prioritizes lung transplant candidates based on estimated pre- and post-transplant survival. However, these models do not account…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Response to a Pandemic: The Fall and Rise of Kidney Transplantation in the US
S. Bisen¹, B. Boyarsky¹, W. Werbel¹, J. Snyder², J. Garonzik-Wang¹, D. Segev¹, A. Massie¹
¹JHU, Baltimore, MD, ²SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: During the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in March-April 2020, waitlist registrations and living/deceased donor kidney transplants (LDKT/DDKT) dropped substantially. A second wave…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Delay in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation Due to Infection: A Single Center Study
T. A. Heald-Sargent¹, S. Manz², P. Verghese³
¹Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Lurie Children's Hospital/Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI, ³Pediatric Kidney Diseases, Lurie Children's Hospital/Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The infectious risks of immunosuppression following pediatric kidney transplant are well described but little is known about the impact of infections on patients with…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Adults Undergoing First Time Liver Transplantation with Biliary Atresia: An Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database
E. Hsu¹, J. Perkins², S. P. Horslen¹, A. A. Dick¹, N. M. Blondet¹, J. D. Reyes²
¹Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ²Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Although biliary atresia (BA) is the most common indication for liver transplantation in children, there is no published data on outcomes for individuals who…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Summary of the OPTN’s Policy and System Modifications in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
A. Wilk, S. Taranto, C. Jett, L. Cartwright
UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: In April 2020, the OPTN made several policy and system modifications in response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic including updates to candidate lab data,…
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
The Association between Timed-Up-and-Go Test and Montreal Cognitive Assessment on Outcomes of Renal Transplant Candidates
K. Bozhilov, L. Wong
Transplant Surgery, Queens Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
*Purpose: Patients with frailty who undergo renal transplantation (RT) have a higher incidence of delayed graft function and rehospitalization, however little is known about the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characterization of Donor/Recipient Citizenship Status in Adult Heart Transplantation: A UNOS Registry Analysis
K. Yang¹, D. Miklin¹, J. Pizula¹, P. Genyk¹, G. Liu², A. Lee¹, S. Nuno¹, S. Hashmi¹, J. Nattiv², A. Kiankhooy³, L. Grazette², M. Fong², J. Rahman², K. Pandya², D. Vucicevic⁴, J. Li¹, P. Kingsford¹, P. Banankhah², R. Chand⁵, A. Wolfson⁶, S. Shah¹, A. Salimbangon⁷, C. Lum⁸, E. C. Depasquale², A. S. Vaidya²
¹Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²Cardiology, Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ³Cardiothoracic Surgery, Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Newark Beth-Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, ⁵Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ⁶University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, AZ, ⁷UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁸The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
*Purpose: There is a paucity of data describing heart transplant donor and recipient status. We therefore sought to examine the medical and demographic characteristics, and…
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…