Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Waiting List Mortality of Liver Tumors
V. G. Menon, Y. Chen, D. C. Chang, H. Yeh
Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Liver transplantation has been approved for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), hilar cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) and metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NET), with the aim to produce similar outcomes…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Supporting “The Decision Project:” Understanding Perceptions of Organ, Eye, and Tissue Donation among Baltimore City Community Members
M. Johnson¹, A. Saha¹, M. Waldram¹, I. Johnson², L. Price², A. Coleman², C. Alexander², D. Segev¹, M. Henderson¹
¹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ²The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland, Halethorpe, MD
*Purpose: Using information provided by the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), it was found that the zip code 21205 in Baltimore City had one of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Unresolved Disparities: Sex, Racial, Ethnic, and Insurance Differences in Performance Status at Listing for Liver Transplant
R. Rosenblatt, B. Fortune, A. Jesudian, C. Lucero, R. S. Brown, B. Samstein, J. Emond, E. Verna, K. Halazun
Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, New York, NY
*Purpose: Cirrhosis is a chronic disease characterized by progressive worsening in physical functioning. We hypothesized that poor performance status at time of listing was an…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Protocolized Exercise Improves Frailty Parameters and Lower Extremity Impairment: A Promising Prehabilitation Strategy for Kidney Transplant Candidates
E. C. Lorenz, L. J. Hickson, R. Weatherly, K. Thompson, H. Walker, J. Rasmussen, T. Stewart, J. Garrett, C. C. Kennedy
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Frailty and lower extremity (LE) impairment are risk factors for numerous adverse outcomes in kidney transplant (KT) candidates, including decreased rates of transplantation, increased…
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Effect of 2015 T2 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Exception Policy Implementation on Waitlist Time and Tumor Characteristics
C. Durkin¹, D. E. Kaplan², T. Bittermann²
¹Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: A United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) policy change in 2015 created a 6-month delay in the receipt of T2 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) exception…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Green Channel of Human Organ Transport (GCHOT) Improved the Utilization Rate of Chinese Citizens’ Donated Lungs: A Single-Center Data Analysis
J. Chen, X. Li, C. Hu, F. Liu
Wuxi Lung Transplant Center, Wuxi, China
*Purpose: Lung transplantation in China has been developing for over forty years. Wuxi lung transplant center has the largest lung transplant (LT) volume nationwide. It…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Developing a Patient Specific Search of Heart Transplant Programs: Feedback from Heart Transplant Candidates and Recipients
W. T. McKinney¹, M. J. Bruin², C. R. Schaffhausen¹, S. Chu², J. Synder³, C. M. Martin⁴, T. Alexy⁴, B. L. Kasiske⁵, A. K. Israni¹
¹Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Cardiology Division, University of Minnesota Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Patients seeking a heart transplant must contemplate numerous factors when making decisions regarding their care. Waitlist acceptance criteria, donor acceptance practices and outcomes often…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving Liver Transplant (LT) Waitlist Attrition
W. Concepcion¹, A. Ahmed¹, Z. Tulu², L. Hogan², A. Bonham¹, A. Gallo¹, M. Melcher¹, P. Kwo¹, C. Esquivel¹
¹Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA, ²Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: LT patients are listed with the goal of receiving a transplant. Jan-2018 SRTR report showed that our observed waitlist (WL) mortality rate was 11.8…
2020 American Transplant Congress
HCC Liver Transplantation Waitlist Dropout Rates before and after the Mandated Six-Month Wait-Time
M. LaVere¹, K. Robichaux², J. Buggs³, E. Rogers³, S. Nyce⁴, A. Kumar¹, J. Sokolich³
¹Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ²Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ³Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ⁴University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Studies have shown significant improvement in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence rates following the UNOS implementation of a six-month wait period. However, few have examined…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Waiting List and Transplant Outcomes of Highly Sensitized Kidney Patients
R. Schmitz, O. K. Jawitz, S. J. Knechtle, A. M. Jackson
Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Sensitized kidney transplant candidates represent a growing population on the waiting list. Transplantation of patients with high calculated panel reactive antibody (CPRA) can be…