Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2020 American Transplant Congress
High Health Literacy is Associated with Decreased Likelihood of Waitlist Mortality for Some Solid Organ Transplant Candidates
L. Dageforde¹, S. Rega², I. Feurer³
¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Nashville, TN, ³Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Health Literacy (HL) impacts post-transplant outcomes and listing for kidney transplant patients, but little is known about likelihood of solid organ transplant for kidney…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Distance and Community Characteristics are Associated with Waitlist Mortality Prior to Lung Transplantation
H. Hoy, W. Gannon, S. Rega, J. Karp, E. Lambright, E. Gillaspie, M. Bacchetta, I. Feurer
Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: While specific clinical characteristics known to impact lung transplant waitlist mortality and proximity to the transplant center have been associated with outcomes in other…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Center Performance for Liver Retransplantation Candidates is More Heterogeneous Than for Initial Liver Transplantation Recipients
T. Bittermann, P. L. Abt, D. E. Schaubel
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: This study evaluated center performance for wait-list outcomes for adult candidates awaiting liver retransplantation (reLT), and its association with initial liver transplant (iLT) center…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics Associated with Center Satisfaction in Management of the Inactive Kidney Transplant Waitlist
J. Hiller, J. Chen, W. Zhang, A. Massie, K. Covarrubias, K. Jackson, J. Long, S. DiBrito, D. Segev, J. Garonzik-Wang
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: As the deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) waitlist grows, many centers maintain a large pool of inactive candidates to prioritize those most likely to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Public Health Insurance is Associated with Reduced Access to Living Donor Liver Transplantation and Increased Liver Transplant Waiting List Mortality: An Analysis of the SRTR
R. Hogen¹, M. Aljehani², J. Lee³, L. Sher¹, Y. Genyk¹, J. Emamaullee¹
¹Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliary and Abdominal Organ Transplant Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is associated with improved survival and lower hospital costs, but it continues to makes up less than 5% of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characterizing the Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Pediatric Liver Transplantation
J. D. Motter, A. Kernodle, D. L. Segev, A. B. Massie
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), states have the option to expand Medicaid eligibility (ME) which has allowed for increased access…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Different Prognostic Impact of Liver Transplantation According to Liver Disease Etiologies
S. Nagai, T. Kitajima, S. Yeddula, D. Moonka, K. Collins, M. Rizzari, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Disease specific background is not taken into consideration in the MELD-Na score based liver transplant (LT) allocation system. We hypothesized that optimal timing of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Bariatric Surgery to Improve Candidacy for Kidney Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
J. Purvis¹, S. Mehta¹, R. Stahl¹, J. Grams¹, M. Hanaway¹, D. Anderson¹, C. Young¹, 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: There is a growing epidemic of obesity in patients with end stage kidney disease in need of kidney transplant, paralleling the general population. Most…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Association between Education and Waitlist Mortality, Access to Transplant, and Post-Transplant Survival among Patients with Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease
A. T. Strauss, J. Motter, D. Segev, A. Massie, T. Purnell, J. Hamilton, A. Gurakar, A. Cameron, J. Garonzik-Wang
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is the leading indication for liver transplant (LT) and these patients have been shown to have worse outcomes compared to…
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…