Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-Center Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Clinical Trial of a Home-Based Exercise Program for Patients with Cirrhosis: The Strength Training Intervention
J. C. Lai¹, M. R. Kappus², J. L. Dodge¹, R. Wong¹, Y. Mohamad¹, D. L. Segev³, M. A. McAdams-DeMarco⁴
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Duke University, San Francisco, NC, ³Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Patients with cirrhosis experience progressive physical frailty and functional decline that may ultimately lead to an increased risk of death. We developed the Strength…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Time to Graft Loss by Dialysis Vintage
P. Ahearn, C. Lenihan, J. Scandling
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: Preemptive transplantation has been shown to be beneficial regarding all-cause graft failure compared to transplantation after dialysis initiation, and transplantation after a shorter time…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Bypassing the Nearest Transplant Center for Care is Associated with Gains in Time to Living Donor but Not Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation or Improved Graft Outcomes
A. M. Whelan¹, C. McCulloch², E. Ku¹
¹Division of Nephrology, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, ²Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Some patients may gain an advantage if they choose to bypass their local transplant center and receive care at a center further away but…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Acute Liver Failure Etiology is an Independent Predictor of Waitlist Outcome Accounting for Severity of Illness in a National Cohort
N. Z. Wong, K. R. Reddy, T. Bittermann
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Severity of illness and liver transplant (LT) waitlist outcome can differ according to acute liver failure (ALF) etiology. However, it is unknown whether ALF…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Waiting List and Transplant Trends in the U.S
J. Wainright¹, C. Wholley², W. Cherikh¹, D. Klassen³
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Policy and Community Relations, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) transplantation is a rapidly changing field. *Methods: Since the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) implemented the VCA waiting list…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Introducing the Smartphone App, EL-FIT (Exercise & Liver FITness), to Help Monitor and Prehabilitate Liver Transplant Candidates
A. Duarte-Rojo¹, P. M. Bloomer¹, R. J. Rogers², M. A. Dunn¹, E. B. Tapper³, R. Bataller¹, C. B. Hughes¹, A. A. Ferrando¹, W. R. Kim⁴, J. M. Jakicic²
¹University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: Physical activity is key to liver transplant (LT) prehabilitation, and leveraging technologies to monitor physical performance and to generalize training may be advantageous. EL-FIT…