Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Variation in Listing for Kidney Transplantation: A State-Level Assessment of Access among Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States
M. N. Mustian, H. Qu, D. Anderson, P. A. MacLennan, R. D. Reed, C. Kale, B. Orandi, B. A. Shelton, V. Kumar, M. Hanaway, J. E. Locke
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Barriers to deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT) exist, including referral for transplant and waitlist addition, which may vary regionally. The objective of this study…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Association between Alcoholic Liver Disease and Alcohol Tax
S. Melo¹, A. Ermekbaeva², J. Buggs³, E. Rogers³, A. Kumar⁴, N. Kemmer⁵
¹School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ³Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ⁴Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁵Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: The incidence of Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD) has increased, causing ALD to become a primary indication for liver transplantation in the United States. We…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Frailty Attenuates the Gender Gap in Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates: A Multi-Center Study with 1,240 Patients with Cirrhosis
J. C. Lai¹, D. R. Ganger², M. L. Volk³, J. L. Dodge¹, M. A. Dunn⁴, A. Duarte-Rojo⁵, M. R. Kappus⁶, R. S. Rahimi⁷, D. Ladner², B. Boyarsky⁸, M. McAdams-DeMarco⁸, D. L. Segev⁸, C. E. McCulloch¹, E. Verna⁹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²NW, Chicago, IL, ³Loma Linda Univ, Loma Linda, CA, ⁴UPMC, Pittsburgh, CA, ⁵UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Duke, Durham, NC, ⁷Baylor, Dallas, TX, ⁸JHMI, Baltimore, MD, ⁹Columbia, New York, NY
*Purpose: Women LT candidates experience higher rates of waitlist mortality than men. Frailty is a critical determinant of mortality in patients with cirrhosis but it…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transarterial Chemoembolization and Radio-Embolization are Similarly Efficacious in Achieving Successful Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Down-Staging: Results from the Multicenter Evaluation of Reduction in Tumor Size Before Liver Transplantation (MERITS-LT) Consortium
N. Mehta¹, J. Guy², C. Frenette³, P. Tabrizian⁴, M. Hoteit⁵, N. Parikh⁶, T. Ghaziani⁷, R. Dhanasekaran⁷, J. L. Dodge¹, M. L. Holzner⁴, S. Florman⁴, F. Yao¹
¹UCSF, SF, CA, ²CPMC, SF, CA, ³Scripps Hospital, La Jolla, CA, ⁴Mt Sinai, NY, NY, ⁵U. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁷Stanford, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) Region 5 has reported excellent liver transplantation (LT) outcomes after successful down-staging (DS) in HCC patients exceeding Milan…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Center Effects Substantially Explain Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplants, Yet DSA Effects Remain
D. Stewart, A. Robinson, D. Klassen, A. Wilk
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The OPTN developed a novel methodology in 2016 to monitor equity in access to deceased donor kidney transplants (Tx) among waitlisted candidates. Results have…
2020 American Transplant Congress
One Year of the OPTN’s SLK Allocation Policy
A. Wilk¹, R. Formica², A. Wiseman³, R. Hirose⁴, D. Mulligan², D. Stewart¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ³Univ of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ⁴UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Simultaneous Liver-Kidney (SLK) allocation policy went into effect on 8/10/17, establishing medical eligibility criteria for adult SLK candidates and creating a “Safety Net” for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Worsening Renal Function While Waiting for Heart Transplantation
A. Kumar¹, C. P. Thomas²
¹Internal Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ²Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: Pre transplant renal function has been shown to be a strong predictor of long term renal as well as patient survival in heart transplant…
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…