Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

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
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
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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
MELD is MELD is MELD? Geographic/ Center-Level Variation in Mortality for Patients with the Same MELD Score
T. Ishaque¹, A. B. Massie¹, A. B. Kernodle¹, S. Getsin¹, P. Chaing¹, J. G. Jacqueline Garonzik Wang¹, S. Gentry², D. Segev¹
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Mathematics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
*Purpose: Waitlist candidates living in areas with poor access to health care may have higher mortality risk compared to candidates with same MELD in other…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Shorter Waiting Time Was Associated with Higher Risk of Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Liver Transplantation
T. Kitajima¹, S. Nagai¹, D. Moonka², S. Yeddula¹, O. Rizzo¹, M. Kavousi¹, R. Salgia², M. Rizzari¹, K. Collins¹, A. Yoshida¹, M. S. Abouljoud¹
¹Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Liver transplantation (LT) is an established treatment option for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). After 6-month waiting rule was implemented, the impact of wait-listing (WL) time…