Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Cross-Validation of Performance-Based Frailty against Daily Step Count from Personal Activity Trackers – Refining Prehabilitation Tools in Liver Transplant Candidates
M. A. Hassan¹, M. A. Dunn¹, P. M. Bloomer¹, A. H. Gougol¹, M. Serper², D. R. Jorgensen¹, A. Duarte-Rojo¹
¹Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: The AST proposed a toolkit to identify frailty in liver transplant (LT) candidates, including the liver frailty index (LFI) and 6-min walk test (6MWT).…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Waitlist Mortality is Not Associated with Urbanicity
Y. Chen¹, Y. Hung², Y. Hsu³, C. de Crescenzo¹, C. Rickert¹, J. Adler⁴, D. Chang¹, H. Yeh¹
¹Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Surgery, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, MA, ³Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ⁴Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Because of geographic disparity in transplant rates and organ usage, distance-based liver distribution has been proposed to replace Donor Service Area based distribution. However,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Center Effect on Acute Liver Failure Outcomes in a National Cohort
N. Z. Wong, K. R. Reddy, T. Bittermann
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Transplant centers coordinate complex care for patients with acute liver failure (ALF), in whom liver transplantation (LT) can be lifesaving. This study examines associations…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence of Frailty and Cognitive Impairment at Time of Kidney Transplant Evaluation
J. Klein, A. Jurgensen, M. Gupta, N. Herrera, A. Gupta, D. Cibrik
Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
*Purpose: Frailty is highly prevalent in kidney disease, with prevalence estimates as high as 73% in patients at the time of dialysis initiation compared to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ambient Air Pollution and Waitlist Mortality among Lung Transplant Candidates
Y. Feng¹, M. R. Jones², N. Chu¹, D. Segev¹, M. McAdams-DeMarco¹
¹Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Department Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Previous studies suggested that air pollution is associate with higher risk of respiratory diseases and accelerated decline in lung function among general population. However,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Black Patients with Cirrhosis Have Worse Liver-Related Outcomes: A Large Multicenter Study
N. R. Mazumder¹, K. Atiemo², K. Jackson³, A. Daud⁴, A. Kho³, L. G. Gabra⁵, J. Levitsky¹, D. P. Ladner⁴
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Surgery, Tulane Abdominal Transplant Institute, New Orleans, LA, ³Center for Health Information Partnerships, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁵Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Racial disparity is influential in liver cirrhosis. Estimates of its magnitude have been limited by lack of large, longitudinal data that track patients from…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Video Education Intervention to Improve Kidney Transplant Knowledge and Self-Efficacy in Dialysis Center End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients
D. A. DuBay¹, T. Morinelli¹, Z. Sutton¹, M. Chastain¹, T. Thompkins Tindal¹, Z. Su¹, E. Weeda¹, P. Mauldin¹, M. Casey¹, J. Bian¹, J. Rodrigue², P. Baliga¹, D. Taber³
¹Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ²Departments of Surgery and Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconiess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Only 34% of incident ESRD patients are referred for transplant (Tx) evaluation within 12 months of initiating dialysis. There is great need for effective…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Times, Hospital Length of Stay, and Immediate Post-Operative Outcomes of HCV Positive Donors in HCV Negative Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients
H. Elbeshbeshy¹, J. M. Ray¹, A. Befeler¹, R. Desai¹, K. Qureshi¹, C. Varma²
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ²Surgery, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose:Introduction The advent of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has significantly changed liver and kidney transplantation for patients with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infection. Successful and relatively…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Identifying an Optimal Liver Frailty Index Cutoff to Predict Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates
A. Kardashian¹, J. Ge¹, C. McCulloch¹, M. R. Kappus², M. A. Dunn³, A. Duarte-Rojo³, M. L. Volk⁴, R. S. Rahimi⁵, E. C. Verna⁶, D. R. Ganger⁷, D. Ladner⁷, J. L. Dodge¹, B. Boyarsky⁸, M. McAdams-DeMarco⁸, D. L. Segev⁸, J. C. Lai¹
¹UCSF, SF, CA, ²Duke, Durham, NC, ³UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴LLU, Loma Linda, CA, ⁵BSWH, Dallas, TX, ⁶Columbia, NY, NY, ⁷Northwestern, Chicago, IL, ⁸JHMI, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Frailty is associated with mortality in liver transplant (LT) waitlist candidates. We developed the Liver Frailty Index (LFI) to assess frailty in patients with…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Quantifying the Number of ESRD Patients Who Might Benefit from Bariatric Surgery to Achieve Listing for Transplant
B. Orandi¹, P. MacLennan¹, S. Mehta¹, J. Grams¹, R. Stahl¹, R. Cannon¹, D. Anderson¹, M. Hanaway¹, C. Young¹, J. Purvis¹, N. Terrault², C. Lewis¹, J. Locke¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Mounting evidence suggests bariatric surgery may play a role in helping obese ESRD patients achieve sufficient weight loss to be transplant-eligible. We sought to…