Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

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…
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…