Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Effects of Pre-Lung Transplantation Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Functional Capacity and Quality of Life
R. M. AlGhofaily
Physical Therapy, Organ Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) prior lung transplantation (LT) has been effective in reducing post transplantation complications. However, few studies have examined the effect of pre-lung…
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Factors Influencing Access to Kidney Transplantation (FIAT): An Integrative Multiphasic Stakeholders’ Perspective
R. v. Merweland¹, A. Luchtenburg¹, J. van Busschbach¹, J. van de Wetering¹, S. Ismail²
¹Medical Psychology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: Despite that various barriers to optimal access to transplantation are described in literature,there is no research combining the perspectives of all stakeholders in renal…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Access to Pediatric Kidney Transplant: The Impact of Mental Health Diagnoses and Social Determinants of Health
E. Blanchette¹, E. Benz¹, J. Armendariz¹, K. McKinnon¹, M. Chandran², E. S. Christofferson¹, M. Bisek¹, M. Bock¹
¹Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Pharmacy, UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC
*Purpose: Limited and delayed access to kidney transplant (KT) has been associated with characteristics of adult KT candidates, including mental health (MH) diagnoses, negative social…
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Center-Level Variability in DDLT Rate Before and After the Implementation of MMaT/250 Score
T. Ishaque, J. Beckett, B. King, J. G. Wang, D. Segev, A. Massie
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In 02/2020, OPTN replaced DSA/regional boundaries with acuity circles and substituted exception scores for individual patients to median-MELD-at-transplant within 250 nautical miles of a…
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Liver Outcomes and Equity (LOEq) Index: Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants of Health and Waitlist Disparities for Adult Liver Transplantation
K. Zhou, L. S. Kuo, L. K. Thompson, J. L. Dodge, M. G. Cockburn, N. Terrault
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Impact of neighborhood-level social determinants of health (SDOH) among adult liver transplant (LT) candidates is largely unknown. We constructed a novel index (LOEq) to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Physiological Age by Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Electrograms as a Novel Biomarker of Mortality in Kidney Transplant Candidates
E. Lorenz, I. Zaniletti, B. Johnson, T. Petterson, W. Kremers, C. Schinstock, H. Amer, A. Cheville, N. LeBrasseur, A. Baez-Suarez, Z. Attia, F. Lopez-Jimenez, P. Friedman, C. Kennedy, A. Rule
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Assessing mortality risk prior to kidney transplantation is challenging. Age-Gap, which is the difference between physiological age determined by artificial intelligence-enhanced electrocardiograms (ECG) and…
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Status Exception Use in the New Seven-Tiered Heart Allocation System
A. Plana¹, A. Kanelidis¹, W. F. Parker², V. Jeevanandam³, C. Salerno³, B. Smith¹, S. Kalantari¹, S. Pinney¹, J. Grinstein¹
¹Cardiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Pulmonary/Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Cardiac Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The revised seven-tiered US heart allocation policy aimed to improve risk stratification to lower exception status use. However, recent literature has demonstrated that exceptions…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Survival Comparison of Waitlisted and Renal Transplanted Patients in the European Senior Programme
M. G. Naik¹, V. Greese¹, K. U. Eckardt¹, U. Frei¹, P. Glander¹, L. Liefeldt¹, M. Pigorsch², E. Schaeffner³, K. Budde¹, F. Halleck¹
¹Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Charité, Berlin, Germany, ²Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité, Berlin, Germany, ³Institute of Public Health, Charité, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: Patients >65years are eligible for kidney transplantation (KT) in the European Senior Program (ESP). We compare patient survival of waitlisted (WTL) and transplanted (Tx)…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Less is More. Extensive Cardiac Investigations Add Little Value in Waitlisting Patients for Kidney Transplantation
B. Chow¹, M. Khurram², E. Capuano², F. Pugliese², M. Yaqoob², I. Mohamed²
¹Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom, ²Department of Renal and Transplantation, Royal London Hospital, Bart's Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Extensive cardiac investigations have long been considered necessary to aid decision-making in waitlisting for kidney transplantation. However, the utility and reliability of such comprehensive…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Demographic Characteristics of VCA Candidates and Recipients in the U.S.
J. Wainright¹, L. Cartwright¹, A. Henderson¹, W. Cherikh¹, S. Booker¹, D. Klassen²
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Office of the Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: As with other fields of transplantation, it is important to understand the populations VCA transplantation is serving.*Methods: This study used OPTN VCA waiting list…