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Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    18 Month Review of Liver Acuity Circles Allocation

    J. Foutz1, S. Noreen1, M. Cafarella1, A. Wilk1, J. Trotter2, S. Biggins3, J. Pomposelli4

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 3University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 4University of Colorado, Aurora, CO

    *Purpose: Acuity circles (AC) allocation was implemented on 2/4/2020 with a goal of removing DSA and region from liver allocation and broadening the distribution of…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    A Machine Learning Approach to Estimating Anticipated Waiting Time and Survival Benefit in Older Kidney Transplant Candidates

    D. M. Vock1, E. S. Helgeson2, A. J. Matas2

    1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2U MN, Mpls, MN

    *Purpose: Older kidney transplant (ktx) recipients face worse post-transplant survival due to increasing age and more comorbidities. Simultaneously, older ktx candidates are more likely to…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Cost-Effectiveness of Transplanting Hepatitis C Donor Hearts Into Hepatitis C Uninfected Recipients

    A. R. Gandhi1, A. E. Woolley2, L. R. Baden2, M. M. Givertz2, M. L. Jones1, J. Kim3, H. R. Mallidi2, M. R. Mehra2, A. M. Neilan1

    1Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 3Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: To examine the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C viremic (HCV+) heart organ donation in the United States.*Methods: We used a microsimulation model…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Sex Disparities in Access to Liver Transplant for Waitlisted Patients with Meld 40

    D. C. Cron1, H. Yeh1, H. J. Braun2, N. L. Ascher2, D. C. Chang1, J. T. Adler3

    1Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 3Surgery and Perioperative Care, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

    *Purpose: Women with end-stage liver disease are less likely than men to receive a liver transplant, due in part to MELD’s reliance on creatinine and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Functional Status Assessment in Kidney Transplant Candidates and Recipients: A Single-Center Experience

    M. Marshall, O. A. Moss, G. Friedman, O. A. Moss

    UC Davis Transplant Center, Sacramento, CA

    *Purpose: Functional status assessment (FSA) is important to kidney transplant (KT) candidacy evaluation; a low Fried Frailty score (FFS) is associated with poor waitlist and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Increase in Exception and Extension Requests for Higher-Urgency Patients Under the New Heart Allocation Policy

    J. R. Golbus1, Y. Ahn2, B. K. Nallamothu1, M. N. Walsh3, D. Zaun2, A. Israni2, M. Colvin1

    1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 3Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center, Carmel, IN

    *Purpose: In October 2018, a new heart allocation policy was introduced that expanded the number of listing statuses and established a national review board, abolishing…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Increased Waitlist Mortality in Pediatric Liver Transplant Candidates with Greater Distance from Transplant Center

    C. X. Qin, T. Ishaque, S. M. Frey, A. B. Massie, A. M. Cameron, D. L. Segev, E. A. King

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Greater distance from transplant center in adult liver transplant (LT) candidates is associated with increased waitlist mortality. Pediatric LT candidates have higher waitlist mortality…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Status 7: Parking Lot or Loading Zone?

    E. Wells, M. Robinson, S. Blais, A. Chacon, S. Greve, R. Villicana, C. Bratton, K. Talavera, M. de Vera, S. Regmi, T. Hoang, J. Woloszyn, R. Rattanavich

    Transplant Institute, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA

    *Purpose: Kidney waitlist management continues to be a challenge for many transplant centers for a variety of reasons. Over the years, the number of Status…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Escalating Waitlist Mortality Above MELD 40: A Rationale to Uncap MELD 3.0?

    A. Kwong, A. Mannalithara, W. Kim

    Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

    *Purpose: MELD 3.0 is a recently proposed model that improves upon MELD-Na, incorporating sex and albumin as additional variables, updating existing coefficients and adding relevant…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Why is Adolescent Waitlist Mortality Higher for Status 1A Girls?

    J. Foutz1, E. Hsu2, S. Noreen3, M. Cafarella4, J. Pomposelli5, S. Biggins6, J. Reyes6, E. Perito7

    1Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, 3United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 4Policy and Community Relations, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 5University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 6University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 7UCSF, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: Although adolescent pediatric liver transplant candidates are a vulnerable population, they are often excluded from analyses due to small sample size and assignment of…
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