2022 American Transplant Congress
18 Month Review of Liver Acuity Circles Allocation
*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
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
*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
*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
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
*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
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?
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?
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?
*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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