Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Lung Transplant Waitlist Outcomes for Blood Group O Candidates After the Expansion of the Primary Allocation Unit in November 2017
S. Greissman¹, M. Anderson², S. Arcasoy³, A. Dimango³, M. Gabriela³, H. Grewal³, H. Robbins³, L. Shah³, J. Costa³, F. D'Ovidio³, M. Leiva Juarez³, P. Lemaitre³, J. Sonett³, L. Benvenuto³
¹Department of Internal Medicine, New York Presbyterian, New York, NY, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Blood group O is associated with decreased lung transplant rates. Occasionally, blood group donor O lungs are allocated to non-blood group O recipients. Since…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Implications of Pre-Transplant (tx) COVID-19 on SOT or HCT: A Multicenter Study
G. Haidar¹, K. Hughes-Kramer², C. Alonso³, J. Hand⁴, E. Blodget⁵, V. Srinivasa⁵, S. Aslam⁶, H. Hassouna⁷, C. Lawson⁷, M. Malinis⁸, S. Anjan⁹, E. Lease¹⁰, M. Al-Obaidi¹¹, P. Vergidis¹², J. Husson¹³, D. van Duin¹⁴, R. Avery¹⁵, K. Downes¹⁶, M. R. Heldman¹⁰, J. Nelson¹⁷, S. Pouch¹⁸, S. Chuang¹⁹, C. Kao²⁰, M. Estabrook²¹, F. Alconchel²², S. Mazumber²³, P. Samanta², M. Wagener², N. Singh², F. Silveira²
¹UPitt, Pitt, PA, ²UPitt, Pittsburgh, PA, ³BIDMC, Boston, MA, ⁴Ochsner, New Orleans, LA, ⁵USC, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶UCSD, San Diego, CA, ⁷Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, ⁸Yale, New Haven, CT, ⁹UMiami, Miami, FL, ¹⁰UW, Seattle, WA, ¹¹U Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ¹²Mayo, Rochester, MN, ¹³UMMC, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁴UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, ¹⁵JHU, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁶CHOP, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁷Stanford, Stanford, CA, ¹⁸Emory, Decatur, GA, ¹⁹U Rochester, Rochester, NY, ²⁰WashU, St Louis, MO, ²¹WashU, Saint Louis, MO, ²²Spain, Murcia, Spain, ²³U Tennessee, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: Describe outcomes of patients (pt) with pre-tx COVID-19.*Methods: Multicenter study of SOT/HCT candidates who had a positive (pos) SARS-CoV-2 PCR pre-tx.*Results: Pre-tx: Of 208…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Centers That Assess Frailty as Part of Clinical Practice Have Better Outcomes
X. Chen¹, Y. Liu¹, V. Thompson¹, N. M. Chu¹, E. A. King¹, J. D. Walston², J. A. Kobashigawa³, D. M. Dadhania⁴, D. L. Segev¹, M. A. McAdams-DeMarco¹
¹Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Frailty predicts adverse post-kidney transplant (KT) outcomes, yet impacts of frailty assessments on center-level outcomes remain unclear. We tested whether transplant centers assessing frailty…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Knowledge Gaps and Perceptions of Liver Disease and Liver Transplant Referral Serve as Barriers to Transplant Among Primary Care Providers in Non-Urban America
M. Wright¹, V. Madabhushi¹, A. R. Garcia², N. Pope², A. Murphy³, C. N. Taylor¹, R. Gedaly¹, M. Gupta¹
¹Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ³School of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
*Purpose: The path to liver transplant (LTX) typically begins with primary care providers(PCPs), and is dependent on timely referral to transplant centers. The referral patterns…
2022 American Transplant Congress
International Practices on COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Transplant Candidates
Y. Caliskan¹, B. E. Hippen², D. Axelrod³, M. Schnitzler¹, K. Maher¹, T. Alhamad⁴, S. Anwar⁵, V. Kute⁶, K. Lentine¹
¹Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ²Transplant Medicine, Fresenius Medical Care, Charlotte, NC, ³University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁴Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, ⁵Sheikh Shakhbout Medical Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, ⁶Dr. H L Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Ahmedabad, India
*Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created unprecedented challenges and there are practice differences for solid organ transplant programs worldwide. We sought to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Process Evaluation of the Ascent Study: A Hybrid Type 1 Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of a Multi-Level Intervention to Improve Dialysis Provider Knowledge of Kidney Allocation Policy Changes and Increase Kidney Transplant Waitlisting
M. A. Urbanski¹, Y. Lee¹, M. Basu¹, C. Escoffery², R. Hamoda¹, L. Plantinga³, S. O. Pastan¹, R. E. Patzer¹
¹Division of Transplantation, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ³Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Kidney transplant is the optimal treatment for end-stage kidney disease, yet only a fifth of patients are on the waitlist and inequities in access…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Organ Preservation: The New Standard?
K. Mistry
Sanford Health, Fargo, ND
*Purpose: Normothermic perfusion (NMP) is a new technique that has been introduced into transplantation expanding capacity for organ utilization. NMP has been shown to be…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Surging Liver Transplant Rates for Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease May Exacerbate Waitlist Death of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma in MMAT-3 Era
L. Yuan¹, J. L. Dodge¹, K. Zhou¹, N. Terrault²
¹Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Rates of liver transplantation (LT) for alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) have increased significantly, in part related to broader acceptance of severe alcohol hepatitis (AH)…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Factors Linked with Evaluation to Wait Listing for Referred Patients at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Main Center and Outreach Clinic – A Step Towards Kidney Transplantation
A. Rizvi¹, M. Mujtaba², S. Hussain³, J. Fair⁴, M. Kueht⁴, A. Gamilla-Crudo⁵
¹Internal Medicine, Nephrology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ²University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ³University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, TX, ⁴Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ⁵University of Texas Medical Branch, League City, TX
*Purpose: Numerous factors can be associated with transplant candidates’ placement on the wait list. We herein set forth to assess patient characteristics and factors associated…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Differences in Acceptance to the Kidney Transplant List
J. Cotton¹, K. Perry², N. Costa³, S. Niederhaus¹
¹University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, ³Georgetown University, Washington, DC
*Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, kidney transplant (KT) evaluations shifted from in-person evaluation (IPE) to telemedicine evaluation (TME). Given differences in access to electronics and…