2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact Of The Provision Of Transplant Information On Access To First And Repeat Kidney Transplantation
Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: To determine whether the provision and relative impact of transplant information differs in incident ESRD patients and patients with a history of previous transplant…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Revised Policy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma MELD Exception Points on Recurrence after Liver Transplantation
1University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: On October 8, 2015, a revised liver policy regarding HCC exception scores was implemented with the intention to create a better balance in transplant…2019 American Transplant Congress
Modeling the Effect of Presumed Consent on Waitlist Candidate Quantities
*Purpose: Organ transplantation is a life-saving and cost-effective treatment for patients with end-organ failure. However, the current supply of donors is unable to match demand,…2019 American Transplant Congress
Keeping Patients Lifetime Perspective in Focus: Modest Rates and Wide Variation in Preemptive Re-Listing for Kidney Transplantation in the US
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Success of transplantation is not limited to initial receipt of a donor organ. Many patients experience graft loss within their lifetime and the benefits…2019 American Transplant Congress
Management of Inactive Candidates on the Kidney Transplant Waitlist: Results from a National Survey
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: As the inactive deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) waitlist pool continues to grow, management of these patients has become an increasingly complex administrative undertaking.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of MELD-Na Course (Delta MELD-Na) on Outcome after Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Currently, MELD Score listing is state of the art for liver transplant recipients. Our department could show by our own institutional data and confirmed…2019 American Transplant Congress
Real World Impact of HCV Viremic Solid Organs on Waitlist Times
*Purpose: The advent of direct acting antiviral agents (DAAs) has led to a paradigm shift in the approach to hepatitis C (HCV) infected organs. The…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Race and Substance Use on Listing Decisions for Kidney Transplant
*Purpose: Racial/ethnic minority patients face reduced access to kidney transplantation. We hypothesized that this disparity may be magnified if patients also have major psychosocial liabilities…2019 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends of First-Year Mortality on the Adult Kidney-Only Wait List in the United States
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Evaluation of kidney transplant candidacy must balance risk of mortality with and without transplant. Trends in first-year mortality could inform patterns of risk avoidance…2019 American Transplant Congress
Use, Safety and Effectiveness of Hepatitis B Virus NAT-Positive Donor Livers in the Current Era
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: The use of hepatitis B (HBV) core antibody positive (HBcAb+) donor allografts in liver transplantation (OLT) has become accepted practice; however, given limited data…
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