Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Vaccination And Allosensitization In Solid Organ Transplant Candidates
L. Lourenco¹, K. B. Bain², L. Bowman³, D. C. Brennan⁴, G. A. Ewald⁵, R. R. Hachem⁶
¹Pharmacy, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Pharmacy, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, ³Pharmacy, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ⁴Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ⁶Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Clinical practice guidelines recommend vaccinating patients awaiting solid organ transplantation (SOT) against vaccine-preventable infections, but there is little evidence to suggest that vaccination reduces…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Development and Implementation of a Pediatric Transplant Consortium
K. Soltys¹, S. K. Rassmussen², J. Squires³, R. Sindhi¹, S. Pelletier², K. Brayman², M. Angelis⁴, T. Chin⁴, R. Teaster², J. Oberholzer², R. Gonzalez-Peralta⁵, B. Friedman⁴, D. Hupp⁶, M. Mendoza⁷, P. A. Eicker⁶, J. Middleton⁷, G. Mazariegos¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ³Hepatology, Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴AdventHealth Transplant Institute, Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL, ⁵AdventHealth for Children, Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL, ⁶Nursing, Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁷Hepatology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Access to pediatric liver transplant expertise varies nationally and variability in practice leads to potential suboptimal organ utilization and outcomes. A multi-institutional collaborative was…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease Growth Failure Threshold on Waitlist Mortality in Children Awaiting Liver Transplant
S. M. Swenson, J. P. Roberts, S. Rhee, E. R. Perito
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: To examine the impact on waitlist mortality of Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD)’s incorporation of growth failure (GF) as a threshold variable—present or absent…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Physical Frailty is Positively Correlated with LAS Score in Lung Transplant Candidates
S. Jaladanki¹, L. Shih¹, O. Kwon², N. Ventigan², D. Nanayakkara², S. Weigt³, J. Singer⁴, A. Ardehali¹, R. Biniwale¹, D. Goldwater⁵, J. Schaenman²
¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Division of Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: We proposed to evaluate physical frailty in lung transplant candidates to determine whether physical frailty correlated with LAS score and added to ability to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Benefit of Kidney Transplantation over the Waitlist Depends on the Patient’s Comorbidities
A. Andrade Izquierdo¹, J. V. Reusing Jr¹, V. Onusic¹, F. Agena¹, F. C. Lemos¹, F. de Paula¹, F. Gerab², E. David-Neto¹
¹Renal Transplantation Service, Hospital das Clínicas - University of São Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ²Department of Mathematics, FEI University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
*Purpose: This study aimed to determine the impact of different comorbidities to the survival benefit of Kidney Transplantation (KTx) compared to waitlisted (WL) patients in…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Prognostic Drug Development Tool to Assess the Transplantability at the Time of Listing for Kidney Transplant Candidates
S. Kawakita¹, L. Hidalgo-Semlek², J. L. Beaumont¹, J. Lee², M. J. Everly¹
¹Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ²Hansa Medical AB, Lund, Sweden
*Purpose: At time of listing for kidney transplant (KT), a patient is not informed of the probabilities of KT, death, or remaining on the waiting…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Predictors for Pediatric Liver Allograft Utilization and Outcome of the Use of Paediatric Donor Livers in Adult Recipients
S. Huang, C. Sun, X. He, Z. Guo, G. Chen
Organ Transplant Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of SYSU, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: We determined to find out the utilization rate of pediatric livers, identify risk factors for graft discard and analyse the outcomes of adult liver…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Renal Cell Carcinoma in Dialysis Patients: Criteria for Transplant Wait List Inclusion
D. B. Laskar¹, J. Zeng¹, S. Sharma², M. T. Smith Jr³, A. D. Nicastri¹, D. Levitan⁴, R. Maglantay¹, D. John³, S. R. Gottesman¹
¹Pathology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, ²Transplant Surgery, NYP/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ³Surgery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, ⁴Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, NYP/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on long-term hemodialysis have a higher incidence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in their native kidneys than the general…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Factors Related to International Travel for Transplantation among US-Listed Kidney Transplant Candidates
B. Koons¹, M. L. Henderson², A. G. Thomas³, T. Kear⁴, H. Moriarty⁴
¹School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Department of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
*Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with international travel for transplantation among US-listed kidney transplant (KT) candidates.*Methods: Using 2010-2016 data…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Protocol Cardiac Cathaterization in Renal Transplant Candidates
D. B. Leeser¹, C. B. Stone², A. Maldonado², D. L. Morris³, K. L. McLawhorn², H. B. Jones²
¹Surgery, East Carolina Univ Sch of Med, Greenville, NC, ²Transplanation, Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC, ³Cardiology, East Carolina Univ Sch of Med, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: Appropriate cardiac evaluation prior to kidney transplantation is controversial. The following retrospective analysis was performed to evaluate the value of performing cardiac catheterization on…