Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

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…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Gallium-67 Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography in the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections
F. Parkar¹, A. Tlamsa², J. Nistico², V. A. Muggia², G. Y. Minamoto², U. Jorde³, D. J. Goldstein³, R. Moadel¹, Y. A. Puius²
¹Division of Nuclear Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ²Division of Infectious Diseases, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ³Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
*Purpose: We routinely use gallium-67 single photon emission computed tomography (67Ga-SPECT-CT) to determine the presence and extent of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) infections. The…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Listening to the Patients Voice for Developing Transplant Education
S. Brown, H. Li, D. Tsapepas
Renal Transplant, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Successful outcomes following transplantation (Tx) require a thorough understanding of the Tx process, a close partnership between the patient and transplant center, and life-long…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Association of Pretransplant and Posttransplant 5-Tier Ratings with Candidate Mortality after Listing
A. Wey, S. Gustafson, N. Salkowski, B. Kasiske, M. Skeans, C. Schaffhausen, A. Israni, J. Snyder
SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The OPTN Final Rule mandates the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) to publish understandable reports of transplant rate, waitlist mortality, and posttransplant outcomes.…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Favorable Waitlist Outcomes in Patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease in the MELD-Na Era
M. Safwan, K. Collins, D. Moonka, S. Jafri, M. Rizzari, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud, S. Nagai
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a common indication for liver transplantation. Patients with ALD are often required to be abstinent for a period of…