Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Demographic Characteristics of VCA Candidates and Recipients in the U.S.
J. Wainright¹, L. Cartwright¹, A. Henderson¹, W. Cherikh¹, S. Booker¹, D. Klassen²
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Office of the Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: As with other fields of transplantation, it is important to understand the populations VCA transplantation is serving.*Methods: This study used OPTN VCA waiting list…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Do Social Support Requirements Delay Time to Listing Decision in Liver Candidates?
M. Jesse¹, A. Peleman¹, M. Karrick¹, F. Nimri¹, N. Parikh², A. Segal¹, D. Moonka¹, M. Abouljoud¹, A. Yoshida¹
¹Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Social support requirements in the evaluation of transplant candidates have recently come under increased scrutiny. One criticism is that these requirements delay listing decisions.…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Social Determinants of Health Impact Successful Listing for Liver and Kidney Transplant
J. B. Henson, D. Mohottige, J. M. Wilder, A. J. Muir, L. M. McElroy
Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To evaluate the association between community socioeconomic disadvantage and structural social determinants of health (SDOH) on successful listing for liver (LT) and kidney transplantation…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Prediction of Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates: Do Time-Varying Models Help?
A. Kwong¹, W. Kim¹, D. Schladt², A. Wey², J. Snyder², A. Israni², J. Lake³
¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: In the United States, priority on the liver transplant waitlist is determined by the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD)-Na, a score composed of…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Increased Survival Benefit Amongst Highest Priority Candidates Undergoing Heart Transplant Following the New Us Heart Allocation System
S. Tolmie¹, W. Parker²
¹Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: A key policy change in the new US heart allocation system was splitting the previous highest status (1A) into statuses 1, 2, and 3…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Other Reasons for Waitlist Removal
C. Martinez, J. Foutz, A. Placona, L. Cartwright
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: When a transplant program removes a candidate from the waitlist, they must either select a pre-defined removal code or type a response into the…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Meld 3.0 for Liver Allocation: Results From the Liver Simulated Allocation Model
A. Kwong¹, T. Weaver², D. Schladt², A. Wey², K. Audette², S. Biggins³, J. Snyder², A. Israni², J. Lake⁴, W. Kim¹
¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ³University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Priority on the US liver transplant waitlist is determined by the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD), a score composed of serum bilirubin, creatinine,…
2022 American Transplant Congress
VCA Waiting List and Transplant Trends and Challenges in the US
J. Wainright¹, W. Cherikh¹, S. Booker¹, D. Klassen²
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Office of the CMO, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: VCA transplantation has grown and changed, encountering challenges such as scarce funding sources and the COVID-19 pandemic.*Methods: The OPTN cohort includes 105 candidates listed…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Individual and Community-Level Social Determinants of Health in Liver Transplant
M. Yilma¹, R. Cogan², N. Mehta³, J. Neuhaus², J. Voelkel⁴, C. Light⁵, I. Allen², R. Hirose²
¹General Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Francisco, CA, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: To investigate the individual and census-level social determinants of health on liver transplant listing.*Methods: Retrospective review of patients referred to the University of California…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Rise in the Number of Eligible Donors for Liver Transplantation Has Been Driven by an Exponential Increase in Marginal Donors
C. Goff¹, M. F. McDonald¹, A. Anand¹, K. Agahi¹, J. Kahla¹, A. Jang¹, B. Martin¹, Z. Shah¹, S. Stockum¹, R. Vopni², J. A. Goss¹, A. Rana¹
¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX
*Purpose: To determine which subcategories of marginal livers have seen advancements in utilization and which have not.*Methods: 181,992 eligible donors listed in the Organ Procurement…