Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Telehealth Evaluations to Screen Kidney Transplant Candidates Does Not Adversely Affect Time to or Rate of Transplant
R. Forbes,^1,2 D. Rybacki,¹ T. Johnson,¹ D. Shaffer,^1,2 D. Hale.^1,2
¹VA, Nashville; ²VUMC, Nashville.
Background. Telehealth can improve efficiency, timeliness, and cost effectiveness for kidney transplant waitlist candidates. Patients approved for further evaluation after a screening telehealth visit are…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Categorization Improve Outcomes and Organ Utilization in Liver Transplant
H. Bohorquez,^1,2 H. Sharma,¹ D. Bruce,¹ A. Cohen,^1,2 C. Carmody,^1,2 J. Seal,¹ E. Bugeaud,¹ D. Sonnier,¹ A. Mathur,¹ D. Marroquin,¹ M. Voltz,¹ D. Lucia,¹ G. Loss.^1,2
¹Multi-Organ Transplant Institute, Ochsner Helath System, New Orleans, LA; ²School of Medicine, University of Queensland, New Orleans, LA.
Background: Liver transplant (LT) varies greatly in technical complexity due to factors such as prior surgery, obesity, and portal vein thrombosis (PVT). This must be…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Stable Deceased Donor Transplantation Rates Among Pediatric Candidates Post-KAS Implementation.
B. Shelton,¹ C. Ray,¹ D. Sawinski,² R. Reed,¹ P. MacLennan,¹ J. Locke.¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Background: The Kidney Allocation System (KAS) was implemented in December 2014 and increased access to deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) for highly sensitized candidates. Concerns…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation Outcomes from Donors with Acute Kidney Injury.
S. Channapatna Suresh, M. Lubetzky, J. Graham, A. Chokechanaisakul, O. Mohammed, M. Kinkhabwala, E. Akalin, J. Rocca, P. Bedi.
Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Background- Organ scarcity and increased waiting times for kidney transplantation has led the transplant community to utilize more sub-optimal organs while continuing providing survival benefit…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation of Hepatitis C Kidneys to Hepatitis C Recipients Confers Significantly Shorter Waiting Times in the Era of the New Kidney Allocation System.
B. Concepcion, A. Langone, B. Edmundson, J. Johnson, A. Rajput, T. Johnson, D. Rybacki, D. Hale, R. Forbes.
Nashville VA Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Background: Prior to the new KAS, transplantation with HCV+ compared to HCV- kidneys provided shorter waiting times on the deceased donor list. In the current…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Community Health, Center Proximity, and Liver Transplant Waitlist Mortality.
R. Lynch,¹ K. Ross,¹ D. Goldberg,² R. Patzer.¹
¹Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ²Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background: While regional organ availability is frequently discussed in allocation policy, the impact of community-level factors and access to a transplant center on waitlist mortality…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Barriers to Becoming Active on the Renal Transplant Waiting List: Have They Changed in the Last Five Years?
E. van Hardeveld,¹ T. Furlong,² A. Robertson,² N. Suh,² S. Thwaites,² R. Millar,² R. Masterson,¹ M. Lian,¹ B. Jones,¹ P. Hughes.¹
¹Department of Nephrology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; ²Nephrology Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
PURPOSEWe have previously studied the barriers preventing patients from being made active on the transplant waiting list (TWL) and implemented practice changes to improve the…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Waitlist Management: The Readiness Model of Predicting Transplants Under the Kidney Allocation System.
N. Elias, B. Kimball, L. Walsh, D. Wojciechowski, J. Markmann, E. Heher.
Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Based on the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data, between 2001 and 2016 the national kidney wait-list has grown from 51,271 to 100,791 (97%). At…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Current Practice and Center-Level Variation in Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Listing.
X. Luo, A. Massie, J. Garonzik-Wang, R. Choudhury, A. Shaffer, S. Zhou, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
The OPTN has proposed medical eligibility criteria to determine which transplant candidates are appropriate for SLK vs liver-alone transplantation. We investigated center variation of SLK…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Non-Medical Factors Contributing to Racial Disparity in Kidney Transplant Wait-Listing.
Y.-H. Ng,¹ S. Pankratz,¹ K. Bornemann,² E. Croswell,² J. Pleis,² R. Shapiro,³ M. Unruh,¹ L. Myaskovsky.²
¹Medicine, Nephrology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; ²Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ³Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Background: African American (AA) and other minorities (OM) are known to have disproportionately higher incidence of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) but lower rates of kidney…