2018 American Transplant Congress
Virtual Encounters: Robust Methods to Manage Your Active Waitlist
Transplant, MUSC, Charleston, SC.
Introduction: The ability to ensure all patients are transplant ready and do not have outstanding issues that would diminish post-transplant outcomes is challenging with an…2018 American Transplant Congress
Willingness to Consider Increased Risk Donors: A Single Center Experience
Background: The number of Public Health Service increased risk organ donors (PHS IRD) is growing, largely due to the opioid epidemic.Methods: We conducted a retrospective…2017 American Transplant Congress
Educational Strategies for Increased Wait-Listing Rates: Opportunities for Dialysis Center Intervention.
1UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 2SLU, St. Louis, MO
Dialysis centers vary in how well they educate patients about kidney transplant (KT). This study categorized common groups of educational strategies used by dialysis staff;…2017 American Transplant Congress
Factors Associated with Death or Transplant in Low-MELD Patients.
1Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA; 2Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background. The Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score is a good discriminator of 3-month mortality in patients awaiting a liver transplant. Previous research showed…2017 American Transplant Congress
Disparity in Transplant Referral Patterns Based on Physician Dependent Variables.
Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Il
Introduction: Distance from a liver transplant (LT) center does not affect outcomes; however, rural areas have lower rates of listing and receiving solid organ transplants.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Manning the Gap: Using Technology to Reduce Barriers in Access to Renal Transplantation Waiting List Across Dialysis Facilities.
Background:Pervasive disparities in access to kidney transplantation persist despite decades of recognition and efforts to improve equity in transplant access. Using technology to reduce the…2017 American Transplant Congress
Is Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation (DDTX) Justified in Patients with More Than 10 Years of Pre-TX Dialysis Exposure?
Background: The new kidney allocation system (KAS) led to an increase in DDTX among patients with ≥10 years of pre-TX dialysis exposure. We aimed to…2017 American Transplant Congress
Five Year Experience with Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Obese Renal Transplant Candidates.
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
INTRODUCTION: Obesity in end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients may not be adequately addressed by medical management, and represents a barrier to renal transplantation. We…2017 American Transplant Congress
Health Literacy, Functional Status and Transplant Eligibility Among Adult Liver Transplant Candidates.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Northwestern University, Chicago
Introduction/Objectives: Low health literacy is associated with poor self-care in chronic diseases, however, is understudied in liver transplantation (LT). Study objectives were to evaluate associations…2017 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Desensitization and the Rate of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation After Implementation of the Kidney Allocation System.
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Background:At Cedars Sinai Medical Center (CSMC), candidates with calculated panel reactive antibodies (cPRA) ≥30% (based on unacceptable antigens with MFI≥15,000) are desensitized while awaiting transplant.…
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