2017 American Transplant Congress
Association Between Transportation Strategies and Kidney Transplant Center Staff Perceived Racial Disparities.
Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Background: Racial disparities exist in access to the transplant evaluation process. One contributing factor for this disparity is travel barriers. Transplant center policies to assist…2017 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation of Organs from Donors with Hepatitis C: The Potential to Substantially Increase Transplant Activity.
Introduction. Organs from hepatitis C virus positive (HCV+ve) donors are commonly declined for transplantation because of the risk of disease transmission, but new direct acting…2017 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Allograft Offers: Predictors of Turndown and the Relationship of Organ Acceptance Sequence to Kidney Allograft Survival.
Background: There is growing interest in understanding patterns of organ acceptance and reducing organ discard. Little is known about how donor factors, holidays, and location…2017 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Outcomes of Patients Re-Listed Following Failed Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) Liver Transplant.
Transplant, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Introduction: The outcome for patients re-listed after developing ischemic cholangiopathy(IC) or graft failure following liver transplant(LT) from a DCD donor, remains a significant concern. Better…2017 American Transplant Congress
Treating Hepatitis C+ Patients Before or After Kidney Transplantation: A Medical Decision Analysis.
Some have recommended that HCV+ kidney wait list patients delay HCV treatment with direct acting antiviral agents (DAAs) with the option of receiving an HCV+/HCV-…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Multistate Modeling Analysis of Time-Varying CPRA States and Its Impact on Kidney Transplant: A Focus on KAS Implementation.
Background: Highly sensitized kidney transplant candidates are at higher risk of death on the waiting list(WL). OPTN policy change 8(Kidney Allocation System(KAS)) aimed to improve…2017 American Transplant Congress
Regional Variation in Liver Donor Utilization Across the U.S.
Unequal patient access to deceased donor liver transplantation across the U.S. has generated efforts to redesign the allocation system. Geographic disparities include the severity of…2017 American Transplant Congress
HCC and Liver Transplantation Following the Recent Allocation Policy Change.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
In October 2015, OPTN implemented a revised liver allocation policy to address the disparity between HCC and non-HCC patients in access to deceased-donor liver transplant…2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of a Novel Prehabilitation Program in Kidney Transplant Candidates.
Background: Prehabilitation is the process of enhancing surgical patient functional capacity prior to surgery to improve tolerance for the upcoming physiologic stress. While prehabilitation has…2017 American Transplant Congress
WHO Group II Pulmonary Hypertension Is Associated with Decreased Survival in Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation.
Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
End stage liver disease (ESLD) patients with cirrhotic cardiomyopathy often have WHO Group II pulmonary hypertension (PH), characterized by pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) >15…
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