Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Health Disparities in Pediatric Intestinal Transplantation: Before and After the Implementation of MELD/PELD.
V. Cohran,¹ S. Mohammed,¹ J. Prozialeck,¹ A. Gaddam,¹ J. Caicedo.²
¹Department of Pediatrics, The Ann & Robert H. Lurie's Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Racial disparities have been demonstrated in solid organ transplantation with regard to wait times and patient/graft survival but intestinal transplantation (IT) has not been as…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Will the New Kidney Allocation System Negatively Impact Future Organ Donation in States Mandated to Export a Large Number of Kidneys?
D. Mital,¹ E. Hull,¹ J. Brown,¹ C. Karmell,² M. Jendrisak.²
¹Kidney Transplant Program, General Surgery, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL; ²Quality and Process Improvement, Gift of Hope OPO, Itasca, IL.
Purpose: To examine the potentially deleterious effects of the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) on future organ donation: as a consequence of the massive increase…
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Sociodemographic and Comorbidity Differences Between Dialysis, Waitlisted and Transplant Patients in the UK: Findings from the ATTOM Study.
D. Wu,¹ M. Robb,² C. Watson,³ R. Ravanan,⁴ J. Forsythe,¹ A. Bradley,³ G. Oniscu.¹
¹Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; ²NHSBT, Bristol, United Kingdom; ³University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; ⁴Southmead Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom.
IntroductionAccess to Transplantation and Transplant Outcome Measures (ATTOM) is a prospective cohort study involving all 72 UK renal units, investigating factors affecting access to and…
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Culture Specific Interventions to Increase Organ Donation Advocacy in a Hispanic Serving Institution.
Y. Tasnif,¹ S. Ghaddar,² S. Saladin,³ A. Alaniz.¹
¹Cooperative Pharmacy Program, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX; ²South Texas Border Health Disparities Center, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX; ³School of Rehabilitation Services and Counseling, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX.
Organ donation rates among Hispanics are lower relative to non-Hispanic whites. The purpose of this study is to assess whether participation in a culture-specific educational…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Optimal Measures for Timely Transplantation: Reviewing Correlation Between Early Transplantation Wait-Listing and Transplantation Outcomes.
M. Brown, K. Polkinghorne, J. Kanellis.
Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Background and Purpose: Transplantation is the best treatment for end-stage renal failure (ESRF). In Australia the algorithm for organ allocation considers a combination of factors…
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The Impact of CMS Policy on Delisting of "Too Sick" Liver Transplant Candidates.
N. Dolgin, B. Movahedi, P. Martins, A. Bozorgzadeh.
Surgery, UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA.
Background: The Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD)-based allocation system (2002) transformed liver transplant waitlist mortality by prioritizing the “sickest first.” We examine the…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Etiology of Liver Disease and Indication for Transplantation on Access to the Liver Transplant Waiting List in the United States.
D. Goldberg,^1,2 B. French,² C. Newcomb,² Q. Liu,² J. Lewis,^1,2 S. Halpern.^1,2
¹Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Background: Only a small fraction of patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) is waitlisted for liver transplantation (LT).Methods: Retrospective cohort study of transplant-eligible ESLD patients…
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Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Patients with CPRA Values >98% After Implementation of the New OPTN/UNOS Kidney Allocation System (KAS): A Single Center Study Update.
N. Kaur,¹ S. Goral,¹ J. Kearns,² P. Abt,³ A. Naji,³ P. Porrett,³ M. Levine,³ M. Kamoun.²
¹Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia; ²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia; ³Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia.
Background: Sensitized patients have had prolonged waiting times and greater incidence of death while on the waiting list. On December 4, 2014, UNOS/OPTN activated a…
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Liver-Intestine Candidates Benefit from National Sharing.
E. Edwards,¹ A. Harper, D. Sudan.
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ²Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC.
Introduction. On June 18, 2013, the OPTN implemented regional sharing of adult donor livers for candidates with allocation MELD/PELD scores of 35 and greater. As…
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Similar Kidney Allograft and Patient Survival in Native Americans Despite Lower Rates of Living Donation and Longer Wait on the Deceased Donor List.
H. Khamash,¹ K. Reddy,² H. Chakkera,¹ J. Huskey,¹ S. Sukumaran-Nair,¹ A. Mathur,² A. Moss,² N. Katariya,² A. Singer,² R. Heilman.¹
¹Nephrology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix; ²Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix.
Previous studies have shown that Native Americans (NAs) have decreased access and inferior outcomes following kidney transplantation. Reviewing our center's experience we wanted to assess…