Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Less is More. Extensive Cardiac Investigations Add Little Value in Waitlisting Patients for Kidney Transplantation
B. Chow¹, M. Khurram², E. Capuano², F. Pugliese², M. Yaqoob², I. Mohamed²
¹Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom, ²Department of Renal and Transplantation, Royal London Hospital, Bart's Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Extensive cardiac investigations have long been considered necessary to aid decision-making in waitlisting for kidney transplantation. However, the utility and reliability of such comprehensive…
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
Multicenter Effort Assessing the Effects of COVID Infection and Vaccination on HLA Antibodies in Waitlisted Patients with ESRD
G. R. Roll¹, M. Cooper², H. Gebel³, K. M. Hitchman⁴, M. Hobeika⁵, J. Houp⁶, M. Kamoun⁷, J. Killian⁸, J. Kim⁹, V. Kumar¹⁰, M. Levine¹¹, T. Lunow-Luke¹, R. Parsons¹², D. Ranch¹³, P. Stock¹⁴, S. Yi¹⁵, R. Rajalingam¹⁶
¹UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ²MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ³Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, ⁵Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, ⁶University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Hospital Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁹Surgery, Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁰University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, AL, ¹¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pe, ¹²Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ¹³UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, ¹⁴Univ of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁵Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ¹⁶Immunogenetics and Transplantation Laboratory (ITL), San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Although rare, infection and vaccination have been reported to result in human leukocyte antibodies (HLA). We analyzed the effect of SARS-CoV2 infection, or COVID-19…
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
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
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
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
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…