Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Depressive Symptoms and Listing for Kidney Transplantation
X. Chen, N. Chu, P. Sharma Basyal, W. Vihokrut, D. Crews, D. Brennan, S. Andrews, T. Vannorsdall, D. Segev, M. McAdams DeMarco
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Among patients with kidney failure, depressive symptoms are common and may be a barrier to completing the complex process of kidney transplantation (KT) evaluation…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Survival on the Kidney Transplant Waiting List: A Thirty-Three Year Analysis
E. L. Godfrey¹, P. T. Kambhampati¹, J. A. Goss², A. Rana²
¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The shortage of available donor kidneys remains the greatest obstacle to transplantation, with many patients spending years on the transplant list. During this time,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Offer Acceptance Models for Various Endpoints: Initial Response, Final Response, and Conversion from Provisional Yes to Yes
C. Martinez, M. Stuart, A. Placona
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Offer acceptance models are routinely used for program evaluation and academic research, but the focus tends to be on modelling the final offer response.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Significantly Shorter Waiting Time to Subsequent Kidney Transplant After Liver Transplant by Using Safety Net Policy
P. Homkrailas, S. Bunnapradist
Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: In August 2017, a new simultaneous liver-kidney transplant (SLK) allocation policy and medical eligibility criteria were introduced. These criteria aim to avoid dual organ…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Journey to Transplant: A Pilot Feasibility Trial of a Virtual Counseling Intervention for Patients and Their Social Support Networks to Improve Access to Kidney Transplant
A. Hart¹, R. Edpuganti², H. D'Cunha², S. Kurschner², W. T. McKinney¹, A. Matas¹, R. Patzer¹, S. Chu¹, M. Bruin¹, M. Partin¹
¹Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneaplis, MN, ²Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneaplis, MN
*Purpose: Home counseling interventions have shown promise in increasing rates of kidney transplant, but are challenging to implement. We piloted a structured but individualized virtual…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Peri-covid Trends on the Intestinal Transplant Waiting List
M. L. Samoylova¹, S. Jafri², M. I. Fiel³, S. Horslen⁴, A. Mavis⁵, T. Schiano⁶, B. Summers⁷, M. C. Segovia⁸
¹Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ³Pathology, Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁴Transplantation, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ⁵Pediatric Gastroenterology, Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁶Hepatology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁷Pharmacy, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ⁸Gastroenterology, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: We aim to describe the trends in intestinal and multivisceral transplant waiting list activity and outcomes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.*Methods: We used…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation Management and Decision Support System
A. Demirag¹, Y. Wu², J. Lamp², S. Holland¹, A. Routt², L. Feng²
¹Transplantation, University of Virginia Medical Cener, Charlottesville, VA, ²Computer Science Engineering Systems & Environment, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Coordinating the management of patients’ health statuses, tracking and scheduling testing, is a complicated process and involves a team of clinicians including transplant coordinators,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Prolonged Length of Stay in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: Changes Over the Last Three Decades
K. Goli, N. T. Galvan, R. T. Cotton, J. A. Goss, C. A. O'Mahony, A. Rana
Department of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Hospital length of stay (LOS) following kidney transplantation, particularly prolonged LOS, has not shown much improvement since the early 2000s. This study explores changes…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Fresh Look at Urbanicity and Its Impact on Additions to the Kidney and Liver Transplant Wait Lists
W. R. Johnson, S. A. Rega, I. D. Feurer, S. J. Karp
General Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Our aim is to examine the collective effects of social determinants of health (SDH) on kidney and liver wait list additions in the United…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Waiting List and Transplant Activity in the U.S
J. Wainright¹, K. Swanner², W. Cherikh¹, D. Klassen³
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Policy and Community Relations, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Office of the Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) transplantation has grown and changed rapidly in the past several years. This study investigates VCA waiting list and transplant trends…