Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Factors Linked with Evaluation to Wait Listing for Referred Patients at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Main Center and Outreach Clinic – A Step Towards Kidney Transplantation
A. Rizvi¹, M. Mujtaba², S. Hussain³, J. Fair⁴, M. Kueht⁴, A. Gamilla-Crudo⁵
¹Internal Medicine, Nephrology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ²University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ³University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, TX, ⁴Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ⁵University of Texas Medical Branch, League City, TX
*Purpose: Numerous factors can be associated with transplant candidates’ placement on the wait list. We herein set forth to assess patient characteristics and factors associated…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Differences in Acceptance to the Kidney Transplant List
J. Cotton¹, K. Perry², N. Costa³, S. Niederhaus¹
¹University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, ³Georgetown University, Washington, DC
*Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, kidney transplant (KT) evaluations shifted from in-person evaluation (IPE) to telemedicine evaluation (TME). Given differences in access to electronics and…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Waitlisted and Transplant Patient Perspectives on Expanding Access to Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants
C. Rosaasen¹, N. Rosaasen², R. Mainra³, A. Trachtenberg⁴, J. Ho⁵, C. Parsons⁶, S. Delaney⁶, H. Mansell⁷
¹Johnson Shoyama School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ²Saskatchewan Transplant Program, Saskatchewan Health Authority, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ³Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ⁴, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Immunology, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁶Canadian Blood Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁷University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
*Purpose: A concerning number of kidneys (expanded donor criteria, extended criteria, or marginal kidneys) are discarded yearly, and novel solutions are needed to solve the…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Survival Comparison of Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant with Pancreas After Living-Donor Kidney Transplant by Wait Time and Organ Quality
G. R. Lyden¹, E. S. Helgeson², E. B. Finger³, A. J. Matas³, J. J. Snyder⁴, D. M. Vock²
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute; Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Mpls, MN, ²Div Biostatistics U MN, Mpls, MN, ³Dept Surg U MN, Mpls, MN, ⁴Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Mpls, MN
*Purpose: The survival benefit of simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) compared to pancreas after living-donor kidney (PALK) transplant is controversial. Wait times for SPK and donor risk…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Effects of Pre-Lung Transplantation Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Functional Capacity and Quality of Life
R. M. AlGhofaily
Physical Therapy, Organ Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) prior lung transplantation (LT) has been effective in reducing post transplantation complications. However, few studies have examined the effect of pre-lung…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Factors Influencing Access to Kidney Transplantation (FIAT): An Integrative Multiphasic Stakeholders’ Perspective
R. v. Merweland¹, A. Luchtenburg¹, J. van Busschbach¹, J. van de Wetering¹, S. Ismail²
¹Medical Psychology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: Despite that various barriers to optimal access to transplantation are described in literature,there is no research combining the perspectives of all stakeholders in renal…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Access to Pediatric Kidney Transplant: The Impact of Mental Health Diagnoses and Social Determinants of Health
E. Blanchette¹, E. Benz¹, J. Armendariz¹, K. McKinnon¹, M. Chandran², E. S. Christofferson¹, M. Bisek¹, M. Bock¹
¹Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Pharmacy, UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC
*Purpose: Limited and delayed access to kidney transplant (KT) has been associated with characteristics of adult KT candidates, including mental health (MH) diagnoses, negative social…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Center-Level Variability in DDLT Rate Before and After the Implementation of MMaT/250 Score
T. Ishaque, J. Beckett, B. King, J. G. Wang, D. Segev, A. Massie
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In 02/2020, OPTN replaced DSA/regional boundaries with acuity circles and substituted exception scores for individual patients to median-MELD-at-transplant within 250 nautical miles of a…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Liver Outcomes and Equity (LOEq) Index: Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants of Health and Waitlist Disparities for Adult Liver Transplantation
K. Zhou, L. S. Kuo, L. K. Thompson, J. L. Dodge, M. G. Cockburn, N. Terrault
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Impact of neighborhood-level social determinants of health (SDOH) among adult liver transplant (LT) candidates is largely unknown. We constructed a novel index (LOEq) to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Physiological Age by Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Electrograms as a Novel Biomarker of Mortality in Kidney Transplant Candidates
E. Lorenz, I. Zaniletti, B. Johnson, T. Petterson, W. Kremers, C. Schinstock, H. Amer, A. Cheville, N. LeBrasseur, A. Baez-Suarez, Z. Attia, F. Lopez-Jimenez, P. Friedman, C. Kennedy, A. Rule
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Assessing mortality risk prior to kidney transplantation is challenging. Age-Gap, which is the difference between physiological age determined by artificial intelligence-enhanced electrocardiograms (ECG) and…