Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Children Listed as Status 1B for Liver Transplantation Are Disenfranchised by MARS Therapy.
A. Bakshi,¹ M. Kueht,¹ A. Rana,^1,2 A. Akcan Arikan,³ J. Goss.^1,2
¹Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation and Hepatobiliry Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; ²Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; ³Pediatric Medicine, Intensive Care, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX.
Acute exacerbations of chronic liver failure in the pediatric population require advanced ICU care in order to survive to transplantation (OLT). Often, the patients are…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Superior Waitlist and Equivalent Transplant Outcomes Among Hepatitis C RNA-Positive Patients Who Are Willing to Accept Hepatitis C Seropositive Kidneys.
J. Sageshima,¹ A. de Mattos,² C. Troppmann,¹ C. Santhanakrishnan,¹ J. McVicar,¹ B. Gallay,² M. Gandhi,² M. Alnimri,² R. Perez.¹
¹Surgery, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA; ²Internal Medicine, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA.
Background: kidney transplantation from hepatitis C seropositive (HCV+) donors may benefit hepatitis C RNA-positive (RNA+) candidates, but it is not clear how the acceptance/listing status…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Donor Heart Utilization in United States.
J. Trivedi, A. Cheng, E. Schumer, M. Black, H. Massey, M. Slaughter.
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
BackgroundOptimum use of donor organs can increase the reach of the transplant therapy to more patients on waitlist. The heart transplant (HTx) has remained stagnant…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Latest VCA Statistics in the U.S.
W. Cherikh,¹ H. McGehee,¹ C. Wholley,¹ L. Levin,² S. McDiarmid.³
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ²Hosp of the Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ³UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Background. On July 3, 2014, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing (OPTN/UNOS) was charged with the oversight of Vascularized Composite Allograft…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Significant Increase in Wait List Removals for Candidates Considered Too Sick from the US Kidney Transplant Waiting List.
E. Poggio, L. Buccini, S. Flechner, D. Goldfarb, J. Schold.
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Approximately 59,000 kidney transplant candidates have been removed from the waiting list since 2000 for reasons other than transplantation, death, or transfers. In 2014, reasons…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Hospitalization Among Waitlisted End Stage Renal Disease Patients.
K. Newman,^1,2 A. Adams,² S. Pastan,² R. Lynch,² R. Zhang,¹ R. Patzer.^1,2
¹Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; ²Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Background: For End Stage Renal Disease Patients (ESRD) waitlisted for a deceased donor kidney, hospitalization is associated with lower likelihood of transplantation and worse outcomes.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Increased Waitlist Death and Removal in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients Denied Exception Requests.
H. Braun,³ J. Dodge,² S. Rhee,¹ J. Roberts,² E. Perito.¹
¹Pediatrics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ²Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ³School of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Purpose: Over 30% of children listed for liver transplant (LT) have exceptions filed to increase their PELD/MELD. Non-standard exception requests (NSER) are granted by regional…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Predictors of Organ Donation Among African-American Men
C. Harris,¹ C. Modlin,¹ S. Olden,² A. Nowacki,³ T. Franklin,⁴ J. Canedy,¹ M. Tavaras,¹ A. Harris,¹ Y. Hamilton,⁵ C. Zaramo.¹
¹Glickman Urologic & Kidney Institute Minority Men's Health Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; ³Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ⁴College of Medicine, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA; ⁵Lifebanc of Ohio, Cleveland, OH.
Objective: The growth of the national transplant waiting list continues to far outpace the number of available organs, particularly among African Americans (AA). This study…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Historical Comparison of Projected and Observed Liver Transplants
J. Pyke,¹ D. Schladt,¹ W. Kim,⁵ S. Leppke,¹ J. Lake,⁴ S. Gentry,^2,3 D. Segev,² A. Israni,¹ J. Snyder.¹
¹SRTR, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN; ²Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ³Mathematics, US Naval Academy, Baltimore, MD; ⁴Medicine and Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN; ⁵School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
We aimed to compare liver transplant simulation projections to observed data before and after a major policy update. The current liver simulated allocation model (LSAM…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Organ Donation Attitudes of Hispanic College Students in the Rio Grande Valley: Analysis of Free Responses
Y. Tasnif,¹ S. Saladin,² A. Araya,¹ X. Wang.³
¹Cooperative Pharmacy Program, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX; ²Department of Rehabilitation, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX; ³Department of Mathematics, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX.
Purpose: To understand barriers in registering as an organ donor amongst students at a predominantly Hispanic institution.Methods: Self-identified adult (ages 18 and above) Hispanic students…