Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2015 American Transplant Congress
A Tool to Estimate Probability of Outcomes on the Liver Transplant Waiting List
A. Hart,^1,2 D. Schladt,¹ J. Zeglin,¹ N. Salkowski,¹ S. Leppke,¹ W. Kim,^1,3 J. Lake,^1,4 A. Israni,¹ B. Kasiske,¹ J. Snyder.¹
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN; ²Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN; ³School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; ⁴Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
The probability of liver transplant (LTX) and death for candidates varies by donation service area (DSA), making it difficult for candidates to understand the likely…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Frailty in Patients Being Evaluated for Kidney Transplantation
M. McAdams DeMarco, I. Olorundare, N. Desai, N. Dagher, B. Lonze, R. Montgomery, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
BACKGROUND: In patients undergoing hemodialysis, frailty prevalence is high and predicts mortality and hospitalization. Little is known about frailty in patients with ESRD who are…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Changing Demographics of HIV+ Liver Transplant Candidates
C. Durand, S. Gustafson, J. Locke, J. Snyder, B. Shelton, R. Reed, P. MacLennan, S. Mehta, A. Nellore, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN; University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Liver transplant (LT) is considered a reasonable therapeutic option for certain HIV+ patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD). As OPTN does not collect HIV status…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Functional Decline in Liver Transplant Candidates: Results from the Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study
J. Lai, K. Covinsky, J. Dodge, S. Sen, S. Feng.
UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Background: Cirrhosis is characterized by sarcopenia and malnutrition, leading to progressive functional decline. No studies have objectively measured physical functional decline in cirrhotics awaiting liver…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Local Expansion in DCD Kidney Transplant Activity Improves Waiting List Outcomes and Addresses Inequities of Access to Transplantation
B. Mirshekar-Syahkal,¹ L. Bradbury,² P. Sun,¹ M. Aly,¹ M. Berry,¹ J. Norris,¹ J. Bradley,¹ G. Pettigrew.¹
¹Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; ²NHSBT, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Following expansion in our circulatory death (DCD) transplant program, our center now performs twice as many DCD as brain-death (DBD) kidney transplants. Here, we…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of Kidney Transplant Among HIV+ Waitlist Candidates
J. Locke,¹ S. Gustafson,² C. Durand,³ J. Snyder,² B. Shelton,¹ R. Reed,¹ P. MacLennan,¹ S. Mehta,¹ A. Nellore,¹ D. Segev.^2,3
¹University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL; ²Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN; ³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Chronic diseases, such as end-stage renal disease (ESRD), are now the leading causes of death among HIV+ patients. Multiple studies have demonstrated the efficacy of…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Medication Non-Adherence in Those Waiting for a Transplant
M. Wakefield,¹ D. Murillo,² C. Russell,³ C. Ashbaugh,¹ S. Potts,² L. Blakley,² A. Deere.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; ²Transplant Institute, Research Hospital, Kansas City, MO; ³School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO.
Purpose: Though poor medication adherence among adult kidney transplant patients is alarmingly high with distressing consequences, no one has systematically examined medication non-adherence in those…
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…