2021 American Transplant Congress
Rural Dialysis Facilities are Associated with Better Dialysis Quality but Less Home Dialysis Use
1Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Dialysis facility quality is associated with patient outcomes. The 60 million rural dwellers across the United States are older, more likely to live in…2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Kidney Allocation System on Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Long Dialysis Treatment (> 10 Years)
Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: Prior to the new kidney allocation system (KAS), patients treated with dialysis for > 10 years before transplantation were shown to derive a survival…2021 American Transplant Congress
Artificial Neural Network Application for MELDNa Prediction
1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: The adoption of MELDNa decreased 90-days mortality on patients waiting for liver transplant (LT); however, there are no tools available to predict MELDNa trajectories…2021 American Transplant Congress
Profile of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Patients Awaiting Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) represent an extremely vulnerable group with many risk factors for adverse outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Key questions pertaining…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Confluence of Race, Socioeconomic Deprivation, and Waitlist Mortality for Children Awaiting Liver Transplant
*Purpose: Social determinants like racism, ethnocentrism, and neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation are associated with poor outcomes for children after liver transplant. We studied the relationship between…2021 American Transplant Congress
A Kidney Waitlist Outcomes Timeline to Visualize Candidate Offers and Outcomes
*Purpose: While transplant centers closely monitor posttransplant outcomes for each transplant recipient, centers currently lack data to monitor waitlist outcomes of individual candidates. Candidates who…2021 American Transplant Congress
Removal of Race Factor in Egfr Decreases Disparities in Preemptive Listing for Kidney Transplantation
Organ Transplantation, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY
*Purpose: GFR < 20 is required for kidney transplant listing. The Chronic Kidney Disease-Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) and the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD)…2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Recipients Who Had Covid-19 Prior to Transplant: A Single-center Experience
New York Presbyterian / Weill Cornell, New York, NY
*Purpose: In the early recovery phase after the initial surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, a question emerged in the context of resuming transplant activity: should…2021 American Transplant Congress
Center Use of Technical Variant Grafts Impacts Pediatric Liver Transplant Waitlist and Recipient Outcomes in the United States
*Purpose: Assessing composite outcome measures are critical when evaluating graft type selection in pediatric liver transplantation (LT).*Methods: OPTN data on children listed for first-time LT…2021 American Transplant Congress
Sharp Anti-HLA Antibody Development Due to Concomitant Graft Nephrectomy and Immunosuppression Withdrawal After Early Graft Loss
*Purpose: The number of patients awaiting for retransplantation has been progressively increasing. The presence of anti-HLA antibodies can significantly lengthen the waiting time, limiting the…
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