Articles tagged "Waiting lists"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Sharp Anti-HLA Antibody Development Due to Concomitant Graft Nephrectomy and Immunosuppression Withdrawal After Early Graft Loss
R. Valero¹, A. Aguilera¹, E. Rodrigo¹, D. San Segundo², M. Lopez-Hoyos², J. Ruiz¹
¹Nefrología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Inmunología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
*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…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Regional Impact of Covid-19 on Kidney Transplant in the Southeast
C. Jay¹, B. Sharda¹, R. Helmick², R. Forbes³, V. Casingal⁴, R. Stratta¹
¹Wake Forest Baptist Health, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation, Winston-Salem, NC, ²University of Tennessee Health Science Center, James Eason Transplant Institute, Memphis, TN, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Nashville, TN, ⁴Atrium Health, Division of Transplant Surgery, Charlotte, NC
*Purpose: Despite categorization of kidney transplantation as Tier 3b with guidelines against postponing, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been profound but geographically diverse.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Downstaging Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) to within Milan Criteria Before Liver Transplantation (LT): A Multicenter Analysis of the “All-comers” Protocol
B. Natarajan¹, P. Tabrizian², M. Hoteit³, C. Frenette⁴, T. Ghaziani⁵, R. Dhanasekaran⁵, N. Parikh⁶, J. Guy⁷, A. Shui¹, S. Florman², F. Yao¹, N. Mehta¹
¹UCSF, SF, CA, ²Mt Sinai, NY, NY, ³U Penn, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Scripps, La Jolla, CA, ⁵Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶U Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁷CPMC, SF, CA
*Purpose: Patients with HCC meeting UNOS-downstaging (DS) criteria (1 lesion 5.1-8 cm, 2-3 lesions at least one 3.1-5 cm and total tumor diameter (TTD) ≤8…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison of Pediatric Intestine Transplant Between the Current Era (2015-2019) and the Peak Period (2002-2006)
S. Horslen¹, T. Weaver², M. Skeans²
¹Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ²SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Demand for intestine transplants in children grew from its clinical inception in the late 1980s to a peak in 2007 of 111 small bowel-containing…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Understanding Delays to Pediatric Kidney Transplant Wait-List Activation: Providers and Families Weigh in
C. M. Farkas-Skiles¹, A. Feinsinger², R. Pines³, A. D. Waterman⁴
¹Pediatric Nephrology, UCLA Mattel Children Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, ²Medicine and Philosophy, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA, ⁴Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Since timely access to kidney transplant mediates mortality of children with kidney disease, we examined which factors most commonly affect providers’ decision-making to delay…
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
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…
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
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
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.…

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