2021 American Transplant Congress
Creating Efficiency in the Kidney Transplant Listing: Can We Streamline Candidate Ineligibility?
Tulane Abdominal Transplant Institute, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: Evaluation of multiple transplant candidate referrals is a resource-intensive process that may delay listing and eventually transplanting appropriate patients. In this study, we sought…2021 American Transplant Congress
Extreme Hyponatremia as a Risk Factor for Early Mortality After Liver Transplantation in the MELD-Sodium Era
*Purpose: The impact of hyponatremia on waitlist and post-transplant outcomes following the implementation of MELD-Na based liver allocation remains unclear. We sought to evaluate waitlist…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Quality Incentive Program (QIP) is Associated with Increased Waitlisting for Transplantation
*Purpose: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the Quality Incentive Program (QIP) in 2012, a pay-for-performance program which penalizes dialysis centers payments…2021 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Justified at Any Meld Score?
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Assessing the survival benefit of transplantation in patients with chronic liver failure is critical in guiding the decision-making process for liver allocation. Current protocols…2021 American Transplant Congress
27 Months Follow Up of a Cohort in the Transplant Continuum After Using a New Electronic Medical Record Tool to Document Transplant Option Discussions Among Patients with EGFR <20 Ml/min/1.73m2
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess: 1) the documentation of transplant option discussions; 2) the number of members listed & transplanted preemptively;…2021 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Increasing Liver Discard Rate and Waiting List Drop-Off in Post-MELD Era
*Purpose: As number of donors and transplant cases rises each year, it is important to evaluate not only post-transplant survival rate but also the organ…2021 American Transplant Congress
Seasonality of Mortality for Solid Organ Waitlist Candidates
*Purpose: Analysis of the impact of policies or natural occurrences on transplant system outcomes requires comparison of a treatment (post-policy) period to a control (pre-policy)…2021 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Frailty on Psychometric Factors and Health-related Quality of Life in Patients on the Waitlist for Liver Transplantation
University Medicine Essen, Essen, Germany
*Purpose: The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the influence of frailty on depression, anxiety and health-related quality of life for patients on…2021 American Transplant Congress
Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Pedometer Activity are Most Predictive of Poor Kidney Transplant Waitlist Outcomes
*Purpose: Tools for indicating which patients are most at risk for complications and death after transplant listing would allow for a rational approach to targeted…2021 American Transplant Congress
Survival Adult Liver Transplantation: Experience in a Latinoamerican High Complexity Center. 15 Years with More Than 500 Transplants
Transplant Unit, Fundación Cardioinfantil, Bogotá, Colombia
*Purpose: Liver disease is one of the main causes of chronic disease morbidity and mortality in the world and liver transplantation is the only curative…
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