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2. Impact of donor kidney biopsy on kidney yield and posttransplant outcomes
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Connie J. Wang, James B. Wetmore, Andrew Wey, Jonathan Miller, Jon J. Snyder, and Ajay K. Israni
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Transplantation ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
3. OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report: Heart
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Monica M. Colvin, Jodi M. Smith, Yoon Son Ahn, Eric Messick, Kelsi Lindblad, Ajay K. Israni, Jon J. Snyder, and Bertram L. Kasiske
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Transplantation ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
4. OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report: Vascularized Composite Allograft
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J. Andres Hernandez, Guiliano Testa, Hani I. Naga, Kaylyn B. Pogson, Jonathan M. Miller, Sarah E. Booker, Jesse Howell, Kelley Poff, Liza Johannesson, Ajay K. Israni, Jon J. Snyder, and Linda C. Cendales
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Transplantation ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
5. OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report: Deceased Organ Donation
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Ajay K. Israni, David A. Zaun, Katrina Gauntt, Cory R. Schaffhausen, Warren T. McKinney, Jonathan M. Miller, and Jon J. Snyder
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Transplantation ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
6. OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report: Kidney
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Krista L. Lentine, Jodi M. Smith, Jonathan M. Miller, Keighly Bradbrook, Lindsay Larkin, Samantha Weiss, Dzhuliyana K. Handarova, Kayla Temple, Ajay K. Israni, and Jon J. Snyder
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Transplantation ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
7. OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report: Pancreas
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Raja Kandaswamy, Peter G. Stock, Jonathan M. Miller, Joann White, Sarah E. Booker, Ajay K. Israni, and Jon J. Snyder
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Transplantation ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
8. OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report: Introduction
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David P. Schladt and Ajay K. Israni
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Transplantation ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
9. Time to discard the term 'discard'
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Allyson Hart, Rachel E. Patzer, Julie Spear, Ryutaro Hirose, Ameen Tabatabai, Nicholas L. Wood, Cory R. Schaffhausen, David A. Axelrod, Ajay K. Israni, and Jon J. Snyder
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Transplantation ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
10. Transplant program evaluations in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Jonathan Miller, Grace R. Lyden, David Zaun, Bertram L. Kasiske, Ryutaro Hirose, Ajay K. Israni, and Jon J. Snyder
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Transplantation ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Prevention ,organ transplantation ,scientific registry of transplant recipients ,COVID-19 ,health services and outcomes research ,Medical and Health Sciences ,Transplant Recipients ,organ procurement and transplantation network ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Surgery ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Pandemics ,Program Evaluation - Abstract
Potential regional variations in effects of COVID-19 on federally mandated, program-specific evaluations by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) have been controversial. SRTR January 2022 program evaluations ended transplant follow-up on March 12, 2020, and excluded transplants performed from March 13, 2020 to June 12, 2020 (the "carve-out"). This study examined the carve-out's impact, and the effect of additionally censoring COVID-19 deaths, on first-year posttransplant outcomes for transplants from July 2018 through December 2020. Program-specific hazard ratios (HRs) for graft failure and death estimated under two alternative scenarios were compared with published HRs: (1) the carve-out was removed; (2) the carve-out was retained, but deaths due to COVID-19 were additionally censored. The HRs estimated by censoring COVID-19 deaths were highly correlated with those estimated with the carve-out alone (r2 =.96). Removal of the carve-out resulted in greater variation in HRs while remaining highly correlated (r2 =.82); however, little geographic impact of the carve-out was observed. The carve-out increased average HR in the Northwest by 0.049; carve-out plus censoring reduced average HR in the Midwest by 0.009. Other regions of the country were not significantly affected. Thus, the current COVID-19 carve-out does not appear to impart substantial bias based on the region of the country.
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- 2022
11. Use of Exception Status Listing and Related Outcomes During Two Heart Allocation Policy Periods
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Jessica R. Golbus, Yoon Son Ahn, Grace R. Lyden, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, David Zaun, Ajay K. Israni, Mary Norine Walsh, and Monica Colvin
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,Transplantation ,Surgery ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine - Published
- 2023
12. Stakeholders’ perspectives on transplant metrics: the 2022 Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients’ consensus conference
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Jon J. Snyder, Cory R. Schaffhausen, Allyson Hart, David A. Axelrod, Dorrie Dils, Richard N. Formica, A. Osama Gaber, Heather F. Hunt, Jennifer Jones, Sumit Mohan, Rachel E. Patzer, Sean P. Pinney, Lloyd E. Ratner, Dirk Slaker, Darren Stewart, Zoe A. Stewart, Sean Van Slyck, Bertram L. Kasiske, Ryutaro Hirose, and Ajay K. Israni
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Transplantation ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
13. Coronavirus disease-19 mortality among solid organ transplant recipients in the United States during June and December 2020: Comparison of Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and National Death Index data
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Karena D. Volesky-Avellaneda, Jon M. Miller, Ajay K. Israni, Jon J. Snyder, Mark Fredrickson, David Zaun, Kelly J. Yu, Meredith S. Shiels, Ruth M. Pfeiffer, and Eric A. Engels
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Transplantation ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) - Published
- 2023
14. OPTN/SRTR 2019 Annual Data Report: Heart
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Bertram L. Kasiske, Yoon Son Ahn, E. Messick, R. Goff, Ajay K. Israni, M. A. Skeans, Jon J. Snyder, Monica Colvin, J. Foutz, K Bradbrook, and Jodi M. Smith
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Adult ,Heart transplants ,Transplantation ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Graft Survival ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Resource Allocation ,surgical procedures, operative ,Ventricular assist device ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,End stage heart failure ,Child ,business - Abstract
The new adult heart allocation policy was approved in 2016 and implemented in October 2018. This year's Annual Data Report provides early insight into the effects of this policy. In 2019, new listings continued to increase, with 4086 new candidates. Also in 2019, 3597 heart transplants were performed, an increase of 157 (4.6%) from 2018; 509 transplants occurred in children and 3088 in adults. Short- and long-term posttransplant mortality rates improved. Overall, Mortality rates for adult recipients were 6.4% at 6 months and 7.9% at 1 year for transplants in 2018, 14.4% at 3 years for transplants in 2016, and 20.1% at 5 years for transplants in 2014. Mortality rates for pediatric recipients were 6.3% at 6 months and 8.2% at 1 year for transplants in 2018, 10.3% at 3 years for transplants in 2016, and 17.8% at 5 years for transplants in 2014.
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- 2021
15. OPTN/SRTR 2019 Annual Data Report: Intestine
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J. J. Snyder, Ajay K. Israni, M. Cafarella, M. A. Skeans, Simon Horslen, Jodi M. Smith, S. M. Noreen, and Yoon Son Ahn
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Transplantation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Graft failure ,Waiting Lists ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Patient survival ,Intestine transplant ,Graft loss ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Surgery ,Intestines ,surgical procedures, operative ,Quality of life ,Waiting list ,Intestinal failure ,Quality of Life ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,business ,Graft Type - Abstract
Intestine transplant can be life-saving and can improve quality of life for patients with intestinal failure. Medical and surgical advances in treatment of intestinal failure over the past 10 to 15 years have resulted in fewer patients being added to the waiting list for intestine transplant alone or for intestine transplant in combination with liver transplant (and sometimes other organs). Consequently, fewer transplants are being performed. The numbers of listings and transplants fell to new lows in 2019. The number of programs performing transplants in at least one patient in 2019 was the lowest in the last decade, equal to 2014, at 15. Graft failure plateaued over the past decade, but early graft loss has increased in the past 2 years, notably in recipients of a combined liver and intestine allograft. Five-year patient survival for transplants in 2012-2014 varied little by graft type.
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- 2021
16. OPTN/SRTR 2019 Annual Data Report: Lung
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Jon J. Snyder, J. Foutz, R. Goff, Ajay K. Israni, Carli J. Lehr, Maryam Valapour, E. Miller, Jodi M. Smith, Bertram L. Kasiske, and Melissa Skeans
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Transplantation ,Lung transplants ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Lung ,Waiting Lists ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Equity (finance) ,030230 surgery ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Waitlist mortality ,business ,Demography ,Lung allocation score - Abstract
The number of lung transplants performed continues to increase annually and reached an all-time high in 2019, with decreasing waitlist mortality. These trends are attributable to an increasing number of candidates listed for transplant each year and a continuing increase in the number of donors. Despite these favorable trends, 6.4% of lungs recovered for transplant were not transplanted in 2019, and strategies to optimize use of these available organs may reduce the number of waitlist even further. Time to transplant continued to decrease, as over 50% of candidates waited 3 months or less in 2019, yet regional heterogeneity remained despite policy changes intended to improve allocation equity. Small gains continued in posttransplant survival, with 1-year survival at 88.8%; 3 year, 74.4%; 5 year, 59.2%, and 10 year, 33.1 %.
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- 2021
17. OPTN/SRTR 2019 Annual Data Report: Econ
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Mark A. Schnitzler, Ajay K. Israni, M. A. Skeans, Krista L. Lentine, Bertram L. Kasiske, Jon J. Snyder, Henry B. Randall, David A. Axelrod, and J. Miller
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Transplantation ,Actuarial science ,business.industry ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,business ,Resource utilization - Published
- 2021
18. Improving the predictive ability of the pediatric end-stage liver disease score for young children awaiting liver transplant
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Ajay K. Israni, David P. Schladt, Evelyn K. Hsu, Emily R. Perito, and Andrew Wey
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Transplantation ,Creatinine ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pediatric transplant ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,030230 surgery ,Chronic liver disease ,medicine.disease ,Awaiting liver transplant ,03 medical and health sciences ,Liver disease ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,chemistry ,Pediatric end stage liver disease score ,Linear spline ,medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,business - Abstract
The current pediatric end-stage liver disease (PELD) score underestimates pediatric waitlist mortality. Children frequently require PELD exception points to achieve appropriate priority ranking. We developed a new PELD score using serum sodium, creatinine, and updated original PELD components to more accurately rank children and equalize children's mortality risk with the age-standardized mortality rate of adults. We included children aged younger than 12 years with chronic liver disease, listed for deceased donor livers January 1, 2005-December 31, 2017. Pediatric candidates (n = 5111) were followed from listing to the earliest of waitlist mortality (death or removal from the list due to being too sick to undergo transplant, n = 339) or 180 days. We incorporated linear splines for the current components of PELD and added sodium and creatinine to the equation. The updated PELD-Na-Cr had a cross-validated AUC ROC of 0.854, vs 0.799 for the original PELD. PELD-Na-Cr required 9.44 additional points to equalize children's mortality risk with the age-standardized mortality rate of adults. PELD-Na-Cr better ordered the sickest children and should better prioritize children relative to adults. As a result, PELD-Na-Cr could increase pediatric transplant rates and reduce pediatric liver transplant waitlist mortality.
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- 2021
19. Posttransplant outcome assessments at listing: Long-term outcomes are more important than short-term outcomes
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Jon J. Snyder, Nicholas Salkowski, Allyson Hart, Bertram L. Kasiske, Melissa Skeans, Andrew Wey, and Ajay K. Israni
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,MEDLINE ,030230 surgery ,Liver transplantation ,Cohort Studies ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Epidemiology ,Long term outcomes ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Lung transplantation ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Kidney Transplantation ,Liver Transplantation ,Cohort ,Graft survival ,Listing (finance) ,business ,Lung Transplantation - Abstract
Posttransplant outcome assessments are publicly reported for patient and regulatory use. However, the currently reported 1-year posttransplant graft survival assessments are commonly criticized for not identifying clinically meaningful differences between programs, and not providing information about longer-term posttransplant outcomes. We investigated the association of different posttransplant outcome assessments available to patients at the time of listing with subsequent posttransplant graft survival. The posttransplant assessments were from period prevalent, rather than incident, cohorts with more timely 1-, 3-, and 5-year follow-up and 6-, 12-, 18-, 24-, and 30-month cohort windows. The association of these assessments at listing with subsequent posttransplant graft survival included candidates listed between July 12, 2011, and December 15, 2015, who subsequently underwent transplant before December 31, 2018. The assessments with 1-year follow-up had uniformly weaker associations than the assessments with 3- and 5-year follow-up. The assessments with 5-year follow-up had the strongest association in kidney and liver transplantation. For kidney, liver, and lung transplantation, assessment windows of at least 18 months typically had the strongest associations with subsequent graft survival. Posttransplant assessments with 5-year follow-up and 18-30-month cohort windows are better than the current posttransplant assessment with 1-year follow-up, particularly at the time of listing.
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- 2020
20. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed metrics for recertification of organ procurement organizations: Evaluation by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
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Andrew Wey, David Zaun, John D. Rosendale, Donald Musgrove, Jon J. Snyder, Ryutaro Hirose, Nicholas Salkowski, Bertram L. Kasiske, and Ajay K. Israni
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OPOS ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,030230 surgery ,Medicare ,Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S ,Organ transplantation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Organ donation ,Aged ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Risk adjustment ,Tissue Donors ,Transplant Recipients ,United States ,Benchmarking ,Organ procurement ,Donation ,Emergency medicine ,business ,Medicaid - Abstract
On December 23, 2019, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed 2 new standards that organ procurement organizations (OPOs) must meet for recertification. An OPO's organ donation rate (deceased donors/potential donors) and organ transplant rate (organs transplanted/potential donors) must not fall significantly below the 75th percentile for rates among all OPOs. We examined how OPOs would have fared under the proposed performance standards in 2016-2017. Data on donors and transplants were from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network; donor potential was estimated from Detailed Multiple Cause of Death data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2017, 31 (53%) OPOs failed to meet the proposed donation rate standard, 36 (62%) failed to meet the proposed organ transplant rate standard, and 37 (64%) failed at least 1 standard. We found that adjusting for age, race, and Hispanic ethnicity altered the evaluation: 8 OPOs changed their pass/fail status for the donation rate and 5 for the proposed organ transplant rate standard. We conclude that the proposed new standards may result in over half of OPOs facing decertification, and risk adjustment suggests that underlying characteristics of deaths vary regionally such that decertification decisions may be affected.
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- 2020
21. OPTN/SRTR 2018 Annual Data Report: Pancreas
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Read Urban, Jon J. Snyder, Bertram L. Kasiske, Peter G. Stock, Melissa Skeans, Raja Kandaswamy, A. Fox, Ajay K. Israni, and Sally K. Gustafson
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Waiting time ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,Pancreas graft ,030230 surgery ,Type ii diabetes ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Survival data ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Transplantation ,Kidney ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Surgery ,surgical procedures, operative ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Waiting list ,Pancreas Transplantation ,Pancreas ,business - Abstract
The overall number of pancreas transplants continued to increase to 1027 in 2018, after a nadir of 947 in 2015. New additions to waiting list remained stable, with 1485 candidates added in 2018. Proportions of patients with type II diabetes waiting for transplant (14.6%) and undergoing transplant (14.8%) have steadily increased since 2016. Waiting times for simultaneous pancreas/kidney transplant have decreased; median months to transplant was 13.5 for simultaneous pancreas/kidney transplant and 19.7 for pancreas transplant alone in 2018. Outcomes, including patient and kidney survival, as well as rejection rates, have improved consistently over the past several years. Pancreas graft survival data are being collected by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and will be included in a future report once there are sufficient cohorts for analysis.
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- 2020
22. OPTN/SRTR 2018 Annual Data Report: Lung
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R. Goff, Ajay K. Israni, Bertram L. Kasiske, Carli J. Lehr, Melissa Skeans, K. Uccellini, Maryam Valapour, Jodi M. Smith, Jon J. Snyder, and J. Foutz
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Transplantation ,Lung transplants ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Lung ,Waiting Lists ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Transplant Waiting List ,030230 surgery ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Waiting list ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,business ,Lung Transplantation ,Lung allocation score - Abstract
The primary goal of US lung allocation policy is to ensure that candidates with the highest risk for mortality receive appropriate access to lung transplant. In 2018, 2562 lung transplants were performed in the US, reflecting a 31% increase over the past 5 years. More candidates are being listed for lung transplant, and the number of donors has increased substantially. Despite an increase of 84 lung transplants in 2018, 365 adult candidates died or became too sick to undergo transplant. In 2018, 24 new child (ages 0-11 years) candidates were added to the lung transplant waiting list. Fifteen lung transplants were performed in recipients aged 0-11 years, three in recipients aged younger than 1 year, two in recipients aged 1-5 years, and ten in recipients aged 6-11 years. Of 27 child candidates removed from the waiting list in 2018, 16 (59.3%) were removed due to undergoing transplant, six (22.2%) due to death, one (3.7%) due to improved condition, and one (3.7%) due to becoming too sick to undergo transplant.
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- 2020
23. OPTN/SRTR 2017 Annual Data Report: Intestine
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S. M. Noreen, Simon Horslen, Jodi M. Smith, T. Weaver, Ajay K. Israni, M. A. Skeans, Bertram L. Kasiske, and Jon J. Snyder
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,Intestine transplant ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030230 surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Intestinal failure ,Internal medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Surgical treatment ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,Graft Survival ,Patient survival ,Organ Transplantation ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Intestines ,Waiting list ,Age distribution ,business - Abstract
Despite improvements in medical and surgical treatment of intestinal failure, intestine transplant continues to play an important role. In 2017, 109 intestine transplants were performed, 62 in adults and 47 in children, reflecting the changed age distribution over the past decade of candidates waitlisted for intestine and intestine-liver transplant from largely pediatric to increasing proportions of adults. In 2017, 56.0% of candidates on the intestine list at any time during the year were aged younger than 18 years, with a decrease over time in those aged younger than 6 years and an increase in those aged 6-17 years. Adults accounted for 44.0% of candidates on the list at any time during the year, with an increase since 2013 in those aged 18-34 years and a decrease in those aged 35 years or older. By age, the pretransplant mortality rate was highest for adult candidates at 7.9 per 100 waitlist-years and lowest for pediatric candidates at 3.7 per 100 waitlist-years. Patient survival varied by age and type of transplant, and was lowest for adult intestine-liver recipients (1- and 5-year survival 66.7% and 42.6%, respectively) and highest for pediatric intestine recipients (1- and 5-year survival 86.2% and 75.4%, respectively).
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- 2019
24. The relationship between the C-statistic and the accuracy of program-specific evaluations
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Andrew Wey, Jon J. Snyder, Bertram L. Kasiske, Ajay K. Israni, Sally K. Gustafson, Melissa Skeans, and Nicholas Salkowski
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Program evaluation ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Statistics as Topic ,030230 surgery ,Article ,Correlation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Predictive Value of Tests ,Statistics ,Range (statistics) ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Computer Simulation ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Association (psychology) ,Statistic ,Transplantation ,Deceased donor ,business.industry ,Data Collection ,Graft Survival ,Hazard ratio ,Organ Transplantation ,Tissue Donors ,Transplant Recipients ,Risk Adjustment ,Metric (unit) ,business ,Program Evaluation - Abstract
The C-statistic of the risk-adjustment model is often used to judge the accuracy of program evaluations. However, the C-statistic depends on the variability in risk for individual transplants and may be inappropriate for determining the accuracy of program evaluations. A simulation study investigated the association of the C-statistic with several metrics of program evaluation accuracy, including categorizing programs into the 5-tier system and identifying programs for regulatory review. The simulation study used data from deceased donor kidney-alone transplants for adult recipients in the program-specific reports released January 2018. A range of C-statistics was generated by changing the variability in risk for individual transplants. The C-statistic had no association with any metric of program evaluation accuracy. Instead, the number of expected events at a program was the most important factor. For example, Spearman’s rho, which is the correlation of ranks, was −0.27 and −0.72 between the true program-specific hazard ratios and assigned tiers for programs with, respectively, less than 3 and more than 10 expected events. Presence of unadjusted risk factors did not modify the associations, although the accuracy of program evaluations was systematically lower. Therefore, the C-statistic provides no information on the accuracy of program evaluations.
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- 2019
25. OPTN/SRTR 2017 Annual Data Report: Heart
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R. Lehman, A. Robinson, N. Hadley, Bertram L. Kasiske, Jon J. Snyder, Ajay K. Israni, M. A. Skeans, K. Uccellini, Jodi M. Smith, and Monica Colvin
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Heart transplants ,Transplantation ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Graft Survival ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030230 surgery ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Ventricular assist device ,Heart Transplantation ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,End stage heart failure ,business - Abstract
In 2017, 3273 heart transplants were performed in the United States. New listings continued to increase, and 3769 new adults were listed for heart transplant in 2017. Over the past decade, posttransplant mortality has declined. The number of new pediatric listings increased over the past decade, as did the number of pediatric heart transplants, although some fluctuation has occurred more recently. New listings for pediatric heart transplants increased from 481 in 2007 to 623 in 2017. The number of pediatric heart transplants performed each year increased from 330 in 2007 to 432 in 2017, slightly fewer than in 2016. Short-term and long-term mortality improved. Among pediatric patients who underwent transplant between 2015-2016, 4.8% had died by 6 months and 6.2% by 1 year.
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- 2019
26. Seeking new answers to old questions about public reporting of transplant program performance in the United States
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David Zaun, Bertram L. Kasiske, Nicholas Salkowski, Cory R. Schaffhausen, Jon J. Snyder, Andrew Wey, and Ajay K. Israni
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,media_common.quotation_subject ,030230 surgery ,Article ,Organ transplantation ,03 medical and health sciences ,Presentation ,0302 clinical medicine ,Public reporting ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Quality Indicators, Health Care ,media_common ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Data Collection ,Consensus conference ,Organ Transplantation ,Public Reporting of Healthcare Data ,Risk adjustment ,Quality Improvement ,Focus group ,Family medicine ,Metric (unit) ,Listing (finance) ,business ,Program Evaluation - Abstract
The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) is mandated by the National Organ Transplant Act, the Final Rule, and the SRTR contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration to report program-specific information on the performance of transplant programs. Following a consensus conference in 2012, SRTR developed a new version of the public website to improve public reporting of often complex metrics, including changing from a 3-tier to a 5-tier summary metric for first-year posttransplant survival. After its release in December 2016, the new presentation was moved to a “beta” website to allow collection of additional feedback. SRTR made further improvements and released a new beta website in May 2018. In response to feedback, SRTR added 5-tier summaries for standardized waitlist mortality and deceased donor transplant rate ratios, along with an indicator of which metric most affects survival after listing. Presentation of results was made more understandable with input from patients and families from surveys and focus groups. Room for improvement remains, including continuing to make the data more useful to patients, deciding what additional data elements should be collected to improve risk adjustment, and developing new metrics that better reflect outcomes most relevant to patients.
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- 2019
27. OPTN/SRTR 2017 Annual Data Report: Deceased Organ Donation
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Cory R. Schaffhausen, David Zaun, Jon J. Snyder, Bertram L. Kasiske, John D. Rosendale, and Ajay K. Israni
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Brain Death ,Transplantation ,Opioid epidemic ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Organ Transplantation ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030230 surgery ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,03 medical and health sciences ,Organ procurement ,0302 clinical medicine ,Donation ,Emergency medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Graft survival ,Organ donation ,business - Abstract
SRTR uses data collected by OPTN to calculate metrics such as donation rate, organ yield, and rate of organs recovered for transplant but not transplanted. In 2017, 1,085,646 death and imminent death referrals were made to organ procurement organizations, of which 22,265 met the definition of eligible (11,673) or imminent neurological (10,592) deaths per OPTN policy. There were 10,286 deceased donors, and this number has been increasing since 2010. The number of organs authorized for recovery has also continued to increase since 2010. The recent increase may be in part due to the rising number of deaths of young individuals due to the opioid epidemic. In 2017, 4813 organs were discarded, including 3542 kidneys, 309 pancreata, 742 livers, 4 intestines, 33 hearts, and 272 lungs. These numbers suggest a need to reduce the number of organs discarded.
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- 2019
28. Organ distribution without geographic boundaries: A possible framework for organ allocation
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Ajay K. Israni, Jon J. Snyder, Joshua Pyke, Andrew Wey, Bertram L. Kasiske, and Nicholas Salkowski
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Service (systems architecture) ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,030232 urology & nephrology ,030230 surgery ,Organ distribution ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Resource (project management) ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Operations management ,Transplantation ,Geography ,business.industry ,Equity (finance) ,Organ Transplantation ,Tissue Donors ,Donation ,Residence ,business ,Lung allocation score - Abstract
The Final Rule mandates that organ allocation not be based on the transplant candidate's place of residence or listing, except as required by sound medical judgment and best use of donated organs, to avoid wasting organs and futile transplants, and to promote access and efficiency. Current Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) policies use donation service areas and OPTN regions to distribute and allocate organs for transplant. These policies have recently been called into question as not meeting the requirements of the Final Rule. Therefore, we propose using borderless allocation scores that combine medical priority scores with geographic feasibility scores. Medical priority scores are currently used in OPTN allocation policy, for example, the model for end-stage liver disease and the lung allocation score. Geographic feasibility scores can be developed to account for the effects of ischemia due to travel times, donor characteristics that modify the feasibility of traveling due to organ outcomes, and the costs of shipping organs over long distances. A borderless distribution and allocation system could address the goals of equity and utility, while fulfilling the mandates of the Final Rule and providing optimal use of a scare resource.
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- 2018
29. Program-specific transplant rate ratios: Association with allocation priority at listing and posttransplant outcomes
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Joshua Pyke, Jon J. Snyder, Nicholas Salkowski, Ajay K. Israni, Andrew Wey, Bertram L. Kasiske, and Sally K. Gustafson
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,medicine.medical_treatment ,030230 surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,Liver disease ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Association (psychology) ,Kidney transplantation ,Heart transplantation ,Transplantation ,Health Care Rationing ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,Transplant Recipients ,Treatment Outcome ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Listing (finance) ,Waitlist mortality ,business ,Regional differences - Abstract
The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) is considering more prominent reporting of program-specific adjusted transplant rate ratios (TRRs). To enable more useful reporting of TRRs, SRTR updated the transplant rate models to adjust explicitly for components of allocation priority. We evaluated potential associations between TRRs and components of allocation priority that could indicate programs' ability to manipulate TRRs by denying or delaying access to low-priority candidates. Despite a strong association with unadjusted TRRs, we found no candidate-level association between the components of allocation priority and adjusted TRRs. We found a strong program-level association between median laboratory Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score at listing and program-specific adjusted TRRs (r = .37; P
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30. A kidney offer acceptance decision tool to inform the decision to accept an offer or wait for a better kidney
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Walter K. Kremers, Nicholas Salkowski, Andrew Wey, Jon J. Snyder, Cory R. Schaffhausen, Bertram L. Kasiske, and Ajay K. Israni
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Decision tool ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Quality Assurance, Health Care ,Waiting Lists ,Decision Making ,030232 urology & nephrology ,030230 surgery ,Kidney ,Risk Assessment ,Article ,Donor Selection ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Clinical decision making ,Organ acceptance ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Donor pool ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Proportional hazards model ,Patient survival ,Decision Support Systems, Clinical ,Prognosis ,Kidney Transplantation ,Tissue Donors ,Surgery ,Graft survival ,business ,Demography - Abstract
We developed a kidney offer acceptance decision tool to predict the probability of graft survival and patient survival for first-time kidney-alone candidates after an offer is accepted or declined, and we characterized the effect of restricting the donor pool with a maximum acceptable kidney donor profile index (KDPI). For accepted offers, Cox proportional hazards models estimated these probabilities using transplanted kidneys. For declined offers, these probabilities were estimated by considering the experience of similar candidates who declined offers and the probability that declining would lead to these outcomes. We randomly selected 5000 declined offers and estimated these probabilities 3 years post-offer had the offers been accepted or declined. Predicted outcomes for declined offers were well calibrated (< 3% error) with good predictive accuracy (AUC: graft survival, 0.69; patient survival, 0.69). Had the offers been accepted, the probabilities of graft survival and patient survival were typically higher. However, these advantages attenuated or disappeared with higher KDPI, candidate priority, and local donor supply. Donor pool restrictions were associated with worse 3-year outcomes, especially for candidates with high allocation priority. The kidney offer acceptance decision tool could inform offer acceptance by characterizing the potential risk-benefit tradeoff associated with accepting or declining an offer. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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31. OPTN/SRTR 2016 Annual Data Report: Economics
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David A. Axelrod, Melissa Skeans, Jon J. Snyder, Ajay K. Israni, Henry B. Randall, Mark A. Schnitzler, Bertram L. Kasiske, and Krista L. Lentine
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Graft failure ,Waiting Lists ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030230 surgery ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,Graft function ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Dialysis ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Organ Transplantation ,06 humanities and the arts ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Surgery ,surgical procedures, operative ,060301 applied ethics ,Solid organ transplantation ,business - Abstract
Medicare costs vary for solid organ transplant recipients by outcome: survival with graft function, survival with graft failure, and death. Average per-person per-year reimbursement was $75 thousand for kidney recipients who survived the first year posttransplant with a functioning graft, $171 thousand for those who required a return to dialysis or retransplant, and $350 thousand for those who died with function. For pancreas recipients: $105 thousand for those who survived the first year with a functioning graft, $120 thousand for those who survived pancreas failure, and $443 thousand for those who died with function. For liver recipients: $154 thousand for those who survived with a functioning graft, $388 thousand for those who required retransplant, and $740 thousand who died with function. For intestine recipients: $301 thousand for those who survived with a functioning graft and $1 million for those who died with function. For heart recipients: $272 thousand for those who survived with a functioning graft and $1.2 million for those who died with function. For lung recipients: $196 thousand for those who survived with a functioning graft, $642 thousand for those who required retransplant, and $761 thousand for those who died with function.
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32. OPTN/SRTR 2016 Annual Data Report: Liver
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David P. Schladt, John R. Lake, J. L. Wainright, W. R. Kim, Jodi M. Smith, Ann M. Harper, Bertram L. Kasiske, Melissa Skeans, Ajay K. Israni, and Jon J. Snyder
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Waiting time ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030230 surgery ,Living donor ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Hepatitis ,Transplantation ,Deceased donor ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Fatty liver ,Transplant Waiting List ,medicine.disease ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Liver Transplantation ,Hepatocellular carcinoma ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Adult liver ,business - Abstract
Data on adult liver transplants performed in the US in 2016 are no-table for (1) the largest total number of transplants performed (7841); (2) the shortest median waiting time in recent history (11.3 months); (3) continued reduction in waitlist registrations and transplants for hepatitis C-related indications; (4) increasing numbers of patients whose clinical profiles are consistent with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; and (5) equilibration of transplant rates in patients with and without hepatocellular carcinoma. Despite the increase in the number of available organs, waitlist mortality remained an important concern. Graft survival rates continued to improve. In 2016, 723 new active candidates were added to the pediatric liver transplant waiting list, down from a peak of 826 in 2005. The number of prevalent candidates (on the list on December 31 of the given year) was stable, 408 active and 169 inactive. The number of pediatric living donor liver transplants decreased from a peak of 79 in 2015 to 62 in 2016, with most from donors closely related to the recipients. Graft survival continued to improve over the past decade among recipients of deceased donor and living donor livers.
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33. OPTN/SRTR 2016 Annual Data Report: Lung
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Maryam Valapour, A. Robinson, R. Lehman, Jon J. Snyder, K. Uccellini, Bertram L. Kasiske, Jodi M. Smith, Robert J. Carrico, Melissa Skeans, Ajay K. Israni, and Carli J. Lehr
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Waiting time ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Transplantation ,Lung transplants ,Lung ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Mortality rate ,Graft Survival ,Transplant Waiting List ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,030228 respiratory system ,Waiting list ,business ,Lung Transplantation ,Lung allocation score - Abstract
In 2016, 2692 candidates aged 12 years or older were added to the lung transplant waiting list; 2345 transplants were performed, the largest number of any prior year. The median waiting time for listed candidates in 2016 was 2.5 months, and waiting times were shortest for group D candidates. The transplant rate increased to 191.9 transplants per 100 waitlist years in 2016, with a slight decrease in waitlist mortality to 15.1 deaths per 100 waitlist years. Short-term survival continued to improve, with a 6-month death rate of 6.6% and a 1-year death rate of 10.8% among recipients in 2015 compared with 8.0% and 13.3%, respectively, among recipients in 2014. Long-term survival rates remained unchanged; 55.6% of recipients were alive at 5 years. In 2016, 23 new candidates aged 0-11 years were added to the waiting list and 16 lung transplants were performed. Incidence of posttransplant mortality for lung transplant recipients aged 0-11 years who underwent transplant in 2014-2015 was 13.8% at 6 months and 19.6% at 1 year. Changes in waitlist and transplant demographic features continued to evolve following implementation of the revised lung allocation score in 2015. Some early trends that may be attributable to the revised LAS are shorter waiting times, stabilization of the number of group D candidates listed for transplant, and convergence of LAS with lower prevalence of extremely high scores.
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34. OPTN/SRTR 2016 Annual Data Report: Deceased Organ Donation
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Cory R. Schaffhausen, David Zaun, Jon J. Snyder, John D. Rosendale, Bertram L. Kasiske, and Ajay K. Israni
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Brain Death ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,030230 surgery ,Organ transplantation ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Organ donation ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Organ Transplantation ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Organ procurement ,Donation ,Emergency medicine ,Graft survival ,business - Abstract
SRTR uses data collected by OPTN to calculate metrics such as donation rate, organ yield, and rate of organs recovered for transplant but not transplanted. In 2016, 1,072,717 death and imminent death referrals were made to organ procurement organizations, of which 23,433 met the definition of eligible (10,717) or imminent (12,716) deaths per OPTN policy. There were 9971 deceased donors, and this number has been increasing since 2010. The number of organs authorized for recovery has also continued to increase since 2010. In 2016, 4859 organs were discarded, including 3631 kidneys, 317 pancreata, 739 livers, 8 intestines, 31 hearts, and 211 lungs. These numbers suggest a need to reduce the number of organs discarded.
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35. OPTN/SRTR 2016 Annual Data Report: Intestine
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Jon J. Snyder, Ajay K. Israni, T. Weaver, M. A. Skeans, Jodi M. Smith, Simon Horslen, Bertram L. Kasiske, and Ann M. Harper
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,Intestine transplant ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030230 surgery ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Intestinal failure ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Surgical treatment ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,Graft Survival ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Intestines ,Waiting list ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Graft survival ,Age distribution ,business - Abstract
Despite improvements in medical and surgical treatment of intestinal failure, intestine transplant continues to play an important role. In 2016, a total of 147 intestine transplants were performed, 80 intestine-without-liver and 67 intestine-liver. Over the past decade, the age distribution of candidates waitlisted for intestine and intestine-liver transplant shifted from primarily pediatric to increasing proportions of adults. In 2016, 58.2% of candidates on the intestine list at any time during the year were aged younger than 18 years, with a decrease over time in those aged younger than 6 years and an increase in those aged 6-17 years. Adults accounted for 41.9% of candidates on the list at any time during the year, with a stable proportion of those aged 18-34 years and a decrease in those aged 35 years or older. By age, pretransplant mortality rate was highest for adult candidates at 11.7 per 100 waitlist years and lowest for children aged younger than 6 years at 2.2 per 100 waitlist years. For intestine transplants with or without a liver in 2009-2011, 1- and 5-year graft survival was 72.0% and 54.1%, respectively, for recipients aged younger than 18 years, and 70.5% and 44.1%, respectively, for recipients aged 18 years or older.
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36. Effect of Replacing Race With Apolipoprotein L1 Genotype in Calculation of Kidney Donor Risk Index
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W. M Brown, Robert S. Gaston, Sumit Mohan, Bruce A. Julian, Jasmin Divers, David P. Schladt, Amber Reeves-Daniel, Barry I. Freedman, Ajay K. Israni, and Stephen O. Pastan
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Adult ,Graft Rejection ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Genotype ,Apolipoprotein L1 ,030232 urology & nephrology ,030230 surgery ,Cohort Studies ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Race (biology) ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,Risk index ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Risk factor ,African american ,Transplantation ,Kidney ,biology ,business.industry ,Incidence ,Graft Survival ,Racial Groups ,Genetic Variation ,Middle Aged ,Prognosis ,Kidney Transplantation ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Survival Rate ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Immunology ,biology.protein ,Female ,business ,Biomarkers ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
Renal allografts from deceased African American donors with two apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1) renal-risk variants fail sooner than kidneys from donors with fewer variants. The Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) was developed to evaluate organ offers by predicting allograft longevity and includes African American race as a risk factor. Substituting APOL1 genotype for race may refine the KDRI. For 622 deceased African American kidney donors, we applied a 10-fold cross-validation approach to estimate contribution of APOL1 variants to a revised KDRI. Cross-validation was repeated 10 000 times to generate distribution of effect size associated with APOL1 genotype. Average effect size was used to derive the revised KDRI weighting. Mean current-KDRI score for all donors was 1.4930 versus mean revised-KDRI score 1.2518 for 529 donors with no or one variant and 1.8527 for 93 donors with two variants. Original and revised KDRIs had comparable survival prediction errors after transplantation, but the spread in Kidney Donor Profile Index based on presence or absence of two APOL1 variants was 37 percentage points. Replacing donor race with APOL1 genotype in KDRI better defines risk associated with kidneys transplanted from deceased African American donors, substantially improves KDRI score for 85-90% of kidneys offered, and enhances the link between donor quality and recipient need.
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37. OPTN/SRTR 2015 Annual Data Report: Early effects of the new kidney allocation system
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Peter G. Stock, Melissa Skeans, Darren Stewart, Ajay K. Israni, Sally K. Gustafson, Bert L Kasiske, and Allyson Hart
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Tissue and Organ Procurement ,030232 urology & nephrology ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030230 surgery ,Article ,Donor Selection ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Highly sensitized ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,Patient survival ,Allocation method ,Kidney Transplantation ,Tissue Donors ,Kidney allocation ,Rapid rise ,Waiting list ,Graft survival ,business ,Demography - Abstract
In December 2014, a new kidney allocation system (KAS) was implemented in the United States in an attempt to improve access to transplant for historically underrepresented groups, and to incorporate longevity matching such that donor kidneys with the longest projected graft survival are given to recipients with the longest projected patient survival. The development of organ allocation policies is often guided by simulated allocation models, computer programs that simulate the arrival of donated organs and new candidates on the waiting list over a 1-year period to project outcomes under a new allocation method. We examined the early outcomes under the new KAS using quarterly data beginning in 2013, revealing whether trends were already underway before implementation. Quarterly data also serve to reveal any bolus effect, or a rapid rise or fall in the proportion of transplants in a given group due to reordering of the list, followed by tapering toward a new steady state. Post-KAS changes were notable for an increase in the proportion of transplants among younger candidates, black and Hispanic candidates, highly sensitized candidates, and those on dialysis for at least 5 years. Transplants among blood type B candidates increased slightly but these candidates remain underrepresented relative to their prevalence on the waiting list. Regional and national sharing increased under the new KAS, but transplants of kidneys with a kidney donor profile index above 85% decreased. Early graft survival appears unchanged, but given the increases in regional sharing, cold ischemia time, and transplants among highly sensitized candidates and candidates with long pretransplant dialysis time, long-term graft survival will need to monitored.
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38. OPTN/SRTR 2015 Annual Data Report: Intestine
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Ann M. Harper, E. B. Edwards, Ajay K. Israni, Melissa Skeans, Jodi M. Smith, Simon Horslen, Jon J. Snyder, and Bert L Kasiske
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,Intestine transplant ,Disease ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030230 surgery ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030225 pediatrics ,Internal medicine ,Intestinal failure ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,Graft Survival ,Patient survival ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Intestines ,Treatment Outcome ,Parenteral nutrition ,Waiting list ,Etiology ,business ,Immunosuppressive Agents - Abstract
Intestine and intestine-liver transplant remains important in the treatment of intestinal failure, despite decreased morbidity associated with parenteral nutrition. In 2015, 196 new patients were added to the intestine transplant waiting list, with equal numbers waiting for intestine and intestine-liver transplant. Among prevalent patients on the list at the end of 2015, 63.3% were waiting for an intestine transplant and 36.7% were waiting for an intestine-liver transplant. The pretransplant mortality rate decreased dramatically over time for all age groups. Pretransplant mortality was notably higher for intestine-liver than for intestine transplant candidates (respectively, 19.9 vs. 2.8 deaths per 100 waitlist years in 2014-2015). By age, pretransplant mortality was highest for adult candidates, at 19.6 per 100 waitlist years, and lowest for children aged younger than 6 years, at 3.6 per 100 waitlist years. Pretransplant mortality by etiology was highest for candidates with non-congenital types of short-gut syndrome. Numbers of intestine transplants without a liver increased from a low of 51 in 2013 to 70 in 2015. Intestine-liver transplants increased from a low of 44 in 2012 to 71 in 2015. Short-gut syndrome (congenital and non-congenital) was the main cause of disease leading to intestine and to intestine-liver transplant. Patient survival was lowest for adult intestine-liver recipients and highest for pediatric intestine recipients.
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39. Old versus new: Progress in reaching the goals of the new kidney allocation system
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Connie J. Wang, James B. Wetmore, and Ajay K. Israni
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Isoantigens ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Immunology ,030232 urology & nephrology ,030230 surgery ,Kidney transplant ,Donor Selection ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Government regulation ,Isoantibodies ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Registries ,Intensive care medicine ,Dialysis ,Kidney transplantation ,Deceased donor ,business.industry ,Donor selection ,Histocompatibility Testing ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Kidney Transplantation ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Kidney allocation ,Histocompatibility ,Government Regulation ,business - Abstract
As demand for kidney transplant continues to grow faster than organ availability, appropriate allocation of deceased donor kidneys is an acute priority. Increased longevity matching is central to this effort. To foster equitable and efficient utilization of deceased donor kidneys, a new kidney allocation system (KAS) was introduced in December 2014. Major achievements in the 1year after its implementation include a reduction in age-mismatch and an increase in access to transplant for historically disadvantaged candidates, such as those with very high levels of panel-reactive antibodies or long dialysis duration. However, the rate of discarded kidneys has not decreased, and an increase in A2/A2B transplants has yet to be realized. Organs are now shared more often at the regional and national levels, with some regions experiencing an increase in transplants and other a decrease. While implementation of the KAS has been associated with the attainment of key goals, the kidney transplant community must remain vigilant about potential untoward consequences, including reductions in transplant rates for specific groups such as pediatric patients. More time is required before firm conclusions about the long-term effects of the new KAS can be rendered.
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40. OPTN/SRTR 2015 Annual Data Report: Heart
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Melissa Skeans, Ajay K. Israni, Jon J. Snyder, B. L. Kasiske, K. Uccellini, L. B. Edwards, Jodi M. Smith, and Monica Colvin
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,030230 surgery ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Heart transplants ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Surgery ,Treatment Outcome ,surgical procedures, operative ,Waiting list ,Ventricular assist device ,Heart Transplantation ,End stage heart failure ,business ,Immunosuppressive Agents - Abstract
The number of heart transplant candidates and transplants performed continued to rise each year. In 2015, 2819 heart transplants were performed. In addition, the number of new adult candidates on the waiting list increased 51% since 2004. The number of adult heart transplant survivors continued to increase, and in 2015, 29,172 recipients were living with heart transplants. Patient mortality following transplant has declined. The number of pediatric candidates and transplants performed also increased. New listings for pediatric heart transplants increased from 451 in 2004 to 644 in 2015. The number of pediatric heart transplants performed each year increased from 297 in 2004 to 460 in 2015. Among pediatric patients who underwent transplant in 2014, death occurred in 7.2% at 6 months and 9.6% at 1 year.
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41. OPTN/SRTR 2015 Annual Data Report: Pancreas
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Melissa Skeans, Ajay K. Israni, Raja Kandaswamy, M. A. Curry, Bert L Kasiske, Sally K. Gustafson, Matthew A. Prentice, Peter G. Stock, and Jon J. Snyder
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Pancreas graft ,Failure data ,Annual Reports as Topic ,030230 surgery ,Pancreas transplantation ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Surgery ,Treatment Outcome ,surgical procedures, operative ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Pancreas Transplantation ,business ,Pancreas ,Immunosuppressive Agents - Abstract
The number of pancreas transplants performed in the United States stabilized over the last 3 years after nearly a decade of steady decline. Numbers of new additions to the list also stabilized during the same period. Notably, the persistent decline in pancreas after kidney transplants also seems to have abated, at least for now. The first full year of data after implementation of the new pancreas allocation system revealed no change in the distribution of organs between simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplant and pancreas transplant alone. The percentage of kidneys used in SPK transplants was also unchanged. While a uniform definition of pancreas graft failure was approved in June 2015, it is awaiting implementation. Meanwhile, SRTR will refrain from publishing pancreas graft failure data in the program-specific reports. Therefore, it is difficult to track trends in outcomes after pancreas transplant over the past 2 years. New initiatives by the OPTN/UNOS Pancreas Transplantation Committee include facilitated pancreas allocation and broadened allocation of pancreata across compatible ABO blood types to increase organ utilization.
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42. Potential Implications of Recent and Proposed Changes in the Regulatory Oversight of Solid Organ Transplantation in the United States
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Andrew Wey, Bertram L. Kasiske, Jon J. Snyder, Ajay K. Israni, and Nicholas Salkowski
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Scrutiny ,030230 surgery ,Medicare ,Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S ,Organ transplantation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Intensive care medicine ,health care economics and organizations ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Patient survival ,Organ Transplantation ,Professional standards ,Transplant Recipients ,United States ,Organ procurement ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,business ,Solid organ transplantation ,Medicaid - Abstract
Every 6 months, the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) publishes evaluations of every solid organ transplant program in the United States, including evaluations of 1-year patient and graft survival. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC) use SRTR's 1-year evaluations for regulatory review of transplant programs. Concern has been growing that the regulatory scrutiny of transplant programs with lower-than-expected outcomes is harmful, causing programs to undertake fewer high-risk transplants and leading to unnecessary organ discards. As a result, CMS raised its threshold for a "Condition-Level Deficiency" designation of observed relative to expected 1-year graft or patient survival from 1.50 to 1.85. Exceeding this threshold in the current SRTR outcomes report and in one of the four previous reports leads to scrutiny that may result in loss of Medicare funding. For its part, OPTN is reviewing a proposal from the MPSC to also change its performance criteria thresholds for program review, to review programs with "substantive clinical differences." We review the details and implications of these changes in transplant program oversight.
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43. Effects of High-Risk Kidneys on Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Program Quality Reports
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Ajay K. Israni, Bertram L. Kasiske, Jesse D. Schold, Nicholas Salkowski, Jon J. Snyder, Dorry L. Segev, and Andrew Wey
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Program evaluation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pathology ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Graft failure ,030232 urology & nephrology ,030230 surgery ,Donor Selection ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,Organ acceptance ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,Intensive care medicine ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Risk aversion ,Graft Survival ,Program quality ,Risk adjustment ,Prognosis ,Kidney Transplantation ,Tissue Donors ,Transplant Recipients ,Organ procurement ,Kidney Failure, Chronic ,business - Abstract
There is a perception that transplanting high-risk kidneys causes programs to be identified as underperforming, thereby increasing the frequency of discards and diminishing access to transplant. Thus, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) has considered excluding transplants using kidneys from donors with high Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) scores (≥0.85) when assessing program performance. We examined whether accepting high-risk kidneys (KDPI ≥0.85) for transplant yields worse outcome evaluations. Despite a clear relationship between KDPI and graft failure and mortality, there was no relationship between a program's use of high-KDPI kidneys and poor performance evaluations after risk adjustment. Excluding high-KDPI donor transplants from the June 2015 evaluations did not alter the programs identified as underperforming, because in every case underperforming programs also had worse-than-expected outcomes among lower-risk donor transplants. Finally, we found that hypothetically accepting and transplanting additional kidneys with KDPI similar to that of kidneys currently discarded would not adversely affect program evaluations. Based on the study findings, there is no evidence that programs that accept higher-KDPI kidneys are at greater risk for low performance evaluations, and risk aversion may limit access to transplant for candidates while providing no measurable benefit to program evaluations.
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44. Current Status of Kidney Transplant Outcomes: Dying to Survive
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Jeffrey H. Wang, Ajay K. Israni, and M. A. Skeans
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,medicine.medical_treatment ,030232 urology & nephrology ,030230 surgery ,Global Health ,Kidney transplant ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Case mix index ,Health care ,medicine ,Global health ,Humans ,Intensive care medicine ,Survival rate ,Kidney transplantation ,Dialysis ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,International community ,medicine.disease ,Kidney Transplantation ,Survival Rate ,Treatment Outcome ,Nephrology ,Kidney Failure, Chronic ,business - Abstract
Kidney transplantation is associated with improved survival compared with maintenance dialysis. In the United States, post-transplant outcomes have steadily improved over the last several decades, with current 1-year allograft and patient survival rates well over 90%. Although short-term outcomes are similar to those in the international community, long-term outcomes appear to be inferior to those reported by other countries. Differences in recipient case mix, allocation polices, and health care coverage contribute to the long-term outcome disparity. This review presents the current status of kidney transplant outcomes in the United States and compares them with the most recent outcomes from Australia and New Zealand, Europe, and Canada. In addition, early trends after implementation of the new kidney allocation system in the United States and its potential impact on post-transplant outcomes are discussed.
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- 2016
45. The Impact of Redistricting Proposals on Health Care Expenditures for Liver Transplant Candidates and Recipients
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David A. Axelrod, C. Wickliffe, Nino Dzebisashvili, Eugene Shteyn, Dorry L. Segev, Joshua Pyke, Mark A. Schnitzler, Eric K.H. Chow, Ajay K. Israni, Sommer E. Gentry, Krista L. Lentine, and Bertram L. Kasiske
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Waiting Lists ,media_common.quotation_subject ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Population ,030230 surgery ,Liver transplantation ,03 medical and health sciences ,Liver disease ,0302 clinical medicine ,Health care ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Economic impact analysis ,Intensive care medicine ,education ,media_common ,Transplantation ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Liver Diseases ,Payment ,medicine.disease ,Tissue Donors ,Transplant Recipients ,Liver Transplantation ,Cost savings ,Redistricting ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Health Expenditures ,business ,Demography - Abstract
Redistricting, which means sharing organs in novel districts developed through mathematical optimization, has been proposed to reduce pervasive geographic disparities in access to liver transplantation. The economic impact of redistricting was evaluated with two distinct data sources, Medicare claims and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC). We estimated total Medicare payments under (i) the current allocation system (Share 35), (ii) full regional sharing, (iii) an eight-district plan, and (iv) a four-district plan for a simulated population of patients listed for liver transplant over 5 years, using the liver simulated allocation model. The model predicted 5-year transplant volumes (Share 35, 29,267; regional sharing, 29,005; eight districts, 29,034; four districts, 28,265) and a reduction in overall mortality, including listed and posttransplant patients, of up to 676 lives. Compared with current allocation, the eight-district plan was estimated to reduce payments for pretransplant care ($1638 million to $1506 million, p
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46. Deceased Organ Donation
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John D. Rosendale, Bert L Kasiske, C. Bolch, Ajay K. Israni, David Zaun, and Jon J. Snyder
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Transplantation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,business.industry ,Organ Transplantation ,030230 surgery ,Organ Retrieval ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Organ transplantation ,03 medical and health sciences ,Organ procurement ,0302 clinical medicine ,Donation ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Organ donation ,Intensive care medicine ,business - Abstract
SRTR uses data collected by OPTN to calculate metrics such as donation/conversion rate, organ yield, and rate of organs recovered for transplant but not transplanted. In 2014, 9252 eligible deaths were reported by organ procurement organizations, a slight increase from 8944 in 2012, and the donation/conversation rate was 73.4 eligible donors per 100 eligible deaths, a slight increase from 71.3 in 2013. Some metrics show variation across organ procurement organizations, suggesting that sharing best practices could lead to gains in efficiency and organ retrieval.
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- 2016
47. Five-tier utility: A start on the path to better reporting, in response to Schold and Buccini
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Andrew Wey, Jon J. Snyder, Sally K. Gustafson, Cory R. Schaffhausen, Bertram L. Kasiske, Melissa Skeans, Nicholas Salkowski, and Ajay K. Israni
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Transplantation ,Operations research ,business.industry ,Path (graph theory) ,MEDLINE ,Humans ,Transplants ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,business ,Transplant Recipients - Published
- 2019
48. A Prospective Controlled Study of Living Kidney Donors: Three-Year Follow-up
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Paul L. Kimmel, Jon J. Snyder, Teresa L. Anderson-Haag, Edward S. Kraus, Matthew R. Weir, Andrew A. Posselt, Hamid Rabb, Michael W. Steffes, Rajiv Kumar, Roberto S. Kalil, Todd E. Pesavento, Bertram L. Kasiske, and Ajay K. Israni
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Blood Glucose ,Mean arterial pressure ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Ambulatory blood pressure ,Urinary system ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Urology ,Renal function ,Blood Pressure ,Nephrectomy ,Blood Urea Nitrogen ,Living Donors ,Albuminuria ,Humans ,Medicine ,Prospective Studies ,Homocysteine ,Kidney transplantation ,business.industry ,Phosphorus ,medicine.disease ,Kidney Transplantation ,Lipids ,Circadian Rhythm ,Uric Acid ,Surgery ,Proteinuria ,Blood pressure ,Parathyroid Hormone ,Nephrology ,Case-Control Studies ,Creatinine ,business ,Follow-Up Studies ,Glomerular Filtration Rate ,Kidney disease - Abstract
Background There have been few prospective controlled studies of kidney donors. Understanding the pathophysiologic effects of kidney donation is important for judging donor safety and improving our understanding of the consequences of reduced kidney function in chronic kidney disease. Study design Prospective, controlled, observational cohort study. Setting & participants 3-year follow-up of kidney donors and paired controls suitable for donation at their donor's center. Predictor Kidney donation. Outcomes Medical history, vital signs, glomerular filtration rate, and other measurements at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months after donation. Results At 36 months, 182 of 203 (89.7%) original donors and 173 of 201 (86.1%) original controls continue to participate in follow-up visits. The linear slope of the glomerular filtration rate measured by plasma iohexol clearance declined 0.36±7.55mL/min per year in 194 controls, but increased 1.47±5.02mL/min per year in 198 donors (P=0.005) between 6 and 36 months. Blood pressure was not different between donors and controls at any visit, and at 36 months, all 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure parameters were similar in 126 controls and 135 donors (mean systolic blood pressure, 120.0±11.2 [SD] vs 120.7±9.7mmHg [P=0.6]; mean diastolic blood pressure, 73.4±7.0 vs 74.5±6.5mmHg [P=0.2]). Mean arterial pressure nocturnal dipping was manifest in 11.2% ± 6.6% of controls and 11.3% ± 6.1% of donors (P=0.9). Urinary protein-creatinine and albumin-creatinine ratios were not increased in donors compared with controls. From 6 to 36 months postdonation, serum parathyroid hormone, uric acid, homocysteine, and potassium levels were higher, whereas hemoglobin levels were lower, in donors compared with controls. Limitations Possible bias resulting from an inability to select controls screened to be as healthy as donors, short follow-up duration, and dropouts. Conclusions Kidney donors manifest several of the findings of mild chronic kidney disease. However, at 36 months after donation, kidney function continues to improve in donors, whereas controls have expected age-related declines in function.
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- 2015
49. Sirolimus Use and Cancer Incidence Among US Kidney Transplant Recipients
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Dorry L. Segev, Gregory P. Hess, Sally K. Gustafson, Jon J. Snyder, Bertram L. Kasiske, Ajay K. Israni, Eric A. Engels, and Elizabeth L. Yanik
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Adult ,Graft Rejection ,Male ,Oncology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Population ,Kidney Function Tests ,Risk Assessment ,Prostate cancer ,Neoplasms ,Internal medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Registries ,cardiovascular diseases ,education ,Kidney transplantation ,Sirolimus ,Transplantation ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Proportional hazards model ,Incidence ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Hazard ratio ,Cancer ,Middle Aged ,Prognosis ,equipment and supplies ,medicine.disease ,Kidney Transplantation ,United States ,surgical procedures, operative ,Immunology ,cardiovascular system ,Kidney Failure, Chronic ,Female ,business ,Immunosuppressive Agents ,Follow-Up Studies ,Glomerular Filtration Rate ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Sirolimus has anti-carcinogenic properties and can be included in maintenance immunosuppressive therapy following kidney transplantation. We investigated sirolimus effects on cancer incidence among kidney recipients. The US transplant registry was linked with 15 population-based cancer registries and national pharmacy claims. Recipients contributed sirolimus-exposed time when sirolimus claims were filled, and unexposed time when other immunosuppressant claims were filled without sirolimus. Cox regression was used to estimate associations with overall and specific cancer incidence, excluding nonmelanoma skin cancers (not captured in cancer registries). We included 32,604 kidney transplants (5687 sirolimus-exposed). Overall, cancer incidence was suggestively lower during sirolimus use (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.88, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.70-1.11). Prostate cancer incidence was higher during sirolimus use (HR = 1.86, 95% CI = 1.15-3.02). Incidence of other cancers was similar or lower with sirolimus use, with a 26% decrease overall (HR = 0.74, 95% CI = 0.57-0.96, excluding prostate cancer). Results were similar after adjustment for demographic and clinical characteristics. This modest association does not provide strong evidence that sirolimus prevents posttransplant cancer, but it may be advantageous among kidney recipients with high cancer risk. Increased prostate cancer diagnoses may result from sirolimus effects on screen detection.
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- 2015
50. OPTN/SRTR 2013 Annual Data Report: Lung
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Melissa Skeans, Ajay K. Israni, Marshall I. Hertz, Bertram L. Kasiske, Leah B. Edwards, E. R. Callahan, Jon J. Snyder, Wida S. Cherikh, Maryam Valapour, B. M. Heubner, and Jodi M. Smith
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Adult ,Lung Diseases ,Male ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Waiting Lists ,Bronchiolitis obliterans ,Annual Reports as Topic ,Patient Readmission ,Resource Allocation ,Young Adult ,Pulmonary fibrosis ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Child ,Aged ,Cause of death ,Transplantation ,Lung ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Infant, Newborn ,Infant ,Transplant Waiting List ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Pulmonary hypertension ,Tissue Donors ,United States ,Surgery ,Survival Rate ,Treatment Outcome ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Bronchopulmonary dysplasia ,Child, Preschool ,Female ,business ,Lung Transplantation ,Lung allocation score - Abstract
Lungs are allocated to adult and adolescent transplant candidates (aged ⩾ 12 years) on the basis of age, geography, blood type compatibility, and the lung allocation score (LAS), which reflects risk of waitlist mortality and probability of posttransplant survival. In 2013, the most adult candidates, 2394, of any year were added to the list. Overall median waiting time for candidates listed in 2013 was 4.0 months. The preferred procedure remained bilateral lung transplant, representing approximately 70% of lung transplants in 2013. Measures of short-term and longterm survival have plateaued since the implementation of the LAS in 2005. The number of new child candidates (aged 0-11 years) added to the lung transplant waiting list increased to 39 in 2013. A total of 28 lung transplants were performed in child recipients, 3 for ages younger than 1 year, 9 for ages 1 to 5 years, and 16 for ages 6 to 11 years. The diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension was associated with higher survival rates than cystic fibrosis or other diagnosis (pulmonary fibrosis, bronchiolitis obliterans, bronchopulmonary dysplasia). For child candidates, infection was the leading cause of death in year 1 posttransplant and graft failure in years 2 to 5.
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- 2015
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