2023
A survey of transplant providers regarding attitudes, barriers, and facilitators to living donor liver transplantation in the United States
Liapakis A, Agbim U, Bittermann T, Dew M, Deng Y, Gan G, Emre S, Hunt H, Olthoff K, Locke J, Jesse M, Kumar V, Pillai A, Verna E, Lentine K, Group T. A survey of transplant providers regarding attitudes, barriers, and facilitators to living donor liver transplantation in the United States. Clinical Transplantation 2023, 37: e14967. PMID: 36938716, DOI: 10.1111/ctr.14967.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDonor liver transplantDonor liver transplantationLiver transplant centersGood first optionLDLT centersLiver transplantLiver transplantationWaitlist candidatesTransplant centersDonor factorsLDLTTransplant providersConsensus conferenceSurgical expertiseElectronic surveyAmerican SocietyImportant barriersFirst optionExclusion rateKey barriersHigh levelsTransplantationTransplantFacilitatorsCenter
2021
Inactive status is an independent predictor of liver transplant waitlist mortality and is associated with a transplant centers median meld at transplant
Merola J, Gan G, Stewart D, Noreen S, Mulligan D, Batra R, Haakinson D, Deng Y, Kulkarni S. Inactive status is an independent predictor of liver transplant waitlist mortality and is associated with a transplant centers median meld at transplant. PLOS ONE 2021, 16: e0260000. PMID: 34793524, PMCID: PMC8601542, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260000.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDonor service areasWaitlist mortalityTransplant centersMedian MELDHigh mortalityStatus changesLiver transplant waitlist mortalityDeceased donor transplantsInactive statusTransplant probabilityInactive patientsMELD scoreDonor transplantsHazard ratioIndependent predictorsTransplant ratesCare coordinationMortalityPatientsTransplantLevel cohortsTertileSignificant differencesCohortMELD