2022
Trends in Survival for Pediatric Transplantation.
Hickner B, Anand A, Godfrey E, Dunson J, Reul R, Cotton R, Galvan N, O'Mahony C, Goss J, Rana A. Trends in Survival for Pediatric Transplantation. Pediatrics 2022, 149 PMID: 35079811, DOI: 10.1542/peds.2020-049632.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTreat survivalKidney transplantPosttransplant survivalHeart transplantPediatric transplantationMultivariable Cox regressionPercentage of patientsKaplan-Meier methodLog-rank testLiver transplantPosttransplant outcomesTreat analysisTransplant ratesCox regressionDonor poolPatient's perspectiveTransplantPatient careStudy periodΧ2 testLiverSurvivalTransplantationSignificant increaseChildren
2019
The decreasing predictive power of MELD in an era of changing etiology of liver disease
Godfrey EL, Malik TH, Lai JC, Mindikoglu AL, Galván NTN, Cotton RT, O'Mahony CA, Goss JA, Rana A. The decreasing predictive power of MELD in an era of changing etiology of liver disease. American Journal Of Transplantation 2019, 19: 3299-3307. PMID: 31394020, DOI: 10.1111/ajt.15559.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMELD scoreLiver diseaseNon-alcoholic fatty liver diseaseHCV-positive patientsHCV-positive statusLab-MELD scoreAlcoholic liver diseaseFatty liver diseaseBest supportive therapyDe-identified dataLiver transplantLiver transplantationMELD eraFailure etiologyWaitlist deathsSupportive therapyUnited NetworkEtiology of diseaseOrgan SharingConcordance statisticDiseaseMortalityEtiologyMELDPatients