2020
Survival on the Heart Transplant Waiting List
Bakhtiyar SS, Godfrey EL, Ahmed S, Lamba H, Morgan J, Loor G, Civitello A, Cheema FH, Etheridge WB, Goss J, Rana A. Survival on the Heart Transplant Waiting List. JAMA Cardiology 2020, 5: 1227-1235. PMID: 32785619, PMCID: PMC7675100, DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2020.2795.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVentricular assist deviceHeart transplant waiting listList survivalTransplant waiting listWaiting listMultivariable Cox proportional hazards regression analysisCox proportional hazards regression analysisProportional hazards regression analysisHeart transplantation waiting listAdjusted survival analysisHazards regression analysisTransplantation waiting listWait-listed candidatesCandidate risk factorsHeart transplantationList mortalityUNOS databaseClinical improvementHeart transplantPrimary outcomeAdjusted analysisSurvival outcomesKaplan-MeierPatient groupUnited NetworkA Data-Driven Approach to Defining the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Lung Transplantation
Godfrey E, Frankel W, Rana A, Liao K, Loor G, Suarez E. A Data-Driven Approach to Defining the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Lung Transplantation. The Journal Of Heart And Lung Transplantation 2020, 39: s364. DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2020.01.445.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHigh-volume centersStratum-specific likelihood ratiosLung transplantationVolume centersVolume strataLung transplant centersOrgan Sharing databaseExtended criteria donorsVolume-outcome relationshipEx vivo perfusionMajority of transplantsLTx casesLTx centersLung transplantIschemic timeFinal cohortOlder recipientsPrimary outcomeSharing databaseSubstantial morbidityTransplant centersRecipient outcomesYear mortalityPatient survivalUnited Network
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