May 14, 2004
UNOS Researchers Present Studies at American Transplant Congress
Boston -- Researchers from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) authored several studies at the American Transplant Congress (ATC), a combined scientific session of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation, May 15-19 in Boston. UNOS staff researchers are authors in a total of 31 papers presented at the ATC. UNOS staff researchers are primary authors of the studies described below, which were supported in part by Health Resources and Services Administration Contract 231-00-0115.
- OPTN/UNOS Data Show Newer Transplant Therapies Associated With Lower Cancer Incidence Rates >
- Risk Factors for Early Mortality Following Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant >
- Recipient History of Cancer Associated with Increased Post-Transplant De Novo Malignancies and Decreased Survival >
- Antibody Induction Immunosuppression and Graft Survival Evaluated in High Risk Recipients of Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney >
- Maintenance Immunosuppression Studied in Sensitized Recipients >
- MELD OR PELD: Which is the Better Predictor of Pre-transplant Mortality in Pediatric Candidates >
- Effect of Cold Ischemia Time in Liver Transplantation Assessed >
- Which PELD Factors Have the Strongest Association with Pre- and Post-Transplant Outcomes >
- Impact Reviewed of MELD Exceptions on Transplant and Death Rates in Liver Candidates >
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