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Significantly Poorer Survival of Liver Transplant Recipients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) and High True MELD by Gupta, M, Porrett, P, Goldberg, D, Abt, P.L, Levine, M.H

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Sustained reduction of alloantibody secreting plasma cells and donor specific antibody with proteasome inhibition in mice by Redfield, R.R, Lou, Y, Rodriguez, E, Rostami, S, Parsons, R.F, Noorchashm, H, Naji, A, Abt, P.L

“…Abstract The long-lived plasma cells, which develop after alloantigen sensitization, produce donor specific alloantibodies (DSAs) that generate a positive…”
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Incidental Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Liver Transplant Recipients is Associated With Fatty Liver Disease and Conveys a Low Risk of Recurrent Malignancy After Transplant by Levine, M.H, Enestvedt, K, Porrett, P, Cui, R, Hoteit, M, Mu, Y, Siegelman, E, Sonnad, S, Abt, P.L, Shaked, A, Olthoff, K

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Increasing the Number of Organ Transplants in the United States by Optimizing Donor Authorization Rates by Goldberg, D. S., French, B., Abt, P. L., Gilroy, R. K.

“…While recent policies have focused on allocating organs to patients most in need and lessening geographic disparities, the only mechanism to increase the…”
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Organ Donor Research: It Is Time for Much Needed Clarity by Abt, P. L., Feng, S.

“…In this editorial, the authors examine how an absence of ethical guidelines and regulatory framework have led to confusion in a recent donor intervention…”
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Changing Metrics of Organ Procurement Organization Performance in Order to Increase Organ Donation Rates in the United States by Goldberg, D., Kallan, M. J., Fu, L., Ciccarone, M., Ramirez, J., Rosenberg, P., Arnold, J., Segal, G., Moritsugu, K. P., Nathan, H., Hasz, R., Abt, P. L.

“…The shortage of deceased‐donor organs is compounded by donation metrics that fail to account for the total pool of possible donors, leading to ambiguous donor…”
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Predictors of late kidney dysfunction post-liver transplantation by Velidedeoglu, E, Crawford, M.D, Desai, N.M, Campos, L, Abt, P.L, Markmann, J.W, Mange, K.C, Bloom, R, Olthoff, K.M, Shaked, A, Markmann, J.F

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Retransplantation After a Failed Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death Liver Transplant: MELD Exception Priority and Second Chances by Abt, P. L., Goldberg, D. S.

“…A standardized exception score that allows access for retransplantation in the setting of graft failure due to ischemic cholangiopathy with donation after…”
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Donor Hemodynamics as a Predictor of Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation From Donors After Cardiac Death by Allen, M. B., Billig, E., Reese, P. P., Shults, J., Hasz, R., West, S., Abt, P. L.

“…Donation after cardiac death is an important source of transplantable organs, but evidence suggests donor warm ischemia contributes to inferior outcomes…”
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Kidney allograft offers: Predictors of turndown and the impact of late organ acceptance on allograft survival by Cohen, J. B., Shults, J., Goldberg, D. S., Abt, P. L., Sawinski, D. L., Reese, P. P.

“…There is growing interest in understanding patterns of organ acceptance and reducing discard. Little is known about how donor factors, timing of procurement,…”
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What Are the Harms of Refusing to Allow Living Kidney Donation? An Expanded View of Risks and Benefits by Allen, M. B., Abt, P. L., Reese, P. P.

“…Recent Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network policies relating to living kidney donation (LKD) warrant renewed attention to the ethics of…”
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Revisiting Multi‐Organ Transplantation in the Setting of Scarcity by Reese, P. P., Veatch, R. M., Abt, P. L., Amaral, S.

“…In the setting of organ scarcity, the ethics of multi‐organ transplantation (MOT) deserve new examination. MOT offers substantial benefits to certain…”
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Associations of Perfusate Biomarkers and Pump Parameters With Delayed Graft Function and Deceased Donor Kidney Allograft Function by Parikh, C. R., Hall, I. E., Bhangoo, R. S., Ficek, J., Abt, P. L., Thiessen‐Philbrook, H., Lin, H., Bimali, M., Murray, P. T., Rao, V., Schröppel, B., Doshi, M. D., Weng, F. L., Reese, P. P.

“…Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) is increasingly used in deceased donor kidney transplantation, but controversy exists regarding the value of perfusion…”
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ASTS Recommended Practice Guidelines for Controlled Donation after Cardiac Death Organ Procurement and Transplantation by Reich, D. J., Mulligan, D. C., Abt, P. L., Pruett, T. L., Abecassis, M. M. I., D’Alessandro, A., Pomfret, E. A., Freeman, R. B., Markmann, J. F., Hanto, D. W., Matas, A. J., Roberts, J. P., Merion, R. M., Klintmalm, G. B. G.

“…The American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) champions efforts to increase organ donation. Controlled donation after cardiac death (DCD) offers the…”
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Risk of End‐Stage Renal Disease Among Liver Transplant Recipients With Pretransplant Renal Dysfunction by Ruebner, R., Goldberg, D., Abt, P. L., Bahirwani, R., Levine, M., Sawinski, D., Bloom, R. D., Reese, P. P.

“…Guidelines recommend restricting simultaneous liver–kidney (SLK) transplant to candidates with prolonged dialysis or estimated glomerular filtration rate…”
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Deceased Donor Intervention Research: A Survey of Transplant Surgeons, Organ Procurement Professionals, and Institutional Review Board Members by Rodrigue, J. R., Feng, S., Johansson, A. C., Glazier, A. K., Abt, P. L.

“…Innovative deceased donor intervention strategies have the potential to increase the number and quality of transplantable organs. Yet there is confusion over…”
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Improving Outcomes in DCDD Liver Transplantation: There Can Only Be Strength in Numbers by Goldberg, D. S., Abt, P. L.

“…In the United States, liver transplantation using donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) donors is challenged by persistently inferior graft…”
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An Assessment of HIV‐Infected Patients Dying in Care for Deceased Organ Donation in a United States Urban Center by Richterman, A., Sawinski, D., Reese, P. P., Lee, D. H., Clauss, H., Hasz, R. D., Thomasson, A., Goldberg, D. S., Abt, P. L., Forde, K. A., Bloom, R. D., Doll, S. L., Brady, K. A., Blumberg, E. A.

“…Organ transplantation is an acceptable option for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‐infected patients with end‐stage kidney or liver disease. With worse…”
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Outcomes of organ transplants when the donor is a prior recipient by Lee, G. S., Goldberg, D. S., Levine, M. H., Abt, P. L.

“…Organ shortage continues to challenge the field of transplantation. One potential group of donors are those who have been transplant recipients themselves, or…”
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Kidney transplant outcomes: Position in the match‐run does not seem to matter beyond other donor risk factors by Cohen, J. B., Shults, J., Goldberg, D. S., Abt, P. L., Sawinski, D. L., Reese, P. P.

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