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Determinants of Discard of Expanded Criteria Donor Kidneys: Impact of Biopsy and Machine Perfusion by Sung, R. S., Christensen, L. L., Leichtman, A. B., Greenstein, S. M., Distant, D. A., Wynn, J. J., Stegall, M. D., Delmonico, F. L., Port, F. K.

“…We examined factors associated with expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidney discard. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR)/Organ Procurement and…”
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Repeat Organ Transplantation in the United States, 1996–2005 by Magee, J. C., Barr, M. L., Basadonna, G. P., Johnson, M. R., Mahadevan, S., McBride, M. A., Schaubel, D. E., Leichtman, A. B.

“…The prospect of graft loss is a problem faced by all transplant recipients, and retransplantation is often an option when loss occurs. To assess current trends…”
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Predictors of Liver Donation Without Kidney Recovery in a Cohort of Expanded Criteria Donors: Identifying Opportunities to Improve Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Utilization by White, S.L, Leichtman, A.B, O'Connor, K, Lipkowitz, G, Pietroski, R, Stoff, J.S, Luskin, R.S, Belcher, J, Meyer, K, Merion, R.M, Port, F.K, Delmonico, F.L

“…Abstract To maximize deceased donation, it is necessary to facilitate organ recovery from expanded criteria donors (ECDs). Utilization of donors meeting the…”
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Deleterious effect of waiting time on renal transplant outcome by Meier-Kriesche, H.-U, Port, F.K, Ojo, A.O, Leichtman, A.B, Rudich, S.M, Arndorfer, J.A, Punch, J.D, Kaplan, B

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Utilization of Deceased Donor Kidneys to Initiate Living Donor Chains by Melcher, M. L., Roberts, J. P., Leichtman, A. B., Roth, A. E., Rees, M. A.

“…We propose that some deceased donor (DD) kidneys be allocated to initiate nonsimultaneous extended altruistic donor chains of living donor (LD) kidney…”
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Immunosuppression: Evolution in Practice and Trends, 1994–2004 by Meier‐Kriesche, H.‐U., Li, S., Gruessner, R. W. G., Fung, J. J., Bustami, R. T., Barr, M. L., Leichtman, A. B.

“…Over the last 10 years, there have been important changes in immunosuppression management and strategies for solid‐organ transplantation, characterized by the…”
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Calculating Life Years from Transplant (LYFT): Methods for Kidney and Kidney‐Pancreas Candidates by Wolfe, R. A., McCullough, K. P., Schaubel, D. E., Kalbfleisch, J. D., Murray, S., Stegall, M. D., Leichtman, A. B.

“…The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Kidney Committee is considering a proposal for a new deceased donor kidney allocation system. Among…”
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Demographic, Metabolic, and Blood Pressure Characteristics of Living Kidney Donors Spanning Five Decades by Taler, S. J., Messersmith, E. E., Leichtman, A. B., Gillespie, B. W., Kew, C. E., Stegall, M. D., Merion, R. M., Matas, A. J., Ibrahim, H. N.

“…While cautious criteria for selection of living kidney donors are credited for favorable outcomes, recent practice changes may include acceptance of less than…”
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Report of a National Conference on Donation after Cardiac Death by Bernat, J.L., D'Alessandro, A.M., Port, F.K., Bleck, T.P., Heard, S.O., Medina, J., Rosenbaum, S.H., DeVita, M.A., Gaston, R.S., Merion, R.M., Barr, M.L., Marks, W.H., Nathan, H., O'Connor, K., Rudow, D.L., Leichtman, A.B., Schwab, P., Ascher, N.L., Metzger, R.A., Mc Bride, V., Graham, W., Wagner, D., Warren, J., Delmonico, F.L.

“…A national conference on organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) was convened to expand the practice of DCD in the continuum of quality end‐of‐life care. This…”
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Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation in the United States, 1998–2007: Access for Patients with Diabetes and End‐Stage Renal Disease by McCullough, K. P., Keith, D. S., Meyer, K. H., Stock, P. G., Brayman, K. L., Leichtman, A. B.

“…Although the number of candidates on the kidney transplant waiting list at year‐end rose from 40 825 to 76 070 (86%) between 1998 and 2007, recent growth…”
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Historical Matching Strategies in Kidney Paired Donation: The 7‐Year Evolution of a Web‐Based Virtual Matching System by Fumo, D. E., Kapoor, V., Reece, L. J., Stepkowski, S. M., Kopke, J. E., Rees, S. E., Smith, C., Roth, A. E., Leichtman, A. B., Rees, M. A.

“…Failure to convert computer‐identified possible kidney paired donation (KPD) exchanges into transplants has prohibited KPD from reaching its full potential…”
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Planning for Uncertainty and Fallbacks Can Increase the Number of Transplants in a Kidney‐Paired Donation Program by Bray, M., Wang, W., Song, P. X.‐K., Leichtman, A. B., Rees, M. A., Ashby, V. B., Eikstadt, R., Goulding, A., Kalbfleisch, J. D.

“…A kidney‐paired donation (KPD) pool consists of transplant candidates and their incompatible donors, along with nondirected donors (NDDs). In a match run,…”
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Access and Outcomes Among Minority Transplant Patients, 1999–2008, with a Focus on Determinants of Kidney Graft Survival by Fan, P.‐Y., Ashby, V. B., Fuller, D. S., Boulware, L. E., Kao, A., Norman, S. P., Randall, H. B., Young, C., Kalbfleisch, J. D., Leichtman, A. B.

“…Coincident with an increasing national interest in equitable health care, a number of studies have described disparities in access to solid organ…”
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We Need to Take the Next Step by Melcher, M. L., Roberts, J. P., Leichtman, A. B., Roth, A. E., Rees, M. A.

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Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation in the United States, 1997–2006: The HRSA Breakthrough Collaboratives and the 58 DSA Challenge by Leichtman, A. B., Cohen, D., Keith, D., O'Connor, K., Goldstein, M., McBride, V., Gould, C. J., Christensen, L. L., Ashby, V. B.

“…Growth in the number of active patients on the kidney transplant waiting list has slowed. Projections based on the most recent 5‐year data suggest the total…”
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Predictability of Survival Models for Waiting List and Transplant Patients: Calculating LYFT by Wolfe, R. A., McCullough, K. P., Leichtman, A. B.

“…‘Life years from transplant’ (LYFT) is the extra years of life that a candidate can expect to achieve with a kidney transplant as compared to never receiving a…”
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Geographic Variability in Access to Primary Kidney Transplantation in the United States, 1996–2005 by Ashby, V. B., Kalbfleisch, J. D., Wolfe, R. A., Lin, M. J., Port, F. K., Leichtman, A. B.

“…This article focuses on geographic variability in patient access to kidney transplantation in the United States. It examines geographic differences and trends…”
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Utilization of Kidneys With Similar Kidney Donor Risk Index Values From Standard Versus Expanded Criteria Donors by Woodside, K. J., Merion, R. M., Leichtman, A. B., Santos, R. de los, Arrington, C. J., Rao, P. S., Sung, R. S.

“…With the shortage of standard criteria donor (SCD) kidneys, efficient expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidney utilization has become more vital. We investigated…”
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Transplanting Kidneys Without Points for HLA‐B Matching: Consequences of the Policy Change by Ashby, V. B., Port, F. K., Wolfe, R. A., Wynn, J. J., Williams, W. W., Roberts, J. P., Leichtman, A. B.

“…In 2003, the US kidney allocation system was changed to eliminate priority for HLA‐B similarity. We report outcomes from before and after this change using…”
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Dynamic Challenges Inhibiting Optimal Adoption of Kidney Paired Donation: Findings of a Consensus Conference by Melcher, M. L., Blosser, C. D., Baxter‐Lowe, L. A., Delmonico, F. L., Gentry, S. E., Leishman, R., Knoll, G. A., Leffell, M. S., Leichtman, A. B., Mast, D. A., Nickerson, P. W., Reed, E. F., Rees, M. A., Rodrigue, J. R., Segev, D. L., Serur, D., Tullius, S. G., Zavala, E. Y., Feng, S.

“…While kidney paired donation (KPD) enables the utilization of living donor kidneys from healthy and willing donors incompatible with their intended recipients,…”
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