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Solid Organ Transplantation: Success and Stagnation
In this presentation, Dr. Abbas Rana, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation at Baylor College of Medicine, offers insights into the history of abdominal transplantation and how the advances in transplantation procedures improved short-term outcomes, including survival. In 1984, Congress introduced regulations governing organ transplantation programs across the United States to ensure patient access and safety. These regulations have greatly improved and homogenized outcomes across the country.
Dr. Rana also highlights the areas in transplantation research where there appears to be stagnation. While one-year survival rates post-transplantation have greatly improved over time, the one-year waitlist mortality rates have remained unchanged and transplantation rates have fallen due to a decrease in donor organs. Dr. Rana concludes by discussing strategies to improve donor supply and long-term post-transplantation outcomes.
Disclosures
The following individual(s) has/have reported financial or other relationship(s) with commercial entities whose products/services may relate to the educational content of this activity:
Presenter
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Abbas Rana, M.D., FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Disclosure:
Nothing to disclose.
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Health Topics
- Renal Dialysis
- Critical Care
- Survivors
- Liver
- Medicare
- Heart Transplantation
- Follow-Up Studies
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.)
- Immune Privilege
- Liver Failure
- Propensity Score
- Cyclosporine
- Transplant Recipients
- Graft Survival
- Living Donors
- Kidney Transplantation
- Surgeons
- Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
- Hypertension, Portal
- Liver Transplantation
- Cadaver