Publications by authors named "M C Cuffy"
Background: The demand for liver transplants (LT) in the United States far surpasses the availability of allografts. New allocation schemes have resulted in occasional difficulties with allograft placement and increased intraoperative turndowns. We aimed to evaluate the outcomes related to use of late-turndown liver allografts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: There currently remains an urgent need to increase living kidney donation to help mitigate the high demand for waitlisted kidney failure patients. Potential kidney donors can readily access social media, particularly YouTube, to gain basic knowledge about live donor nephrectomy surgical procedures. YouTube is an open-source platform where anyone can upload videos about any topic without peer review or quality control and is frequently used for disseminating health education.
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- The study assesses the long-term survival and outcomes of liver transplant patients who required temporary abdominal closure versus those who had primary fascial closure, using data from 2013 to 2017 with a 5-year follow-up.
- Among 436 liver transplants, 17.2% needed temporary closure, which was associated with higher preoperative sickness (like higher MELD scores and more dialysis), and these patients also experienced longer hospital stays and higher readmission rates within 30 days.
- While initial 1-year survival rates were lower for those with temporary closure (82.7% vs 90.9%), 5-year survival rates were not significantly different, indicating that temporary closure is a safe alternative with comparable long-term
Objectives: To develop a scalable metric which quantifies kidney transplant (KT) centers' performance providing equitable access to KT for minority patients, based on the individualized prelisting prevalence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
Background: Racial and ethnic disparities for access to transplant in patients with ESRD are well described; however, variation in care among KT centers remains unknown. Furthermore, no mechanism exists that quantifies how well a KT center provides equitable access to KT for minority patients with ESRD.