ArticlePloS one2020
Liver transplant waitlist removal, transplantation rates and post-transplant survival in Hispanics.
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- Disparities in liver transplant waitlist characteristics and outcomes among Hispanic compared to non-Hispanic adults.Frontiers in transplantation · 2025Article
- Waiting for a Liver Transplant in New Mexico; Understanding the State's Multi-layered Adversity.Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives · 2024Article
- Living-Donor Liver Transplant and Improved Post-Transplant Survival in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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- Sex Disparities in Outcome of Patients with Alcohol-Related Liver Cirrhosis within the Eurotransplant Network-A Competing Risk Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States.International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
- Statistical methods versus machine learning techniques for donor-recipient matching in liver transplantation.PloS one · 2021Article
- Improving access to liver transplantation for underserved patients with cirrhosis.Clinical liver diseaseArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesHispanics are the fastest growing population in the USA, and our objective was to determine their waitlist mortality rates, liver transplantation (LT) rates and post-LT outcomes.
methodsAll adults listed for LT with the UNOS from 2002 to 2018 were included. Competing risk analysis was performed to assess the association between ethnic group with waitlist removal due to death/deterioration and transplantation. For sensitivity analysis, Hispanics were matched 1:1 to Non-Hispanics using propensity scores, and outcomes of interest were compared in matched cohort.
resultsDuring this period, total of 154,818 patients who listed for liver transplant were involved in this study, of them 23,223 (15%) were Hispanics, 109,653 (71%) were Whites, 13,020 (8%) were Blacks, 6,980 (5%) were Asians and 1,942 (1%) were others. After adjusting for differences in clinical characteristics, compared to Whites, Hispanics had higher waitlist removal due to death or deterioration (adjusted cause-specific Hazard Ratio: 1.034, p = 0.01) and lower transplantation rates (adjusted cause-specific Hazard Ratio: 0.90, p<0.001). If Hispanics received liver transplant, they had better patient and graft survival than Non-Hispanics (p<0.001). Compared to Whites, adjusted hazard ratio for Hispanics were 0.88 (95% CI 0.84, 0.92, p<0.001) for patient survival and 0.90 (95% CI 0.86, 0.94, p<0.001) for graft survival. Our analysis in matched cohort showed the consistent results.
conclusionsThis study showed that Hispanics had higher probability to be removed from the waitlist due to death, and lower probability to be transplanted, however they had better post-LT outcomes when compared to whites.
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