The Winter 2021 issue rounds up the latest UNOS policy developments, recaps the SATA Council’s year-end progress — new collaborations, a new Critical Care Medicine Committee, and the SATA-Data Collection Project — and spotlights the Miami Transplant Institute. Inside: research updates on expanded HCC criteria and ex vivo machine perfusion, a Quality & Standards Committee update on published practice-pattern survey work, and a full slate of upcoming regional and national meetings heading into 2022.
Inside This Issue
- UNOS Updates — ASTS COVID-19 vaccination guidance, kidney transplant volumes rising across all populations post-policy change, and Phase 2 of the National DCD Procurement Collaborative
- Council Meeting Update — 2022 membership renewal (six months free for new members), the SATA-Data Collection Project with UCSF and Montefiore, a new collaboration with the Society for Cardiovascular Anesthesia, and approval of a new Critical Care Medicine Committee
- Program Spotlight — Miami Transplant Institute, with Drs. Ramona Nicolau-Raducu and Yehuda Raveh on MTI’s abdominal program, bloodless transplant protocol, and the long-running Jackson Memorial fellowship
- Research Updates — Proposed expansion beyond Milan Criteria for living donor liver transplantation (Liang et al.) and a meta-analysis favoring ex vivo machine perfusion over static cold storage (Liew et al.)
- Committee Update — Quality & Standards Committee publishes adult liver transplant practice-pattern survey in Clinical Transplantation (Crouch et al.); LDLT abstract submitted to 2022 IARS/AUA and ILTS
