{"id":6541,"date":"2023-04-11T06:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T13:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2023-04-11T06:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T13:26:58","slug":"smaller-liver-transplant-candidates-wait-up-to-55-days-longer-than-other-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/04\/11\/smaller-liver-transplant-candidates-wait-up-to-55-days-longer-than-other-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Smaller liver transplant candidates wait up to 55 days longer than other recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6541\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>By Kate Burba<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/gastroenterology\/20221105\/meld-30-bests-meldna-in-predicting-liver-transplant-waitlist-mortality-for-adolescents\" target=\"_blank\">Liver transplant candidates<\/a>\u00a0with a small stature experienced longer waitlist times and had lower rates of transplant, with the smallest 25% of candidates most affected, according to study results in\u00a0<em>JAMA Surgery<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/gastroenterology\/20220829\/liver-transplant-recipients-gain-up-to-17-lifeyears-from-living-donors-vs-donor-waitlist\" target=\"_blank\">liver transplant<\/a>\u00a0surgeon, I had noticed that small candidates on the waitlist seem to wait longer to get a liver transplant, even if they are at the top of the list,\u201d\u00a0<strong>Catherine E. Kling, MD, MPH,<\/strong>\u00a0assistant professor in the division of transplant surgery and program director for the Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship at the University of Washington, told Healio.\u00a0<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/gastroenterology\/20230410\/smaller-liver-transplant-candidates-wait-up-to-55-days-longer-than-other-recipients\">Read more in Healio. <\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6541\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading By Kate BurbaLiver transplant candidates\u00a0with a small stature experienced longer waitlist times and had lower rates of transplant, with the smallest 25% of candidates most affected, according to study &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/04\/11\/smaller-liver-transplant-candidates-wait-up-to-55-days-longer-than-other-recipients\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smaller liver transplant candidates wait up to 55 days longer than other recipients&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,7,29],"tags":[1837,1788,456],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1258","post_likes_plusCounter":"2","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6542,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}