| Acronym |
Definition |
| ACOT |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation |
| AJT |
American Journal of Transplantation |
| AOPO |
Association of Organ Procurement Organizations |
| ARE |
Acute rejection episode |
| AT |
Ablative treatments |
| ATG |
Antithymocyte globulin |
| BMI |
Body mass index |
| CAN |
Chronic allograft nephropathy |
| CF |
Cystic fibrosis |
| CIT |
Cold ischemia time |
| CMS |
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
| CMV |
Cytomegalovirus |
| COPD |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
| CUSUM |
Cumulative sum |
| CVA |
Cerebrovascular accident |
| DBD |
Donation after brain death |
| DCD |
Donation after cardiac death |
| DDLT |
Deceased donor liver transplant |
| DDR |
Deceased Donor Registration form |
| DGF |
Delayed graft function |
| DH |
Donor Histocompatibility form |
| DM |
Diabetes mellitus |
| DMV |
Department of Motor Vehicles |
| DOD |
Deceased Organ Donation |
| DoT |
Division of Transplantation (of HRSA) |
| DPI |
Donor Profile Index |
| DRI |
Donor Risk Index
|
| DSA |
Donation service area |
| ECD |
Expanded criteria donor |
| ECLS |
Extracorporeal life support |
| ECMO |
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation |
| ESLD |
End-stage liver disease |
| ESRD |
End-stage renal disease |
| FEV-1 |
Forced expiratory volume in 1 second |
| FT |
Fraction transplanted |
| FVC |
Forced vital capacity |
| GFR |
Glomerular filtration rate |
| GN |
Glomerulonephritis |
| GS |
Graft survival |
| HCC |
Hepatocellular carcinoma |
| HCV |
Hepatitis C virus |
| HHS |
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| HLA |
Human leukocyte antigen |
| HLHS |
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome |
| HRSA |
Health Resources and Services Administration |
| ICU |
Intensive care unit |
| IL-2R |
Interleukin-2 receptor |
| INR |
International normalized ratio (of prothrombin time) |
| IOM |
Institute of Medicine |
| INTERMACS |
Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support |
| IPBTC |
International Pediatric Bowel Transplant Cooperative |
| IPF |
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis |
| ISHLT |
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation |
| KARS |
Kidney Allocation Review Subcommittee (of OPTN) |
| KC |
Kidney Committee (of the OPTN) |
| KDRI |
Kidney Donor Risk Index |
| KM |
Kaplan-Meier |
| KP |
Kidney-pancreas |
| KPSAM |
Kidney-pancreas simulated allocation model |
| LAS |
Lung allocation score |
| LD |
Living donor |
| LDC |
Living Donor Collective |
| LDLT |
Living donor liver transplant |
| LDLLT |
Living donor lobar lung transplant |
| LSAM |
Liver simulated allocation model |
| LTFU |
Lost to follow-up |
| LVAD |
Left ventricular assist device |
| LYFT |
Life years from transplant |
| MELD |
Model for end-stage liver disease (scoring system) |
| MM |
Mismatch |
| MMF |
Mycophenolate mofetil |
| MP |
Machine perfusion |
| MPSC |
Membership and Professional Standards Committee (of OPTN) |
| NAPRTCS |
North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study |
| NAT |
Nucleic acid testing |
| NCHS |
National Center for Health Statistics |
| NDI |
National Death Index |
| NHB |
Nonheartbeating |
| NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
| NOTA |
National Organ Transplant Act |
| OPO |
Organ procurement organization |
| OPTN |
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network |
| ORPD |
Organs recovered per donor |
| OSR |
OPO-specific report (of SRTR) |
| OTPD |
Organs transplanted per donor |
| PA |
Pulmonary artery |
| PAK |
Pancreas after kidney (a type of isolated pancreas transplantation) |
| PELD |
Pediatric end-stage liver disease (scoring system) |
| PHTS |
Pediatric Heart Transplant Study |
| PKD |
Polycystic kidney disease |
| PMP |
Pulsatile machine preservation |
| POC |
Policy Oversight Committee (of the OPTN) |
| PPH |
Primary pulmonary hypertension |
| PRA |
Panel reactive antibody |
| PSR |
Transplant program-specific report (of the SRTR) |
| PT |
Post Transplant |
| PTA |
Pancreas transplant alone (a type of isolated pancreas transplantation) |
| PTLD |
Post transplant lymphoproliferative disorder |
| PVD |
Pulmonary Vascular Disease |
| PY |
Patient years |
| RFA |
Radiofrequency ablation |
| RH |
Recipient Histocompatibility form |
| RR |
Relative risk |
| RRB |
Regional Review Board |
| RVAD |
Right ventricular assist device |
| SAC |
Standard acquisition charge |
| SAM |
Simulated allocation model |
| SCD |
Standard criteria donor |
| SPK |
Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation |
| SRC |
SRTR Review Committee |
| SRTR |
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients |
| SSDMF |
Social Security Death Master File |
| TACE |
Trans-arterial chemo-ablation |
| TCR |
Transplant Candidate Registration form |
| TPN |
Total parenteral nutrition |
| TRF |
Transplant Recipient Follow-up form |
| TRR |
Transplant Recipient Registration form |
| TSAM |
Thoracic simulated allocation model |
| TT |
Time to transplant |
| UMKECC |
University of Michigan Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center |
| UNOS |
United Network for Organ Sharing |
| USRDS |
United States Renal Data System |
| VAD |
Ventricular assist device |
| WL |
Waiting list |
| WT |
Waiting time |