2015 American Transplant Congress

Saturday, May 2, 2015

5:30pm-7:30pm

High Prevalence of Allograft Rejection in Kidney Recipients With a Mild Increase in Serum Creatinine: Interim Report of the ANIDAR Study

S. De Serres,¹ J. Ho,² J.-F. Cailhier,³ H. Cardinal,³ O. Désy,¹ P. Vallin,¹ S. Béland,¹ I. Côté,¹ I. Houde,¹ R. Noël,¹ I. Lapointe,¹ M. Agharazii.¹

Poster Session A: Kidney Antibody Mediated Rejection  •  Exhibit Hall E

5:30pm-7:30pm

High Tolerability With Sofosbuvir-Based Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy in Liver Transplant Recipients With Recurrent Hepatitis C

B. Osborne,¹ A. Modi,¹ M. Gautam,¹ N. Murray,¹ I. Gonzalez,² J. McAfee,² S. Gonzalez.¹

Poster Session A: Liver Transplantation: Viral Hepatitis  •  Exhibit Hall E

5:30pm-7:30pm

High-Resolution Perfusion Mapping to Detect Heart Transplant Rejection Using Contrast Enhance Ultrasound

K. Fischer,^1,2 S. Ohori,² F. Meral,¹ S. Giannini,² K. Hoffmeister,² H. Athar,² T. Ichimura,² R. Smith,³ M. Giverts,² F. Jolesz,¹ R. Abdi.²

Poster Session A: Acute Allograft Rejection  •  Exhibit Hall E

5:30pm-7:30pm

Histologic Findings in Pre-transplant AT1Rab + ve Patients Point to an Increase in Sub-Intimal Fibrosis During Acute Rejection and in 12 mo. Protocol Renal Graft Biopsies

A. González-Almada, J. Arreola-Guerra, E. Cuevas, M. Vilatoba, A. Contreras, A. Sanchez-Cedillo, J. Alberu, N. Uribe-Uribe.

Poster Session A: Delayed Function/Acute Injury/Outcomes/Glomerulonephritis  •  Exhibit Hall E

5:30pm-7:30pm

HO-1 Modified Macrophages Promote Autophagy by Activating Sirt1/TGF-β/Smad4 Signaling in Ischemia-Stressed Mouse Liver Transplants

S. Yue, J. Huang, K. Nakamura, M. Zhou, X.-D. Shen, R. Busuttil, B. Ke, J. Kupiec-Weglinski.

Poster Session A: Preclinical Immunosuppression and Tolerance  •  Exhibit Hall E

5:30pm-7:30pm

Hospital Characteristics Mediate Variation in Cirrhosis Mortality in Transplant and Non-Transplant Facilities

A. Mathur,¹ A. Chakrabarti,² K. Sheetz,² J. Mellinger,³ M. Volk,³ N. Katariya,¹ A. Singer,¹ W. Hewitt,¹ K. Reddy,¹ A. Moss.¹

Poster Session A: Non Organ Specific, Economics, Public Policy, Allocation, Ethics  •  Exhibit Hall E

5:30pm-7:30pm

Human Adipose Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enhance Bone Marrow Engraftment and Induce Immunological Tolerance

R. Saidi,² B. Rajeshkumar,¹ P. Agrawal,¹ M. Rashighi.¹

Poster Session A: Preclinical Immunosuppression and Tolerance  •  Exhibit Hall E

5:30pm-7:30pm

Human CD8⁺TCR^– Facilitating Cells Enhance HSC Engraftment In Vivo and Promote HSC Survival In Vitro

Y. Huang,¹ M. Elliott,¹ E. Yolcu,¹ T. Miller,¹ L. Bozulic,² Y. Wen,¹ H. Xu,¹ S. Ildstad.^1,2

Poster Session A: Preclinical Immunosuppression and Tolerance  •  Exhibit Hall E

5:30pm-7:30pm

Hybrid Ostomy – New Technique in Intestinal Transplantation

T. Beduschi, J. Garcia, P. Ruiz, A. Tekin, G. Selvaggi, S. Nishida, J. Fan, R. Vianna.

Poster Session A: Small Bowel All Topics  •  Exhibit Hall E

5:30pm-7:30pm

Hyperuricemia Takes a Toll in Graft Function, Left Ventricular Diameters and Arterial Stiffness in Renal Transplant Recipients

B. Gurlek Demirci,¹ S. Sezer,¹ C. Oygur,² Z. Bal,¹ E. Tutal,¹ M. Haberal.³

Poster Session A: Kidney: Cardiovascular and Metabolic  •  Exhibit Hall E