2015 American Transplant Congress

Monday, May 4, 2015

4:12pm-4:24pm

Vaccine-Induced 'Incognito' CD8+ T Cell Memory Can Disrupt Transplantation Tolerance

M. Nelsen,¹ K. Beard,² R. Kedl,¹ R. Gill.²

Concurrent Session: Mechanisms of Resistance To Costimulatory Blockade  •  Room 122-AB

4:24pm-4:36pm

Allogeneic Monocyte–Endothelial Cell Interaction Plays a Critical Role in Initiating Early Pro-Fibrosis Responses

E. Gall, H. Xu, K. Samy, A. Kirk.

Concurrent Session: Basic Mechanisms of Chronic Injury and Fibrosis  •  Room 121-C

4:24pm-4:36pm

Final Results from the BENEFIT-EXT Trial: A 7 Year Follow-Up of Belatacept Treated Patients

S. Florman,¹ J. Medina Pestana,² M. Rial,³ L. Rostaing,⁴ D. Kuypers,⁵ F. Mühlbacher,⁶ M. Polinsky,⁷ U. Meier-Kriesche,⁷ J. Grinyó,⁸ A. Durrbach.⁹

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Novel Agents  •  Terrace I-III

4:24pm-4:36pm

Impact of Abdominal Aortic Calcification in Living Kidney Donors

Y. Yoon,¹ K. Choi,² D. Joo,³ K. Huh,³ M. Kim,³ S. Kim,³ Y. Kim,³ S. Yang,² W. Han.¹

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Living Donor Issues II  •  Terrace IV

4:24pm-4:36pm

Induction Therapy Improves 15-Year Graft Survival in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Acute Rejection

R. Bajoka, M. Goggins, A. Patel.

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Induction  •  Room 120-ABC

4:24pm-4:36pm

LFA-1 Is Crucial for Germinal Center Reconstruction After T cell Depletion and IL-21 Biased Antibody-Mediated Rejection

J. Kwun,¹ B. Oh,¹ H. Song,¹ A. Farris,¹ A. Kirk,² W. Mahle,¹ S. Knechtle.¹

Concurrent Session: T Cell Help and Alloimmunity  •  Room 118-C

4:24pm-4:36pm

Pharmacoepidemiology of Cytomegalovirus Prophylaxis in a Large Multicenter Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients

C. Santos, D. Brennan, V. Fraser, M. Olsen.

Concurrent Session: Viral Infections (CMV, HBV, HCV, HIV, Norovirus)  •  Room 121-AB

4:24pm-4:36pm

Protecting Older Patients from Dialysis: The Survival Benefit of Preemptive Transplant With High KDPI Allografts

C. Jay,¹ K. Washburn,¹ P. Dean,² R. Helmick,² M. Stegall.²

Concurrent Session: Kidney: KDPI and Non Ideal Kidneys  •  Room 118-AB

4:24pm-4:36pm

Real-Time Measurements of Tissue Oxygen Microtension as a Marker of Bile Duct Viability in Liver Transplantation

R. Ciria-bru, E. Navarro-Rodriguez, M. Sanchez-Frías, J. Medina-Fernandez, A. Gallardo-Herrera, M. Ayllon-Teran, S. Rufián-Peña, P. Lopez-Cillero, J. Briceño-Delgado.

Concurrent Session: Donor and Recipient Optimization for Liver Transplant  •  Room 115-AB

4:24pm-4:36pm

Selective CD28 Blockade With or Without CD40-CD154 Blockade Promotes Cardiac Allograft Protection in Non-Human Primates

T. Zhang,¹ A. Kronfli,¹ B. Gheorghe,¹ L. Burdorf,¹ E. Rybak,¹ D. Parsell,¹ D. Harris,¹ E. Sievert,¹ S. Dahi,¹ N. Kubicki,¹ J. Whoddal,¹ M. Uluer,¹ X. Cheng,¹ E. Schwartz,¹ K. Quinn,¹ B. Vanhove,² A. Azimzadeh,¹ R. Pierson III.¹

Concurrent Session: Immune Regulation and Graft Survival  •  Room 119-B