2015 American Transplant Congress

Sunday, May 3, 2015

5:00pm-5:12pm

A New Diagnostic Tool for Antibody Mediated Rejection in Heart and Lung Transplantation: Intragraft Donor Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies Detection

J. Olagne,^1,2,3 A. Parissiadis,² N. Froelich,² S. Caillard,¹ M.-P. Chenard,³ E. Epailly,⁴ H. Kremer,⁴ T. Degot,⁵ S. Hirschi,⁵ R. Kessler,⁵ B. Moulin.¹

Concurrent Session: Lung: Optimizing Outcomes  •  Room 115-C

5:00pm-5:12pm

Adoptive Transfer of T Cell Receptor-Transgenic (TCR-Tg) Cells Alters Endogenous Immune Responses During Acute Rejection

M. Miller, M. Daniels, Y. Wang, D. Yin, A. Chong, M.-L. Alegre.

Concurrent Session: T Cell Biology  •  Room 119-B

5:00pm-5:12pm

CD4 T Cell Mediated Help Is Required for Endogenous Memory CD8 T Cell Proliferation in Cardiac Allografts Subjected to Prolonged Cold Ischemic Storage

H. Tsuda,^1,4 T. Tanaka,^2,4 N. Kohei,^3,4 D. Kish,⁴ W. Baldwin,⁴ A. Valujskikh,⁴ R. Fairchild.⁴

Concurrent Session: T Cell Mediated Rejection: Animal Models  •  Room 120-ABC

5:00pm-5:12pm

Defining the Epidemiologic Landscape of HIV-Infected Deceased Donors in the United States

A. Cash, A. Shaffer, S. Anjum, A. Massie, D. Segev, C. Durand.

Concurrent Session: Economics, Policy and Ethics  •  Room 118-C

5:00pm-5:12pm

Galectin-9 Protects Mouse Liver Transplants Against Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

H. Ji, Y. Liu, Y. Zhang, X. Shen, F. Gao, R. Busuttil, J. Kupiec-Weglinski.

Concurrent Session: Liver Transplant Rejection: Animal Models  •  Room 121-AB

5:00pm-5:12pm

Long Term Outcomes of Tocilizumab Therapy for DSA+ Antibody Mediated Rejection (ABMR) Resistant to IVIG + Rituxan (I+R) Treatment

J. Choi,¹ A. Vo,¹ J. Kahwaji,¹ M. Haas,² N. Reinsmoen,³ D. Puliyanda,¹ A. Peng,¹ R. Villicana,¹ S. Jordan.¹

Concurrent Session: Kidney Antibody Mediated Rejection II  •  Terrace I-III

5:00pm-5:12pm

Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of an EVR- Vs. an MMF-Based Regimen After Pediatric Kidney Transplantation (KTX): A Case-Control Study Within the CERTAIN Registry

L. Pape,¹ T. Ahlenstiel-Grunow,¹ B. Hoecker,² M. Bald,³ K. Kruppka,² B. Toenshoff,² L. Brunkhorst.¹

Concurrent Session: Pediatric Kidney Transplantation  •  Room 119-A

5:00pm-5:12pm

Marked Suppression of Posttransplant Alloantibody Production and Primed B cell Function In Vivo by mTOR Inhibition Compared to Calcineurin Inhibition

C. Wright, J. Zimmerer, T. Pham, G. Bumgardner.

Concurrent Session: Alloantibodies and Rejection: Animal Models  •  Room 118-AB

5:00pm-5:12pm

Matching Strategies in Kidney Paired Donation: A 7-Year Analysis of a Multi-Institutional Registry

D. Fumo,^1,2 L. Reece,² S. Stepkowski,¹ V. Kapoor,¹ S. Rees,² J. Kopke,² M. Rees.^1,2

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

5:00pm-5:12pm

Muscle Mass Measurement Is Objective and More Predictive of Expected Mortality Than Functional Status in High MELD Liver Transplant Recipients

J. Nolte,¹ S. Gordon Burroughs,¹ D. Victor,¹ C. Mobley,¹ N. Yu,² T. Hirase,¹ A. Saharia,¹ A. Rajaraman,¹ L. Moore,¹ A. Gaber,¹ R. Ghobrial.¹

Concurrent Session: Liver Retransplantation and Other Complications  •  Room 115-AB