2015 American Transplant Congress

May 2-6, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Sunday, May 3, 2015

2:15pm-2:27pm: Preservation Solution Impacts Short- and Long-Term Survival in Orthotopic Heart Transplant Recipients

C. Lewis,¹ S. Jayarajan,¹ S. Taghavi,¹ S. Kadakia,¹ V. Ambur,¹ A. Shiose,³ G. Wheatley,³ L. Kaiser,² T. Guy,³ Y. Toyoda.³

Concurrent Session: "The Pit and the Pendulum": VADs, Dual Organs and Other Matters of the Heart • Room 119-B

2:15pm-2:27pm: Regional Efficiency in Deceased Donor Utilization for Kidney Transplantation

K. Schnier,¹ N. Turgeon.²

Concurrent Session: Kidney Utilization/Center Issues • Room 121-AB

2:15pm-2:27pm: Screening Recipients of Increased Risk Donor Organs: A Multicenter Study

N. Theodoropoulos,¹ K. Brizendine,² M. Ison.³

Concurrent Session: Donor-Derived Infection/Lifestyle/Tourism/Vaccines • Room 115- AB

2:15pm-2:27pm: The Impact of Duration of Brain Death on Outcomes in Abdominal Organ Transplantation: Rush and Retrieve or Rather Relax and Repair?

C. Boffa,¹ E. Curnow,² K. Martin,² R. Johnson,² R. Ploeg.¹

Concurrent Session: Deceased Donor Management • Room 119-A

2:15pm-2:27pm: Variables Related to the Development of Donor Specific Antibodies (DSA) Post-Kidney Transplant (KTx): Implications for Late Graft Histology and Survival

F. Cosio,¹ C. Schinstock,¹ M. Stegall.²

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

2:27pm-2:39pm: Delayed Kidney Transplant in Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation Improves GFR and Patient Survival

B. Ekser, W. Goggins, R. Mangus, S. Nagai, C. Kubal, J. Fridell, S. Kinsella, J. Powelson, A. Tector.

Concurrent Session: Optimizing Renal Outcomes in Liver Transplantation • Room 118-AB

2:27pm-2:39pm: Donor Derived Transmission Events in 2014: A Report of the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)

D. Kaul,¹ S. Covington,² S. Taranto,² M. Green,¹ C. Wolfe.¹

Concurrent Session: Donor-Derived Infection/Lifestyle/Tourism/Vaccines • Room 115- AB

2:27pm-2:39pm: Early Clinical Indicators of Long Term Survival and Allograft Loss Following De Novo DSA. A 15-Year Longitudinal Study

M. Everly,¹ L. Rebellato,² K. Briley,² A. Maldonado,³ P. Bolin,² C. Haisch,² W. Kendrick,⁴ S. Kendrick,⁴ C. Morgan,² R. Harland,² P. Terasaki.¹

Concurrent Session: Kidney Complications: Late Graft Failure • Terrace IV

2:27pm-2:39pm: Effect of Center Volume On Kidney Transplant Outcomes- Mate Kidney Analysis

T. Klair,¹ P. Friedmann,² L. Kayler.²

Concurrent Session: Kidney Utilization/Center Issues • Room 121-AB

2:27pm-2:39pm: Enhanced Production of Macrophage Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) Within the Kidney in Brain Death Donors Predicts Recipient Allograft Function

J. Chen, S. Antipenko, A. Zmijewska, R. Reed, J. Locke, R. Mannon.

Concurrent Session: Deceased Donor Management • Room 119-A