2015 American Transplant Congress

May 2-6, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Sunday, May 3, 2015

2:27pm-2:39pm: HLA Broad Antigen and Eplet Mismatches in Determining the Risk of Acute Rejection After Kidney Transplantation

H. Do Nguyen,¹ W. Lim,^1,2 J. Chapman,³ J. Craig,^3,4 G. Wong.^3,4

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

2:27pm-2:39pm: Pediatric Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Diseases: Analysis of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Databases

A. Ganoza, B. Shneider, R. Sindhi, K. Soltys, G. Bond, G. Vockley, Q. Sun, G. Mazariegos.

Concurrent Session: Liver: Pediatrics • Room 115-C

2:27pm-2:39pm: The Effects of High-Risk Donors and Recipients on Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Program-Specific Outcomes

J. Snyder,¹ N. Salkowski,¹ D. Zaun,¹ J. Schold,² A. Israni,¹ B. Kasiske.¹

Concurrent Session: Regulatory Issues in Transplant Administration • Room 118-C

2:27pm-2:39pm: The Selection Process for Total Artificial Heart

F. Arabia, L. Czer, M. Kittleson, E. Passano, F. Liou, J. Yabuno, H. Henry, D. Chang, F. Esmailian, J. Kobashigawa, J. Moriguchi.

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

2:27pm-2:39pm: Why Are Pancreas Transplant Volumes Declining?

R. Carrico,¹ J. Fridell,² J. Odorico,³ H. Yeh,⁴ K. Tyler,¹ S. Niederhaus.⁵

Concurrent Session: Controversies in Pancreas Transplantation • Room 122-AB

2:39pm-2:51pm: Avoiding Futility in Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation (SLKT): Analysis of 331 Consecutively Listed Patients

K. Lunsford, A. Bodzin, D. Reino, A. Zarrinpar, F. Kaldas, H. Gritsch, J. Veale, G. Lipshutz, D. Farmer, G. Danovitch, H. Yersiz, J. Hiatt, R. Busuttil, V. Agopian.

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

2:39pm-2:51pm: Dendritic Cells in Kidney Transplant Biopsies Are Associated With Poor Allograft Survival

I. Batal,¹ S. De Serres,¹ K. Safa,¹ A. Waaga,¹ M. Onozato,² N. Najafian,¹ A. Chandraker.¹

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

2:39pm-2:51pm: Disparities in Death and Delisting on the Waitlist for Renal Transplant in the United States

D. Keith, A. Nishio Lucar, G. Vranic.

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

2:39pm-2:51pm: HLA-Cw Mismatches Are Not Associated With Worse Graft Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation Even in High Levels of Antigen Expression

M. Askar,¹ N. Elfadawy,^1,2 S. Flechner,¹ K. Abu-Elmagd,¹ J. Fung,¹ J. Schold.¹

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

2:39pm-2:51pm: Is BMI of 28 an Appropriate Cutoff for Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant in Type II Diabetes?

E. Ahmed, D. Bruce, I. Carmody, A. Cohen, G. Loss, T. Reichman, J. Seal, H. Bohorquez.

Concurrent Session: Controversies in Pancreas Transplantation • Room 122-AB