2015 American Transplant Congress Archives - Page 3 of 170

2:27pm-2:39pm: Effective Control of Anti-Xenogeneic IL-17 Response for Tolerance Induction in Xenogeneic Islet Cell Transplantation

H. Kang,¹ S. Wang,^1,2 X. Zhang,³ L. Zhang,¹ S. Miller,⁴ B. Hering,⁵ X. Luo.^1,3,4

Concurrent Session: Islet Transplantation: Basic • Room 121-C

2:27pm-2:39pm: Everolimus and Early Calcineurin Inhibitor Withdrawal Is Associated With Superior Renal Function: 5-Year Follow-Up of the Randomized PROTECT Liver Transplantation Study

M. Sterneck, G. Kaiser, N. Heyne, N. Richter, F. Rauchfuss, A. Pascher, P. Schemmer, L. Fischer, C. Klein, S. Nadalin, F. Lehner, U. Settmacher, D. Gotthardt, M. Loss, S. Ladenburger, P. Wimmer, M. Dworak, H. Schlitt.

Concurrent Session: Liver: Immunosuppression and Rejection • Room 120-ABC

2:27pm-2:39pm: Glomerular Disease (GD) After Kidney Transplant (KTx): Etiologies, Risk Factors and Consequences

F. Cosio,¹ A. Grupper,¹ E. Lorenz,¹ M. Alexander,² L. Cornell.²

Concurrent Session: Glomerulonephritis/Recurrent Disease • Room 121-AB

2:27pm-2:39pm: Identifying Predictors of Organ Donation Among African-American Men

C. Harris,¹ C. Modlin,¹ S. Olden,² A. Nowacki,³ T. Franklin,⁴ J. Canedy,¹ M. Tavaras,¹ A. Harris,¹ Y. Hamilton,⁵ C. Zaramo.¹

Concurrent Session: Disparities in Donation and Transplant Outcomes • Room 115-C

2:27pm-2:39pm: miRNA-181 Promotes Graft Prolongation by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells By Increasing T Regulatory Cells and Decreasing B Cells as Revealed By Cytometry By Time-Of-Flight

A. Lau,^1,2 M. Vitalone,¹ X. Qu,¹ T. Shawler,¹ O. Martinez,¹ C. Esquivel,¹ S. Krams.¹

Concurrent Session: Transplant Tolerance: Animal Models II • Room 118-C

2:27pm-2:39pm: Pre-Transplant Donor Specific Antibody With Negative Flow-Crossmatch Was Related to Higher Acute Rejection But Not to Poor Graft Survival

A. Guichard-Romero, L. Marino-Vazquez, M. Lopez, N. Castelan, A. De-Santiago, N. Uribe-Uribe, J. Alberu, L. Morales-Buenrostro.

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Antibodies and Allograft Injury • Room 118-AB

2:27pm-2:39pm: Pregnancy Outcomes in Female Kidney Transplant Recipients: Does Ethnicity Have an Influence?

S. Constantinescu,^1,2 L. Coscia,² D. Armenti,² P. Axelrod,¹ M. Ghanta,¹ S. Rao,¹ M. Moritz.^2,3

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Pregnancy, Metabolic Complications, Malignancy • Room 119-B

2:27pm-2:39pm: Reciprocal Relationship Between Cytomegalovirus Infection and Graft Rejection in Intestinal/Multivisceral Transplantation: Impact on Survival and Ideal Immunosuppression Protocol

S. Nagai, R. Mangus, E. Anderson, K. Doan, B. Ekser, C. Kubal, J. Fridell, A. Tector.

Concurrent Session: Small Bowel Transplantation • Room 117

2:27pm-2:39pm: The Higher MFI of De Novo Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies Is Correlated With Graft Fibrosis Progression in Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Y. Fukasaku,¹ R. Goto,¹ S. Emoto,¹ N. Kawamura,¹ Y. Koshizuka,¹ T. Takahashi,¹ M. Ota,³ T. Aoyagi,¹ K. Yamashita,² A. Taketomi,¹ T. Shimamura.³

Concurrent Session: Liver: Living Donors and Partial Grafts • Room 115-AB

2:39pm-2:51pm: Association of Pulmonary Hypertension at Kidney Transplant Evaluation and Subsequent Outcomes Following Transplantation

Y.-L. Lai,¹ H. Wasse,² W. Kim,³ R. Patzer.^1,4

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Cardiovascular and Metabolic • Terrace I-III