2017 American Transplant Congress

April 29-May 3, 2017 in Chicago, IL

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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

4:30pm-4:42pm: Inhibition of Multiple Nodes in the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Pathway Synergistically Suppresses Epstein-Barr Virus B Cell Lymphomas.

A. Sang, G. Ivison, X. Qu, C. Esquivel, S. Krams, O. Martinez.

Concurrent Session: PTLD • E271b

4:30pm-4:42pm: Just Keeps Getting Worse: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Live Donor Kidney Transplantation in the US Over the Last Twenty Years.

T. Purnell,¹ X. Luo,¹ L. Kucirka,¹ M. Henderson,¹ E. Gordon,² L. Boulware,³ D. Segev.¹

Concurrent Session: Disparities in Kidney Transplantation • E451a

4:30pm-4:42pm: Not All Cellular Rejections Are the Same: Differences in Early and Late Hepatic Allograft Rejection.

C. Jadlowiec, P. Morgan, A. Nehra, M. Hathcock, W. Kremers, R. Wiesner, T. Taner.

Concurrent Session: Liver: Immunosuppression and Rejection • E451b

4:30pm-4:42pm: The Impact of Delayed Graft Function on Long Term Graft Survival Adjusted for Donor Kidney Quality Assessed by the KDPI.

L. Lehner, F. Halleck, D. Khadzhynov, E. Schrezenmeier, M. Dürr, K. Budde, O. Staeck.

Concurrent Session: Kidney General Outcomes • E354a

4:30pm-4:42pm: TRPV4 Channels Mediate Pulmonary Edema and Inflammation During Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury.

E. Charles, Y. Zhao, K. Hong, C. Marziano, J. Mehaffey, I. Kron, S. Sonkusare, V. Laubach, A. Sharma.

Concurrent Session: Pathways in Ischemia Reperfusion • E351

4:30pm-4:42pm: Utility of Weighted Composite Endpoints in Kidney Transplantation.

J. Schold, D. Goldfarb, S. Flechner, L. Buccini, J. Augustine, E. Poggio.

Concurrent Session: Economics and Outcomes in Organ Transplantation • E271a

4:42pm-4:54pm: Belatacept Conversion for Calcineurin Inhibitor (CNI) Toxicity: Our First 100 Patients.

R. Crew, S. Patel, A. Pai, I. Batal, H. Fernandez.

Concurrent Session: Novel Immunosuppression Regimens - Belatacept • E354b

4:42pm-4:54pm: Belatacept Conversion in Kidney Recipients with Low GFR Does Not Improve Renal Function.

D. Abdelwahab,¹ S. Byron,² B. Kaplan,¹ R. Heilman.¹

Concurrent Session: Kidney General Outcomes • E354a

4:42pm-4:54pm: Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) Kidneys Are More Likely to Be Discarded than Kidneys from Neurologically Brain Dead Donors (NBD).

J. Gill,¹ C. Rose,¹ J. Lesage,¹ Y. Joffres,¹ J. Gill,¹ K. O'Connor.²

Concurrent Session: DCD and Infectious Risk Kidney Donors • E450b

4:42pm-4:54pm: EBV-Specific CD8⁺ T Cells from Pediatric Thoracic vs Abdominal Transplant Recipients Are Shaped Differently by the Chronic EBV Loads with Potential Impact on the Risk of PTLD.

M. Yamada,^1,2 M. Camila,² P. Fadakar,^1,2 K. Hornor,¹ M. Michaels,^1,2 M. Green,^1,2 C. Nguyen,^1,2 B. Feingold,^1,2 G. Mazariegos,^1,2 D. Metes.²

Concurrent Session: PTLD • E271b