2017 American Transplant Congress

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

4:42pm-4:54pm

How to Improve Pre-Kidney Transplant Education for Hispanics: Preferences and Perceptions of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Hispanic Transplant Program.

H. Gomez, E. Malagon-Blackwell, J. Caicedo.

Concurrent Session: Disparities in Kidney Transplantation  •  E451a

4:42pm-4:54pm

IL-21R Antagonist Inhibits Differentiation of B Cells Towards Plasmablasts upon Alloantigen Stimulation.

K. de Leur,^1,2 F. Dor,⁴ M. Dieterich,¹ L. van der Laan,² R. Hendriks,³ C. Baan.¹

Concurrent Session: B Cells: Regulation and Tolerance  •  E350

4:42pm-4:54pm

Immune Sensitization During Pregnancy Reduces Long-Term Benefit for Kidney Recipients of Offspring Living Donors.

J. Cohen,¹ L. Owei,² D. Sawinski,¹ P. Porrett.²

Concurrent Session: Long Term Kidney Graft Survival II  •  E450a

4:42pm-4:54pm

Islet Rejection in Autoimmune NOD Mouse Recipients: Implications for Stem Cell Therapies.

R. Gill,¹ M. Coulombe,¹ T. Kupfer,¹ K. Beard,¹ A. Burrack.²

Concurrent Session: Islet Transplant  •  E352

4:42pm-4:54pm

Long-Term Outcomes After Liver Transplantation (tx) with Everolimus (EVR) and Mycophenolic Acid (MPA) in a Calcineurin Inhibitor-Free Regimen: The CERTITUDE Trial.

F. Saliba,¹ C. Duvoux,² S. Dharancy,³ J. Dumortier,⁴ Y. Calmus,⁵ F. Di Giambattista,⁶ F. Conti.⁵

Concurrent Session: Liver: Immunosuppression and Rejection  •  E451b

4:42pm-4:54pm

Myeloid HO-1 Orchestrates Liver Graft Function via SIRT1/p53 Signaling: From Mouse-to-Human.

K. Nakamura,¹ M. Zhang,² B. Ke,¹ S. Kageyama,¹ N. Datta,¹ A. Zarrinpar,¹ R. Busuttil,¹ J. Araujo,² J. Kupiec-Weglinski.¹

Concurrent Session: Pathways in Ischemia Reperfusion  •  E351

4:42pm-4:54pm

U.S. Outcomes in Early Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis: Results from the American Consortium of Early Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis (ACCELERATE-AH).

B. Lee,¹ N. Mehta,¹ L. Platt,² G. Im,³ G. Therapondos,⁴ H. Han,⁵ D. Victor,⁶ D. Dronamraju,⁷ I. Hanouneh,⁸ M. Voigt,⁹ M. Rinella,¹⁰ S. Eswaran,¹¹ J. Hause,¹¹ C. Hsu,¹² J. Dodge,¹ Z. Li,² N. Terrault.¹

Concurrent Session: Late Breaking  •  E353C

4:42pm-4:54pm

Unexplained Cost Variation for Liver Transplantation: A National Study of US Transplant Centers.

C. Santos, B. Hota, M. Hertl.

Concurrent Session: Economics and Outcomes in Organ Transplantation  •  E271a

4:54pm-5:06pm

“Donor Age or Quality” a Qualitative Analysis of Livers Declined for 830.

M. Dokus, E. DeAngelis, G. Ramaraju, K. Tomiyama, J. Huang, M. Levstik, R. Hernandez-Alejandro, M. Orloff, R. Kashyap.

Concurrent Session: Economics and Outcomes in Organ Transplantation  •  E271a

4:54pm-5:06pm

A Comparison of Desensitization Protocols: Rituximab with/without Plasmapheresis in ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplantation.

E. Lee, S. Kim, S. Lee, S.-J. Park.

Concurrent Session: Liver: Immunosuppression and Rejection  •  E451b