2017 American Transplant Congress

Sunday, April 30, 2017

4:42pm-4:54pm

Deceased Donors with a History of IV Drug Use and Donor Derived Hepatitis C Virus.

D. Kaul,¹ M. Clark,² M. Michaels,¹ S. Tlusty,² C. Wolfe.¹

Concurrent Session: New Insights - HCV / HIV  •  E271b

4:42pm-4:54pm

Eight Year Follow-Up of a Phase 2 Clinical Trial to Induce Tolerance in Living Donor Renal Transplant Recipients.

J. Leventhal,¹ J. Galvin,¹ J. Mathew,¹ L. Gallon,¹ D. Stare,¹ A. Sweeney,¹ J. Miller,¹ M. Abecassis,¹ S. Ildstad.²

Concurrent Session: Tolerance: Clinical Studies  •  E353C

4:42pm-4:54pm

Even with National Sharing, the Prospects of a 100% Sensitized Patient Receiving a Transplant Vary Dramatically Depending on the Precise CPRA Value.

D. Stewart,¹ A. Kucheryavaya,¹ D. Tyan,² H. Gebel,³ R. Bray,³ N. Turgeon.³

Concurrent Session: Clinical Science: Kidney Immunosuppression: Desensitization  •  E354b

4:42pm-4:54pm

Host-Derived, Intragraft Dendritic Cells Are Extensively Cross-Dressed by Donor MHC.

A. Hughes, H. Dai, A. Williams, M. Oberbarnscheidt, A. Morelli, F. Lakkis.

Concurrent Session: Innate Immunity  •  E350

4:42pm-4:54pm

Lessons Learned from Simultaneous Biopsies of Both Kidney and Pancreas Grafts in Recipients of Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplants.

S. Parajuli, B. Astor, A. Djamali, R. Redfield, E. Arpali, D. Kaufman, J. Odorico, D. Mandelbrot.

Concurrent Session: Pancreas Transplantation  •  E267

4:42pm-4:54pm

Preliminary Results of Clinical Normothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion in a North American Setting.

M. Bral,¹ B. Gala-Lopez,¹ D. Bigam,¹ N. Kneteman,¹ A. Malcolm,¹ S. Livingstone,¹ A. Andres,¹ J. Emamaullee,¹ L. West,¹ P. Friend,² A. Shapiro.¹

Concurrent Session: Liver Allocation, Utilization, and Machine Perfusion  •  E451a

4:42pm-4:54pm

Reduced Conversion from IgM Anti-HLA-DSA to IgG Anti-HLA-DSA in Belatacept-Treated vs. Cyclosporine-Treated Patients in BENEFIT and BENEFIT-EXT Trials.

M. Everly,¹ R. Townsend,² H. Gebel,³ R. Bray.³

Concurrent Session: Novel Immunosuppression - DSA Monitoring  •  E450b

4:42pm-4:54pm

The Safety and Efficacy of Directly-Acting Antivirals with or without Ribavirin for HCV Genotype 1 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Z. Guo, J. Gu, X. He, G. Chen.

Concurrent Session: Liver: Viral Hepatitis  •  E271a

4:42pm-4:54pm

Unintended Consequence of the New Kidney Allocation System – Disproportionate Allocation of High Quality Kidneys to Highly Sensitized Recipients.

B. Murthy, N. Galvan, J. Moffett, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana.

Concurrent Session: Kidney Allocation: Changes and Consequences  •  E450a

4:42pm-4:54pm

Venous Thromboembolism and the Risk of Death and Graft Loss in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

N. Lam,¹ A. Garg,² G. Knoll,³ J. Kim,⁴ K. Lentine,⁵ E. McArthur,⁶ K. Naylor,⁶ S. Bota,⁶ M. Sood.³

Concurrent Session: Kidney Clinical Complications 1  •  E354a