2017 American Transplant Congress

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

2:30pm-2:42pm

Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Correlates with Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Allografts.

R. Bloom,¹ J. Bromberg,² E. Poggio,³ D. Hiller,⁴ R. Woodward,⁴ J. Sninsky,⁴ J. Yee,⁴ D. Brennan.⁵

Concurrent Session: Diagnosis of Antibody Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients  •  E354a

2:30pm-2:42pm

Factors Associated with Death or Transplant in Low-MELD Patients.

A. Harper,¹ E. Edwards,¹ J. Heimbach.²

Concurrent Session: Liver Waitlist Outcome and Risk Stratification  •  E271a

2:30pm-2:42pm

Inferior Graft and Patient Survival After Living Donor Renal Transplantation of Negatively Selected Right Kidneys.

S. Yamanaga,^1,2,3 A. Posselt,¹ C. Freise,¹ C. Niemann,¹ A. Rosario,¹ D. Fernandez,¹ T. Kobayashi,³ A. Ahearn,⁴ M. Tavakol,¹ S.-M. Kang.¹

Concurrent Session: Evaluation Decisions: Living Kidney Donors  •  E450b

2:30pm-2:42pm

Mesenchymal Stem Cells Suppress T Cell Proliferation and Improve Allograft Survival in a Nonhuman Primate Transplant Model.

S. Kim, D. Mathews, L. Higginbotham, C. Breeden, C. Larsen, A. Adams.

Concurrent Session: Basic Transplant Tolerance II  •  E350

2:30pm-2:42pm

Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells (MDSC) Accumulate in Intestinal Transplant (IT) Recipients (rc) and Suppress Recipient T-Cell (T) Response Against Donor Antigen.

S. Okano,¹ D. Kish,² K. Keslar,² W. Baldwin,² R. Fairchild,¹ C. Miller,¹ K. Abu-Elmagd,¹ A. Khanna,¹ M. Fujiki,¹ J. Fung,¹ G. Costa,¹ K. Hashimoto.¹

Concurrent Session: Small Bowel: All Topics  •  E271b

2:30pm-2:42pm

Retrospective Analysis of Multiple Hemodialysis Access Modalities.

V. Bowers,¹ H. Pearson,¹ J. Huang,¹ J. Leone,¹ A. Tanious,¹ K. Dawley,¹ E. Rogers,¹ V. Camba,² C. Albertson,² D. Lahiff,² T. Rashid,² J. Buggs.¹

Concurrent Session: Surgical Issues (Minimally Invasive/Open): All Organs  •  E451a

2:42pm-2:54pm

10 Years or More of Follow Up After Total Pancreatectomy and Intra Portal Islet Auto Transplantation (TP/IAT) for Treatment of Chronic Pancreatitis, Is It a Durable Operation?

S. Chinnakotla, T. Dunn, G. Beilman, M. Bellin, T. Pruett, V. Kirchner, J. Wilhelm, M. Freeman, D. Sutherland.

Concurrent Session: Islet (Auto and Allo) and Pancreas Transplantation  •  E353C

2:42pm-2:54pm

A Molecular Approach to Chronic Rejection: Antibody or T-Cell Mediated?

L. Kamal, P. O Broin, M. Lubetzky, Y. Bao, E. Akalin.

Concurrent Session: Diagnosis of Antibody Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients  •  E354a

2:42pm-2:54pm

Addition of hEPCR.hCD55.hTFPI.hCD47 Modulates Multi-Lineage Cell Sequestration and Coagulation Activation by GalTKO.hCD46 Transgenic Pig Livers Perfused Ex Vivo with Human Blood.

A. Cimeno,¹ L. Burdorf,¹ D. Parsell,¹ C. Phelps,² D. Ayares,² A. Azimzadeh,¹ R. Pierson III,¹ R. Barth,¹ J. LaMattina.¹

Concurrent Session: Xenotransplant  •  E351

2:42pm-2:54pm

Delayed Renal Implantation Improves Survival Following Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation in High Acuity Recipients.

K. Lunsford,¹ V. Agopian,² A. Saharia,¹ J. Balough,¹ C. Mobley,¹ S. Gordon-Boroughs,¹ H. Gritsch,² H. Podder,¹ R. Knight,¹ G. Danovitch,² X. Li,¹ A. Gaber,¹ R. Busuttil,² R. Ghobrial.¹

Concurrent Session: Kidney Issues in Liver Transplantation  •  E451b