2017 American Transplant Congress

April 29-May 3, 2017 in Chicago, IL

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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

2:54pm-3:06pm: Reassessing Thymoglobulin Induction in Kidney Transplantation (RETHINK): An Analysis of the North American Pediatric Renal Trials and Collaborative Studies (NAPRTCS) Registry.

I. Ashoor,¹ K. Martz,² R. Beyl,³ V. Dharnidharka.⁴

Concurrent Session: Kidney Immunosuppression: Induction Therapy • E354b

2:54pm-3:06pm: Anti-CD40 mAb Promotes Kidney Immunoregulatory Capacity in NHP Transplants by Altering Kidney Tubular Cell (TEC) Expression of CD40 and IL-6.

J. Arp,¹ Y. Ma,¹ H. Yang,² A. El Warrak,¹ A. Haig,¹ W. Liu,¹ K. Reimann,³ P. Luke,¹ Z. Zhang,¹ D. Rothstein,⁴ A. Jevnikar.¹

Concurrent Session: Basic Transplant Tolerance II • E350

2:54pm-3:06pm: Bariatric Surgery Prior to Living Kidney Donation: A Solution to Expand the Donor Pool.

M.-T. Nguyen, D. Carpenter, A. Mathur, J. Van Bever, R. Sandoval, L. Ratner.

Concurrent Session: Evaluation Decisions: Living Kidney Donors • E450b

2:54pm-3:06pm: Current Status of HIV-to-HIV Transplants in the United States.

C. Durand,¹ A. Tobian,^1,3 N. Desai,¹ A. Cameron,¹ N. Dagher,⁴ D. Brown,¹ S. Halpern,¹ S. Bagnasco,¹ D. Ostrander,¹ A. Redd,¹ S. Huprikar,² B. Haydel,² S. Lerner,² S. Florman,² D. Segev.¹

Concurrent Session: Optimizing Donor Utilization: All Organs • E353B

2:54pm-3:06pm: Gut Microbial Metabolite Improves Function and Prolongs Kidney Allograft Survival in Mice.

H. Wu,^1,2 T. Kwan,¹ Y. Loh,¹ X. Chen,¹ L. Macia,^2,3 S. Alexander,^2,4 S. Chadban.^1,2

Concurrent Session: New Pathways in Allograft Rejection • E352

2:54pm-3:06pm: MELD Exception Score: LSAM Modeling of a Fixed Floor.

J. Heimbach,¹ R. Hirose,² D. Schladt,³ J. Pyke,³ J. Zeglin,³ S. Leppke,³ J. Lake,⁴ W. Kim.^5,3

Concurrent Session: Liver Waitlist Outcome and Risk Stratification • E271a

2:54pm-3:06pm: Outcomes Following Cholecystectomy in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

S. DiBrito, C. Holscher, I. Olorundare, C. Haugen, Y. Alimi, D. Segev, J. Garonzik-Wang.

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

2:54pm-3:06pm: Post-Liver Transplant (LT) Early Allograft Dysfunction (EAD) Modulates the Effect of Pre-LT Kidney Function on Post-LT Survival.

H. Wadei, M. Mai, B. Taner, K. Croome, A. Keaveny, L. Mai, D. Lee.

Concurrent Session: Kidney Issues in Liver Transplantation • E451b

2:54pm-3:06pm: Procurement Kidney Biopsy versus KDRI for Predicting Graft Survival.

I. Hall,¹ C. Parikh,² B. Schröppel,³ F. Weng,⁴ Y. Jia,² H. Thiessen-Philbrook,² P. Reese,⁵ M. Doshi.⁶

Concurrent Session: Kidney Optimizing Donor/Recipient Selection and Matching • E450a

2:54pm-3:06pm: Prolonged Survival with Co-Stimulatory Blockade Based Immunosuppression in Pig-to-Primate Liver Xenotransplantation.

J. Shah, M. Patel, N. Elias, I. Rosales, N. Navarro-Alvarez, M. Hertl, A. Cosimi, R. Colvin, J. Markmann, D. Sachs, P. Vagefi.

Concurrent Session: Xenotransplant • E351