2018 American Transplant Congress

June 2-6, 2018 in Seattle, WA

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Monday, June 4, 2018

4:42pm-4:54pm: Risk Factors for Chronic Opioid Use after Liver Transplantation

J. Fleming, D. Taber, B. O'Brien, N. Patel, N. Pilch, R. Gilbert, L. Wilson, Z. Elmaasarani, S. Ball, P. Mauldin, P. Baliga.

Concurrent Session: Psychosocial and Treatment Adherence • Room 3AB

4:42pm-4:54pm: Survival Benefit of Partial Grafts in Pediatric Candidates with Acute Liver Failure Awaiting Liver Transplantation: SRTR Analysis over 26 Years

D. Firl, K. Sasaki, C. Quintini, B. Eghtesad, C. Miller, K. Hashimoto.

Concurrent Session: Liver: Pediatrics • Room 608/609

4:42pm-4:54pm: Targeted Donor Complement Blockade after Brain-Death Prevents Delayed Graft Function but Not Progression to Antibody-Mediated Rejection in a Non-Human Primate Model of Kidney Allo-Transplantation

J. Danobeitia,¹ T. Zens,¹ L. Zitur,¹ P. Chlebeck,¹ J. Torrealba,³ D. Burguete, E. Van Amersfoort,² A. Relan,² A. D'Alessandro,¹ L. Fernandez.¹

Concurrent Session: Innate Immunity; Chemokines, Cytokines, Complement • Room 618/619/620

4:42pm-4:54pm: The Ethical Turmoil of Imminent Death Donation

N. Galvan, J. Geha, R. Ackah, M. Kueht, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, A. Rana, J. Goss.

Concurrent Session: Regulatory Issues • Room 2AB

4:42pm-4:54pm: The Stunning Rise in Organ Donors Deceased from Drug Overdose

N. Agrawal,¹ S. Rhazouani,¹ D. Reino,¹ D. McMichael,² C. McClenney,³ D. Sears,¹ K. Al Khalloufi,¹ S. Gebreselassie,¹ S. Ebaid,¹ M. Berho,⁴ X. Zervos,¹ C. Sheffield,¹ A. Tzakis.¹

Concurrent Session: Non-Organ Specific: Economics, Public Policy, Allocation, Ethics - 1 • Room 4C-4

4:42pm-4:54pm: Vesicoureteral Reflux after Kidney Transplantation Influences Long-Term Graft Survival

T. Hirose,¹ K. Hotta,² N. Fukuzawa,³ A. Mitsuke,³ H. Harada.³

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Surgical Considerations • Room 210

4:54pm-5:06pm: A Multi-Center Analysis of Risk Factors for Pneumocystis Pneumonia (PCP) in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

S. Hosseini-Moghaddam, M. Shokoohi, G. Singh, S. Dufresne, A. Jevnikar, D. Kabbani, H. Cardinal, I. Houde, M-.J. Hebert, A. Shoker, G. Prasad, A. Humar, D. Kumar.

Concurrent Session: Addressing Re-Emerging Infectious Challenges to Transplantation • Room 602/603/604

4:54pm-5:06pm: A Novel Dropout Risk Score in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Patients Listed for Liver Transplant (LT) – Identifying a Threshold That Predicts Worse Post-LT Survival in Short Wait Regions

N. Mehta, J. Dodge, F. Yao.

Concurrent Session: Liver: MELD, Allocation and Donor Issues - 1 • Room 6B

4:54pm-5:06pm: Acquired Resistance to Transplantation Tolerance as a Result of Prior Pregnancy Requires B Cells

A. Suah,¹ S. Khiew,¹ J. Young,¹ D. Yin,¹ Q. Wang,¹ M. Alegre,² A. Chong.¹

Concurrent Session: Strategies to Promote Transplant Tolerance • Room 606/607

4:54pm-5:06pm: Frequency of Whole-Organ in Lieu of Split-Liver Transplantation over the Last Decade: Children Experienced Increased Wait Time and Death

P. Valentino,¹ S. Emre,² L. Li,³ Y. Deng,³ G. Gan,³ D. Mulligan,² U. Ekong,¹ M. Rodriguez-Davalos.⁴

Concurrent Session: Liver: Pediatrics • Room 608/609