2018 American Transplant Congress

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

2:42pm-2:54pm

IL-17 is Critical for Airway Epithelial Injury after Transplantation

R. Zhang,¹ H. Fang,¹ Q. Chen,² J. Ochando,³ Y. Ding,¹ J. Xu.¹

Concurrent Session: Chronic Graft Injury  •  Room 606/607

2:42pm-2:54pm

Impact of Rapid Discontinuation of Prednisone on Kidney Transplant Outcomes in At-Risk Subpopulations: An OPTN/SRTR Analysis

D. Vock,¹ A. Matas.²

Concurrent Session: Kidney Immunosuppression: General Considerations - 1  •  Room 6C

2:42pm-2:54pm

Impact of the Kidney Allocation System on Young Pediatric Recipients

W. Parker,¹ L. Ross,¹ J. Thistlethwaite,¹ A. Gallo.²

Concurrent Session: Kidney Deceased Donor Allocation - 2  •  Room 6E

2:42pm-2:54pm

Liver Transplant Survival Index for Recipients with High MELD Score: A Model for Post-Transplant Survival in Severely Ill Patients

J. Steggerda,¹ M. Bloom,¹ C. Bresee,² D. Malinoski,³ A. Klein,¹ K. Kim.¹

Concurrent Session: Liver: MELD, Allocation and Donor Issues - 2  •  Room 6B

2:42pm-2:54pm

Medullary Tissue Sampling in Renal Allograft Biopsy is More Sensitive for Pathologic Diagnosis of PVN

D. Abdelwahab,¹ H. Khamash,¹ S. Kriegshauser,³ R. Heilman,¹ M. Smith.²

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Polyoma  •  Room 2AB

2:42pm-2:54pm

Morphometric and Metabolic Correlates of Frailty in Pancreas Transplant Recipients

R. Parsons, J. Wolosyn, R. Lynch.

Concurrent Session: Pancreas and Islet - 2  •  Room 4C-3

2:42pm-2:54pm

Single-Cell Analysis of Graft Infiltrating T-Cells in Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy

M. Habal, A. Myung, H. Yan, S. Rao, S. Lin, P. Colombo, C. Marboe, S. Restaino, A. Han, M. Farr, E. Zorn.

Concurrent Session: Biomarkers, Immune Monitoring and Outcomes: Basic  •  Room 602/603/604

2:42pm-2:54pm

Temporal Changes in the Characteristics and Sensitization of Kidney Paired Donation Registrants

C. Holscher,¹ K. Jackson,¹ A. Thomas,¹ C. Haugen,¹ S. DiBrito,¹ M. Ronin,² A. Waterman,^3,4 A. Massie,^1,5 J. Garonzik Wang,¹ D. Segev.^1,5

Concurrent Session: Kidney Paired Exchange  •  Room 4B

2:42pm-2:54pm

Unique Gene Expression Signatures in Urine Distinguish BK Virus Nephropathy from Acute Rejection in Kidney Transplant Patients with Graft Dysfunction

K. Keslar,¹ P. Gotwald,¹ W. Xu,² A. Zmijewska,³ J. Chen,³ K. Newell,⁴ P. Heeger,⁵ J. Bromberg,⁶ R. Mannon,³ R. Fairchild,¹ The CTOT Consortium.

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Acute Cellular Rejection  •  Room 6A

2:42pm-2:54pm

Variation in Cost of Death and Graft Failure across All Solid Organs

M. Schnitzler,^1,2 M. Skeans,² D. Axelrod,³ K. Lentine,¹ H. Randall.¹

Concurrent Session: Non-Organ Specific: Economics, Public Policy, Allocation, Ethics - 2  •  Room 4C-4