2018 American Transplant Congress

June 2-6, 2018 in Seattle, WA

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Tuesday, June 5, 2018

2:54pm-3:06pm: Cell Free DNA Sequencing for Diagnosing Infections, Estimating Growth Rates, and Characterizing Antibiotic Resistomes in Urine Supernatants

J. Lee,¹ P. Burnham,² D. Dadhania,¹ M. Heyang,² F. Chen,² M. Suthanthiran,¹ I. De Vlaminck.²

Concurrent Session: Kidney Infectious - Pot-Pourri • Room 608/609

2:54pm-3:06pm: Clinical Impact of Denovo or Recurrent Donor Specific Antibodies in the First Year Post Kidney Transplant in Patients on Early Steroid Withdrawal Immunosupression Regimen

O. Adebiyi, T. Taber, W. Goggins, D. Mishler, M. Yaqub, A. Sharfuddin.

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

2:54pm-3:06pm: Cost Effectiveness of Lifelong Medicare Immunosuppressant Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Recipients in the Current Era

M. Kadatz,¹ J. Gill,² J. Gill,² K. Scott.³

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

2:54pm-3:06pm: Donor Liver Apoptosis is Associated with Early Allograft Dysfunction and Short-Time Graft Survival after Liver Transplantation

Z. Guo, Z. Zhu, Y. Tang, S. Huang, Z. Zhang, X. He, G. Chen.

Concurrent Session: Donor Management: All Organs Excluding Kidney • Room 3AB

2:54pm-3:06pm: Donor Reactive Eomesdermin^hiCD8⁺ T Cells Are Significantly Upregulated Early after Transplant in Kidney Transplant Patients without Rejection

A. Perez-Gutierrez,^1,2 D. Metes,¹ S. Hariharan,¹ A. Thomson,¹ M. Ezzelarab.¹

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

2:54pm-3:06pm: Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 beta Regulates Liver Inflammation Activation and Resolution by Controlling AMPK Activities

H. Wang,^1,2 M. Ni,^1,2 H. Zhou,² L. Lu,² R. Busuttil,¹ J. Kupiec-Weglinski,¹ Y. Zhai.¹

Concurrent Session: T Cell Biology • Room 618/619/620

2:54pm-3:06pm: Identification of Noninvasive and Mechanistically-Informative Biomarkers Predictive of Reversal of Acute Cellular Rejection (ACR) in Kidney Allografts

D. Luan,¹ J. Schwartz,² R. Ding,² T. Muthukumar,² D. Dadhania,² M. Suthanthiran.²

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

2:54pm-3:06pm: Impact of KDPI and CPRA on Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients

S. Sethi, R. Najjar, A. Peng, A. Vo, S. Jordan, E. Huang.

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

2:54pm-3:06pm: Intentional Transplantation of Hepatitis C Positive Livers into Hepatitis Negative Recipients- Report of the First Case-Series in the World

P. Martins, B. Movahedi, A. Ahearn, A. Bozorgzadeh.

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

2:54pm-3:06pm: Intragraft Gene Expression Differentiates Polyomavirus Nephropathy from T-Cell Mediated Rejection

B. Adam,¹ S. Wagner,¹ J. Bräsen,² V. Bröcker,² V. D'Agati,³ C. Drachenberg,⁴ E. Farkash,⁵ A. Farris,⁶ L. Geldenhuys,⁷ A. Magil,⁸ V. Nickeleit,⁹ P. Randhawa,¹⁰ H. Regele,¹¹ M. Mengel.¹

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Polyoma • Room 2AB