2018 American Transplant Congress

Sunday, June 3, 2018

3:18pm-3:30pm

Human Pancreatic ECM Scaffolds for Islet Culture and Transplantation

D. Tremmel, S. Sackett, A. Feeney, R. Maguire, J. Odorico.

Concurrent Session: Islet Cell and Cell Transplantation  •  Room 2AB

3:18pm-3:30pm

Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System A2/A2B –> B Policy on Access to Transplantation among Minority Candidates

M. Mustian,¹ P. Martins,² P. MacLennan,¹ J. Ortiz,² J. Caicedo,² S. Gray,^1,2 B. Kelly,² C. Esquivel,² ASTS Diversity Affairs Commmittee,² J. Locke.^1,2

Concurrent Session: Kidney Deceased Donor Allocation - 1  •  Room 6E

3:18pm-3:30pm

Islet Xenotransplantation: A Quest for Clinically Available Immunosuppression Regimens

Q. Gao, R. Davis, M. Mulvihill, M. Song, F. Leopardi, M. Ribeiro, T. How, G. Devi, B. Collins, A. Kirk.

Concurrent Session: Xenotransplantation  •  Room 602/603/604

3:18pm-3:30pm

mRNA Transcript Profiles of 14 Genes in Plasma Exosome Predict Risk for Antibody-Mediated Rejection (ABMR) of Renal Allografts

H. Zhang,¹ E. Huang,² C. Nast,³ J. Kahwaji,² A. Vo,² S. Jordan,² M. Toyoda.¹

Concurrent Session: Kidney Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection  •  Room Hall 4B

3:18pm-3:30pm

Safety of Antithymocyte Globulin Use in Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) Liver Transplantation

D. Felix,¹ B. Geiger,¹ J. Descourouez,¹ M. Jorgenson,¹ B. Hanlon,² G. Leverson,² D. Foley.²

Concurrent Session: Liver: Immunosuppression and Rejection  •  Room 6B

3:18pm-3:30pm

Survival Rates of Patients with Previous Cardiac Surgery Undergoing Lung Transplant

H. Niikawa, T. Okamoto, K. Ayyat, Y. Itoda, K. McCurry.

Concurrent Session: Lung: From Allocation to Outcomes  •  Room 303

3:18pm-3:30pm

The ATHENA Study: 12 Months Safety and Efficacy Data from Everolimus Combined with Tacrolimus or Cyclosporine Compared to a Standard Tacrolimus-Mycophenolate Regimen in De Novo Kidney Transplant Patients

B. Suwelack,¹ C. Sommerer,¹ D. Dragun,¹ O. Witzke,¹ C. Hugo,¹ N. Kamar,² P. Merville,² A. Hauser,¹ P. Schenker,¹ M. Junge,³ B. Nashan,¹ F. Thaiss.¹

Concurrent Session: Kidney Immunosuppression: mTORi Based Regimens  •  Room 6A

3:18pm-3:30pm

The Impact of Age-Matching on Graft Function and Graft Survival after Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

J. Lee,¹ D. Kim,¹ J. Lee,¹ J. Lee,¹ Y. Jung,¹ M. Ju,¹ S. Song,² J. Lee,³ K. Huh,¹ B. Kim,⁴ S. Kim,¹ Y. Kim,¹ M. Kim.¹

Concurrent Session: Kidney Living Donor: Selection  •  Room 606/607

3:18pm-3:30pm

The THINKER Trial: Quality of Life Results at 6- and 12-Month Follow-Up among Hepatitis C-Negative Patients Who Received Kidney Transplants from Deceased Donors with Hepatitis C Infection

V. Potluri, D. Goldberg, A. Peter, B. Emily, B. Roy, S. Deirdre, M. Levine, J. Trofe-Clark, M. Bleicher, S. Goral, A. Sicilia, S. Nazarian, R. Reddy, P. Porrett, P. Reese.

Concurrent Session: Kidney Infectious - Viral Hepatitis  •  Room 4C-4

3:30pm-3:42pm

In Vivo Imaging and Function of Renal Tertiary Lymphoid Organs

K. Abou-Daya, D. Zhao, A. Williams, M. Oberbarnscheidt.

Concurrent Session: Antigen Presentation / Allorecognition / Dendritic Cells  •  Room 4C-3