2018 American Transplant Congress

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

3:18pm-3:30pm

Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (BRTO) for the Treatment of Medically Refractory Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) in Patients with ESLD and Significant Portal-Venous Shunting

N. Presser, J. DiNorcia, V. Agopian, H. Yersiz, D. Farmer, R. Busuttil, F. Kaldas.

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

3:18pm-3:30pm

Early Microcirculation Inflammation Associated with TCMR Leads to Poor Graft Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTRs)

A. Cherukuri, D. Chittka, R. Mehta, A. Sharma, P. Sood, S. Hariharan.

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

3:18pm-3:30pm

Examples of the Observer Effect in Transplantation- Unintended Consequences of Regulation and Selected Outcome Metrics

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

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

3:18pm-3:30pm

Macrophage Depletion of RCMV-Latently Infected Allografts Ameliorates Accelerated Chronic Cardiac Rejection

J. Burg,¹ N. Haese,² T. Andoh,² C. Kreklywich,² I. Jones,² S. Orloff,¹ D. Streblow.²

Concurrent Session: Chronic Graft Injury  •  Room 606/607

3:18pm-3:30pm

Multi-Organ (M-O) Prioritization of Kidneys: ? Time for Policy Modification

M. Aeder, N. Turgeon.

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

3:18pm-3:30pm

Recipient IFNAR1 Signaling Supports Costimulation Independent Rejection by Promoting T Cell Activation

D. Mathews, A. Ghosh, Y. Dong, K. Polireddy, A. Stephenson, C. Breeden, Y. Liu, A. Adams.

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

3:18pm-3:30pm

Significant Alteration in Transplant Center Performance Assessment with Extended Patient Follow Up Time

J. Schold, D. Goldfarb, S. Flechner, A. Wee, E. Poggio.

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

3:18pm-3:30pm

Time in Therapeutic Range Predicts DSA Development and Acute Rejection in Kidney Recipients with High Tacrolimus Coefficient of Variation

S. Davis, J. Gralla, P. Klem, A. Wiseman, J. Cooper.

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

3:18pm-3:30pm

Viral-Specific Cytotoxic T-Cell (Viral-Tc) Responses in Highly-HLA-Sensitized Patients (HS) Maintained on Tacrolimus and Everolimus Post-HLAi Kidney Transplant

S. Ge,¹ M. Chu,¹ A. Karasyov,¹ D. Lovato,¹ J. Kahwaji,² A. Vo,¹ J. Choi,¹ S. Louie,¹ S. Jordan,¹ M. Toyoda.¹

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Polyoma  •  Room 2AB

3:30pm-3:42pm

Comparison of Recipients with Early and Late Presenting Polyomavirus Nephropathy (PVN) with Regard to Histological Findings and Graft Survival: What is the Influence of CD4/CD8 Ratio on the Presenting Time of PVN

B. Ozdemir,¹ S. Ayva,¹ A. Terzi,¹ A. Ok Atilgan,¹ E. Akcay,¹ E. Ayvazoglu Soy,² F. Ozdemir,³ M. Haberal.²

Concurrent Session: Kidney: Polyoma  •  Room 2AB