2020 American Transplant Congress

Saturday, May 30, 2020

3:27pm-3:39pm

Liver Transplant with Donation after Cardiac Death versus Donation after Brain Death Donors: Survival and Outcomes at 10 Years

O. Haque¹, E. Roth², A. Fleishman¹, K. Khwaja¹

Liver: MELD, Allocation and Donor Issues (DCD/ECD) II  •  Virtual

3:27pm-3:39pm

Low Physiochemical Immunogenicity Scores Improve Long-Term Survival of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants

D. Bekbolsynov¹, B. Mierzejewska¹, J. Borucka², S. A. Khuder¹, M. Rees¹, R. Green³, S. Stanislaw¹

Kidney Deceased Donor Allocation II  •  Virtual

3:27pm-3:39pm

Maintenance Belatacept Therapy is Associated with Increased Rates of Polyoma Viremia

D. Conti, E. Maciera, D. Pluckrose, M. Garner, D. Schuster, S. Patel

Kidney: Polyoma  •  Virtual

3:27pm-3:39pm

microPOTS: A New Single Cell Proteomic Method for Profiling Human Kidney Transplant Biopsy Tissue

T. Sigdel¹, P. Piehowski², S. Roy¹, J. Liberto¹, A. Schroeder¹, P. Rashmi¹, S. Sur¹, I. Damm¹, W. Qian², M. M. Sarwal¹

Biomarker Discovery and Immune Modulation  •  Virtual

3:27pm-3:39pm

Multiplicity of Non-HLA Targets for Antibodies Developed in Association with Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

M. Askar, D. Bhakta, H. Zafar, A. Alam, L. Pittmon, S. Kang, L. Klingman, J. Felius, S. M. Joseph, D. Wencker, D. M. Meyer, S. A. Hall

Heart Transplantation: Antibodies and More  •  Virtual

3:27pm-3:39pm

Navigating Through IgM Antibodies in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants from A2/A2B Donors to B Recipients

M. Kueht, A. Gamilla-Crudo, S. Hussain, R. Kulkarni, J. Fair, H. Stevenson-Lerner, M. Mujtaba

Kidney Immunosuppression: Desensitization  •  Virtual

3:27pm-3:39pm

Novel Approaches in Targeting Chromatin Modifiers in the Induction of Transplant Tolerance

G. Wang, X. Xiao, Y. Dou, G. Kong, X. Li

Tolerance / Immune Deviation  •  Virtual

3:27pm-3:39pm

Novel Role of Qa-1, a Murine Homolog of HLA-E, in Controlling Follicular Helper T Cells During Humoral Alloimmunity

J. Y. Choi¹, S. K. Eskandari¹, S. Cai¹, J. Assaker¹, I. Sulkaj¹, H. Allos¹, J. Alhaddad¹, P. Chu¹, H. Kim², H. I. Cantor², J. R. Azzi¹

Lymphocyte Biology: Signaling, Co-Stimulation, Regulation  •  Virtual

3:27pm-3:39pm

Optimal Timing of Renal Transplantation in Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Transplant: A Retrospective Analysis of the UNOS/OPTN Database

A. S. Karim, G. E. Leverson, J. W. Smith, D. P. Foley

Surgical Issues  •  Virtual

3:27pm-3:39pm

Outcomes of Kidney Retransplantation after Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders: An Analysis of the UNOS/OPTN Database (1998 to 2019)

W. Cheungpasitporn¹, C. Thongprayoon², C. C. Jadlowiec³, W. J. Chon⁴, L. S. Cummings⁴, S. R. Katari⁴, N. Leeaphorn⁴

PTLD/Malignancies  •  Virtual