2020 American Transplant Congress

May 30-June 1, 2020

ATC Virtual Congress
Live Broadcast Dates: May 30 - June 1, 2020
OnDemand Access: May 30, 2020 - June 4, 2021

Originally scheduled to take place in Philadelphia, this became a Virtual Congress due to COVID-19. For more information, visit The Official ATC Congress site.

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

4:27pm-4:39pm: Process Matters: Factors in Refusing Solid Organ Donation by African Americans

L. A. Siminoff¹, G. P. Alolod¹, H. M. Gardiner¹, R. D. Hasz², P. A. Mulvania², M. Wilson-Genderson¹

All Organs: Disparities to Outcome and Access to Healthcare II • Virtual

4:27pm-4:39pm: Prolonged In Vivo Perfusion of a Re-Endothelialized Human-Scale Tissue Engineered Kidney Graft

J. S. Uzarski¹, E. E. Russell¹, E. C. Beck¹, M. Holzner², V. Wadhera², D. Adamson², T. Gilbert¹, S. Florman², D. S. Davidow¹, R. Shapiro², J. Ross¹

Cellular Therapies, Tissue Engineering / Regenerative Medicine • Virtual

4:27pm-4:39pm: Proteomics and Metabolomics Technologies Reveal the Effect of Oxygen in Hypothermic Machine Perfusion to Alleviate Donation after Circulatory Death Liver Injury

X. Zeng¹, X. Fan², Y. Wang², Q. Xia¹, J. Liu¹, H. Li¹, Q. Ye², Z. Wang¹

Basic: Ischemia Reperfusion & Organ Rehabilitation I • Virtual

4:27pm-4:39pm: Re-Establishing Abstinence after Alcohol Relapse after Early Transplant (LT) for Alcoholic Hepatitis (AH) Provides Survival Advantage

J. Rice¹, B. Lee², G. Therapondos³, G. Im⁴, A. Lazar², M. Lucey¹, E. Weinberg⁵, H. Han⁶, H. Maddur⁷, M. Ghobrial⁸, C. Hsu⁹, O. Fix¹⁰, S. Eswaran¹¹, K. Shetty¹², N. Jakhete¹², D. Victor⁸, D. Foley¹, N. Mehta², M. Rinella⁷, T. Schiano⁴, C. Mobley⁸, N. Terrault⁶

Liver: Recipient Selection • Virtual

4:27pm-4:39pm: Robotic Assisted Living Donor Nephrectomies: A Safe Alternative to Laparoscopic Technique for Kidney Transplant Donation

M. Spaggiari¹, R. Garcia-Roca², J. Oberholzer³, K. Tulla¹, O. Okoye¹, C. Di Bella¹, H. Jeon⁴, I. G. Tzvetanov¹, E. Benedetti¹

Kidney Living Donor: Other I • Virtual

4:27pm-4:39pm: Role of CAR-T Cell Therapy in Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder

S. Krishnamoorthy, A. Malone, R. Delos Santos, H. Murad, T. Alhamad

PTLD/Malignancies • Virtual

4:27pm-4:39pm: Sequential Protocol Biopsies Post-Liver Transplant from Donors with Moderate Macrosteatosis: What Happens to the Fat?

K. Croome, D. Livingston, C. Taner, R. Nakhleh

Liver Retransplantation and Other Complications • Virtual

4:27pm-4:39pm: Steroid Withdrawal and Lymphocyte Subsets in Graft Capillary Blood versus Peripheral Blood in Low Immunological Risk Kidney Transplant Patients: Randomized, Parallel Group, Controlled Clinical Trial

T. Vazquez Sanchez, A. Caballero, J. Alonso-Titos, V. Lopez, E. Sola, M. Cabello, E. Gutierrez Vilchez, M. Martínez-Esteban, P. Ruiz Esteban, J. Delgado, D. Hernandez

Novel Tools to Assess Immunosuppressive Efficacy • Virtual

4:27pm-4:39pm: Successful Heart Utilization and Outcomes with Long-Distance Transport of Deceased Donor Hearts: One Large Organ Procurement Organization’s Five-Year Experience

D. Adorno, C. Wells, K. O'Connor

Heart Transplantation: Allocation, Allocation, Allocation • Virtual

4:27pm-4:39pm: Survival Benefit of Accepting Kidneys with Acute Kidney Injury

Y. Yu, J. Long, M. Bowring, S. Yu, J. Motter, T. Ishaque, J. Garonzik Wang, A. Massie, D. Segev

Kidney Deceased Donor Selection I • Virtual