2022 American Transplant Congress

Monday, June 6, 2022

7:00pm-8:00pm

A Single Center Experience of Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Transplantation

A. Samra¹, A. Mattoo²

Kidney Immunosuppression: Induction Therapy  •  Hynes Halls C & D

7:00pm-8:00pm

A Sustained Injury Response by Regulatory T Cells (Treg) Contributes to Fibrosis to Promote Chronic Rejection After Heart Transplantation

J. Bou Saba¹, L. Fan¹, X. Zhang¹, T. Li¹, L. R. Mathews¹, G. Dwyer², E. Colon², M. J. Calderon³, K. E. Helfrich³, M. A. Ross³, S. C. Watkins³, H. Turnquist¹

Treg/Other Regulatory Cell/Tolerance  •  Hynes Halls C & D

7:00pm-8:00pm

Abdominal Incision Technique Tailored to Patient’s Age May Reduce the Rate of Surgical Wound Complication After Unilateral Kidney Transplantation- A Preliminary Report

Y. AlSalmay, P. Bachul, B. Juengel, J. Kumar, A. Perez-Guttierez, R. Barth, J. Fung, P. Witkowski

Kidney Technical  •  Hynes Halls C & D

7:00pm-8:00pm

Absolute Quantification of Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Does Not Provide Additional Discriminating Power Over Donor-derived Cell-Free DNA Fraction for Detection of Allograft Rejection

R. Gohh¹, S. Jordan², R. N. Woodward³, K. M. Clark-Langone³, J. Morlan³, B. Silva³, M. Weir⁴

Poster Chat: Kidney 1  •  Hynes Hall C

7:00pm-8:00pm

Adenosine A2A Receptor (A2AR) Agonist Apadenoson Promotes Survival in K28-hACE2 Mice and Syrian Hamsters Infected with Sars-CoV-2

P. Chhabra¹, B. Mann², M. Ma¹, S. Feldman³, J. Linden⁴, K. L. Brayman¹

Immunosuppression & Tolerance: Preclinical & Translational Studies  •  Hynes Halls C & D

7:00pm-8:00pm

Adoptive Transfer OfMesenchymal Stem Cells Activates Hedgehog/SMO/Gli1 Signaling And Inhibits STING-mediated Innate Immune Response In Liver Transplant Inflammatory Injury

D. Xu¹, X. Qu¹, Y. Tian¹, M. Sheng¹, Y. Lin¹, Y. Zhan¹, F. M. Kaldas¹, R. W. Busuttil¹, D. G. Farmer¹, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski¹, Q. Xia², B. Ke¹

Innate Immunity; Chemokines, Cytokines, Complement  •  Hynes Halls C & D

7:00pm-8:00pm

Alemtuzumab and Basilximab Induction Therapy in Lung Transplantation

M. Furukawa, E. Chan, P. G. Sanchez

Lung Transplantation  •  Hynes Halls C & D

7:00pm-8:00pm

Alloimmune Recognition Blocks Recipient Macrophage Differentiation into Reparative Subsets

J. Warunek¹, A. Lucas², L. R. Mathews², M. Oberbarnscheidt², F. Lakkis², H. Turnquist²

Poster Chat: Basic 1  •  Hynes Hall C

7:00pm-8:00pm

Alloprimed Antibody-Suppressor CD8⁺ T Cells Preferentially Kill Alloprimed Germinal Center B Cells

J. Zimmerer, S. Chaudhari, G. Bumgardner

B-cell / Antibody /Autoimmunity  •  Hynes Halls C & D

7:00pm-8:00pm

Analysis of Induction Dose and Incidence of CMV Viremia in High Risk (HR; D+/R-) Renal Transplant Recipients

K. Shimko, M. Pittappilly, R. Chowdhury, H. Karimi, C. Puttarajappa, M. Wijkstrom, R. Mehta

Kidney Immunosuppression: Induction Therapy  •  Hynes Halls C & D