Check out the online TTS 2022 Program

07:00-07:45

07:00
Zilker 3-4

Zilker 3-4

Low-Density Lipoprotein Apheresis for Preventing Recurrence of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) after Kidney Transplantation
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Rupesh Raina, United States
Low-density lipoprotein apheresis for preventing recurrence of focal segmental glomerulosclero

08:00-09:30

08:00
Zilker 3-4

Zilker 3-4

Plenary: Advancing tolerance in clinic

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Edward K. Geissler, Germany
One Study: Unified approach to evaluating cellular immunotherapy in solid organ transplantation

Fadi Issa, United Kingdom
Two Study: Transplantation without over immunosuppression

Paul Grimm, United States
Tolerance in pediatric patients

09:30-10:00

09:30
Zilker 1-2

Zilker 1-2

Coffee Break
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10:00-11:00

10:00
Zilker 3-4

Zilker 3-4

Oral Abstracts Session: Kidney 1

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JoAnn Morey, United States
Long-term outcomes following LDL apheresis in treatment-refractory recurrent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

Burkhard Tönshoff, Germany
Incidence, risk factors, treatment strategies and outcome of antibody-mediated rejection in paediatric kidney transplant recipients – a multicentre analysis of the Cooperative European Paediatric Renal Transplant Initiative (CERTAIN)

Loes Oomen, Netherlands
A pre-transplant risk assessment tool for outcome in pediatric kidney transplantation from a Dutch cohort of 1415 patients

Stella Kilduff, United States
Pediatric kidney transplant outcomes in recipients less than 10 kg in the United States

Sharon M. Bartosh, United States
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in the Pediatric and Young Adult Population with IgA Nephropathy

Pankaj Chandak, United Kingdom
Kidney graft outcomes following kidney versus simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation – an UNOS database analysis

10:00-11:00

10:00
Hill Country AB

Hill Country AB

Oral Abstracts Session: Covid

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Ane Andres, Spain
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 in paediatric transplant recipients: an international retrospective study of the European reference network on transplantation in children (ERN-TransplantChild)

Carl Grabitz, Germany
Humoral and cellular response to COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in Children with end-stage kidney (ESKD) disease

Marco Cazzaniga, Italy
Humoral response to Covid-19 mRNA vaccines in a cohort of young kidney transplant recipients from a single center in Northern Italy

Thurid Ahlenstiel-Grunow, Germany
Cellular and humoral immune response after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in pediatric kidney recipients

Pearl Waraich, Canada
Virtual healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: are there financial benefits for solid organ transplant families?

Burkhard Tönshoff, Germany
Humoral immune response and live-virus neutralization of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron (BA.1) variant after standard COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in immunosuppressed children, adolescents and young adults with chronic kidney disease

10:00-11:00

10:00
Hill Country CD

Hill Country CD

View Oral Abstracts Session: Ethical/Psychosocial and Economical Issues

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Adewale Elijah Adetunji, South Africa
Evaluation of the implementation of a ‘paediatric feasibility assessment for transplantation’ (pFAT) form in children and adolescents at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital (RCWMCH), Cape Town, SA

Kaushalendra Amatya, United States
Perceived Racism in Pediatric Renal Transplant Patients

Priya Walabh, South Africa
Disparity in organ distribution in South Africa

Tom Blydt-Hansen, Canada
Exploring the ethical considerations of direct contact in pediatric organ transplantation: A qualitative study

Ji Soo Kim, United Kingdom
Exploring patient, family and clinician perspectives about the psychosocial factors influencing access to kidney transplantation and transplant outcomes for children

Debra Lefkowitz, United States
Predicting psychosocial risk in pediatric kidney transplantation: An exploratory cluster analysis of a revised Pediatric Transplant Rating Instrument

11:10-12:10

11:10
Zilker 3-4

Zilker 3-4

Workshop: IPTA-TID: Pediatric Transplantation in complex ID situation
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Monica I. Ardura, United States
Non-covid respiratory illnesses at time of transplant the donor/recipient perspectives

Michael Green, United States
Multi-drug resistant bacteria: special transplant considerations

Hayley Gans, United States
Hepatitis C: A challenge or an opportunity

11:10-12:10

11:10
Hill Country AB

Hill Country AB

Workshop: Psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress following transplantation

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Saba S. Masood, United States
Psychological trauma in the context of solid organ Transplantation – the effects on the paediatric recipient

Debra Lefkowitz, United States
Stressed families and patterns of psychological responses to transplantation in parents and siblings

Kelli N. Triplett, United States
Prevention & Intervention in post-transplant psychological trauma

11:10-12:10

11:10
Hill Country CD

Hill Country CD

Workshop: IPTA-AST session on Extracorporeal treatments in transplantation
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Roshan George, United States
AKI and CRRT in non-renal SOT

Anne Dipchand, Canada
Contemporary use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation before and after heart transplantation

Katherine E. Twombley, United States
LDL-apheresis with recurrent FSGS

12:15-13:45

12:15
Zilker Foyer

Zilker Foyer

Lunch Break

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12:30-13:30

12:30
Zilker 3-4

Zilker 3-4

View Industry Session: Paradigm Shifts in Pediatric Surveillance Testing: AlloSure and AlloMap in Action
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Brian Feingold, United States
One Year Later: Impact on Care with AlloSure-Heart Pediatrics

Raja Dandamudi, United States
Longitudinal Evaluation of AlloSure in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

Dechu Puliyanda, United States
Clinical Utility of AlloSure in the Kidney Transplanted Pediatric Population

13:45-14:45

13:45
Zilker 3-4

Zilker 3-4

Oral Abstracts Session: Kidney 2

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Randi J. Ryan, United States
Native Ureteral Ligation Without Nephrectomy at the Time of Pediatric Kidney Transplant

Daniella Levy Erez, Israel
Urinary exosomal proteome for early detection of kidney rejection- a pilot study

Tom Blydt-Hansen, Canada
Bye Bye Biopsies? Evaluating clinical implementation of urinary CXCL10/creatinine monitoring in pediatric kidney transplant recipients

Laurène Dehoux, France
Extended fibrosis in renal biopsy after kidney transplantation in recipients with methyl-malonic acidemia: just an illusion?

Burkhard Tönshoff, Germany
Emulation of the control cohort of a randomized controlled trial in pediatric kidney transplantation with Real-World Data from the CERTAIN Registry

Julien Hogan, France
Validation of a dynamic prediction model of kidney allograft survival in pediatric kidney transplant recipients

13:45-14:45

13:45
Hill Country AB

Hill Country AB

Oral Abstracts Session: Liver 1

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Joao Seda Neto, Brazil
Outcome comparison between LDLT and DDT in a cohort of 840 pediatric recipients

Christopher Chu, United States
Ultrasound of muscle is a feasible tool to assess sarcopenia in children

Takehisa Ueno, Japan
Impact of everolimus treatment for graft fibrosis based on pathological findings after pediatric living donor liver transplantation

Federico Barooty, Switzerland
Extended antibiotic prophylaxis may protect from infectious complications following PTC

Yusuke Yanagi, Japan
Biliary reconstruction for pediatric living donor liver transplantation: Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy or duct-to-duct choledochocholedochostomy?

Kliment Bozhilov, United States
Pediatric Liver Transplant at Long-Distance High-Volume Centers Confers Improved Graft Survival Compared to Local Low-Volume Transplant Centers

13:45-14:45

13:45
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Oral Abstracts Session: Quality Improvement / Allied Health

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Grainne Walsh, United Kingdom
Transplant Education Month: A bitesize daily teaching programme for the multidisciplinary team

Beverly Kosmach-Park, United States
Clinical outcomes of a structured transition program (MyPATH) for youth with liver transplants: A collaborative approach by pediatric and adult providers to optimize outcomes

Lars Pape, Germany
Structured Health Care Transition After Kidney Transplantation – A Randomized Controlled Trial

Debra Lefkowitz, United States
A quality improvement initiative to increase multidisciplinary team engagement in pediatric heart transplant rounds

Stephen Mouat, New Zealand
Reduction of waiting time and waiting list mortality for paediatric liver transplantation following introduction of an intention-to-split allocation policy

Lindsey B. Shinn, United States
The implementation process for an electronic pre-visit planning tool: a pediatric kidney transplant quality improvement project

15:00-16:00

15:00
Zilker 3-4

Zilker 3-4

Workshop: IPTA-ASHI: New opportunities in HLA
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Sheri M. Krams, United States
CyTOF for immune profiling of pediatric transplant recipients

Stephen Alexander, Australia
On the Horizon: HLA genetic engineering studies in transplantation

Vaka K. Sigurjonsdottir, United States
Next Generation Biomarkers for Rejection Prediction: dd-cf-DNA and Complement-Binding Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies

15:00-16:10

15:00
Hill Country AB

Hill Country AB

Workshop: Should BMI outlier be a contraindication for pediatric Transplantation?

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Bradley A. Warady, United States
Childhood obesity and kidney disease: Is there a connection?

Christian Benden, Switzerland
The effect of malnutrition on outcome after pediatric transplant

Niviann Blondet, United States
Medical management of obesity

Matias Bruzoni, United States
Bariatric surgery in children

15:00-16:00

15:00
Hill Country CD

Hill Country CD

Workshop: IPTA-IRTA: Transplant or rehabilitation for intestinal failure, in the current era
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Girish Gupte, United Kingdom
European perspective

Samuel Kocoshis, United States
North America perspective

Carolina Rumbo, Argentina
Latin America perspective

16:00-16:30

16:00
Zilker 1-2

Zilker 1-2

Coffee Break
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16:30-17:00

16:30
Zilker 3-4

Zilker 3-4

State-of-the-Art Session: Transplantation of children: Stories from the war zone-Ukraine

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Dmytro D. Ivanov, Ukraine
Transplantation of children: Stories from the war zone-Ukraine

17:00-18:30

17:00
Zilker 3-4

Zilker 3-4

Plenary: Special considerations for transplantation in infants < 1 year

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Anne Dipchand, Canada
Heart transplantation

Amy Gallo, United States
Kidney transplantation

Srinath Chinnakotla, United States
Liver transplantation

Carmen Capito, France
Intestine transplantation

19:00-22:00

19:00
Offsite

Offsite

IPTA Social Networking Event “Meet us at the castle” *SOLD OUT*
Chateau Bellevue at Austin Woman’s Club
708 San Antonio St
The entrance to the venue is on Nueces Street, between 7th and 8th Street. If you take a taxi or similar, please ask to be dropped off there. Take the elevator to the 1st floor.
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07:00 - 09:30 | Morning Symposium and Plenary Session

09:30 - 10:00 | Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:00 | Oral Abstracts Sessions

11:10 - 12:10 | Workshop Sessions

12:15 - 13:45 | Lunch Break

13:45 - 14:45 | Oral Abstract Sessions

15:00 - 16:00 | Workshop Sessions

16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:30 | SOTA and Plenary Sessions

19:00 - 22:00 | Networking Event

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