American Society of Transplantation

Relate emerging controversies in donor screening including the use of nucleic acid amplification testing.
Discuss the use of hepatitis B and hepatitis C donor organs.
Appreciate novel donor-recipient pairing such as the use of HIV positive organs in South Africa.

ATC 2012 Highlights: Live Kidney Donor Outcomes and Tools for Practice

Credits: None available.

This webcast contains highlights in the area of live kidney donation from the 2012 American Transplant Congress held in Boston.

Learning Objectives:

After viewing this webcast, the participant will be able to:

Outline the risk of hypertension, diabetes, acute kidney injury requiring dialysis and cardiovascular disease in live kidney donors
Understand the impact of living donation on the quality of life in elderly donors
Become familiar with web-based techniques to improve donor screening and recruitment

ATC 2012 Highlights: Thoracic Transplantation

Credits: None available.

This webcast contains highlights in the area of thoracic transplantation from the 2012 American Transplant Congress held in Boston.

After viewing this webcast, the participant will be able to:

Understand how the innate immune system impacts upon lung allograft rejection and current approaches to managing bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) after lung transplantation
Understand emerging pathogens in lung transplantation and novel therapies for prophylaxis and treatment of infectious complications
Understand techniques for assaying donor-specific antibodies in antibody mediated rejection (AMR) after cardiac transplantation, the clinical spectrum and diagnosis of AMR after cardiac transplantation, and clinical trials using everolimus in cardiac transplantation

ATC 2012 Highlights: Multi-Organ Transplantation

Credits: None available.

This webcast contains highlights in the area of multi-organ transplantation from the 2012 American Transplant Congress held in Boston.

After viewing this webcast, the participant will be able to:

Understand current outcomes in multi-organ transplants
Define the impact of immunosuppression on kidney function in non-renal solid organ transplants
Describe factors associated with poor renal outcomes in non-renal solid organ transplants

Kidney Paired Donation Consensus Conference March 2012: Summary

Credits: None available.

The webcast will highlight the outcomes from the March 29-30, 2012, Kidney Paired Donation Consensus Conference.

The health and safety of the living kidney donor is a critical responsibility of every transplant center that performs live donor transplants. This responsibility reaches a unique level of complexity in the setting of multi-center kidney paired donation (KPD). KPD donors will most often not know or even meet the actual recipient of their gift. Therefore, the donor’s conceptualization of their gift may be different than if they knew the actual recipient. The consent process must acknowledge this added challenge and extra care must be taken to ensure donor privacy. Additionally, there may be unique barriers to KPD participation among potential donors, recipients, and transplant programs. For instance, it is estimated that only one-tenth of KPD-eligible donor-recipient pairs choose to participate in this type of program.

The primary objective of this consensus conference was to identify and recommend best practices related to living kidney donor education and evaluation processes, communication processes, attenuation of participation barriers, and donor follow-up care in the multi-center KPD setting.

Learning Objectives:

After viewing this webcast, the participant will be able to:

Understand alternative KPD allocation systems currently in use
Learn challenges unique to KPD in terms of donor evaluation, geography, financing, histocompatibility, and implementation
Examine future directions for KPD allocation

Meeting the Challenges of Resistance

Credits: None available.

Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology: 2013 Summary

Credits: None available.

Updates on the International CMV Consensus Guidelines and the AST ID Guidelines Third Edition

Credits: None available.

International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association World Congress: 2013 Summary (IPITA 2013)

Credits: None available.

Were you unable to attend the IPITA World Congress in September or need a review of talks you might have missed? If so, attend this webinar for a meeting review, and get caught up on all of the highlights you need to know!

Dr. Peter Stock, IPITA 2013 Congress Chair, will provide a meeting summary highlighting the marked improvements in rates of insulin independence following both pancreastic islet and whole organ pancreas transplants for diabetes mellitus, as well as novel strategies for increasing the source of beta cells (stem cells/xenotransplants) and blocking the immune response.

Adherence Tools of Today and Tomorrow: Improving Adherence in the Challenging Transplant Patient

Credits: None available.

What You'll Learn:

Identify risk factors for non-adherence and tools to measure non-adherence
Evaluate the traditional methods used to improve/monitor medication adherence
Review today's mobile adherence technologies for improving/monitoring medication adherence
Summarize tomorrow's technologies for improving/monitoring medication adherence

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