Transplant Matters

Moderator(s)

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  Ahmet Kilic, MD (he/him/his)

  The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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  Margarita Camacho, MD, MBA, MS

  Surgical Director, Cardiac Transplantation
  Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
  Newark, New Jersey, United States

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentations:

• 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM PT

  Pre-Transplant Kidney Dysfunction in Heart Transplantation: How Low Can You Go?
  

  Asvin M. Ganapathi, MD – The Ohio State University
• 11:10 AM – 11:20 AM PT

  Center-level Variation in Allograft Rejection Following Heart Transplantation in the Modern Era
  

  Samuel T. Kim, BA – University of California, Los Angeles
• 11:20 AM – 11:30 AM PT

  Risk Factors for Mortality Following Heart Transplantation in Obese Patients Bridged with an LVAD
  

  Krishna Bhandari, MD (he/him/his) – Medical University of South Carolina
• 11:30 AM – 11:40 AM PT

  Comparison of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump and Impella 5.5 as Bridging Strategies to Heart Transplantation in the United States
  

  Amit Iyengar, MD, MS – Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• 11:40 AM – 11:50 AM PT

  Maintaining Excellent Heart Transplant Outcomes: Is It Possible with Sicker Patients?
  

  Scott Silvestry, MD (he/him/his) – Adventhealth Transplant Institute
• 11:50 AM – 12:00 PM PT

  Discussion