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2015 - IPITA-IXA-CTS (Melbourne)

Mini-Orals: Clinical Pancreas and Islet Transplantation
16 November 2015  /  07:00 - 08:00
Pancreas Transplantation Induction with Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin +/- Rituximab and Early Steroid Withdrawal: Experience with >500 Recipients.
Presenter: Jonathan Fridell, United States
The Assessment of Ex-Vivo Human Pancreata Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Presenter: Hussein Khambalia, United Kingdom
Can post-transplant C-Peptide be used as an indicator of pancreas graft failure?
Presenter: Jonathan Fridell, United States
Pancreata from pediatric donors restore insulin independence in adult type 1 diabetic recipients
Presenter: Paola Maffi, Italy
Severe lower limb epidermal nerve fiber loss in diabetic neuropathy is not reversed by long-term normoglycemia following simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation
Presenter: Frantisek Saudek, Czech Republic
Ocular Color Doppler Ultrasound (OCDUS) assessment of blood flow velocities changes in central retinal artery (CRA) and vein (CRV) after islet transplantation in type 1 diabetic patients: correlation with graft function in a long term study.
Presenter: Paola Maffi, Italy
Successful Islet Outcomes Using Australia Wide Donors: A National Centre Experience
Presenter: Wayne Hawthorne, Australia
Clinical islet allograft transplantation via mini-laparotomy: the benefit of ultrasound guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP)
Presenter: Casey Yang, United States
Cholestatic Liver Injury after Biliary Reconstruction Impairs Transplanted Islet Viability and Function due to Oxidative Stress
Presenter: Naoaki Sakata, Japan
Circulating miroRNA 375 levels before islet autotransplantation inversely correlated with post-digestion islet yield
Presenter: Morihito Takita, United States

Mini-Orals: Experimental islet transplantation
17 November 2015  /  07:00 - 08:00
Newport Green for islet-specific viability assay by semi-automated method
Presenter: Hirotake Komatsu , United States
Development of a microfluidic-based array for large-scale ordering, high-throughput screen and high resolution imaging of islets
Presenter: Yong Wang, United States
Glutamine plays an essential role in the functional and structural integrity of isolated human islets
Presenter: Guo Huang, United Kingdom
High human islet yield with recombinant class I (rC1) and class II (rC2) collagenases in combination with BP-Protease: Efficacy of a low dose of an animal-free enzyme mixture on human pancreas digestion
Presenter: Michael Hughes, United States
Glial Cell-derived Neurotrophic Factor protects human islets from apoptosis induced by serum starvation and endoplasmic reticulum stress through PI3K/AKT signaling pathway
Presenter: Shadab Abadpour, Norway
How about Heparin-Pegylated islets in Allo-Islet Transplantation in Cynomolgus Monkeys
Presenter: Hyojun Park, Korea

Islet Isolation and Transplantation: where are we now and where are we going?
15 November 2015  /  13:00 - 16:15
Which donor and isolation factors predict successful islet isolations and successful islet transplant outcomes?
Presenter: Balamurugan Appakalai, United States
What lessons can we learn from islet autotransplantation?
Presenter: Melena Bellin, United States
Reimbursement and Commissioning of Islet Transplantation – where are we now?
Presenter: Bernhard Hering, United States
What are the quantum leaps required to make islet transplantation a routine procedure for type 1 diabetes mellitus?
Presenter: Camillo Ricordi , United States

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