title: What's hot, what's new in clinical organ transplantation: report from the American Transplant Congress 2015.
abstract: Innovative and exciting advances in the clinical sciences in organ transplantation were presented at the American Transplant Congress 2015. The full spectrum of transplantation was covered, with important developments in many topics. Key areas covered by presentations included living donor outcomes, optimal utilization and allocation of deceased donors, new immunosuppression regimens, antibody-mediated rejection and tolerance induction. This review highlights some of the most interesting and noteworthy clinical presentations from the meeting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Sung
mesh_terms: D002102:Cadaver; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D005544:Forecasting; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006085:Graft Survival; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D019520:Living Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D016035:Pancreas Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D011379:Prognosis; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States