Wednesday, May 13, 2015 17:30-18:15 18:15 – 18:45 18:45-19:00 19:00- 19:30 19:30 – 21:30

Plenary Session “Elisa Quintanar García” Dr. Paul Strengers- Challenges in Blood donation Ballroom GRAN CANCÚN 4,5 A Recognition to a life dedicated to Transfusion Medicine Ballroom GRAN CANCÚN 4,5,A Opening Ceremony Opening Session Dr. Siami Ghodrat – Celebration of 100 years of Plasmapheresis Ballroom GRAN CANCÚN 4,5,A Opening of Exhibition and Get Together Reception Ballroom Gran Cancún 1,2,3 and Hotel Fiesta Americana Coral Beach

Thursday, May 14, 2015 Plenary Session I 08:30-09:15

UH. Wallstab – Apheresis technologies: procedures and equipment for selective target removal Ballroom CANCÚN 4,5,A Plenary Session II

09:15-10:00

10:00-10:30

10:30-11:00

EBC. Julio César Martínez Álvarez- Utility of biomarkers to predict rejection in Kidney transplantation and desensitization strategies Chairman: Dra. Malva H. Mejía Arregui Ballroom CANCÚN 4,5,A Break Plenary Session III Dr. Ángel Guerra Márquez- Fetal and Maternal Microchimerism Chairman: Dra. Ana Luisa D´Artote González Ballroom CANCÚN 4,5,A

Breakaway Session. Transfusion Medicine Committee. Chairman: Dra. Amalia Bravo Lindoro Ballroom Gran Cancun A

Breakaway Session. Quality Symposium. Chairman: Dr. Sergio Augusto García Méndez Ballroom Cozumel 4

11:00-11:30 Dra. Julieta Rojo Medina. Structure and function of the Transfusion Medicine Committee

Breakaway Session. Inflamatory Markers and Apheresis. Chairman: Dr. Patrick Moriarty, Dr. Jaeger Ballroom Gran Cancun 4

Breakaway Session. Technology Chairman: Dr. Paul Malchesky, Dr. Wolfgang Ramlow Ballroom Cozumel 5

Dr. Beate R. Jaeger. Current Status and Future Perspectives of Lp(A) Apheresis

Dr. Paul Malchesky. Membrane Technology for plasma separation and therapeutic plasma filtration.

Isaac Eliaz. Galectin-3 Removal and Apheresis

Dr. Vienken. Basic Principles of adsorption in life sciences.

Dra. Silvina Kuperman. Ten essential points in quality

11:30-11:40

11:40-12:00 Dra. Graciela de León González. Transfusion medicine committee: programming and follow up

Dra. Ana Luisa D´Artote González. Blood components quality: all begins with the blood donor

12:00-12:20 Abstracts. UH Wallstab. Regulatory process for medical devices in Europe: Current Satatus and upcoming revised regulation

12:20-12:30

12:30-12:45 Dr. Paul Strengers. Clinical indicators for blood use

12:45-13:00

Dr. Héctor Baptista González. Quality indicators in Transfusion medicine

Adzhiev Renad. Dynamics of coronary aterosclerosis in post CABG patients receiving lipopreotein apheresis- has the same abstract as Pokrovsky Suad Al Mukhaini. A successful Direct Adsorption Of Lipoproteins (DALI) Apheresis during pregnancy of an Omani woman suffering from Hypercholesterolemia

13:00-14:00

Lunch and Poster Session Breakaway Session. Molecular Immunohematology Chairman: Dr. Héctor Alfredo Baptista González Ballroom Gran Cancun A

Breakaway Session. Interactive forum: Clinical cases in immunohematology Chairman: Dra. Malva Hilda Mejía Arregui Ballroom Gran Cancun 5

Breakaway Session. Nephrology Chairman: Dr. Wladimir M. Szpirt, Dr. Kaplan Ballroom Cozumel 4

Breakaway Session. Apheresis in critical care Chairman: Ballroom Cozumel 5

14:00-14:30

Dr. Higinio Estrada Juárez. Molecular methods in erythrocyte antigen identification

Dra. Fanny Rosenfeld Mann. National Institute of Perinatology

Dr. Wladimir M. Szpirt. Plasma exchange in ANCA+ Vasculitis with renal involvement

Dr. Jody Olson. Extracorporeal therapies in advanced liver disease: a review of current and future technologies

14:30-15:00

Dra. Lilian Maria de Castilho. Erythrocyte genotypification: benefits in multitransfused patients. A Brazilian experience

QFB. Javier Bautista Juárez. The American British Cowdray Hospital

Dr. Alina Casian. Plasma Exchange in vasculitis

Dr. Steffen Mitzner. What to be learned form two decades of MARS treatment in liver failure patients?

15:00-15:30

Dra. Rocío Trueba Gómez. Platelet antigen genotypification

QFB. Elizabeth Guzmán Vázquez . National Institute of Cancerology

Dr. Andre Kaplan. Apheresis for renal disease: current status

Dr. Sergei Pokrovsky. New sorbent for endotoxin removal

15:30-16:00

Break

Breakaway Session. Haemovigilance Chairman: Dra. Ana Luisa D´Artote González Ballroom Gran Cancun A

Breakaway Session. Blood Donation Chairman: QFB. Clotilde Estrada Carsolio Ballroom Gran Cancun 5

Breakaway Session. Transplantation Chairman: Ballroom Cozumel 5

Takeshi Moriguchi. Apheresis for pediatric DCM

16:00-16:15

16:15-16:30

Abstracts Ballroom Cozumel 4

Dra. María Dolores Pérez Rosales. Essential components for haemovigilance system

Dra. Martha Montemayor Curiel. Experience in Yucatan

16:30-16:45 Dra. Ma. Isabel Bermúdez Forero. Haemovigilance: Colombian experience

Dra. Silvina Kuperman. Anemia prevention in regular blood donors: evaluation and diagnosis of iron deposits

Ratti Ram Sharma. To Assess the incremental cost effectiveness of treating Guillain Barre Syndrome patient with intravenous immunoglobulin as compared to therapeutic plasma exchange

Norio Hanafusa. A novel vascular access route for granulocyte monocyte apheresis - Puncture of accompanying veins of brachial artery under ultrasonographic guidance.

Dr. Georg Boehmig. The role apheresis treatment before and after Kidney Transplantation

Dr. Beate R. Jaeger. Prolonging survival after orthopedic Heart Transplantation by Means of HELP apheresis.

16:45-17:00

Rita Leal. Therapeutic plasma exchange in Nephrology: a single center 7 years experience.

17:00-17:15

Gerhard Putz. Plasmapheresis of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin: a new approach to reduce toxicity during chemotherapy (CARL TRIAL)

Ramakrishna Reddy. Intra-Operative therapeutic plasma exchange during Heart Transplant Surgery

Lydia Alexander. The use of vortex port for red cells exchange in sickle cell disease patient: pilot study

Valery Pogorelor. The immature fraction of platelets in donors peripheral blood platelet apheresis

Dra. Ana María Mejía Domínguez. Haemovigilance: Mexican experience. 17:15-17:30

Dr. Antonio Salas Ramírez. Blood donation: a multidisciplinary task

Friday, May 15, 2015 Plenary Session IV 08:30-09:15

Dr. Steffen Mitzner – ICE- a novel extracorporeal system for treatment of septic patients utilizing immobilized granulocytes Ballroom CANCÚN 4,5,A Plenary Session V

09:15-10:00

Anne Winkler- Life on the front lines of ebola: Lessons learned and creation of a National Inventory of ebola convalescent plasma. Ballroom CANCÚN 4,5,A Break Plenary Session VI Dra. Graciela León de González- Blood transfusion management in the hyperhaemolytic syndrome in sickle cell disease Chairman: Dra. Adolfina Berges García

10:00-10:30

10:30-11:15

Ballroom CANCÚN 4,5,A Breakaway Session. Abstracts oral presentation Chairman: Dra. Rocío Trueba Gómez, QFB. Javier Bautista Juárez Ballroom Gran Cancun 4 11:30-12:00

12:00-12:30

12:30-13:00

13:00-14:00

Abstracts

Breakaway Session. Transfusion Medicine Chairman: Dr. Sergio Arturo Sánchez Guerrero Ballroom Cozumel 4

Breakaway Session. Immune Apheresis Chairman: Dr. Jeffrey Winters Ballroom Gran Cancun A

Breakaway Session. Dyslipidemias Chairman: Dr. Wolfgang Ramlow Ballroom Cozumel 5

Dra. María Isabel Bermúdez Forero. External evaluation in immunoserology

Dr. Jeffrey Winters. Apheresis in the treatment of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Dr. Wolfgang Ramlow. KISS, a cardiometabolic risk assessment tool to identify dislipidemic high-risk cardiovascular patients in daily routine

Dra. Silvina Kuperman. Appropriate management of blood transfusion in the newborn

Dr. Rudolf Kunze. Agonistic autoantibodies to adrenoceptors, pathphysiological role and therapy

Dr. Grit Waitz. Cross-Over study comparing the liposorber whole blood and plasma lipid apheresis system for optimizing the individual therapy of patients with cardiovascular disease and severe dyslipidemia

Dr. Jesús Villarrubia. Platelet transfusion: importance of exact platelet count

Dr. Bernd Hohenstein. Double column immunoadsorption - An effective therapeutic option in immune mediated diseases

Dr. HU Kloer. Severe hypertriglyceridemia, an indication for apheresis treatment

Lunch and Poster Session

Breakaway Session. Blood borne infectious diseases Chairman: Dra. Araceli Malagón Martínez Ballroom Gran Cancun 4 14:00-14:20

14:20-14:30 14:30-14:50 14:50-15:00

Breakaway Session. Interactive Forum: Rational use of blood Chairman: Dra. Gloria Estrada García Ballroom Cozumel 5

Dra. Julieta Rojo Medina. Hepatitis B and C seroprevalence in mexican blood donors: state of the art

Dra. Amalia G. Bravo Lindoro. Clinical cases in pediatric patients

Dr. Paul Strengers. Pathogen inactivation

Dr. Sergio Arturo Sánchez Guerrero. Clinical cases in oncologic patients

Dr. Jorge Rey. Emergent viruses in a globalized world

Dr. Hector Rodríguez Moyado. Clinical cases of adverse transfusion reactions

150:00-15:10

15:10-15:30

15:30-16:00

Breakaway Session. Immune Apheresis Chairman: Ballroom Gran Cancun A

Breakaway Session. Dyslipidemias (continued) Chairman: Ballroom Cozumel 4

Dr. Heinz Wiendl. Immunoadsorption in Neurological diseasesAn effective treatment tool

Dr. James Underberg. Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency, an unrecognized cause of dyslipidemia

Dr. Rudolf Kunze. A possible role for immunoadsorption treatment in Alzheimer´s diseases

Dr. Patrick Moriarty. Rheological improvement in lipid apheresis, more than a pleiotropic effect?

Dr. Grit Waitz. Immunopurecytapheresis: In vitro evaluations and first clinical results

Dr. Makino. Treatment of PAD with apheresis

Dr. Volker Witt. Photopheresis, a current status and perspectives in immunologically driven conditions

Dr. Alexej Sokolov. Effect of therapeutic apheresis on the incidence of In-Stent-Restenosis in patients after coronary angioplasty and stenting

Break

Breakaway Session. Multidisciplinary Staff in Transfusion Medicine Chairman: Dr. Héctor Rodríguez Moyado Ballroom Cozumel 4

16:00-16:30

LEO. Lucía Zamudio Godínez. Nurse managment in blood transfusion adverse reactions

16:30-17:00

Dra. Adolfina Berges García. Out of label use FVIIr and prothrombinic complex

17:00-17:30

M. En C. Guillermo Escamilla Guerrero. Blood transfusion in DAT positive patients

17:30-18:00

18:00-19:00

Breakaway Session. Abstracts: Oral Presentation Chairman: QFB. Javier Bautista Juárez, Dr. Sergio A. García Méndez Ballroom Gran Cancun 5

General Assembly Cozumel 5

Abstracts

PCSK9 Chairman: Dr. Patrick Moriarty Ballroom Gran Cancun A

Breakaway Session. Sepsis Chairman: Dr. Endo Ballroom Gran Cancun 4

Overview of PCSK9

Dr. Jan Kielstein. Membrane vs. Centrifuge based therpeutic plasma exchange, a randomized prospective crossover study

Dr. B. Hohenstein. Effect of lipoprotein apheresis on PCSK9 levels

Dr. Yoshihiro Endo. The efficacy of direct hemoperfusion with polymyxin B Immobilized fiber column in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock

Dr. Patrick Moriarty. Efficacy of PCSK9 inhibitor therapy on the frequency of lipoprotein apheresis treatments Jan Hofman. Uncovering complement-mediated thrombotic microangiopathy in the setting of sepsis, colitis and progressive renal failure

Saturday, May 16, 2015 Plenary Session VII 08:30-09:15

Dr. Sam Tsimikas - Antisense therapy Directed to Lp(a) for Lp(a)-Eligible Apheresis Patients Ballroom CANCÚN 4,5,A Plenary Session VIII

09:15-10:00 10:00-10:30

10:30-11:15

Ahmed Sheriff- Selective apheresis for C-reactive protein in acute ischemia and inflammation Ballroom CANCÚN 4,5,A Break Plenary Session IX Dr. Paul Strengers- Use of blood components based on the recomendations of the Holland blood transfusion conference Chairman: Dr. Ángel Guerra Márquez Ballroom CANCÚN 4,5,A Breakaway Session. Topics in Transfusion Chairman: Dra. Karina Peñaflor Juárez Ballroom Cozumel 4

Breakaway Session. Blood Safety Chairman: Dra. Gloria Estrada García Ballroom Gran Cancun A

Breakaway Session. Regulatory issues / guidelines / registers Chairman: Dr. Christian Peter Ballroom Cozumel 5

Breakaway Session. Other indications Chairman: Ballroom Gran Cancun 5

11:30-12:00

Dr. Jorge Alberto Rey. Impact of Hepatitis E in blood transfusion

Dra. Ma. Dolores Pérez Rosales. PAHO regional plan of blood transfusion safety

Dr. Christian Peter. Clinical registers are useful tools to improve database for apheresis treatment

Dr. Robert Weinstein. Unusual indications for therapeutic leukapheresis in hematological malignancies

12:00-12:30

Dra. Lilian María de Castilho. Use of molecular techniques in blood groups typing and its frontiers

Mtra. Eleanor Saunder. Pharmacoeconomy of NAT test

Dr. Wolfwang Ramlow. The german lipid apheresis guidelines, a good basis for interntional harmonization

Dr. Dobri Kiprov. Intermittent heterochronic plasma exchange as a modality for delaying cellular senescence

12:30-13:00

Dra. Adolfina Berges García. Blood transfusion managment

Dr. Jesús Villarubia. International guidelines for irradiated blood components: its adaption and application in Spain

Dr. Christian Peter. An international dyslipidemic register, ready to go

Regina Rohe. Challenges for apheresis professionals in the age of emerging cellular therapies

13:00-14:00

Conference closing Ballroom CANCÚN 4,5,A