6th TransplantChild Workshop:
Can we improve graft condition and survival?

The time indicated in the Programme corresponds to the Central European Time (CET).

Thursday, 23 October, 2025

9:30-9:45

Registration / Connection

Welcome presentation

General Session I: Improving and modifying grafts for HSC and organ transplantation in paediatrics

 Chair: Dr. Caroline Lindemans – University Medical Centre Utrecht & Princess Maxima Center (Utrecht, Netherlands) 

 Co-chair:  Prof. Lars Wennberg – Karolinska University Hospital (Stockholm, Sweden)

09:45-10:05

ATG in HSCT, the most important predictor of immune reconstitution post HSCT

Dr. Rick Admiraal – Princess Máxima Centrum (Utrecht, Netherlands)

10:05-10:25

Organ perfusion becoming more and more important and adults, and how it is in pediatrics?

Dr. María Velayos – La Paz University Hospital (Madrid, Spain)

10:25-10:45 Novel biomarkers to guide immunosuppressive treatment in kidney transplant, from theory to real life.

Dr. Marco Busutti – Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù (Rome, Italy)

10:45-11:05

 

Immune monitoring and risk of opportunistic infections in pediatric liver transplantation: a prospective study 

Dr. Elena Sánchez – La Paz University Hospital (Madrid, Spain)

11:05-11:25

Emotional impact of transplantation on adolescents and young adults

Ms.Paloma Martínez -La Paz University Hospital (Madrid, Spain)

11:25-11:45

Discussion/Q&A Sesssion
11:45-12:15 Coffee Break
General Session II: Mechanisms, prevention, monitoring and treatment of late graft injury 

Chair: Prof. Piotr Kaliciński (The Children’s Memorial Health Institute (Warsaw, Poland)

Co-chair: Dr. Marta Melgosa (La Paz University Hospital (Madrid, Spain)

12:15-12:35

Late liver transplant outcome, results of the ELTR

Prof. Ulrich Baumann – Hannover Medical School (Hannover, Germany)

12:35-12:55

Clinicopathological analysis of liver graft injury in paediatric recipients at transition to adults

Dr. Małgorzata Markiewicz-Kijewska – The Children’s Memorial Health Institute (Warsaw, Poland)

Dr. Sylwia Szymańska – The Children’s Memorial Health Institute (Warsaw, Poland)

12:55-13:15

Challenging long-term graft survival in kidney transplant: what’s new for the treatment of chronic active antibody mediated rejection and beyond

Dr. Raffaella Labbadia – Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù (Rome, Italy)

13:15-13:35

Chronic kidney graft dysfunction

Dr. Filipa Durão – (North Lisbon Hospital Centre, EPE, Portugal)

13:35-13:55

Adherence to treatment

Ms. Yvonne Weesepoel – Groningen University Medical Center (Groningen, Netherlands)

13:55-14:15 Discussion/Q&A Session
14:15-14:30 Lunch Break

General Session III: When graft fails. Retransplantations in paediatric patients – causes, problems, and results

Chair: Dr. Michal Odermarsky – Skåne University Hospital (Lund, Sweden) 

Co-chair: Dr. Francisco Hernández (La Paz University Hospital (Madrid, Spain)

14:30-14:50

Liver retransplantation after first transplant in childhood: causes, results, and areas for improvement. Analysis of 20 years of paediatric liver transplantation in Italy

Dr. Marco Spada – Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù (Rome, Italy)

14:50-15:10

Intestinal re-transplantation

Dr. Francisco Hernández – La Paz University Hospital (Madrid, Spain)

15:10- 15:30

15:30-15:50

 

15:50-16:10

 

16:10-16:25

 

Factors influencing the success of the kidney retransplantation in adolescents

Prof. Ryszard Grenda – The Children’s Memorial Health Institute (Warsaw, Poland)

Cardiac re-trasplantation

Dr. Blanca Torres – La Paz University Hospital (Madrid, Spain)

Discussion / Q&A session

Conclusions and Closure

 

 

*Be aware that the programme may be subject to modification