Programme

Welcome – Arthi Anand and Catherine Boffa

17:00 – 17:20 – HLA basics – Arthi Anand

17:20 – 17:45 – Pretx work up. (reference the BSHI/BTS 2023 guidelines) – Sarah Peacock

• HLA typing
• HLA Ab characterisation
• Strategies for UMM
• Monitoring while being listed

17:45 – 17:55- Comfort break

17:55 – 18:20 BSHI/BTS guidance on crossmatching before deceased donor kidney transplantation – Richard Battle

• H&I On- call support – different centres have different resources
• Virtual Crossmatch – facilitating vXM (guidelines)
• How it works in cardiothoracic/MvTx/(liver), lead into wet XM
• Wet XM ing (CDC vs FCXM vs SAB)

18:20 – 18:30 Post –transplant Monitoring David Turner

• Recommended protocol for PTM
• PTM when rejection suspected
• Emerging technologies?

BSHI /BTS antibody 2023 & VXM guidelines 2022 can be used as the framework for above

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/iji.12641

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/iji.12558

Faculty

Arthi Anand PhD FRCPath AAHCS
Consultant Clinical Scientist, Laboratory Director
Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory
North West London Pathology

Sarah Peacock MSc FRCPath
Clinical Director
Tissue Typing

Richard Battle PhD FRCPath
Consultant Clinical Scientist
National H&I Manager
SNBTS

David Turner PhD, FRCPath,
Consultant Clinical Scientist,
Lead for H&I Services & Clinical Lead for Centre
SNBTS, RIE

Registrations now open