CME Live Meeting

TRANSPLANT PRACTICES WITH EXPERT’S OPINION & DISCUSSION ON INFECTIONS – A CRUCIAL FACTOR IMPACTING KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT OUTCOMES

Date: 07th December 2024

Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM IST
CET Time : 02:30 PM to 04:00PM

Our Faculty

International Expert

Helio Tedesco Silva

Helio Tedesco Silva

  • Helio Tedesco Silva Junior graduated in medicine in 1984 from the Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP).
  • He then completed his residency training in nephrology in 1987 and pursued postgraduate studies to obtain his PhD in Nephrology in 1994.
  • Dr. Helio Tedesco has been involved in the design, conduct and analysis of more than 60 national and international clinical trials, having published more than 110 manuscripts addressing aspects of the pharmacokinetics, efficacy and safety of new immunosuppressive drugs.
  • He is also associate editor of the American Journal of Transplantation and Transplantation Proceedings.

 

Indian Experts

Dr Divya Bajpai

Dr. Dinesh Khullar

MBBS, M.D. (Medicine) D.M. (Nephrology) from PGIMER Chandigarh

  • Dr. Dinesh Khullar, Chairman, Department of Nephrology, and Renal Transplant Medicine at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, is responsible for the development, quality control, clinical governance, physician hiring, credentialing, and academic activities of DNB and clinical fellowship program as well as research activities.
  • He has vast experience of over 25 years as a renal transplant physician, having been associated with over 5000 successful kidney transplantations, including more than 1200 performed at Max Hospital, Saket.

 

Dr Santosh Varughese

Dr Sayali Thakare

MBBS, MD, DM (Nephroloy)

  • She is an Assistant Professor at the department of nephrology Seth GS Medical College, KEM Hospital, Mumbai.
  • She has over 150+ Citations and 30 Publications on topics like Acute oxalate nephropathy exploring the role of excess dietary oxalate intake, etc.

 

Learning Objectives

  • Incidence, presentation and consequences of viral infections such as CMV/ BK-V in renal transplant patients
  • Use of antivirals for prophylaxis- dosages and duration
  • Strategies to overcome this challenge

 

Agenda

05

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Introduction + content setting

 

30

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Infections – a crucial factor impacting kidney allograft outcomes

Helio Tedesco Silva

10

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Early introduction of everolimus to prevent infections

Dr Dinesh Khullar

30

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Referred case of complications due to infections and how this could have been prevented

Dr Sayali Thakare

05

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Take Away Message and Vote of thanks

 

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