17th Congress of The Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST)

17th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST) in Conjunction with The 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of Malaysian Society of Transplantation (MST) in collaboration with The 36th Annual Congress of Malaysian Society of Nephrology (MSN) is organized by Asian Society of Transplantation (AST), Malaysian Society of Transplantation (MST) and Malaysian Society of Nephrology (MSN) and will be held from Jul 25 - 28, 2021 virtually. 

Accreditation:
This Congress has been approved for a maximum of 20 CPD Points.

Description:
CAST is the premier biannual scientific event in Asia which specifically focuses on various aspects of transplantation ranging from clinical and technical issues, to diagnostics, socio-economics, bioethics and organizational issues.

Renowned speakers and international experts from the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific region will join delegates to share and discuss current technical and clinical advances in the form of plenary and mini lectures, workshops, postgraduate courses and seminars while others, including the scientists, transplant surgeons or physicians and professional fellows will have the opportunity to present their scientific research in the oral and poster sessions.

The scientific programme will cater for specific solid organ transplant programme with concurrent tracks for the Kidneys, Liver, Heart and Lung.

There will also be an exciting and educational Trade Exhibition where technical, laboratory and pharmaceutical innovations and products will be displayed by industry.

Do join our drive to make organ transplantation more successful and the preferred therapeutic option for organ failure states and other indications in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.

Programme Highlights:
Pre-Congress:
• Transplant immunology and pathology 
• Organ donation & procurement 
• Workup of potential transplant recipients
Plenary:
• Management of transplantation in digital era 
• Chimerism, transplant tolerance and beyond 
• Prolonging kidney allograft survival: what works best? 
• Liver transplantation in metastatic liver disease 
• 50 donors p.m.p is not a dream anymore: how did Spain do it? 
• Experimental xenotransplantation 
Break Out Sessions:
• Biomarkers in transplantation 
• Donation & ethics 
• Donor & procurement 
• Heart & lung 
• Innovation in transplantation 
• Kidney transplant 
• Liver transplant 
• Post-transplant complications 
• Surgical aspects of kidney transplantation 
• Surgical aspects of liver transplantation 
• Transplant immunology 
• Transplant infectious disease 
• Transplantation in Asia - challenges & way forward 
• Women in transplantation