*Unless otherwise noted, speakers have nothing to disclose.

Presentations:

1. Interleukin 1 receptor antagonism abrogates pressure-overload induced heart failure - Hadi Javan

2. Extracellar Vesicles for Heart Failure: Do They Improve Function by Triggering the Generation of New Cardiomyocytes? - Philippe Menasché

3. Plasma Exosomes Released during Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Blood Cardioplegia Arrest cause De Novo Cardiac Injury in Rat Model - Kyle Eudailey

Commercial Relationships: Cryolife Inc: Consultant/Advisory Board; Medtronic: Speaker/Honoraria; Terumo Aortic: Speaker/Honoraria

4. Continuous Perfusion of the Genetically Altered Swine Heart Reduces Perioperative Cardiac Xenograft Dysfunction in Cross-species Transplantation - Corbin Goerlich

5. Quantifying the Immune Response to a Tissue Engineered Porcine Matrix - Ryaan El-Andari

6. MT1-MMP Abundance and Localization in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms in the Setting of Marfan Syndrome - Joseph Parrish