AJT Highlights

AJT November 2024 Editors’ Picks Nov 01, 2024

[02:08] Robotic living donor hepatectomy is associated with superior outcomes for both the donor and the recipient compared to laparoscopic or open - A single center prospective registry study of 3,448 cases

[09:34] Public Attitudes to Xenotransplantation: A National Survey in the United States

[18:09] Non-clinical and clinical characterization of MAU868, a novel human-derived monoclonal neutralizing antibody targeting BK polyomavirus VP1

[25:52] Establishing targets for goal-directed anesthesia in renal transplantation: a cohort analysis of high-saliency surgical time-courses.

Editorial: Intraoperative blood pressure management during kidney transplantation: grafts under pressure.

[36:53] Why partial heart transplantation could be regulated as organ transplantation

AJT October 2024 Editors’ Picks Oct 01, 2024

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Frances Lee, MD to discuss the key articles of the October issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

[00:02:31] Pre-transplant Use of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Multicenter, Retrospective Cohort Study

Editorial: Integrating immune check inhibitors in liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: The right time and the right patient

[00:11:46] Association of Procurement Technique with Organ Yield and Cost Following Donation After Circulatory Death

Editorial: Dawn Has Arrived, Illuminating Thrilling Opportunities and Fresh Challenges in a New Era of U.S. Transplantation

[00:24:53] Common Definitions and Variables are Needed for the United States to Join the Conversation on Acute on Chronic Liver Failure

[00:33:15] Enhanced role of multipair donor swaps in response to size incompatibility: The first two 5-way and the first 6-way liver paired exchanges

[00:40:15] Comparing the prognostic performance of iBOX and biopsy-proven acute rejection for long-term kidney graft survival

[00:48:22] Incomplete reporting of clinically significant acute rejection episodes in the National Kidney Transplant Registry

AJT September 2024 Editors’ Picks Sep 03, 2024

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Alissar El Chediak, MD to discuss the key articles of the September issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.

Alissar El Chediak, MD is a transplant nephrologist at UT Southwestern

[02:55] – Liver Machine Perfusion Technology: Expanding the Donor Pool to Improve Access to Liver Transplantation

[08:01] – Editorial: Machine perfusion and liver transplant center behavior: Answers or more questions?

[11:01] - Obesity, Organ Failure, and Transplantation: A Review of the Role of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Transplant Candidates and Recipients.

[18:48] – Virus Specific T Cell Therapy to Treat Refractory Viral infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

[25:08] - Third-party virus-specific T cells for the treatment of double-stranded DNA viral reactivation and posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease after solid organ transplant

[28:48] – Editorial: Virus-specific T-cell efficacy after solid organ transplantation: more questions than answers

[34:05] - Successful BK virus–specific T cell therapy in a kidney transplant recipient with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

[37:50] - The prevalence of postacute sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 in solid organ transplant recipients: Evaluation of risk in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative

AJT August 2024 Editors' Picks Aug 08, 2024

Description: Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Maria Alejandra Mendoza, MD to discuss the key articles of the August issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

[01:57] Impact of deceased organ donor marijuana use on donor culture positivity and solid organ transplant recipient outcomes https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.02.022

[13:11] China Issued Rules on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.04.002

[21:10] Advancing Mouse Models for Transplantation Research https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.01.006

[30:05] Differential induction of donor-reactive Foxp3+ Treg via blockade of CD154 vs. CD40 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.03.033

[40:27] Total Robotic Liver Transplant: The Final Frontier of Minimally Invasive Surgery https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.03.030

AJT July 2024 Editors' Picks Jul 16, 2024

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Mack Morris, MD to discuss the key articles of the July issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

[03:33] Biliary complications after adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplantation: An international multicenter study of 3633 cases https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.02.023

[13:07] The impact of time to death in donors after circulatory death on recipient outcome in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.02.008

[24:30] Should advanced perfusion be the standard of care for donation after circulatory death liver transplant? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.03.021

[32:20] Immunosuppression Withdrawal in Living-donor Renal Transplant Recipients Following Induction with Anti-thymocyte Globulin and Rituximab: Results of a Prospective Clinical Trial https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.03.007

[40:30] Spatial multiomics of arterial regions from cardiac allograft vasculopathy rejected grafts reveal novel insights into the pathogenesis of chronic antibody-mediated rejection https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2024.01.004

Analytical Approaches to Policy Evaluation in Transplantation Jun 18, 2024

In this specialty podcast, AJT Fellow and host David Cron is joined by Jesse Schold and Joel Adler to provide an overview policy evaluation in transplantation, including analytical approaches, pitfalls, and best practices.

References

Stewart et al. “Does anyone really know what (the kidney median waiting) time is?”

Noreen et al. “Augmenting the United States transplant registry with external mortality data: A moving target ripe for further improvement”

Shifman et al. “Association of state Medicaid expansion policies with pediatric liver transplant outcomes”

AJT June 2024 Editors' Picks Jun 11, 2024

Host Roz is joined by AJT Associate Editor Orla Morrissey, MD (Monash University) and AJT Editorial Fellow Elena-Bianca Barbir, MD (Mayo Clinic-Rochester).

[3:16] The respiratory syncytial virus vaccines are here: Implications for solid organ transplantation

[19:14] Association between cytomegalovirus viremia and long-term outcomes in lung transplant recipients

[35:40] Genetic versus self-reported African ancestry of the recipient and neighborhood predictors of kidney transplantation outcomes in 2 multiethnic urban cohorts

[EDITORIAL] Untangling genetic and environmental risks in kidney transplant outcomes: The interplay of self-identified race, genetic ancestry, monogenic risk alleles, and socioeconomic factors

[45:15] Low-affinity CD8+ T cells provide interclonal help to high-affinity CD8+ T cells to augment alloimmunity

[53:44] Outcomes in solid organ transplant recipients with a pretransplant diagnosis of melanoma

The impact of the 2018 change in heart allocation and what the heart community can learn from experiences with continuous distribution of lung May 10, 2024

In this AJT specialty podcast, Luise Holzhauser, hosts Shelley Hall and Marie Budev to discuss the impact of the 2018 change in heart allocation and what the heart community can learn from experiences with continuous distribution of lung.

AJT May 2024 Editors' Picks May 01, 2024

Host Roz is joined by AJT Executive Guest Editor Nadim Mahmud, MD, MPH (University of Pennsylvania) and AJT Editorial Fellow Tina Marinelli, MBBS, MPH&TM, FRACP (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital).

[03:10] Semidirected Living Donors in Israel: Sociodemographic Profile, Religiosity, and Social Tolerance [11:54] TCRseq Reveals Selected Donor-reactive CD8+ T cell Clones Resist Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Depletion after Kidney Transplantation [18:47] Natural killer cell functional genetics and donor-specific antibody-triggered microvascular inflammation [26:36] Surgical site infections after kidney transplantation are independently associated with graft loss [38:26] Introduction to Virtual Special Issue, Insights into ACLF: From Pathogenesis to Interventions [39:21] Immunopathogenesis of acute on chronic liver failure [43:43] Geographic disparities in access to liver transplant for advanced cirrhosis: Time to ring the alarm!

AJT April 2024 Editors' Picks Apr 01, 2024

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Allan Kirk, MD, PhD, (Duke University) and AJT Editorial Fellow Laura Binari, MD (Vanderbilt University).

[2:34] Abdominal computed tomography measurements of body composition and waitlist mortality in kidney transplant candidates

[14:09] A2/A2B to B deceased donor kidney transplantation in the Kidney Allocation System era

[24:01] Xenotransplantation Papers

[25:07] Xenotransplantation experiments in brain-dead human subjects–A critical appraisal

[28:11] The decedent model: A new paradigm for de-risking high stakes clinical trials like xenotransplantation

[32:45] Exploring the single-cell immune landscape of kidney allograft inflammation using imaging mass cytometry

AJT March 2024 Editors' Picks Mar 04, 2024

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Alexandre Loupy, MD, PhD (Necker Hospital) and AJT Editorial Fellow Thiago J Borges, PhD (Massachusetts General Hospital).

[2:39] Transplanting old organs promotes senescence in young recipients

[11:33] The Banff 2022 Kidney Meeting Report: Reappraisal of microvascular inflammation and the role of biopsy-based transcript diagnostics

[15:45] The Banff 2022 Kidney Meeting Work Plan: Data-driven refinement of the Banff Classification for renal allografts

(Editorial) [18:12] The Banff process—Reloaded: A joint initiative from the Banff Foundation for Allograft Pathology and the American Journal of Transplantation

[20:25] Antiobesity pharmacotherapy to facilitate living kidney donation

[27:04] Ambient air pollution is associated with graft failure/death in pediatric liver transplant recipients

AJT February 2024 Editors' Picks Feb 01, 2024

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member John Greenland, MD, PhD (University of California, San Francisco) and AJT Editorial Fellow David Cron, MD, MS (Massachusetts General Hospital).

[2:53] Pure laparoscopic donor hepatectomy: Experience of 556 cases at Seoul National University Hospital

[11:26] Smoking exposure-induced bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue in donor lungs does not prevent tolerance induction after transplantation & Aging exacerbates murine lung ischemia-reperfusion injury by excessive inflammation and impaired tissue repair response

[20:28] Augmenting the Unites States transplant registry with external mortality data: A moving target ripe for further improvement

(Editorial) How hard are the hard outcomes reported in national transplant registries?

[32:25] Maintaining the permanence principle of death during normothermic regional perfusion in controlled donation after the circulatory determination of death: Results of a prospective clinical study

The impact and implications of the kidney allocation system (KAS 250) over kidney allocation in the United States Jan 08, 2024

The podcast discusses the impact and implications the kidney allocation system (KAS 250) has had over kidney allocation in the United States, focusing on the effect on operational challenges, cold ischemic times, delayed graft function, and organ discard rates.

Guest speakers include Joel Adler (Dell Medical School, University of Texas in Austin) and John Friedewald (Northwestern Memorial Hospital).

AJT January 2024 Editors’ Picks Jan 01, 2024

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Michael Mengel, MD (University of Alberta) and AJT Editorial Fellow Kazem Fallahzadeh, MD (Emory University).

[2:43] Recurrent atypical antiglomerular basement membrane nephritis in the kidney transplant

[14:26] Pretransplantation coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination requirements: A matched case-control study of factors associated with waitlist inactivation

(Editorial) Coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine mandates and the Owl of Minerva

[21:45] Incomplete tissue product tracing during an investigation of a tissue-derived tuberculosis outbreak

[29:48] Risk for graft loss in pediatric and young adult kidney transplant recipients due to recurrent IgA nephropathy

[37:07] De novo membranous nephropathy in a pig-to-baboon kidney xenograft: A new xenograft glomerulopathy

AJT Decmber 2023 Editors’ Picks Dec 05, 2023

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Emily Blumberg, MD (University of Pennsylvania) and AJT Editorial Fellow Dempsey Hughes, MD (Northwestern Medicine).

[03:03] Predicting post–liver transplant outcomes in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure using Expert-Augmented Machine Learning

[10:34] Clinical features, treatment, and outcomes of mpox in solid organ transplant recipients: A multicenter case series and literature review

[14:05] First case of rapidly fatal mpox from secondary (household) transmission in a kidney transplant recipient

[15:28] A joint program of antimicrobial stewardship and hospital-acquired infection control to reduce healthcare-associated infections after kidney transplantation: The Hipomenes study

[22:55] A rational approach to guide cost-effective de novo donor-specific antibody surveillance with tacrolimus immunosuppression

[30:04] (Editorial) Personalizing kidney transplant donor-specific antibody surveillance: The devil is in the details

[33:20] Donor antigen-specific regulatory T cell administration to recipients of live donor kidneys: A ONE Study consortium pilot trial

Kidney Utilization and Organ Procurement Organization Performance Nov 09, 2023

In this specialty podcast, Arielle Cimeno, hosts Raymond Lynch and Amit Mathur to discuss recent trends and new initiatives to assess kidney utilization and organ procurement organization performance.

AJT November 2023 Editors’ Picks Nov 03, 2023

Host Roz is joined by Ramsey Hachem, MD (Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis) and AJT Editorial Fellow Helen Tsai, MD (Montefiore Medical Center)

[03:30] Disseminated vaccine-induced varicella infection in a kidney transplant recipient

[06:50] Safety and Immunogenicity of the Live-Attenuated Varicella Vaccine in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

[10:34] (Editorial) Balancing the live virus vaccine scales: protection vs risk

[14:22] Outcomes after flow cytometry crossmatch-positive lung transplants managed with perioperative desensitization

[19:25] Lung transplantation despite preformed donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies: 9-year single-center experience

[23:00] (Editorial) What is a Clinically Significant Donor-Specific Antibody Before Lung Transplantation?

[25:38] Deceased Donor Kidneys from Higher Distressed Communities are Significantly Less Likely to be Utilized for Transplantation

[35:11] (Editorial) Understanding the mechanisms and implications of the association between community distress and organ non-utilization

[37:18] Sex as a Biological Variable: Mechanistic Insights and Clinical Relevance in Solid Organ Transplantation

AJT October 2023 Editors’ Picks Oct 03, 2023

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Salil Kumar, MD (incoming Assistant Professor at MD Anderson Medical Center)

[2:24] Importance of social vulnerability on long-term outcomes after heart transplantation

[12:51] Microbiota-dependent and -independent effects of obesity on transplant rejection and hyperglycemia

[21:26] Memory T follicular helper cells drive donor-specific antibodies independent of memory B cells and primary germinal center and alloantibody formation

[28:52] Validation of a prediction system for risk of kidney allograft failure in pediatric kidney transplant recipients: An international observational study

[36:44] Qualifying a novel clinical trial endpoint (iBOX) predictive of long-term kidney transplant outcomes

AJT September 2023 Editors’ Picks Aug 31, 2023

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Kenneth Newell, MD, PhD (Emory University) and AJT Editorial Fellow Kyle Jackson, MD, PhD (Emory University)

[2:45] Identifying and understanding variation in population-based access to liver transplantation in the United States

[12:44] Intra-graft B cell differentiation during the development of tolerance to kidney allografts is associated with a regulatory B cell signature revealed by single cell transcriptomics

[18:21] Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals peripheral blood mononuclear immune cell landscape associated with operational tolerance in a kidney transplant recipient

[22:20] Impact of allele-specific anti-HLA class I antibodies on organ allocation

[28:12] Autoantibodies against DNA-topoisomerase I promote renal allograft rejection by increasing alloreactive T cell responses

Ethical Issues Related to Informed Consent and Informed Authorization for Xenotransplantation Aug 15, 2023

In this specialty podcast, Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison) hosts Robert Montgomery, MD, PhD, (NYU Langone) and Muhammad Mohiuddin, MBBS, (University of Maryland) to discuss ethical issues related to informed authorization and informed consent for decedent kidney and human cardiac xenotransplants.

AJT August 2023 Editors’ Picks Aug 10, 2023

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Sanjay Kulkarni, MD, (Yale School of Medicine) and AJT Editorial Fellow Luise Holzhauser, MD (University of Pennsylvania)

[2:40] In a real-life setting, risk factors, Coronary artery calcium score and coronary stenosis at Computed Tomography Angiography are associated with MACE and all-cause mortality among kidney transplant candidates

[16:00] The minimum weight and age of kidney donors: En bloc kidney transplantation from preterm neonatal donors weighing less than 1.2kg to adult recipients

[24:35] Increased volume of organ offers and decreased efficiency of kidney placement under circle-based kidney allocation

[31:07] Recipient Race Modifies the Association between Obesity and Long-term Graft Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation

International efforts to eliminate gender disparities in allocation of liver transplants: MELD 3.0 & Gender-Equity Model for Liver Allocation (GEMA) Jul 17, 2023

In this AJT specialty podcast, Aly Strauss, hosts Allison Kwong and Manuel Rodriguez-Peralvarez to discuss MELD 3.0, Gender-Equity Model for Liver Allocation (GEMA), and international efforts to eliminate gender disparities in allocation of liver transplants.

Bernards et al. AJT: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35871752/

Kim et al. Meld 3.0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34481845/

Meld 3.0 calculator: https://medcalculators.stanford.edu/meld

Rodriguez-Peralvarez et al. GEMA: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36528041/

GEMA calculator: http://gema-transplant.com/

AJT July 2023 Editors’ Picks Jul 05, 2023

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Seth Karp, MD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) and AJT Editorial Fellow Thiago Borges, PhD (Massachusetts General Hospital)

[2:33] Xenorecognition and costimulation of porcine endothelium-derived extracellular vesicles in initiating human porcine-specific T cell immune responses

[11:28] The tele-liver frailty index (TeLeFI): development of a novel frailty tool in patients with cirrhosis via telemedicine

[21:18] The 20-year paradigm shift toward organ recovery centers: 2500 donors at Mid-America Transplant and broader adoption across the United States

[33:13] Outcomes of lung and liver transplantation after simultaneous recovery using abdominal normothermic regional perfusion in donors after the circulatory determination of death versus donors after brain death

[42:17] Stakeholders’ perspectives on transplant metrics: the 2022 Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients’ consensus conference

AJT June 2023 Editors’ Picks Jun 06, 2023

Hosts Roz and Josh discuss the key articles of the June issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

[1:30] The evolving use of biomarkers in heart transplantation: Consensus of an expert panel

[9:49] Effects of in vivo CXCR4 Blockade and Proteasome Inhibition on Bone Marrow Plasma Cells in HLA Sensitized Kidney Transplant Candidates

[16:50] An ethical analysis of obesity as a contraindication to pediatric liver transplant candidacy

[23:53] Racial and ethnic disparities in psychosocial evaluation and liver transplant waitlisting

AJT May 2023 Editors’ Picks May 04, 2023

Host Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Scott Krummey, MD, PhD, to discuss the key articles of the May issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

[01:59] Genetic evaluation of living kidney donor candidates: A review and recommendations for best practices

[11:36] Mutations In Latent Membrane Protein 1 of Epstein-Barr Virus are Associated with Increased Risk for Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder in Children

[23:13] Impacts of removing race from the calculation of the Kidney Donor Profile Index

[31:49] The Association of Donor Hepatitis C Virus Infection with Three-Year Kidney Transplant Outcomes in the Era of Direct-Acting Antiviral Medications

[41:40] Time to discard the term “discard”

AJT April 2023 Editors’ Picks Apr 07, 2023

Host Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Daniel Galvez Lima, MD, to discuss the key articles of the April issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

[02:01] Successful pathways to liver transplant for undocumented immigrants, Kerznerman et al

[10:30] Effect of vitamin K supplementation on serum calcification propensity and arterial stiffness in vitamin K-deficient kidney transplant recipients: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, Eelderink et al

[18:07] ABO Genotyping finds more A2 to B kidney transplant opportunities than lectin-based subtyping, Joseph et al

[29:15] Oxidative stress and related metabolic alterations are induced in ex situ perfusion of donated hearts regardless of the ventricular load or leukocyte depletion, Hatami et al

AJT March 2023 Editors’ Picks Mar 10, 2023

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Aly Strauss, MD, to discuss the key articles of the March issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

[2:57] Milestones on the path to clinical pig organ xenotransplantation, Cooper & Pierson.

[12:45] Infection and clinical xenotransplantation: Guidance from the Infectious Disease Community of Practice of the American Society of Transplantation, Mehta et al.

[20:30] Addressing sex-based disparities in solid organ transplantation in the United States – a conference report, Sawinski et al.

[33:45] A comparison of deprivation indices and application to transplant populations, Park et al.

Opportunities and Challenges in Transplant Registry Research Feb 27, 2023

In this specialty podcast, Katie Ross-Driscoll, PhD, MPH (Emory University) hosts Jon Snyder, PhD, MS (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients) to discuss the utility of registries in transplantation research, considerations for study design and analysis, and common errors when using registry data.

AJT February 2023 Editors’ Picks Feb 20, 2023

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Zachary Yetmar, MD, to discuss the key articles of the February issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

[1:42] BK DNAemia and native kidney polyomavirus nephropathy following lung transplantation, Dube et al

[12:05] Mortality among solid organ transplant recipients with a pretransplant cancer diagnosis, Hart et al

[24:04] Does Anybody Really Know What (the Kidney Median Waiting) Time Is?, Stewart et al

[32:37] Honoring the gift: the transformative potential of transplant-declined human organs, Albert et al

[37:46] American Society of Transplant Surgeons recommendations on best practices in donation after circulatory death organ procurement, Croome et al

AJT January 2023 Editors’ Picks Jan 16, 2023

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow James Hendele, MD, to discuss the key articles of the January issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

[2:05] Days alive and out of hospital following liver transplant: Comparing a patient-centered outcome between DCD and DBD graft recipients, Frasco et al

[11:03] Acute liver failure and unique challenges of pediatric liver transplantation amid a worldwide cluster of adenovirus-associated hepatitis, Banc-Husu et al

[21:36] Information Design to Support Growth, Quality, and Equity of the U.S. Transplant System, Perakslis and Knechtle

[29:01] Optimum timing of anti-thymocyte globulin in relation to adoptive Treg cell therapy, Muckenhuber et al

AJT December 2022 Editors’ Picks Dec 06, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Quan Yao Ho, MBBS, MRCP (UK), MMed (S’pore), to discuss the key articles of the December issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT November 2022 Editors’ Picks Nov 11, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Marlene Cano, MD, PhD to discuss the key articles of the November issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT October 2022 Editors’ Picks Oct 28, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Arielle Cimeno, MD, to discuss the key articles of the October issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT September 2022 Editors’ Picks Sep 21, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Ersilia M. DeFilippis, MD, to discuss the key articles of the September issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT August 2022 Editors’ Picks Aug 03, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Hirsh D. Trivedi, MD, MSc, to discuss the key articles of the August issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT July 2022 Editors’ Picks Jul 05, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Editorial Fellow Prince Singh, MBBS, FASN, FACP to discuss the key articles of the July issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT June 2022 Editor’s Picks Jun 09, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh discuss the key articles of the June issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT May 2022 Editor’s Picks May 10, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Natalia Castillo Almeida, MD (University of Nebraska) and Beau Kelly, MD, MBA, FACS, FAST (DCI Donor Services and AST Board Member) to discuss the key articles of the May issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT April 2022 Editors’ Picks Apr 05, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Dustin Carpenter, MD, MPH (Weill Cornell Medical Center) to discuss the key articles of the April issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

Use of Organs from SARS-CoV-2-Positive Donors: Weighing the Risks versus Benefits Mar 29, 2022

We are now more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet many questions remain about how to approach solid organ transplant donors with COVID-19 infection. With the recent Delta and Omicron variant surges, the prevalence of COVID-19 positive donors has increased creating challenges for transplant centers needing to balance the risk of donor-derived infection with mortality on the waitlist. This special episode, hosted by AJT Fellow Dr. Carol Kao, features what is currently known on this topic as well as unique perspectives from the Italian experience by Dr. Paolo Grossi and the US by Drs. Ricardo La Hoz and Mike Green, moderated by Dr. Emily Blumberg.

AJT March 2022 Editors’ Picks Mar 07, 2022

Host Roz Mannon is joined by Carol Kao, MD (Washington University in St. Louis) to discuss the key articles of the March issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT February 2022 Editors’ Picks Feb 06, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Satish Nadig, MD, PhD (Northwestern) to discuss the key articles of the February issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT January 2022 Editors’ Picks Jan 03, 2022

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Rebecca Craig-Schapiro, MD, PhD (Weill Cornell Medical Center) and Juan Carlos Caicedo, MD (Northwestern) to discuss the key articles of the January issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: Pros, Cons, and a Patient‘s Perspective Dec 10, 2021

Requirements for COVID-19 vaccination for transplant candidates are currently being widely considered by transplant programs. While many programs promote vaccine mandates to improve the safety of transplantation, others are reluctant to impose mandates for a variety of reasons, including issues of equity and legal concerns (including government restrictions). The impact on patients and programs has sparked a lively debate on this topic. This podcast highlights the complexity of issues related to vaccine mandates both from the provider and patient viewpoints.

AJT December 2021 Editors’ Picks Dec 06, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Raphael Meier, MD, PhD, (University of Maryland) to discuss the key articles of the December issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT November 2021 Editors’ Picks Nov 01, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Shaheed Merani, MD, PhD (University of Nebraska) and Katie Ross-Driscoll, PhD, MPH (Emory University) to discuss the key articles of the November issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT October 2021 Editors’ Picks Oct 10, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD (University of Wisconsin) to discuss the key articles of the October issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT September 2021 Editors’ Picks Sep 01, 2021

Josh is joined by Abdul Oseini (Johns Hopkins) and Paolo Cravedi (Mount Sinai) to discuss the key articles of the September issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT August 2021 Editors’ Picks Aug 08, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Andriana Nikolova, MD, PhD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) to discuss the key articles of the August issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT July 2021 Editors’ Picks Jul 06, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Mike Fruscione, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital) to discuss the key articles of the July issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT June 2021 Editors’ Picks Jun 04, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Babak Orandi, MD (UAB) to discuss the key articles of the June issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT May 2021 Editors’ Picks May 03, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Yanik Bababekov, MD, MPH (University of Colorado) to discuss the key articles of the May issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

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AJT April 2021 Editors’ Picks Apr 01, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are rejoined by Ilkka Helanterä, MD, PhD (Helsinki University Hospital) to discuss the key articles of the April issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT March 2021 Editors’ Picks Mar 02, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Lisa McElroy, MD, (Duke University) to discuss the key articles of the March issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT February 2021 Editors’ Picks Feb 03, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are rejoined by Melissa Swee, MD, MME (University of Iowa) to discuss the key articles of the February issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT January 2021 Editors’ Picks Jan 04, 2021

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Yanik Bababekov, MD, MPH (University of Colorado) to discuss the key articles of the January issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT December 2020 Editors’ Picks Dec 03, 2020

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Oscar Serrano, MD (Hartford Healthcare) to discuss the key articles of the December issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT November 2020 Editors’ Picks Nov 05, 2020

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Ilkka Helanterä, MD, PhD (Helsinki University Hospital) to discuss the key articles of the November issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT October 2020 Editors’ Picks Oct 01, 2020

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Melissa Swee, MD, MME (University of Iowa) to discuss the key articles of the October issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT September 2020 Editors' Picks Sep 13, 2020

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Babak Orandi, MD, (UAB) to discuss the key articles of the September issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT August 2020 Editors’ Picks Aug 12, 2020

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT Deputy Editor Mandy Ford (Emory University) and AJT Fellow Oscar Serrano (Hartford Hospital) to discuss the key articles of the August issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT July 2020 Editors’ Picks Jul 13, 2020

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Lisa McElroy, MD, (Duke University) to discuss the key articles of the July issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

COVID-19 and Organ Transplantation: Part 2 Jun 11, 2020

Host Roz Mannon is rejoined by Dr. Lara Danziger-Isakov to discuss the latest articles about COVID-19 and organ transplantation from AJT, JAMA, and NEJM.

AJT June 2020 Editors’ Picks Jun 08, 2020

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MPH, (University of California, San Francisco) to discuss the key articles of the June issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT May 2020 Editors' Picks May 06, 2020

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Benjamin Hippen, MD, (Metrolina Nephrology Associates) to discuss the key articles of the May issue of American Journal of Transplantation.

COVID-19 and Organ Transplantation: Part 1 Apr 27, 2020

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Dr. Lara Danziger-Isakov for this special edition of AJT Highlights discussing current articles about COVID-19 and organ transplantation.

AJT April 2020 Editors' Picks Apr 09, 2020

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by AJT's Editor Emeritus, Dr. Philip Halloran to discuss this month's key papers.

AJT March 2020 Editor’s Picks Mar 12, 2020

Hosts Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon are joined by Jaime Todd, MD, of Duke University and by Lisa VanWagner, MD, MSc, of Northwestern.

AJT February 2020 Editor's Picks Feb 03, 2020

Hosts Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon are joined by Dr. Angela Maldonado, one of the contributors to the C4 article featured in this episode.

AJT January 2020 Editors' Picks Jan 08, 2020

Hosts Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon are joined by fellow AJT editorial board member, Dr. Robert Fairchild, to discuss some of the key papers in the January 2020 issue.

AJT December 2019 Editors' Picks Dec 01, 2019

Hosts Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon are joined by cardiac transplantation expert Jon Kobashigawa to discuss the editors' picks in the December issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT November 2019 Editors' Picks Nov 04, 2019

Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon discuss key papers from the November issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT October 2019 Editors' Picks Oct 07, 2019

This episode, hosts Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon are joined by Jen Allocco (Immunology graduate student at the University of Chicago) and Patrick Ahearn (Transplant Nephrology Fellow at Stanford), as they record at the AST Fellows Symposium.

AJT September 2019 Editors' Picks Sep 03, 2019

Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon discuss key articles from the September issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT August 2019 Editors' Picks Aug 06, 2019

Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon discuss key articles from the August issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT July 2019 Editors' Picks Jul 05, 2019

Josh Levitsky and Roz Mannon discuss key papers from the July issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT June 2019 Editors' Picks Jun 02, 2019

Josh Levitsky and John Friedewald discuss key papers from the June issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.

AJT May 2019 Editors' Picks May 12, 2019

In this episode, host Josh Levitsky discusses editors' picks from the May issue:

Dual blockade of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway inhibits posttransplant Epstein‐Barr virus B cell lymphomas and promotes allograft survival, Sang et al: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.15216

The VA Transplant Program: A rebuttal to criticism and a look to the future, William Gunnar: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.15295

Prolongation of allograft survival by passenger donor regulatory T cells, Harper et al: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.15212

Liver transplantation for hepatitis C virus (HCV) non‐viremic recipients with HCV viremic donors, Kwong et al: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.15162

Functional status at listing predicts waitlist and posttransplant mortality in pediatric liver transplant candidates, Perito et al: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.15203

The clinical and pathological significance of borderline T cell–mediated rejection, Nankivell et al: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.15197

Exercise increases skin graft resistance to rejection, Rael et al: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.15266

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