AJT Highlights

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 r...

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 ce...

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 Transplanta...

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 ou...

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...

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...

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.

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 Glob...

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] Xenotransplantat...

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 Banf...

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...

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...

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 inac...

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:...

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.  

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...

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 independ...

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 r...

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.

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 m...

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...

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 n...

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...

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-Transplan...

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...