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.   ..read more

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 periopera ..read more

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 i ..read more

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 ..read more

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:&n ..read more

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 ..read more

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 Associatio ..read more

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 ..read more

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 app ..read more

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 ..read more