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 Opportun ..read more

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 ..read more

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-r ..read more

In this specialty podcase, 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 ..read more

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 transp ..read more

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 ..read more

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] Surgic ..read more

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 fo ..read more

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 ..read more

Host Roz is joined by AJT Editorial Board Member Michael Mengel, MD (University of Alberta) and AJT Editorial Fellow Mohammed 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 ..read more