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"Utilization of organs following implementation of the 2020 United States Public Health Service guideline recommendations," by Griffin et al
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#OrganTransplant #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy #SolidOrganTransplantation

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"Recipient plasma metabolomics as a predictor of heart transplant severe primary graft dysfunction," by Preston et al
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#HeartTransplantation #PrimaryGraftDysfunction #Metabolomics

Figure 2 Risk of bias for randomized controlled studies (ROB 2).

Online & in press: "Feasibility, safety, and effectiveness of prehabilitation programs in patients awaiting liver transplantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis," by Abow-Mohamed et al
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#LiverTransplant #Transplantation #Prehabilitation #ClinicalResearch

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"Advancing robotic surgery in pediatric liver transplantation: A case of fully robotic recipient surgery," by Rela et al tinyurl.com/4mnmshrd
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#RoboticSurgery #LiverTransplantation #TransplantSurgery #PediatricTransplant

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"Costimulatory blockade and infectious risk in solid organ transplantation," by Fishman et al
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#CostimulatoryBlockade #TransplantImmunology #InfectiousDisease #OrganTransplantation

Public Health Dispatch April 2026

Check out April's Public Health Dispatch: From the CDC and WHO, "Long-term illness in adults hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus disease, United States, February 2022-September 2023," by Marcus R. Pereira
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#RSV #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #HealthData

Figure: Defensive tolerance: The reprogramming and disarming of immunogenicity by the tolerant immune microenvironment

Don't miss our April Literature Watch, "Defensive tolerance: The reprogramming and disarming of immunogenicity by the tolerant immune microenvironment," by Koki Hayashi, James M. Gardner and Alessandro Alessandrini
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#Transplantation #Immunology

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Banff 2024 Kidney Meeting Report

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"The Banff 2024 Kidney Meeting Report: Rejection as a spectrum of phenotypes and focus on differential diagnostic reasoning," Naesens et al.
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#Transplantation #KidneyTransplant #Banff #TransplantPathology #DifferentialDiagnosis #OpenAccess

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Check out the AJT XenoBulletin where you will find updates on activity in Xenotransplantation.
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#Xenotransplantation

Dr. Giuseppe Cullaro

Please join us in welcoming new Associate Editor, Giuseppe Cullaro!

American Journal of Transplantation April 2026 cover

The April issue is now available!
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#Transplant #Transplantation #OrganTransplantation

AJT Highlights April 2026 Editor's Picks

🎙️ New AJT Highlights episode now available!

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Figure 1 Immunosuppressive regimen and kidney allo-Tx in rhesus monkeys.

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"Peri-transplant Interleukin-6 Receptor Blockade delays Acute Cellular Rejection and Significantly Prolongs Kidney Allograft Survival in Tacrolimus/CTLA4Ig-treated Nonhuman Primates," by Kubo et al
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#KidneyTransplantation #IL6 #TransplantImmunology

Elizabeth Verna, MD, MSc

Please join us in welcoming new Deputy Editor, Elizabeth Verna!

Figure 1 Torque teno virus (TTV) viral load (VL) (log10 copies/mL [cp/mL]) according to BK polyomavirus (BKPyV) DNAemia, shown as box-and-whisker plots with percentile whiskers.

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From our March issue, "Predictive value of torque teno virus viral load for BK polyomavirus DNAemia depends on BK polyomavirus–specific humoral immunity in kidney transplant recipients," by Benotmane et al.
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#KidneyTransplant #Immunology #OpenAccess

Figure 1 Proportion of the follow-up time among solid organ transplant recipients in the United States during 1995-2021, by calendar year, according to attained age in years (A) or years since first transplant (B).

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"Population-level cancer trends among solid organ transplant recipients in the United States during 1995-2021," by Engels et al is now online & in press!
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#Transplantation #Oncology #CancerEpidemiology #PopulationHealth #PublicHealth #TransplantOncology

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Online & In press: "Racial and immunologic disparities impact access to kidney rewaitlisting and retransplantation," by Lovasik et al
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#OpenAccess #KidneyTransplant #Transplantation #HealthEquity

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"The Banff 2024 Kidney Meeting Report: Rejection as a spectrum of phenotypes and focus on differential diagnostic reasoning," Naesens et al.
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#Transplantation #KidneyTransplant #Banff #TransplantPathology #DifferentialDiagnosis #OpenAccess

Figure 1 Most likely scenario simulation. The figure presents the total number of new donors (A), the family voucher coverage (B), and the overall voucher program coverage (C) over the 100-year time horizon.

Featured in our March issue, "A 100-year simulation of the National Kidney Registry’s voucher program," by Cooper et al.
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#KidneyTransplant #Transplantation #OrganDonation #Nephrology #NationalKidneyRegistry #TransplantResearch

Figure 1 Dynamics of donor-specific immunoglobulin (Ig) E and basophils over time.

Check out, "Donor major histocompatibility complex–specific immunoglobulin E augments the T and B cell alloresponse in a CD23-dependent manner," by Weijler et al in our March issue.
doi.org/10.1016/j.aj...
#Transplantation #Immunology #TransplantImmunology #IgE #CardiacTransplantation

Figure 1 Functional MerTK promotes cardiac allograft survival and limits vascular injury.

Check out, "Suppression of cardiac allograft vasculopathy by a macrophage efferocytosis receptor," by Shah et al, in our March issue!
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#HeartTransplant #Transplantation #Cardiology

Figure 1 Hypothesis. CRC, colorectal cancer; dMMR, deficient mismatch repair; HGD, high-grade dysplasia; HP, hyperplastic polyp; LGD, low-grade dysplasia; pMMR, proficient mismatch repair; SSL, sessile serrated lesion; SSL-D, sessile serrated lesion with dysplasia; TSA, traditional serrated adenoma.

From our March issue, "Risk of deficient mismatch repair colorectal cancer and precursors after kidney transplantation: A nationwide study," by Zwart et al
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#KidneyTransplant #ColorectalCancer #Transplantation #Immunosuppression

The History of Transplant specialty podcast

🎙️ New Podcast: The History of Transplant

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#Transplantation #TransplantHistory #MedicalHistory

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"Implementation of a physician assistant-led recovery model for heart transplantation: Clinical outcomes and programmatic benefits at a high-volume center," by Petrovic et al.
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#HeartTransplant #Transplantation #TransplantResearch

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"Ethical and psychosocial issues with in situ and ex situ perfusion technology for organ transplantation: A scoping review," by Blazier et al
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#OrganTransplantation #PerfusionTechnology #TransplantMedicine #Bioethics #SolidOrganTransplantation

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"Cellular and humoral immunogenicity of respiratory syncytial virus vaccination in solid organ transplant recipients," by Bronder et al
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#OpenAccess #Immunogenicity #RSV #SolidOrganTransplantation
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"Organ procurement organizations should develop policy regarding surrogate consent for normothermic regional perfusion," by Murphy et al
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#OrganDonation #Transplantation #OrganProcurement #Bioethics

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"Best practices in mouse models of skin transplantation," by Borges et al
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#SkinTransplantation #TransplantResearch #MouseModels

Figure 1 Differential diagnostic reasoning framework/flowchart for tubulointerstitial inflammation (t and i lesions) according to the Banff 2022 classification.

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"The Banff 2024 Kidney Meeting Report: Rejection as a spectrum of phenotypes and focus on differential diagnostic reasoning," Naesens et al.
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#Transplantation #KidneyTransplant #Banff #TransplantPathology #DifferentialDiagnosis #OpenAccess