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Cohosts Josh Levitsky, MD, and Roslyn Mannon, MD, discuss the latest issues of the American Journal of Transplantation, summarizing Editors’ Picks by highlighting the key messages, broader impact, and take-home points of each article. The views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the journal or the societies that support it.
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Thursday Aug 31, 2023
AJT September 2023 Editors’ Picks
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday 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)
[22:20] Impact of allele-specific anti-HLA class I antibodies on organ allocation

Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Tuesday 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.

Thursday Aug 10, 2023
AJT August 2023 Editors’ Picks
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday 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

Monday Jul 17, 2023
Monday 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/

Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
AJT July 2023 Editors’ Picks
Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
Wednesday 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)

Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
AJT June 2023 Editors’ Picks
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Tuesday 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
[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

Thursday May 04, 2023
AJT May 2023 Editors’ Picks
Thursday May 04, 2023
Thursday 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.
[23:13] Impacts of removing race from the calculation of the Kidney Donor Profile Index
[41:40] Time to discard the term “discard”

Friday Apr 07, 2023
AJT April 2023 Editors’ Picks
Friday Apr 07, 2023
Friday 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

Friday Mar 10, 2023
AJT March 2023 Editors’ Picks
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Friday 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.

Monday Feb 27, 2023
Opportunities and Challenges in Transplant Registry Research
Monday Feb 27, 2023
Monday 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.