AJT Highlights

Dec 03 2024 80 ep. 40 mins 5
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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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AJT December 2024 Editors’ Picks

Dec 03 2024 36 mins  
Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Abraham Matar, MD to discuss the key articles of the December issue of American Journal of Transplantation. Dr. Abraham ‘Abe’ Matar is a Transplant Surgery Fellow at the University of Minnesota [02:15] Economic Evaluation of Weight Loss and Transplantation Strategies for Kidney Transplant Candidates with Obesity Editorial: Selecting Weight Los

AJT November 2024 Editors’ Picks

Nov 01 2024 45 mins  
[02:08] Robotic living donor hepatectomy is associated with superior outcomes for both the donor and the recipient compared to laparoscopic or open - A single center prospective registry study of 3,448 cases [09:34] Public Attitudes to Xenotransplantation: A National Survey in the United States [18:09] Non-clinical and clinical characterization of MAU868, a novel human-derived mono

AJT October 2024 Editors’ Picks

Oct 01 2024 54 mins  
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 righ

AJT September 2024 Editors’ Picks

Sep 03 2024 54 mins  
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

AJT August 2024 Editors' Picks

Aug 08 2024 50 mins  
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

AJT July 2024 Editors' Picks

Jul 16 2024 45 mins  
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

Analytical Approaches to Policy Evaluation in Transplantation

Jun 18 2024 41 mins  
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 regis

AJT June 2024 Editors' Picks

Jun 11 2024 64 mins  
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 vers

The impact of the 2018 change in heart allocation and what the heart community can learn from experiences with continuous distribution of lung

May 10 2024 28 mins  
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.

AJT May 2024 Editors' Picks

May 01 2024 51 mins  
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 Ant