AJT Highlights

Description:  Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo are joined by Justin Barr to discuss the key articles of the March issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. Justin Barr practices abdominal transplant and advanced hepatobiliary surgery at Ochsner Medical Center [03:13] Implementation of a physician assistant-led recovery model for heart transplantation: Clinical outcomes and programmatic benefits at a high-volume center [13:54] A 100-year simulation of the National Kidney Registry’s voucher program [25:32] Risk of deficient mismatch repair colorectal cancer and precursors after kidney transplantation: A nationwide study [35:09] Predictive value of torque teno virus viral load for BK polyomavirus DNAemia depends on BK polyomavirus–specific humoral immunity in kidney transplant recipients [42:50] Suppression of cardiac allograft vasculopathy by a macrophage efferocytosis receptor

Description:  Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo are joined by Juan Pablo Huidobro to discuss the key articles of the February issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. Juan Pablo Huidobro is an Assistant Professor in Nephrology at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile [02:52] Evolving landscape of thrombotic microangiopathy in kidney transplant recipients in the post–C5 inhibitor era [13:22] Erythropoietin prolongs graft survival in mice by counteracting trained immunity [22:06] A new principle to attenuate ischemia reperfusion injury in kidney transplantation [33:14] Sustained allogeneic kidney graft operational tolerance despite discontinued conventional immunosuppression after CD19-CAR-T-cell therapy for relapsed/refractory post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder [40:15] Bloodstream Infection Subtypes and Characteristics Comparing Solid Organ Transplant and Non-Transplant Populations

AJT January 2026 Editors’ Picks Description:  Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo are joined by Dr. Al-Faraaz Kassam to discuss the key articles of the January issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. Al-Faraaz Kassam is an Assistant Professor in Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins University [03:45] Evaluation of kidney procurement biopsy and machine perfusion on allograft outcomes: A retrospective cohort study of the OPTN database [11:23] Improving the  histologic detection of donor-specific antibody-negative antibody-mediated rejection in kidney transplants [23:01] Exosome-primed T cell immunity is facilitated by complement activation [32:26] Landscape of subclinical rejection in a large international cohort of pediatric kidney transplant (kTx) recipients [42:19] Donor Heart Preservation at 10°C After Thoracoabdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion Lowers Rates of Severe Primary Graft Dysfunction and Improves Recipient Transplant Outcomes  

AJT December 2025 Editors’ Picks Description:  Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo are joined by Hannah Bahakel to discuss the key articles of the December issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. Hannah Bahakel is a Clinical Immunodeficiency fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center [03:34] Higher vs standard mean arterial pressure target in the immediate postoperative period of liver transplantation to prevent acute kidney injury: A randomized clinical trial (LIVER-PAM) [13:51] Donor-derived cell-free DNA significantly improves rejection yield in kidney transplant biopsies [26:27] Tolerogenic lung allograft microenvironment suppresses pathogenic tissue remodeling following respiratory virus infection in mice [37:11] Therapeutic needs in solid organ transplant recipients: The American Society of Transplantation patient survey [48:19] Impact of kidney function on 200 days of antiviral prophylaxis for cytomegalovirus disease in cytomegalovirus-seronegative recipients of cytomegalovirus-seropositive donor kidneys: Post hoc analysis of a randomized, phase 3 trial of letermovir vs valganciclovir prophylaxis

Description:  Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo are joined by Christie Rampersad to discuss the key articles of the November issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. Christie Rampersad is clinical associate, in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Toronto in the Ajmera Transplant Centre [03:45] The early impacts of an attempt to standardize kidney procurement biopsy practices [13:40] The current state of simultaneous heart-liver transplantation in the United States [20:11] Engaging patients in organ transplant listing meetings: A survey study [37:32] Single-cell transcriptional landscape of liver transplant rejection reveals tissue persistence of clonally expanded, treatment-resistant T cells [45:32] Infectious disease surveillance and management in clinical xenotransplantation: Experience with the first human porcine kidney transplant