Transplantation

03/07/2025

to this week's featured top downloaded paper from 2022: Patient Survival After Kidney Transplantation: Important Role of Graft-sustaining Factors as Determined by Predictive Modeling Using Random Survival Forest Analysis tinyurl.com/2c5sukyr

02/07/2025

Check out this study using machine learning on 539 cDCD-NRP liver transplants—logistic regression predicted 3- & 12-mo graft survival with AUCs of 0.82 & 0.83. A new risk score may support liver allocation tinyurl.com/y9mh6cnh

30/06/2025

For comprehensive, evidence-based recommendations about CMV in SOT, check the Fourth International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Cytomegalovirus in Solid Organ Transplantation. tinyurl.com/2sannuj2

26/06/2025

This week's featured top downloaded paper from 2022: What Is Hot and New in Basic and Translational Science in Liver Transplantation in 2020–2021?—Report of the Basic and Translational Research Committee of the International Liver Transplantation Society tinyurl.com/mwabvh2s

25/06/2025

New insights into cold ischemia–reperfusion injury after heart transplant: Lysine β-hydroxybutyrylation (Kbhb)–modified proteins are altered post-I/R and enriched in pathways tied to contraction and metabolism. tinyurl.com/3ynn535h

23/06/2025

Understanding Organ Offer Refusals Is Key to Predicting Kidney Utilization. Data from OPTN (2022–2023). tinyurl.com/38v6adcc

19/06/2025

to this week's featured top downloaded paper from 2022: COVID-19 Outcomes Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Case-control Study

tudy, we compared the outcomes of COVID-19 between SOT recipients and their matched nontransplant controls. The cases were all adult SOT recipients (N = 41) from our academic health center who were diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 10, 2020 and May 15, 2020 using positive reverse transcriptase p...

18/06/2025

Minimally invasive donor hepatectomy (PLDH & RADH) outperforms open surgery with less blood loss, shorter hospital stays, and fewer minor complications in major liver grafts. Meta-analysis of 37 studies confirms the benefits of this surgical innovation https://tinyurl.com/y47y9zfw

16/06/2025

Hepatic cold ischemia/reperfusion injury limits transplant outcomes. The rCHI3L1 promotes M2 polarization of Kupffer cells via the JAK1/STAT3 pathway, reducing inflammation and liver damage. A promising strategy to tackle IRI. tinyurl.com/5hksfeyt

12/06/2025

to this week's featured top downloaded paper from 2022:Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Working Group Report from the ILTS Transplant Oncology Consensus Conference

survival (ie, transplant benefit), organ availability, and waitlist composition. These criteria may be expanded for live donor LT (LDLT) compared to deceased donor LT though this should not adversely affect the double equipoise in LDLT, namely ensuring both acceptable recipient outcomes and donor sa...

11/06/2025

New systematic review: What do adults on the kidney transplant waitlist think about extended criteria and increased viral risk donor offers? tinyurl.com/3rxxmyk5

09/06/2025

One of our most downloaded papers! Don’t miss this standout read: Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion Before Transplantation of the Kidney (NEXT-Kidney): A Single-center, Nonrandomized Feasibility Study — a must read . tinyurl.com/4cve7ypw