AJT Highlights

Host Roslyn Mannon, MD, discusses 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 her own and do not necessarily reflect those of the journal or the societies that support it.

AJT Highlights is a health podcast hosted by American Journal of Transplantation, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

American Journal of Transplantation hosts AJT Highlights, a health show with 100 episodes published.

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  Episode #107

  Inequities in Kidney Transplantation: Mexico’s Decentralized Allocation System (Desigualdades en trasplante renal: el sistema descentralizado de asignación de órganos de México)

  Oct 2, 202621 min

  Description: In this specialty podcast, Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo is joined by Dr. Marco A. Olivera-Martinez, Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, for a Spanish-language discussion of an AJT research article and its accompanying editorial examining structural disparities in deceased donor kidney transplantation in Mexico. References Structural disparities in deceased donor kidney transplantation: A nationwide analysis of Mexico’s decentralized organ distribution and allocation system Dying on the waitlist: Mexico’s kidney allocation system as a public health scandal

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  Episode #106

  AJT October 2026 Editors’ Picks

  Oct 2, 202650 min

  Description: Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo are joined by Chia-Yu Chiu to discuss the key articles of the October issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. Chia-Yu Chiu is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease at the University of Colorado. [3:09] Normothermic regional perfusion in kidney transplants with donors after controlled circulatory death: Functional benefits and safety in older recipients [12:42] Structural disparities in deceased donor kidney transplantation: A nationwide analysis of Mexico’s decentralized organ distribution and allocation system [24:14] Contribution of donor hospital characteristics to deceased donor organ recovery rates [33:20] Effectiveness of respiratory syncytial virus vaccination in solid organ transplant recipients in the United States [44:22] Donor macrophage depletion permits posttransplant tolerance induction in a murine islet transplant model

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  Episode #104

  AJT August 2026 Editors’ Picks

  Aug 1, 202646 min

  Description: Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo are joined by Alessia Giarraputo to discuss the key articles of the August issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. Alessia Giarraputo is a postdoc research fellow at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School [3:38] Donor-reactive clonotypes are overrepresented in the urinary T cell repertoire during kidney transplant rejection and show distinct dynamics in the circulation [13:57] Organ-specific differences in the epidemiology of cytomegalovirus infections in high-risk (cytomegalovirus donor seropositive, recipient seronegative) solid organ transplant recipients with prolonged follow-up: A 10-year experience [22:17] Immune checkpoint inhibitors after liver transplantation: The role of immunosuppressive management [28:34] Expert consensus on the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the liver transplant setting: Guidance from the Liver Transplant Committee of the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (AISF) [33:50] Outcomes of kidney transplants from pediatric donors with acute kidney injury

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  Episode #103

  AJT July 2026 Editors’ Picks

  Jul 1, 202644 min

  Description: Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo discuss the key articles of the July issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. [3:52] Simultaneous quantification of native human and transgenic porcine liver function in a decedent model of extracorporeal cross-circulation [12:11] Pathologic evaluation of pig kidney and heart xenografts: 2024 recommendations from the Banff Xenotransplantation Pathology Working Group [13:36] The use of a centralized normothermic preservation and assessment center to rescue kidneys declined after standard allocation [25:57] Machine perfusion modulates cold-preservation injury in kidney transplantation: IDEAL stage 4 United States population cohort study [37:05] Impaired thymic function is independently associated with an increased risk of posttransplant infections in kidney recipients

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  Episode #102

  AJT June 2026 Editors’ Picks

  Jun 15, 202625 min

  Description: Hosts Roz and Dr. Sanchez-Fueyo discuss the key articles of the June issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. [3:32] MHC Matchmaker: An in silico based algorithm to analyze cross-species NHP, pig, and human MHC compatibility on the amino acid level [11:50] Wisdom of the Crowd: Ensuring the justness and validity of group decision-making in solid organ transplant [16:39] Inhibition of cytomegalovirus reactivation by ex vivo treatment of human kidneys with the SYN002 immunotoxin [22:20] There is nothing equitable about a wasted organ; eliminating out-of-sequence allocation for 30 days decreases utilization of hard-to-place kidneys

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