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    Transplant International: Volume 33, Issue 12

    1573-1847
    December 2020
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  • Pages: 1573-1576
  • First Published: 28 November 2020

REVIEW ARTICLES

Open Access

Generation of insulin-secreting organoids: a step toward engineering and transplanting the bioartificial pancreas

Charles-Henri Wassmer,  Fanny Lebreton,  Kevin Bellofatto,  Domenico Bosco,  Thierry Berney,  Ekaterine Berishvili, 
  • Pages: 1577-1588
  • First Published: 27 August 2020

Ex vivo perfusion in lung transplantation and removal of HCV: the next level

Rafaela Vanin Pinto Ribeiro,  Aadil Ali,  Marcelo Cypel, 
  • Pages: 1589-1596
  • First Published: 05 September 2020

Organ utilization – the next hurdle in transplantation?

James Neuberger,  Chris Callaghan, 
  • Pages: 1597-1609
  • First Published: 15 September 2020

Clinical outcomes associated with computed tomography-based body composition measures in lung transplantation: a systematic review

Dmitry Rozenberg,  Camila E. Orsso,  Karan Chohan,  Ani Orchanian-Cheff,  Sahar Nourouzpour,  John Michael Nicholson,  Brenawen Elangeswaran,  Andrei Vagaon,  Lee Fidler,  Lianne G. Singer,  Sunita Mathur, 
  • Pages: 1610-1625
  • First Published: 24 September 2020

META-ANALYSIS

Donor-derived cell-free DNA as a biomarker for rejection after kidney transplantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Veerle P. W. M. Wijtvliet,  Philip Plaeke,  Steven Abrams,  Niel Hens,  Els M. Gielis,  Rachel Hellemans,  Annick Massart,  Dennis A. Hesselink,  Benedicte Y. De Winter,  Daniel Abramowicz,  Kristien J. Ledeganck, 
  • Pages: 1626-1642
  • First Published: 27 September 2020

INVITED COMMENTARIES

The rising scourge of acute renal injury after heart transplantation

Jignesh K. Patel, 
  • Pages: 1643-1644
  • First Published: 28 July 2020

The center effect in kidney transplantation

John D. Scandling, 
  • Pages: 1645-1647
  • First Published: 13 August 2020

Tacrolimus exposure and intra-patient variability in paediatric and young adult kidney transplant recipients: one size does not fit all

Agnieszka Prytuła, 
  • Pages: 1648-1649
  • First Published: 22 September 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Open Access

The impact of severe acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy on survival and renal function of heart transplant recipients – a UK cohort study

Lu Wang,  Tengyao Wang,  Sally N. Rushton,  Gareth Parry,  John H. Dark,  Neil S. Sheerin, 
  • Pages: 1650-1666
  • First Published: 16 June 2020

Patient and center characteristics associated with kidney transplant outcomes: a binational registry analysis

Htay Htay,  Elaine M. Pascoe,  Carmel M. Hawley,  Scott B. Campbell,  Jeremy Chapman,  Yeoungjee Cho,  Philip A. Clayton,  Michael G. Collins,  Ross S. Francis,  Nicole M. Isbel,  Wai H. Lim,  Samantha Putrino,  David W. Johnson, 
  • Pages: 1667-1680
  • First Published: 26 June 2020
Open Access

Association of graft survival with tacrolimus exposure and late intra-patient tacrolimus variability in pediatric and young adult renal transplant recipients—an international CTS registry analysis

Annika Gold,  Burkhard Tönshoff,  Bernd Döhler,  Caner Süsal, 
  • Pages: 1681-1692
  • First Published: 02 September 2020
Open Access

Histopathological examination of removed kidney allografts: Is it useful? A retrospective cohort study

Kim L.W. Bunthof,  Eric J. Steenbergen,  Luuk B. Hilbrands, 
  • Pages: 1693-1699
  • First Published: 27 August 2020
Open Access

Relative and absolute cancer risks among Nordic kidney transplant recipients—a population-based study

Henrik Benoni,  Sandra Eloranta,  Dag O. Dahle,  My H.S. Svensson,  Arno Nordin,  Jan Carstens,  Geir Mjøen,  Ilkka Helanterä,  Vivan Hellström,  Gunilla Enblad,  Eero Pukkala,  Søren S. Sørensen,  Marko Lempinen,  Karin E. Smedby, 
  • Pages: 1700-1710
  • First Published: 08 September 2020

Lower donated kidney volume is associated with increased risk of lower graft function and acute rejection at 1 year after living donor kidney—a retrospective study

Filipa Silva,  Jorge Malheiro,  Nicole Pestana,  Catarina Ribeiro,  Diogo Nunes-Carneiro,  Mariana Mandanelo,  Joana Tavares,  Sofia Pedroso,  Manuela Almeida,  Miguel Silva-Ramos,  Leonídeo Dias,  La Salete Martins,  António Castro Henriques, 
  • Pages: 1711-1722
  • First Published: 10 September 2020

Steep neutrophil recovery following unrelated bone marrow transplantation is a major risk factor for the development of acute graft-vs-host disease—a retrospective study

Takashi Nagayama,  Shin-ichiro Fujiwara,  Takashi Ikeda,  Shin-ichiro Kawaguchi,  Yumiko Toda,  Shoko Ito,  Shin-ichi Ochi,  Kiyomi Mashima,  Kento Umino,  Daisuke Minakata,  Hirofumi Nakano,  Ryoko Yamasaki,  Kaoru Morita,  Yasufumi Kawasaki,  Chihiro Yamamoto,  Masahiro Ashizawa,  Kaoru Hatano,  Kazuya Sato,  Iekuni Oh,  Ken Ohmine,  Kazuo Muroi,  Yoshinobu Kanda, 
  • Pages: 1723-1731
  • First Published: 16 September 2020

Donor hepatitis C antibody positivity misclassifies kidney donor profile index in non-hepatitis C-infected donors: time to revise the kidney donor profile index – a retrospective cohort study

Masahiko Yazawa,  Vasanthi Balaraman,  Makoto Tsujita,  Ambreen Azhar,  Manish Talwar,  Anshul Bhalla,  Praveen K. Potukuchi,  James D. Eason,  Csaba P. Kovesdy,  Miklos Z. Molnar, 
  • Pages: 1732-1744
  • First Published: 15 September 2020

Impact on biliary complications of donor abdominal aortic calcification among living donor liver transplantation: a retrospective study

Yuki Imaoka,  Masahiro Ohira,  Koki Sato,  Shintaro Kuroda,  Hiroyuki Tahara,  Kentaro Ide,  Tsuyoshi Kobayashi,  Yuka Tanaka,  Reo Kawano,  Hideki Ohdan, 
  • Pages: 1745-1753
  • First Published: 24 September 2020
Open Access

Pre-emptive immunosuppression using tacrolimus monotherapy does not reduce the rate of early acute rejection in renal transplantation from live donors: a comparative cohort study

Michael L. Nicholson,  Mekhola Hoff,  Philippa Leighton,  Ismail Mohamed,  Sarah A. Hosgood, 
  • Pages: 1754-1761
  • First Published: 22 September 2020
Open Access

Long-term outcome after hand and forearm transplantation – a retrospective study

Theresa Hautz,  Franka Messner,  Annemarie Weissenbacher,  Hubert Hackl,  Martin Kumnig,  Marina Ninkovic,  Valeria Berchtold,  Johanna Krapf,  Bettina G. Zelger,  Bernhard Zelger,  Dolores Wolfram,  Gerhard Pierer,  Wolfgang N. Löscher,  Robert Zimmermann,  Markus Gabl,  Rohit Arora,  Gerald Brandacher,  Raimund Margreiter,  Dietmar Öfner,  Stefan Schneeberger, 
  • Pages: 1762-1778
  • First Published: 24 September 2020

Recipient risk factors for acute cellular rejection after orthotopic liver transplant - a single-center, retrospective study

David Choi,  Mengyuan Liu,  Dharani Guttikonda,  Kelly Galen,  Grace Guzman,  Hoonbae Jeon,  Costica Aloman, 
  • Pages: 1779-1787
  • First Published: 29 September 2020

Utilization of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in DCD and DBD lung transplants: a 2-year single-center experience

Davorin Sef,  Alessandra Verzelloni Sef,  Prashant Mohite,  Ulrich Stock,  Vladimir Trkulja,  Binu Raj,  Diana Garcia Saez,  Balakrishnan Mahesh,  Fabio De Robertis,  Andre Simon, 
  • Pages: 1788-1798
  • First Published: 29 September 2020

De novo HLA Class II antibodies are associated with the development of chronic but not acute antibody-mediated rejection after liver transplantation – a retrospective study

Barbora Kovandova,  Antonij Slavcev,  Eva Honsova,  Denisa Erhartova,  Jelena Skibova,  Ondrej Viklicky,  Pavel Trunecka, 
  • Pages: 1799-1806
  • First Published: 05 October 2020

Pretransplantation splenomegaly frequently persists after liver transplantation and can manifest as hypersplenism and graft fibrosis - a retrospective study

Nguyen Hai Nam,  Kojiro Taura,  Siyuan Yao,  Toshimi Kaido,  Yusuke Uemoto,  Yusuke Kimura,  Takayuki Anazawa,  Ken Fukumitsu,  Takashi Ito,  Shintaro Yagi,  Naoko Kamo,  Koichiro Hata,  Shinji Uemoto, 
  • Pages: 1807-1820
  • First Published: 09 November 2020

LETTER TO THE EDITORS

HLA-EMMA, a tool for molecular-level HLA matching after heart transplantation

Emilio Osorio-Jaramillo,  Frans H. J. Claas,  Andreas Zuckermann,  Guenther Laufer,  Arezu Z. Aliabadi-Zuckermann, 
  • Pages: 1821-1822
  • First Published: 28 September 2020

Increased incidence of COVID-19 among liver transplant patients in Europe

Manuel Rodríguez-Perálvarez,  Magdalena Salcedo,  Jordi Colmenero,  José Antonio Pons,  On behalf the Spanish Society of Liver Transplantation (SETH) , 
  • Pages: 1823-1824
  • First Published: 02 September 2020

Reply to Rodriguez-Peralvarez et al

Wojciech G. Polak,  Constantino Fondevila,  Vincent Karam,  Rene Adam,  Luca S. Belli,  Christophe Duvoux,  for European Liver, Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA), the COVID-19 ELITA Study Group , 
  • Pages: 1825-1826
  • First Published: 09 October 2020

Autoantibodies against granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor and Nocardia infection in solid organ transplant recipients

David Lebeaux,  Julien Coussement,  Cécile Chauvet,  Marie Matignon,  Anne Scemla,  Nicolas Bouvier,  Jacques Dantal,  Albert M. Vollaard,  Herman F. Wunderink,  Eric Van Wijngaerden,  Maarten Naesens,  Nassim Kamar,  Julien De Greef,  Romain Guillemain,  Raphael Borie,  Sophie Candon, 
  • Pages: 1827-1829
  • First Published: 02 September 2020

Coronavirus disease 2019 and transplantation: tackling the challenges of SARS-CoV-2 infection in waiting list candidates

Davide Mangioni,  Daniele Dondossola,  Barbara Antonelli,  Laura Alagna,  Federica Invernizzi,  Federico Polli,  Giulia Tosetti,  Antonio Muscatello,  Andrea Gori,  Giorgio Rossi, 
  • Pages: 1830-1832
  • First Published: 16 September 2020

Primary role of radioembolization as a downstaging strategy in patients with macrovascular invasion prior to liver transplantation

Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri,  Giammauro Berardi,  Valerio Giannelli,  Giuseppe Maria Ettorre, 
  • Pages: 1833-1834
  • First Published: 15 September 2020

Hypomagnesemia and risk of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder in liver transplant recipients

Parag Mahale,  Gregory J. Mckenna,  Giovanna Saracino,  Linda Jennings,  Sam M. Mbulaiteye,  Göran B. Klintmalm,  Eric A. Engels, 
  • Pages: 1835-1836
  • First Published: 07 September 2020

COVID-19 among kidney-transplant recipients requiring hospitalization: preliminary data and outcomes from a single-center in Brazil

Lígia Camera Pierrotti,  José Otto Reusing Junior,  Maristela Pinheiro Freire,  David J. Barros Machado,  Raquel Megale Moreira,  Carlucci G. Ventura,  Marcelo Nóbrega Litvoc,  William C. Nahas,  Elias David-Neto, 
  • Pages: 1837-1842
  • First Published: 15 September 2020

Expecting the unexpected: COVID-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients within United Network for Organ Sharing Region 1

Asha Zimmerman,  Ralph Rogers,  Chen Sabrina Tan,  Martha Pavlakis,  Kenneth Bodziak,  Francesca Cardarelli,  Jean Francis,  Steven Gabardi,  Michael Germain,  Sandeep Ghai,  Hannah Gilligan,  Nitender Goyal,  Maricar Malinis,  Het Patel,  Nancy Rodig,  Nicole M. Theodoropoulos,  Edward Walshe,  Emily Wood,  Michael Chobanian, 
  • Pages: 1843-1844
  • First Published: 01 October 2020

Light at the end of the tunnel: COVID-19 lockdown has not halted liver transplantation at a high volume center in Italy

Fabio Melandro,  Davide Ghinolfi,  Emanuele Balzano,  Giovanni Tincani,  Gabriele Catalano,  Gianni Biancofiore,  Adriano Peris,  Paolo De Simone, 
  • Pages: 1845-1847
  • First Published: 08 October 2020