AJT August 2026 Editors’ Picks

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