AJT October 2024 Editors’ Picks

Hosts Roz and Josh are joined by Frances Lee, MD to discuss the key articles of the October issue of American Journal of Transplantation.   [00:02:31] Pre-transplant Use of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Multicenter, Retrospective Cohort Study Editorial: Integrating immune check inhibitors in liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: The right time and the right patient [00:11:46] Association of Procurement Technique with Organ Yield and Cost Following Donation After Circulatory Death Editorial: Dawn Has Arrived, Illuminating Thrilling Opportunities and Fresh Challenges in a New Era of U.S. Transplantation [00:24:53] Common Definitions and Variables are Needed for the United States to Join the Conversation on Acute on Chronic Liver Failure [00:33:15] Enhanced role of multipair donor swaps in response to size incompatibility: The first two 5-way and the first 6-way liver paired exchanges [00:40:15] Comparing the prognostic performance of iBOX and biopsy-proven acute rejection for long-term kidney graft survival [00:48:22] Incomplete reporting of clinically significant acute rejection episodes in the National Kidney Transplant Registry