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Papers

(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Molecular matching tools for allocation and immunosuppression optimization. Ready for primetime?	51
Editorial: Organ Preservation Revolution: the future is revisiting the past through a different lens	26
HLA-DQ antibodies in alloimmunity, what makes them different?	25
Urine CXCL10 as a biomarker in kidney transplantation	24
Delayed graft function: current status and future directions	24
Editorial introductions	21
Overview of pregnancy in solid-organ transplantation	20
Using organ perfusion to optimize donor livers	19
The perspective for next-generation lung replacement therapies: functional whole lung generation by blastocyst complementation	18
Deceased donors with multidrug-resistant organisms: implications and future directions	18
Update on surgical management of enteroatmospheric fistulae in intestinal failure patients	17
New insights into ischemia-reperfusion injury signaling pathways in organ transplantation	16
Obesity and kidney transplantation	16
Human cytomegalovirus: a survey of end-organ diseases and diagnostic challenges in solid organ transplant recipients	16
Role of T follicular helper and T follicular regulatory cells in antibody-mediated rejection: new therapeutic targets?	14
What is needed to ensure long-term sustainability for the field of vascularized composite allotransplantation?	14
Equity in liver transplantation: are we any closer?	14
Update on combined heart and liver transplantation: evolving patient selection, improving outcomes, and outstanding questions	13
Modifying organs with gene therapy and gene modulation in the age of machine perfusion	11
Integrating risks and benefits: pretransplant assessment and patient selection for heart transplantation in adult congenital heart disease	11
The ethics of donation after circulatory death organ recovery: an overview of new considerations arising from procurement practice and policy changes	11
Respiratory viral infections including COVID-19 in solid organ transplantation	11
Establishing an upper extremity transplantation program: lessons learnt over 12 years	10
Management of the sensitized heart transplant candidate	10
Language and cultural concordance to promote equity in organ transplantation for Hispanics with limited English proficiency	10

Beyond donation to organ utilization in the UK	9
Noninvasive methods to reduce cardiac complications postheart transplant	9
The sex disparity in liver transplantation	9
Novel agents in the treatment of invasive fungal infections in solid organ transplant recipients	9
Regulatory dendritic cell therapy in organ transplantation	9
Cardiac evaluation of the liver transplant candidate	9
Future directions for xenotransplantation in lungs	8
Antispike monoclonal antibodies for prevention and treatment of coronavirus disease-2019 in solid organ transplant recipients	8
Donor-derived infections in solid organ transplant recipients	8
Ethical issues in organ procurement: donation after normothermic regional perfusion in liver transplantation	8
Machine perfusion in liver transplantation: recent advances and coming challenges	8
A review of transplant infectious diseases and pediatric transplant infectious diseases curriculum	8
Defining chronic rejection in vascularized composite allografts – do we have reliable surrogates to look for?	8
Regulatory and transitional B cells: potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets in organ transplantation	8
A cystic fibrosis patient	8
Social support and transplantation	8
Living liver donor pain management	7
Nontransplant options for portomesenteric thrombosis	7
The road to xenotransplantation	7
Lung preservation: from perfusion to temperature	7
Management of long-term cardiovascular risk factors post organ transplant: Erratum	7
Novel cell-based strategies for immunomodulation in vascularized composite allotransplantation	7
Editorial introductions	7
Grasping time – longevity of vascularized composite allografts	7
Advances in desensitization for human leukocyte antigen incompatible kidney transplantation	6
DSA in solid organ transplantation: is it a matter of specificity, amount, or functional characteristics?	6
Ethical considerations in lung re-transplantation	6
Thoraco-abdominal normothermic regional perfusion for thoracic transplantation in the United States: current state and future directions	6
The role of living donor liver transplantation in colorectal cancer liver metastases	6
Liver transplantation for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: who, when and how	6
Editorial introductions	6
Optimizing cardiac status in the preliver transplant candidate	6
Unraveling the spectrum of airway complications following lung transplantation: a comprehensive overview	6
Normothermic regional perfusion for donation after circulatory death donors	6
Editorial introductions	6
Adherence in transplantation	6
Cell-free DNA in lung transplantation: research tool or clinical workhorse?	6
Preserving and rejuvenating old organs for transplantation: novel treatments including the potential of senolytics	6
Kidney organ allocation: reducing discards	6
Pediatric intestinal rehabilitation	6
Social and biologic determinants in lung transplant allocation	6
Potential options to expand the intestinal donor pool: a comprehensive review	6
HIV in kidney transplantation	5
The history of ethical principles in liver transplant organ allocation in the United States: how historical and proposed allocations system fare in balancing utility vs. urgency and justice vs. pragma	5
Optimizing the pediatric transplant candidate	5
Controlling infections in hospitalized pretransplant candidates	5
Acute complication posttransplant: primary allograft dysfunction	5
Multidrug-resistant organisms in lung transplant: a narrative review	5
Expanding MELD exceptions for colorectal liver metastasis: data and policy	5
Normothermic regional perfusion procurement for abdominal organ donors: techniques and troubleshooting	5

Hypothermic machine perfusion for liver graft preservation	5
Autologous gastrointestinal reconstruction surgery for short bowel syndrome: the cornerstone for intestinal rehabilitation	5
Innovative surgical techniques in the intestine and multivisceral transplant	5
Editorial introduction	5
Cystic fibrosis: candidate selection and impact of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator therapy	5
Approaches and strategies to manage the hepatitis C virus-positive heart donor	5
Editorial introductions	5
Postoperative surgical complications after pediatric kidney transplantation in low weight recipients (<15 kg): a systematic review	5
The Liver Frailty Index: a model for establishing organ-specific frailty metrics across all solid organ transplantation	4
Editorial: Current opinion in organ transplantation: lung transplantation	4
Effects of the complement system on antibody formation and function: implications for transplantation	4
Use of belatacept in kidney transplantation: what's new?	4
Editorial introductions	4
Update on immunosuppressive strategies in intestinal transplantation	4
Editorial introduction	4
Viability assessment of the liver during ex-situ machine perfusion prior to transplantation	4
Multiresistant organisms: bacteria and beyond	4
Machine wars and policy provisions: how the landscape of organ procurement and allocation is changing in the United States	4
Coagulation management during liver transplantation: monitoring and decision making for hemostatic interventions	4
Transplant oncology: keeping the patient's perspective in mind	4
Editorial introduction	4
Bacterial infections in solid organ transplant recipients	4
Editorial introductions	4
Mind the gaps: reframing patient selection and organ allocation in liver transplantation	4
The current state of tolerance induction in vascularized composite allotransplantation	4
Progress towards permanent respiratory support	4
Managing pulmonary arterial hypertension: how to select and facilitate successful transplantation	3
Normothermic machine perfusion for liver transplantation: current state and future directions	3
Depression in transplantation	3
Pain management for liver transplant recipients	3
Kidney transplant program specific reporting and transplant metrics	3
Ischemia-free organ transplantation − a review	3
Stroke and kidney transplantation	3
Novel therapies for treatment of antibody-mediated rejection of the kidney	3
Current review on the role of ileostomy following intestinal transplantation	3
Improving liver transplant outcomes with transplant-omics and network biology	3
Exercise training in solid organ transplant candidates and recipients	3
Editorial introductions	3
The importance of equity in transplant oncology	3
Closing the abdomen: update on the current surgical toolkit	3
Ensuring equity in psychosocial risk assessment for solid organ transplantation: a review	3
Collaborative care models in adult congenital heart disease transplant	3
Mitochondria and ischemia reperfusion injury	2
Current opinion: advances in machine perfusion and preservation of vascularized composite allografts – will time still matter?	2
A pivot from donation alone to donation and transplantation, combined	2
Tracheal transplantation: lessons learned that may apply to lung transplantation	2
Immunotherapy for transplantation of hepatocellular carcinoma: the next frontier in adjunctive therapy	2
Editorial introductions	2
Antibody-mediated rejection: prevention, monitoring and treatment dilemmas	2
Shorter durations of antibiotic therapy in organ transplant	2
Editorial introductions	2
Molecular profiling in the management of hepatocellular carcinoma	2
Renal transplantation: the last iteration of the rest of the world	2
Utilization of hepatitis C virus-positive donors in kidney transplantation	2
Current challenges in xenotransplantation	2
Ethics of abortion in transplantation	2
Role of immunotherapy in managing cancers prior to liver transplantation	2
Treating rare tumors with liver transplantation	2
How to maximize graft survival	2
Pediatric intestine and multivisceral transplant	2
Primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation	2
Approaches to pretransplant vaccination	2
Ethical issues in solid organ transplantation: transfusion-free transplantation in Jehovah's witness patients	2
Editorial introductions	2
Editorial: Mechanistic and therapeutic advances in antibody-mediated rejection: reasons to be optimistic	2
Pushing the limits of treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma	2
Editorial introductions	2
From bench to bedside: reversing established antibody responses and desensitization	2
Beyond donation to organ utilization in the USA	2
Novel biomarkers of chronic lung allograft dysfunction: is there anything reliable?	2
Liver transplantation and portal vein tumour thrombus: futile enterprise?	2
Update on Covid-19: vaccines, timing of transplant after COVID-19 infection and use of positive donors	2
Fueling the success of transplantation through nutrition: recent insights into nutritional interventions, their interplay with gut microbiota and cellular mechanisms	2
Squaring the Circle. Brain death and organ transplantation	2