American Journal of Transplantation

Papers
(The TQCC of American Journal of Transplantation is 9. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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OFC 23rd Winter Symposium320
AJT Digest for Patients: Their Own Window into Key Research303
Dual Kidney Transplantation from Extended Marginal Donors in the United States: An analysis of SRTR and Literature Review281
Benefits Of Preemptive Transplantation In Older Patients with High KDPI Kidneys: Is Sooner Better Than Later?276
Are we closer to abandoning protocol graft biopsies after pediatric liver transplantation?210
Optimization of donor flow matching and portal modulation to decrease small for size syndrome in Living Donor Liver Transplant - A Single Center American Experience205
Deceased Kidney Donors on Dialysis Create Opportunities for Renal Transplantation: A Single Center Experience198
Outcomes By Epstein-Barr Virus Serostatus In Pediatric Kidney Transplantation187
Induction of fetomaternal tolerance? Suppressing B cells!142
Hereditary thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura acquired through liver transplantation: A case report132
De novo membranous nephropathy in a pig-to-baboon kidney xenograft: A new xenograft glomerulopathy130
Pediatric cardiac xenotransplantation and stakeholder engagement129
Increasing Azole-resistant environmental Aspergillus fumigatus in Denmark119
Phage-display immunoprecipitation for precision mapping the autoreactome117
Will the flu vaccine work this year?115
Weak antibody response to three doses of mRNA vaccine in kidney transplant recipients treated with belatacept114
Efficiency of a boost with a third dose of anti-SARS-CoV-2 messenger RNA-based vaccines in solid organ transplant recipients114
Effects of in vivo CXCR4 blockade and proteasome inhibition on bone marrow plasma cells in HLA-sensitized kidney transplant candidates112
OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report: COVID-19110
New metrics to measure OPO performance are here: How do we ensure organizations receive feedback and improve organ donation?109
Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus inflammatory cytokine syndrome—a severe complication of an overlooked donor-derived infection105
Accurate eplet identification is necessary for accurate risk assessment104
Rituximab for recurrence of primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis after kidney transplantation: Results of a nationwide study100
Short- and long-term complications after living donor ileal resection94
Alloantibodies after simultaneous liver-kidney transplant: A story of primary nonfunction, retransplantation, and antibody-mediated rejection94
Rethinking Lactate’s Role as a Post-Transplant Outcome Predictor During Normothermic Machine Perfusion: Science or Speculation?93
Atezolizumab plus bevacizumab as a downstaging therapy for liver transplantation in hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein thrombosis: The first report91
Disulfide-HMGB1 signals through TLR4 and TLR9 to induce inflammatory macrophages capable of innate-adaptive crosstalk in human liver transplantation83
International multicenter study of ultralow graft-to-recipient weight ratio grafts in adult living donor liver transplantation82
Short-course early outpatient remdesivir prevents severe disease due to COVID-19 in organ transplant recipients during the omicron BA.2 wave79
Epidemiology and outcomes of bone and joint infections in solid organ transplant recipients76
DCDD heart transplantation with thoraco-abdominal normothermic regional perfusion and static cold storage: The experience in Spain75
Eculizumab as a therapeutic approach for severe crescentic recurrence of immunoglobulin A nephropathy after kidney transplantation74
Navigating challenges in recipient selection for end-chain kidneys74
First case of rapidly fatal mpox from secondary (household) transmission in a kidney transplant recipient68
Adjunctive glucocorticoid therapy for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in solid organ transplant recipients: A multicenter cohort, 2015-202068
Comparative outcomes for over 100 deceased donor kidney transplants from SARS-CoV-2 positive donors: A single-center experience68
Polymicrobial bacteremia in a heart transplant recipient: More than what meets the eye68
Pure laparoscopic donor hepatectomy: Experience of 556 cases at Seoul National University Hospital67
Impact of interleukin-6 on T cells in kidney transplant recipients67
Development of a natural language processing algorithm to extract social determinants of health from clinician notes66
Long-term outcomes after normothermic machine perfusion in liver transplantation—Experience at a single North American center66
The benefit to waitlist patients in a national paired kidney exchange program: Exploring characteristics of chain end living donor transplants65
Disparities in liver transplantation: One size may not fit all65
Dynamic impact of liver allocation policy change on donor utilization65
SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing for transplant recipients: A tool to personalize protection versus COVID-1965
Validation of a novel donor lung scoring system based on the updated lung Composite Allocation Score64
Outside Front Cover63
An ethical analysis of conditional and partially directed live kidney donation among strangers—The Israeli experience63
Rejection and graft vasculopathy secondary to effects of Crohn's disease in a heart-transplanted child62
OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report: Lung62
Generating strategies for a national comeback in pancreas transplantation: A Delphi survey and US conference report62
The role of interleukin-21 in COVID-19 vaccine–induced B cell–mediated immune responses in patients with kidney disease and kidney transplant recipients61
Recurrence of membranous nephropathy after kidney transplantation: A multicenter retrospective cohort study60
Corrigendum to ‘Partial Bladder Transplantation with En Bloc Kidney Transplant—The First Case Report of a ‘Bladder Patch Technique’ in a Human’ [American Journal of Transplantation 8 (2008) 1060-1063]58
A plan to save lives: Hong Kong–mainland China second-tier mutual assistance allocation57
Increasing liver organ acquisition fees and the risk of a tragedy of the commons56
Anatomical variations of left hepatic vein and outflow reconstruction techniques in pediatric living donor liver transplantation55
Prevention of Mollicute transmitted infections from donor lungs after lung transplant55
Sex disparity in liver allocation within Eurotransplant54
Negative immune responses to two-dose mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in renal allograft recipients assessed with simple antibody and interferon gamma release assay cellular monitoring54
Specific human leucocyte antigen-DQ risk epitope mismatches are associated with chronic lung allograft dysfunction after lung transplantation54
Effectiveness of a culturally competent care intervention in reducing disparities in Hispanic live donor kidney transplantation: A hybrid trial54
Donor programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 is required for organ transplant tolerance in major histocompatibility complex-mismatched mixed chimeras although programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 and major hist52
Utilizing pathophysiological concepts of ischemia-reperfusion injury to design renoprotective strategies and therapeutic interventions for normothermic ex vivo kidney perfusion51
Robotic kidney transplantation from deceased donors: A single-center experience51
Changes in influenza and other respiratory virus activity during the COVID-19 pandemic—United States, 2020–202151
Down to the coronary arteries: When spatial multiomics open up a narrow path50
Spatial multiomics of arterial regions from cardiac allograft vasculopathy rejected grafts reveal novel insights into the pathogenesis of chronic antibody-mediated rejection50
Letter in reference to “Economic evaluation of weight loss and transplantation strategies for kidney transplant candidates with obesity”49
Geographic disparities in access to liver transplant for advanced cirrhosis: Time to ring the alarm!49
ATC 2024 Poster Abstracts48
The dangerous precedent of censoring scientific dissemination48
One Man In His Time Plays Many Parts: Transplant Surgeons’ Approach to Evolution of Career Identity47
DCD Liver Transplantation- Contemporary US Experience with NRP and NMP47
Poor Post-Transplantation Renal Function Negatively Impacts Survival of Liver Transplant Recipients Despite SLK and Safety Net Kidney Transplantation46
Rhabdomyolysis Following Living Donor Kidney Donation - an Underreported Entity?46
Characterizing Renal Function Predictors and Outcomes in Liver Transplant Recipients Who Have Preoperative Renal Dysfunction46
Variability in post-transplant outcomes reported by studies examining perfusion techniques in liver transplantation: a qualitative systematic review45
Intranasal therapy of IGFBP2 ameliorates lung fibrosis45
Cell-free DNA method for monitoring porcine-to-human xenotransplants44
Integrating frailty into clinical care43
Controlled Hypothermic Preservation of Donor Livers with Back- to-Base Normothermic Machine Perfusion Improves Clinical Outcomes and Facilitates Donor Pool Expansion43
Sowing “seeds of trust”: How trust in normothermic regional perfusion is built in a continuum of care42
First report of auxiliary liver transplantation for severe cholangiopathy after SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection40
SARS-CoV-2 vaccine effectiveness trumps immunogenicity in solid organ transplant recipients40
The impact of machine perfusion of the heart on warm ischemia time and organ yield in donation after circulatory death40
MELD-based allocation at 20: Can we evolve and mature?40
Unexpected incidental finding in a prospective living kidney donor39
The effect of cholecalciferol supplementation on allograft function in incident kidney transplant recipients: A randomized controlled study39
“Horses for courses” computed tomography or predicted total lung capacity for size matching in lung transplantation39
Novel modified iliac artery stent graft with side branch extension facilitating kidney transplant in severe aortoiliac occlusive disease39
Second field high-resolution HLA typing for immunologic risk stratification in kidney transplantation39
Incomplete tissue product tracing during an investigation of a tissue-derived tuberculosis outbreak39
Utilization and outcomes of deceased donor SARS-CoV-2–positive organs for solid organ transplantation in the United States39
Immunosuppressive therapy after solid organ transplantation and the gut microbiota: Bidirectional interactions with clinical consequences38
“Time is tissue”—A minireview on the importance of donor nephrectomy, donor hepatectomy, and implantation times in kidney and liver transplantation38
OPTN/SRTR 2023 Annual Data Report: Kidney38
Efficacy of ceftazidime-avibactam in solid organ transplant recipients with bloodstream infections caused by carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae38
The short end of the stick: Access to lung transplantation for short-statured patients in the composite allocation score era37
Back-table intra-arterial administration of C1 esterase inhibitor to deceased donor kidney allografts improves posttransplant allograft function: Results of a randomized double-blind placebo-controlle37
Normothermic ex situ pancreas perfusion for the preservation of porcine pancreas grafts36
Oxidative stress and related metabolic alterations are induced in ex situ perfusion of donated hearts regardless of the ventricular load or leukocyte depletion36
10 degree C static storage of porcine donation after circulatory death livers improves biliary viability and mitigates ischemia-reperfusion injury36
OPTN/SRTR 2023 Annual Data Report: Lung36
Characterizing proximity and transfers of deceased organ donors to donor care units in the United States36
Regarding normothermic regional perfusion: Arguing by insistence is not a strong argument35
Donor utilization in heart transplant with donation after circulatory death in the United States35
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Body composition and the skeletal muscle compartment in liver transplantation: Turning challenges into opportunities34
Stem cell–derived islets take a leap toward patients34
Reply to Letter in reference to Kidney graft directly implanted on endovascular stent in external iliac artery: a preliminary experience34
The 21st Century Cures Act and psychosocial electronic documentation in solid organ transplantation: Potential harms and practical strategies34
Adjusting for race in metrics of organ procurement organization performance34
CDC guidance on new pentavalent meningococcal vaccine34
Protecting kidney transplant recipients against SARS-CoV-2 infection: A third dose of vaccine is necessary now33
Targeting CXCR1/2 in the first multicenter, double-blinded, randomized trial in autologous islet transplant recipients33
Low-dose interleukin-2 promotes immune regulation in face transplantation: A pilot study33
Macrophage-inducible C-type lectin activates B cells to promote T cell reconstitution in heart allograft recipients33
Treating comorbidity in solid organ transplant recipients as a confounder or a mediator of patient outcomes33
Facial skin lesions and diarrhea in a kidney transplant recipient32
Utilizing kidneys from a donor with bile-cast nephropathy32
Oropouche virus disease—region of the Americas32
Pancreas transplantation as rescue therapy in a patient with type 1 diabetes and concurrent subcutaneous insulin resistance32
A 46-year-old male with posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder and massive hemoptysis following second bilateral lung transplantation32
Prognostic implications of lung cancers incidentally identified on explant: A joint study of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients and the National Cancer Database32
Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in fully vaccinated solid organ transplant recipients32
Balancing the live virus vaccine scales: Protection vs risk32
Trained immunity: Can we get one transplanted kidney to last a lifetime?32
Continuous donor-recipient age matching: A chance for kidney allocation in the Eurotransplant region32
Dual JAK2/Aurora kinase A inhibition prevents human skin graft rejection by allo-inactivation and ILC2-mediated tissue repair31
POST-TRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS 2nd Edition Dharnidharka Vikas R, Green Michael, Webber Steven A, Ulrich Trappe Ralf (ed.), Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2021, XIII, 3131
The current state of transplant advanced practice providers: results of the advanced practice provider practice survey31
OPTN/SRTR 2022 Annual Data Report: COVID-1931
Transplant oncology in locally advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: One more step on a long road31
Keep the engine running: Maintaining transplant registry utility in liver transplant30
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a lung transplant recipient30
Outside Front Cover30
The impact of visitation volunteers on the mood, valence, and arousal of liver and kidney transplant patients29
CD47 and PD-L1 overexpression in proliferating human hepatocytes attenuated immune responses and ameliorated acute liver injury in mice29
Circadian clocks drive rhythmic antitumor immune responses mediated by migratory dendritic cells29
AWAKE Program with rapid discharge in Kidney Transplantation29
The Role of Race and Socioeconomic Status in Live Donor Kidney Transplant Interest and Evaluation29
Impact of the new UNOS donor heart allocation system on waitlist outcomes and early posttransplant mortality among adults with congenital heart disease29
What Can We Learn from analyzing Paired Mate Kidneys Transplanted at the Same Center?29
Outcomes of Single Pediatric Kidney Grafts29
Front Page29
Generalizability of kidney transplant data in electronic health records — The Epic Cosmos database vs the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients29
Total pancreatectomy with islet cell autotransplantation in a 2-year-old child with hereditary pancreatitis due to a PRSS1 mutation28
In a real-life setting, risk factors, coronary artery calcium score, and coronary stenosis at computed tomography angiography are associated with major adverse cardiovascular events and all-cause mort28
Transplantation, HIV Serostatus, and Registry Data: Room for Improvement28
Letter in reference to “Neoadjuvant Pemigatinib as a Bridge to Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 Rearrangement”28
Characteristics and Outcomes Among Adults Aged ≥60 Years Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed Respiratory Syncytial Virus — RSV-NET, 12 States, July 2022–June 202328
Hemophagocytic syndrome with graft-versus-host disease after liver transplantation: The bone marrow as a not so quiet battlefield?28
Subphenotypes of frailty in lung transplant candidates28
Clear data, careful counseling: Discussing cancer risk after living kidney donation28
OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report: Deceased Organ Donation27
Letermovir in lung transplant recipients with cytomegalovirus infection: A retrospective observational study27
Molecular diagnosis of antibody-mediated rejection: Evaluating biopsy-based transcript diagnostics in the presence of donor-specific antibodies but without microvascular inflammation, a single-center 27
TIGIT agonism alleviates costimulation blockade-resistant rejection in a regulatory T cell–dependent manner27
Liver transplantation for acute liver failure and acute-on-chronic liver failure27
Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning in Predicting Primary Graft Dysfunction Post-Lung Transplantation26
Impact of kidney function on 200 days of antiviral prophylaxis for cytomegalovirus disease in CMV-seronegative recipients of CMV-seropositive donor kidneys Post hoc analysis of a randomized, phase 3 t26
Motivations and outcomes of compatible living donor–recipient pairs in paired exchange26
The landscape of hepatitis C virus infection in pediatric kidney transplantation26
Effects of broader geographic distribution of donor lungs on travel mode and estimated costs of organ procurement26
Letter to the Editor: Modernization Without Transparency: Our Decision to Resign from the OPTN Board26
OPTN/SRTR 2020 Annual Data Report: Lung25
Impact of Normothermic Machine Perfusion on Liver Transplant Waitlist Times: A Single-Center Matched Cohort25
Importance of malnutrition and frailty in kidney transplant waiting list25
The living organ donor as patient: Theory and practice25
Bioengineered Organs: Not a Matter of “If”25
Outcomes in Patients with Incidental Intra-hepatic Cholangiocarcinoma on Explant Pathology after Liver Transplantation25
Managing Bile Duct and Vascular Variations in Robotic Assisted Living Donor Right Hepatectomy: A Single Center U.S. Experience25
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The thymus hosts liver- and gut-like mimetic cells critical to immune self-tolerance25
The Comparison of Cellular and Acellular Perfusate for the Dynamic Organ Storage System in a Porcine Donation After Circulatory Death Model25
The individual impact of machine perfusion on liver and kidney in simultaneous liver and kidney transplantation25
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Deceased donor urinary Dickkopf-3 associates with future allograft function following kidney transplantation24
OPTN/SRTR 2023 Annual Data Report: Intestine24
When is it safe to transplant after cancer–adding data to the decision24
Donor-specific immune senescence as a candidate biomarker of operational tolerance following liver transplantation in adults: Results of a prospective, multicenter cohort study24
Mortality among solid organ transplant recipients with a pretransplant cancer diagnosis24
The role of IL-6 in hyperlipidemia-induced accelerated rejection24
Severe relapse of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a kidney transplant recipient with negative nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR after rituximab24
The concept of immunothrombosis in pancreas transplantation24
Graft function and incidence of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in donation after circulatory-determined death heart transplant recipients23
Iron deficiency, anemia, and patient-reported outcomes in kidney transplant recipients23
Preformed T cell alloimmunity and HLA eplet mismatch to guide immunosuppression minimization with tacrolimus monotherapy in kidney transplantation: Results of the CELLIMIN trial23
From flawed to fairer: Reducing blood type bias in lung transplant allocation23
Surgical site infections after kidney transplantation are independently associated with graft loss23
Evaluation for genetic disease in kidney transplant candidates: A practice resource23
Tongue ulcer in a pediatric heart transplant recipient23
Belatacept-related cytomegalovirus infection: Advocacy for tailored immunosuppression based on individual assessment of immune fitness23
A rational approach to guide cost-effective de novo donor-specific antibody surveillance with tacrolimus immunosuppression23
White paper on antimicrobial stewardship in solid organ transplant recipients23
Correcting the sex disparity in MELD-Na23
Diagnosis and treatment of allograft rejection in islet transplantation23
Humoral immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 in transplantation: Actionable biomarker or misplaced trust?23
Augmenter of liver regeneration-mediated mitophagy protects against hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury22
Gene expression–based molecular scoring of pancreas transplant rejection for a quantitative assessment of rejection severity and resistance to treatment22
OPTN/SRTR 2022 Annual Data Report: Heart22
Graft-resident donor macrophages functionally regulate transplant outcomes22
Transplantation pushes into the world of elite sports22
A third dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine increases neutralizing antibodies against variants of concern in solid organ transplant recipients22
The molecular phenotypes of injury, steatohepatitis, and fibrosis in liver transplant biopsies in the INTERLIVER study22
Solid organ transplant recipients with tuberculosis disease in California, 2010 to 202022
American Journal of Transplantation: Volume 22, Number 2, February 202222
Unexpected hepatitis B virus infection after liver transplantation — United States, 2014–201922
The role of bypass filters in deceased donor kidney allocation in the United States22
Sensitization in Transplantation Assessment of Risk 2025 innate working group: The potential role of innate allorecognition in kidney allograft damage22
American Journal of Transplantation: Volume 21, Number 10, October 202122
ATC 2023 DAAG_Program22
Preemptive treatment of de novo donor-specific antibodies in lung transplant patients reduces subsequent risk of chronic lung allograft dysfunction or death21
OPTN/SRTR 2022 Annual Data Report: Pancreas21
Corrigendum to ‘Criteria for prediabetes and posttransplant diabetes mellitus after kidney transplantation: A 2-year diagnostic accuracy study of participants from a randomized controlled trial’ [Amer21
Therapeutic Hypothermia vs Normothermia in Kidney Transplantation: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials21
T Cell repopulation after using rATG in a Decedent Xenotransplant Study21
Machine learning–based mortality prediction models using national liver transplantation registries are feasible but have limited utility across countries21
OPTN/SRTR 2022 Annual Data Report: Deceased Organ Donation21
Macrophage-specific hypoxia inducible factor 2α expression promotes cardiac allograft tolerance21
Characteristics and Outcomes of Kidneys Accepted versus Turned Down by Regional Centers21
Corrigendum to ‘Assessment of long-term outcomes post living liver donation highlights the importance of scientific integrity when presenting transplant registry data’ [American Journal of Transplanta21
Intragraft B cell differentiation during the development of tolerance to kidney allografts is associated with a regulatory B cell signature revealed by single cell transcriptomics21
Banff 2022 Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Meeting Report: Diagnostic criteria for vascular changes21
Measuring success in pig to non-human-primate renal xenotransplantation: Systematic review and comparative outcomes analysis of 1051 life-sustaining NHP renal allo- and xeno-transplants21
Expedited lung allocation in the era of continuous distribution21
Book review20
BK DNAemia and native kidney polyomavirus nephropathy following lung transplantation20
Repeat SARS-CoV-2 testing after recovery. Is a pretransplant PCR necessary?20
Liver Transplantation for Fulminant Hepatic Failure in a Young Woman20
Orthotopic robot-assisted laparoscopic kidney transplantation with living donor: An option for patients excluded from standard heterotopic transplantation20
Preemptive intravenous human immunoglobulin G suppresses BK polyomavirus replication and spread of infection in vitro20
Multivisceral transplantation utilizing hepatitis C virus–viremic donors for hepatitis C virus–negative recipients20
Graft-versus-host disease after liver transplantation is associated with bone marrow failure, hemophagocytosis, and DNMT3A mutations20
OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report: Introduction20
West Nile Virus and Other Nationally Notifiable Arboviral Diseases — United States, 202320
OPTN/SRTR 2022 Annual Data Report: Intestine20
Wanted: An endothelial cell targeting atlas for nanotherapeutic delivery in allograft organs19
Response to “Public attitude to imminent death donation”19
Hepatitis C–associated focal proliferative glomerulonephritis in an aviremic recipient of a hepatitis C–positive antibody donor liver19
The impact of islet mass, number of transplants, and time between transplants on graft function in a national islet transplant program19
Caregiver COVID-19 vaccination for solid organ transplant candidates19
Chimeric autoantibody-receptor T cells mediate depletion of autoantibody-producing B cells19
Recipient sex and estradiol levels affect transplant outcomes in an age-specific fashion19
Time to reconsider the role of donor hepatitis C status in the Kidney Donor Risk Index19
Multiple liver lesions in a lung transplant recipient19
Normothermic Machine Perfusion Facilitates Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplant In High-Risk Recipients19
Association of organ procurement organization volume with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services performance evaluations19
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