Andreas Arendtsen Rostved, Helle Bruunsgaard, Carl Jorns, Bo Göran Ericzon, William Bennet, Andreas Schult, Arno Nordin, Helena Isoniemi, Carina Lund Sørensen, Allan Rasmussen
{"title":"Preformed donor-specific class II DQ antibodies are associated with graft loss after liver transplantation: A prospective multicenter study.","authors":"Andreas Arendtsen Rostved, Helle Bruunsgaard, Carl Jorns, Bo Göran Ericzon, William Bennet, Andreas Schult, Arno Nordin, Helena Isoniemi, Carina Lund Sørensen, Allan Rasmussen","doi":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.08.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.08.019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study was to assess whether preformed donor-specific human leukocyte antigen antibodies (DSAs) are associated with graft loss after liver transplantation. We conducted a prospective multicenter study at 4 liver transplant centers. Presence of preformed donor-specific antibodies was analyzed using a single-antigen bead assay and a virtual crossmatch unknown to clinicians at a central laboratory. Graft survival was assessed using Kaplan-Meier analysis and Cox regression during a 2-year follow-up. Class I DSAs were observed in 106 of 832 patients (13%) and showed no association with graft loss. Class II DSAs were detected in 131 of 831 patients (16%), and DQ in 79 (10%). Class II DQ subtype was the only independent predictor of graft loss (adjusted hazard ratio 2.0, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.1-3.6, P = .02) with a 2-year graft loss rate of 23% (95% CI: 15%-34%) compared to 10% (95% CI: 8%-12%) without class II DSAs and 7% (95% CI: 2%-20%) for DR-specific antibodies (log-rank P = .002). Mean fluorescence intensity was not independently associated with graft loss after adjustment for DQ status. Preformed class II DQ DSAs are independently associated with an increased risk of graft loss even at low mean fluorescence intensity.</p>","PeriodicalId":123,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148885738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lachlan C McMichael, Nick Cross, Kate Wyburn, Philip A Clayton, Melanie Wyld
{"title":"Regional disparities in living donor kidney transplantation: An analysis of transplant referral networks.","authors":"Lachlan C McMichael, Nick Cross, Kate Wyburn, Philip A Clayton, Melanie Wyld","doi":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.08.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.08.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the preferred standard of care for most patients with kidney failure. We sought to quantify the variation in access to living donor transplantation across referral networks for patients in Australia and New Zealand. We included adults who initiated kidney replacement therapy between 2002 and 2022. Each patient was mapped to a transplant referral network. For each network, we calculated a standardized living donor transplant ratio by comparing the observed number of living donor transplants within 12 months with the expected number. The expected number was estimated using multivariable Poisson regression with a random effect for each referral network. Overall, 53 313 patients were included. The ratio of observed to expected living donor transplants ranged from 0.36 to 2.11. Of 21 networks, 4 (19%) performed below expected. Initiating treatment at a center with direct transplant unit affiliation, nonmetropolitan residence, and timely nephrology referral were associated with increased LDKT. Access to LDKT varies substantially across transplant referral networks in Australia and New Zealand. Identifying center-level barriers and facilitators underpinning this variation will be critical to developing targeted center-based strategies to enhance living donation rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":123,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148885748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rank Order of Candidates for Heart Transplantation in France: An Explainable Machine Learning Analysis","authors":"Benoit Audry,Martin Prodel,Carine Jasseron,Christian Jacquelinet,Naissa Bacar,Pascal Leprince,Laurent Sebbag,Andre Vincentelli,Dahbia Horchi,Benoit Averland,William F. Parker,Michel Tsimaratos,Camille Legeai,Richard Dorent","doi":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Transplantation","volume":"172 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148923070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nima Nassiri,Lauren Schafrank,Jolie Shen,Erik Lum,Inderbir S. Gill
{"title":"Open Recovery Of The Vascularized Composite Bladder Allograft For Bladder Transplantation","authors":"Nima Nassiri,Lauren Schafrank,Jolie Shen,Erik Lum,Inderbir S. Gill","doi":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Transplantation","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149048952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulating cell and xeno-transplants: learning from medical device oversight","authors":"Ali B. Abbasi,Robert M. Califf","doi":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Transplantation","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148923071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shikhar Tripathi, Maho Terashita, Ivy Rosales, David K C Cooper
{"title":"Proteinuria after pig kidney xenotransplantation: A potential unifying hypothesis linking mechanical, innate, and adaptive injury pathways.","authors":"Shikhar Tripathi, Maho Terashita, Ivy Rosales, David K C Cooper","doi":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.08.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.08.015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Persistent proteinuria remains a major barrier to successful pig-to-nonhuman primate kidney xenotransplantation and may become an important issue in clinical renal xenotransplantation. However, published human renal xenotransplant reports to date have not established severe proteinuria as a consistent clinical finding, and its relevance in living human recipients should, therefore, be regarded as an important unresolved question. In pig-to-nonhuman primate models, severe proteinuria may also be accompanied by urinary loss of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, including anti-CD154, potentially compromising rejection prophylaxis. Proteinuria in this setting may occur in association with heterogeneous and overlapping patterns of immune-mediated and nonimmune-mediated injury, including rejection-associated endothelial, microvascular, and humoral lesions such as thrombotic microangiopathy, capillaritis, C4d deposition, and xenograft glomerulopathy. Hemodynamic mismatch should currently be regarded as a possible but unproven contributor rather than a dominant initiating trigger. We, therefore, propose a unifying hypothesis based on an evidence-informed, testable framework rather than a definitive causal cascade, which we hope will stimulate discussion. Clarifying the dominant mechanisms in individual cases, correlating proteinuria with biopsy findings, and prospectively monitoring urinary drug loss will be essential for developing rational preventive and therapeutic strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":123,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148872470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph M. Ladowski,Aurélie Sannier,Alexandre Loupy,Raphael P.H. Meier
{"title":"Multiomic analyses in xenotransplantation: Hypothesis generation and the path toward precision diagnostics","authors":"Joseph M. Ladowski,Aurélie Sannier,Alexandre Loupy,Raphael P.H. Meier","doi":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Transplantation","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149022480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Syed Ali Husain,Laura Zeiser,Tanveen Ishaque,Babak J. Orandi,Macey L. Levan,Jeffrey M. Stern,Jennifer D. Motter,Bonnie E. Lonze,Barbara E. Coons,Marissa K. Lipton,Philip M. Sommer,Sunjae Bae,Brendan Parent,Dorry L. Segev,Allan B. Massie,Darren E. Stewart
{"title":"Temporal Changes in the Recovery and Utilization of Kidneys Donated After Circulatory Death in the United States","authors":"Syed Ali Husain,Laura Zeiser,Tanveen Ishaque,Babak J. Orandi,Macey L. Levan,Jeffrey M. Stern,Jennifer D. Motter,Bonnie E. Lonze,Barbara E. Coons,Marissa K. Lipton,Philip M. Sommer,Sunjae Bae,Brendan Parent,Dorry L. Segev,Allan B. Massie,Darren E. Stewart","doi":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Transplantation","volume":"109 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148923073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transplant Business Best Practices: An American Society of Transplant Surgeons Business Practice Services Committee Opinion on Reimbursement, Cost Accounting, and Professional Coding in Modern Transplant Practice","authors":"Rajeev Sharma,Chris Freise,Liise Kayler,Kenneth Chavin,Ashesh Shah,Giuliano Testa,Sunil Geevargheese,Zoe Stewart Lewis,Al-Faraaz Kassam,Vincent Casingal,Nahel Elias,Joy Allen-Joseph,Kiran Dhanireddy,Tomoaki Kato","doi":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Transplantation","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149022481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Which should be the preferable clinical setting to administer Treg therapies in transplantation?","authors":"Maegan Fleming,Marc Martinez-Llordella,Giovanna Lombardi,Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo","doi":"10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2026.09.035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Transplantation","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149048963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}