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Transplantation Journal - September Issue
Editors' Cut - Transplantation September Issue
Innovation Highlight
- A Paradigm Shift in Islet Transplantation Driven by Stem Cell Technology and Gene Modification
Charles G. Rickert, Peter G. Stock
- Harmonizing Patient Education on Immunosuppressive Therapy in Solid Organ Transplantation: A National French Initiative
Caroline Monchaud, Stéphanie Belaiche, Karine Moreau, Camille Benatre, Françoise Goirand, Dorothée Lombardo-Duron, Julia Tonini, Pauline Quillet, Emmanuelle Sampol-Manos, Fabien Lamoureux, Florent Chen-I-Chuan, Isabelle Labadens, Magali Mosnier, Cyril Breuker, Anne-Sophie Duflos, Claire Villeneuve, Aurélie Meurette, Dominique Navas, Florian Lemaitre, Laure Esposito
- Research Highlights
Michael K. Okoreeh, Xunrong Luo
Perspectives
- The Demographic Tide: How Aging and Comorbidity are Reversing Hard-won Gains in Kidney Allograft Survival
Abd A. Qannus, Venkatesh K. Ariyamuthu, Bekir Tanriover - Not all Politics is Local: Extracellular Vesicles in Acute Rejection
Zhongcheng Mei, Alexander Sasha Krupnick - Is it Time to Stop Watching the Clock in Controlled DCD Kidney Donors?
Chris J. Callaghan, Gavin J. Pettigrew - Continuing Multidisciplinary Progress is Needed to Optimally Assess Hearts Donated After Circulatory Death
Lars Saemann, Kálmán Benke, Gábor Szabó - Can Follow-up Liver Biopsies With Subsequent Protocolized Immunosuppression Intensification Reverse Long-term Rejection and Fibrosis After Pediatric Liver Transplantation?
Priya S. Rolfes, Sarah A. Taylor, Amy G. Feldman - From Preservation to Repair: Clinical and Ethical Implications of Organ Reconditioning in the era of Machine Perfusion
Giulia Cirillo, Daniele Pezzati, Davide Ghinolfi - Synergistic Ischemic Injury in DCD Kidney Transplantation: Rethinking Warm and Cold Ischemia as Interdependent Determinants of Graft Outcomes
Ali Cansu Bozaci, Alp Sener
- Advances in Beta-cell Replacement Therapy for Diabetes—Insights From the 20th International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association (IPITA) World Congress, Pisa, 2025
Joseph Sushil Rao, Jessie M. Barra, Catherine Parmentier, Ahsen Chaudhry, Daniel Doherty, Hirotake Komatsu, Hiroaki Mitsugashira, Antonio Citro, Michiel F. Nijhoff, Lorenzo Piemonti, Hanne Scholz
Reviews
- Hepato–Cardio–Renal Interactions and Transplant Implications
Abhilash Koratala, Amir Kazory - The Elusive Definition of Type 2 Diabetes in the Context of Pancreas Transplantation: Summary of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association Pre-congress Meeting
Jonathan A. Fridell, Ty B. Dunn, Richard A. Oram, Archana R. Sadhu, Mario Spaggiari, Youssef E. Dib, Jon S. Odorico - From Clinical Benefit to Economic Value: A Scoping Review of Machine Perfusion in Solid-organ Transplantation
Pauline Breuer, Esther de Bekker-Grob, Jan IJzermans, Lucas Goossens
Original Basic Science
- Treprostinil Minimizes Ischemia-reperfusion Injury of Liver After Circulatory Death Donation—Evidence Using Normothermic Machine Perfusion
Yermek Nigmet, Shambhavi Parab, Avantika Gupta, Imam H. Shaik, Parmjeet Randhawa, Abhinav Humar, Raman Venkataramanan, Christopher B. Hughes - Normothermic Machine Perfusion Preserves Endothelial Clearance, Modulates Inflammation After Prolonged Warm Ischemia in Liver Grafts
Anmar T. Numan, Nirgun Basnet, Haakon Haugaa, Joanna Konieczny, Ole-Martin Fuskevåg, Øivind Irtun, Geir I. Nedredal - The Downregulation of LKB1 in Small Extracellular Vesicles Elucidates the Downstream Mechanisms Driving Acute Lung Allograft Rejection
Mohammad Rahman, Chandrashekara P. Mahadevappa, Ashwini Arjuna, Angara Sureshbabu, Narendra Sankpal, Timothy Fleming, Michael A. Smith, Ross M. Bremner, Thalachallour Mohanakumar - A Comparative Study of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Through a Trophoblast-like Stage and Bone Marrow-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Treating Acute Xenogeneic Graft-versus-Host Disease in Humanized Mice
Zhiyong Wang, Shaoyu Cheng, Yu Chen, Yan Zhu, Yinfeng Huang, Wenyu Li, Lianshan Zhang, Yusheng Jason He, Ren-He Xu, Jing Ma
Original Clinical Science—Liver
- Generation of Regulatory Dendritic Cells From Living Donor Liver Transplant Perfusates
Rosalia Busà, Alan F. Zahorchak, Camila Macedo, Suguru Mitsufuji, Diana M. Metes, Ester Badami, Beth D. Elinoff, Fadi G. Lakkis, Abhinav Humar, Pier Giulio Conaldi, Angus W. Thomson - Follow-up Liver Biopsy as a Tool for Tailoring Immunosuppressive Treatment in Pediatric Liver Transplantation
Jesús Quintero-Bernabeu, Maria Teresa Salcedo-Allende, Javier Juamperez-Goñi, Maria Mercadal-Hally, Cristina Padrós-Fornieles, Mauricio Larrarte-King, Simone Mameli, Mar Miserachs-Barba, José Andrés Molino-Gahete, Ana Coma-Muñoz, Antonio Moreno-Galdo - Hepatic Congestion-linked Intrahepatic Biliary Strictures After Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Hyun Hwa Choi, YoungRok Choi, Jae-Yoon Kim, Jiyoung Kim, Jaewon Lee, Su Young Hong, Suk Kyun Hong, Kwang-Woong Lee - Incorporating Model for End-stage Liver Disease Trajectories into Liver Allocation
Tomohiro Tanaka, Jennifer C. Lai, David Axelrod - Portal Vein Thrombosis in Pediatric Liver Transplantation With Technical Variant Grafts: An International Multicenter Analysis of Risk and Prognostic Factors
Kaihang Wang, Omid Madadi-Sanjani, Yuan Liu, Dimitri A. Raptis, Vasanthakumar Gunasekaran, Ashwin Rammohan, Seisuke Sakamoto, Hajime Uchida, Piotr Kaliciński, Nicolas Goldaracena, Cornelius J. van Beekum, Felix J. Krendl, Itsuko Chih-Yi Chen, Bryanna N. Domenick, Alfred Kow, Yuji Soejima, Katryn N. Furuya, George V. Mazariegos, Vidyadhar Padmakar Mali, Stephen Dunn, Kim Olthoff, Elizabeth B. Rand, Ian Leipnitz, Chao-Long Chen, Deniz Balci, Elvan Onur Kirimker, Silvio Nadalin, Stefan Schneeberger, Debra L. Sudan, Moritz Schmelzle, Uta Herden, Lutz Fischer, Blayne A. Sayed, Vicky L. Ng, Grzegorz Kowalewski, Mureo Kasahara, Mohamed Rela, Dieter C. Broering, Qiang Xia, Pierre-Alain Clavien, Zhihao Li
Original Clinical Science—General
- Small but Mighty Magnet: A Minimally Invasive Revolution in the Management of Ureterostenosis After Kidney Transplantation
Jiangwei Zhang - Do Prolonged Donor Warm Ischemic Times Correlate With Kidney Transplant Outcomes? The Largest Study of Donation After Circulatory Death Donors in the United States
Olivia Y. Ong, Nicolas Munoz, Douglas E. Schaubel, Kyle R. Jackson, Ronald F. Parsons, Peter L. Abt, Elizabeth M. Sonnenberg - Declining All-cause Allograft Survival in the Modern era: A 50-y Single-center Consecutive Cohort Study
Elijah Wiebe, Robert Balshaw, Kaleb Chartier, Ian W. Gibson, Julie Ho, Jamie Shaw, Martin Karpinski, Aaron Trachtenberg, Denise Pochinco, Aviva Goldberg, Patricia Birk, Maury Pinsk, David N. Rush, Peter W. Nickerson, Chris Wiebe - Donor Warm Ischemia Time Modifies Susceptibility to Cold Ischemia in Donation After Circulatory Death Kidney Allografts Under Hypothermic Machine Perfusion
Toshihiro Nakayama, Antony Attia, Daniel J. Ahn, Yutaka Endo, Randeep S Kashyap, Roberto Hernández-Alejandro, Kazunari Sasaki, Yuki Bekki
Letters
- Donor and Recipient age in Liver Transplantation: Does Absolute age Matter More Than age Mismatch?
Jiachuan Xiong - Response to “Chronic Rejection Series: Heart Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy”
Grégoire Stolpe, Pierre Ambrosi
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Join the TTS Open Forum on Zoom - Friday, August 28 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
Global Strategy for Donation and Transplantation
TTS provided significant input into the early development of the Strategy, and this final consultation provides another important opportunity for the transplantation community to help shape this global framework.
TTS 2026 - Less than one month to go!
Register for TTS 2026 Now!
The Standard Registration deadline is extended to September 1 to allow delegates opportunity to obtain their visas. Fees will increase on September 2.
Speaker Spotlight - Dr. Sergelen Orgoi (Mongolia)
Get Ready for TTS 2026!
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Celebrate the Greatest Gift with the Transplant Community
We encourage all TTS 2026 delegates to take part in this memorable day of community, inspiration, and celebration. Congress participants can register for The Greatest Gift activities directly through the TTS 2026 registration platform.
In Memoriam - Davide Francesco D’Amico - 1936 – 2026
1936 – 2026
Tribute authored by Prof. Gabriel E. Gondolesi, TTS Vice President
Davide Francesco D’Amico, Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Padua and one of the men who brought liver transplantation to Italy, died on 17 August 2026 at the age of eighty-nine. The transplant community loses one of its authentic pioneers, and a generation of surgeons loses the teacher who shaped them.
He was born in Mazzarrà Sant’Andrea, in the province of Messina, and took his medical degree there. After an initial formation in anaesthesia and intensive care, he turned to surgery and moved to Padua, where he met Piergiuseppe Cevese. That encounter was the founding fact of his professional life. From Cevese he took the ideas he would repeat for the next fifty years — the surgical School, the transmission of knowledge, the difference between doing and knowing how to do — and the alliance between master and pupil remained alive until his last day. He carried it forward through an international training of his own, from the Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard to repeated visiting professorships in the United States and Japan. During one of his visits to Mount Sinai, I had the privilege to meet him and most of the members of his team.
In the mid-1980s he reached a conviction that was far from obvious at the time: that liver transplantation would become one of the most significant innovations in modern surgery. Intuition alone would not have been enough. What followed was method. He organised the structured importation of transplant know-how into Padua, building a durable bridge to Pittsburgh and to Thomas Starzl, travelling there repeatedly with his closest collaborators to bring back protocols, techniques, materials and the managerial know-how no publication contained. It was, in effect, a start-up method, highly original for its day, and that systematic preparation is what guaranteed the result. On 23 September 1990 he performed the first liver transplant in northeastern Italy and launched the Padua transplant centre.
He then repeated the same approach in Kyoto with Koichi Tanaka, and in 1997 performed the first living-donor liver transplant in Italy. Characteristically, he did it in front of a live television audience, during the congress of the Italian Society of Surgery in Padua, with Tanaka beside him. Thirty years later this may seem unremarkable; at the time, broadcasting a national first as it happened was a magnificent and unforgettable event. He was a communicator well before the profession had a name for it — at ease on camera, on cordial terms with journalists, and obsessive about the photographic record of every event, to the point of maintaining a dedicated iconography office for thirty-six years.
The body of work behind these milestones was substantial: thousands of operations, more than seven hundred liver transplants, over five hundred publications and numerous monographs. And a unique book entitled Le mani del chirurgo. Lo specchio di un’arte.
His academic career ran in parallel. He was Professor of General Surgery at the University of Padua from 1980 to 2009, directing in turn Emergency Surgery, the Second Surgical Clinic, and finally the First Surgical Clinic and the Liver Transplant Centre from 1992 to 2009. He directed the residency programme in General Surgery, coordinated the Development Commission of the Faculty of Medicine, and was named Professor Emeritus. A former Carabinieri officer, he held an enormous respect for academic institutions and for a university life he considered sacred.
He gave scientific societies the same seriousness and was explicit about why. He led the Italian Society of Surgery from 2000 to 2002 and was later its President Emeritus. He was President of the Italian Society of Organ Transplantation from 2006 to 2007, President of the Triveneta Surgical Society and of the Italian Society of Emergency Surgery and Trauma, and President of the Italian Chapter of the IHPBA, which he had helped build. He served as Italy’s national delegate to the International Society of Surgery and was a member of the American College of Surgeons.
Teaching, however, was the part he called the duty of the head of a school. He practised it in a way that was again ahead of its time: he sent his trainees abroad, systematically, to build bridges, open paths, and come back with a more mature view of surgery and of the world.
Those who knew him will remember the style as vividly as the achievements. The elevated, spontaneous, unstoppable eloquence. He knew the histories and genealogies of Italy’s surgical schools encyclopaedically, a knowledge built out of countless genuine friendships. He was not without his sharp edges, and his closest pupils learned to understand them, as one does with all great masters; perfection would have made the figure unreal.
What he leaves is not a void. It is a structure — of values, of conduct, of loyalty — on which the Padua school continues to build, and which has meant a great deal to Italian surgery and transplantation. Those of us in transplantation owe a particular debt to surgeons of his kind, who did the unglamorous work of importing knowledge completely and honestly so that a field could exist at all. At a personal level, I will always remember my visit to Padova, the Vesalius’ theatre, and his hospitality.
To his family, to his pupils, and to the surgical communities of Padua go our most sincere condolences.
Caro Professore, grazie.
— Prof. John Fung, TTS President
Announcement - TTS Business Meeting - Wednesday, September 23 - 12:00–12:30
TTS Business Meeting
Your Society. Your Business Meeting.
Join TTS leadership on Wednesday, September 23 for important Society updates and a look at the activities, priorities and future direction of The Transplantation Society.
Make sure the TTS Business Meeting is part of your Congress agenda.
Wednesday, September 23
12:00–12:30 •
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Beyond Borders: A Diagnostic Challenge in Transplant Tourism
Transplantation Journal Highlights
Transplantation Journal - Social Media Content
Small but Mighty Magnet: A Minimally Invasive Revolution in the Management of Ureterostenosis After Kidney Transplantation
Treprostinil Minimizes Ischemia-reperfusion Injury of Liver After Circulatory Death Donation—Evidence Using Normothermic Machine Perfusion
Transplantation Direct - Social Media Content
Ringer Lactate Versus Hybrid Isotonic/Hypotonic Saline in Delayed Graft Function in Deceased-donor Kidney Transplantation: A Real-world Protocol Change Study
The Association Between Variability in Tacrolimus Trough Levels and Posttransplant Diabetes Mellitus in Thai Kidney Transplant Patients
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International Organ Donors: Understanding Them, Protecting Them
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