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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Delayed graft function: current status and future directions	71
Molecular matching tools for allocation and immunosuppression optimization. Ready for primetime?	46
Editorial: Organ Preservation Revolution: the future is revisiting the past through a different lens	25
Immunosuppression after uterus transplantation	22
HLA-DQ antibodies in alloimmunity, what makes them different?	22
The perspective for next-generation lung replacement therapies: functional whole lung generation by blastocyst complementation	21
Deceased donors with multidrug-resistant organisms: implications and future directions	20
Overview of pregnancy in solid-organ transplantation	19
Editorial introductions	19
Using organ perfusion to optimize donor livers	17
Update on surgical management of enteroatmospheric fistulae in intestinal failure patients	16
Urine CXCL10 as a biomarker in kidney transplantation	15
Obesity and kidney transplantation	14
Editorial introductions	13
What is needed to ensure long-term sustainability for the field of vascularized composite allotransplantation?	13
New insights into ischemia-reperfusion injury signaling pathways in organ transplantation	13
Equity in liver transplantation: are we any closer?	12
Modifying organs with gene therapy and gene modulation in the age of machine perfusion	12
Human cytomegalovirus: a survey of end-organ diseases and diagnostic challenges in solid organ transplant recipients	12
The ethics of donation after circulatory death organ recovery: an overview of new considerations arising from procurement practice and policy changes	11
Role of T follicular helper and T follicular regulatory cells in antibody-mediated rejection: new therapeutic targets?	11
Update on combined heart and liver transplantation: evolving patient selection, improving outcomes, and outstanding questions	11
Establishing an upper extremity transplantation program: lessons learnt over 12 years	10
Integrating risks and benefits: pretransplant assessment and patient selection for heart transplantation in adult congenital heart disease	10
Respiratory viral infections including COVID-19 in solid organ transplantation	9

Language and cultural concordance to promote equity in organ transplantation for Hispanics with limited English proficiency	9
Management of the sensitized heart transplant candidate	9
Uterus transplantation: the importance of uterine natural killer cells	8
Regulatory dendritic cell therapy in organ transplantation	8
Regulatory and transitional B cells: potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets in organ transplantation	8
Noninvasive methods to reduce cardiac complications postheart transplant	8
The sex disparity in liver transplantation	8
A cystic fibrosis patient	8
Beyond donation to organ utilization in the UK	8
Novel agents in the treatment of invasive fungal infections in solid organ transplant recipients	8
Cardiac evaluation of the liver transplant candidate	8
A review of transplant infectious diseases and pediatric transplant infectious diseases curriculum	7
Chronic rejection as a persisting phantom menace in organ transplantation: a new hope in the microbiota?	7
Ethical issues in organ procurement: donation after normothermic regional perfusion in liver transplantation	7
Social support and transplantation	7
Donor-derived infections in solid organ transplant recipients	7
Editorial: Uterus transplantation: the only curative treatment for absolute uterine factor infertility is moving forward	7
Future directions for xenotransplantation in lungs	7
The road to xenotransplantation	7
Machine perfusion in liver transplantation: recent advances and coming challenges	7
Antispike monoclonal antibodies for prevention and treatment of coronavirus disease-2019 in solid organ transplant recipients	7
Microbiota in heart and lung transplantation: implications for innate-adaptive immune interface	7
Are split liver grafts a suitable option in high-risk liver transplant recipients?	7
Defining chronic rejection in vascularized composite allografts – do we have reliable surrogates to look for?	7
New insights into the microbiome in kidney transplantation	6
Unraveling the spectrum of airway complications following lung transplantation: a comprehensive overview	6
The role of living donor liver transplantation in colorectal cancer liver metastases	6
Lung preservation: from perfusion to temperature	6
Novel cell-based strategies for immunomodulation in vascularized composite allotransplantation	6
Normothermic regional perfusion for donation after circulatory death donors	6
Social and biologic determinants in lung transplant allocation	6
Ethical considerations in lung re-transplantation	6
Living liver donor pain management	6
Editorial introductions	6
Grasping time – longevity of vascularized composite allografts	6
Thoraco-abdominal normothermic regional perfusion for thoracic transplantation in the United States: current state and future directions	6
Pediatric intestinal rehabilitation	6
Management of long-term cardiovascular risk factors post organ transplant: Erratum	6
Nontransplant options for portomesenteric thrombosis	6
DSA in solid organ transplantation: is it a matter of specificity, amount, or functional characteristics?	5
Potential options to expand the intestinal donor pool: a comprehensive review	5
Editorial introductions	5
Robotic live donor hysterectomy	5
Uterus transplantation – donor and recipient work-up	5
Adherence in transplantation	5
Expanding MELD exceptions for colorectal liver metastasis: data and policy	5
Optimizing cardiac status in the preliver transplant candidate	5
The impact of the gut microbiome on liver transplantation	5
Liver transplantation for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: who, when and how	5
Advances in desensitization for human leukocyte antigen incompatible kidney transplantation	5

Ethical considerations in access to heart transplant for adults with congenital heart disease	5
HIV in kidney transplantation	5
Preserving and rejuvenating old organs for transplantation: novel treatments including the potential of senolytics	5
Kidney organ allocation: reducing discards	5
Cell-free DNA in lung transplantation: research tool or clinical workhorse?	5
Editorial introductions	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
Multidrug-resistant organisms in lung transplant: a narrative review	5
Editorial introduction	5
Coagulation management during liver transplantation: monitoring and decision making for hemostatic interventions	4
Uterus transplantation: ethical considerations	4
Controlling infections in hospitalized pretransplant candidates	4
Editorial introductions	4
Optimizing the pediatric transplant candidate	4
Bacterial infections in solid organ transplant recipients	4
Machine wars and policy provisions: how the landscape of organ procurement and allocation is changing in the United States	4
Mind the gaps: reframing patient selection and organ allocation in liver transplantation	4
Viability assessment of the liver during ex-situ machine perfusion prior to transplantation	4
Hypothermic machine perfusion for liver graft preservation	4
Approaches and strategies to manage the hepatitis C virus-positive heart donor	4
Autologous gastrointestinal reconstruction surgery for short bowel syndrome: the cornerstone for intestinal rehabilitation	4
Acute complication posttransplant: primary allograft dysfunction	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
Postoperative surgical complications after pediatric kidney transplantation in low weight recipients (<15 kg): a systematic review	4
Innovative surgical techniques in the intestine and multivisceral transplant	4
Cystic fibrosis: candidate selection and impact of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator therapy	4
Normothermic regional perfusion procurement for abdominal organ donors: techniques and troubleshooting	4
The human microbiome in transplantation: the past, present, and future	4
Editorial introductions	4
Novel therapies for treatment of antibody-mediated rejection of the kidney	3
The current state of tolerance induction in vascularized composite allotransplantation	3
Editorial introduction	3
Editorial introduction	3
Managing pulmonary arterial hypertension: how to select and facilitate successful transplantation	3
Current review on the role of ileostomy following intestinal transplantation	3
Editorial: Current opinion in organ transplantation: lung transplantation	3
Transplant oncology: keeping the patient's perspective in mind	3
Update on immunosuppressive strategies in intestinal transplantation	3
The Liver Frailty Index: a model for establishing organ-specific frailty metrics across all solid organ transplantation	3
Ischemia-free organ transplantation − a review	3
The importance of equity in transplant oncology	3
Editorial introductions	3
Progress towards permanent respiratory support	3
Editorial introductions	3
Multiresistant organisms: bacteria and beyond	3
Stroke and kidney transplantation	3
Depression in transplantation	2
Utilization of hepatitis C virus-positive donors in kidney transplantation	2
Editorial introductions	2
Editorial introductions	2
How to maximize graft survival	2
Renal transplantation: the last iteration of the rest of the world	2
Update on Covid-19: vaccines, timing of transplant after COVID-19 infection and use of positive donors	2
Implementing regulations and policies for uterus transplantation	2
Ethical issues in solid organ transplantation: transfusion-free transplantation in Jehovah's witness patients	2
Exercise training in solid organ transplant candidates and recipients	2
Improving liver transplant outcomes with transplant-omics and network biology	2
Primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation	2
Immunotherapy for transplantation of hepatocellular carcinoma: the next frontier in adjunctive therapy	2
Squaring the Circle. Brain death and organ transplantation	2
Antibody-mediated rejection: prevention, monitoring and treatment dilemmas	2
Liver transplantation and portal vein tumour thrombus: futile enterprise?	2
Novel biomarkers of chronic lung allograft dysfunction: is there anything reliable?	2
Collaborative care models in adult congenital heart disease transplant	2
Mitochondria and ischemia reperfusion injury	2
Pain management for liver transplant recipients	2
Kidney transplant program specific reporting and transplant metrics	2
Normothermic machine perfusion for liver transplantation: current state and future directions	2
Approaches to pretransplant vaccination	2
Beyond donation to organ utilization in the USA	2
Editorial: Mechanistic and therapeutic advances in antibody-mediated rejection: reasons to be optimistic	2
Treating rare tumors with liver transplantation	2
Pediatric intestine and multivisceral transplant	2
Shorter durations of antibiotic therapy in organ transplant	2
Molecular profiling in the management of hepatocellular carcinoma	2
Disparities in heart and lung transplantation	2
Closing the abdomen: update on the current surgical toolkit	2
Ensuring equity in psychosocial risk assessment for solid organ transplantation: a review	2
Fueling the success of transplantation through nutrition: recent insights into nutritional interventions, their interplay with gut microbiota and cellular mechanisms	2