Transplantation

Hello, AJT readers.

Welcome to the Editor's Pick podcast for the November 2026 edition of the American Journal of Transplantation.

I'm your host, Roslyn Mannon, transplant nephrologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, and a deputy editor.

I'm joined today by my co-host as usual, Dr. Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, professor of hepatology and the academic director of the Institute of Liver Studies at King's College London, also a deputy editor.

we have an action-packed podcast today i'm going to go ahead and give you the rundown of the papers the first paper we'll be discussing is kidney safety net utilization after liver transplant for acute alcohol associated hepatitis by Christina M. Fleischer et al., senior author is Kyle Sheets.

This is from, authors are from the University of Michigan, both surgery and medicine, as well as Oregon Health Sciences University.

It is accompanied by an editorial, Who Reaches the Safety Net? Kidney Transplant Utilization After Liver Transplant for Acute Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis by Giuseppe Collaro, Center for the Liver Disease and Transplantation at Columbia University.

College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.

So I just think that's important for the context of living kidney donation

and transplantation.

Sure.

Okay.

I'm Lisa Burnett.

My role is Associate Medical Director for Living Donation and Transplantation within Derek Manas' team in NHSBT.

That's the clinical team.

I'm a consultant nurse by background and my main area of interest has always been living donor transplantation.