Publications & Presentations
Read about the latest discoveries collaborators have published.
Socioeconomic Deprivation And Its Association On Hospitalization Patterns And Resource Utilization In Liver Cirrhosis. P.A. Barrios, G. Peled, A. Jain, S. Hussain, O. Dentici, L.B. VanWagner, A. Duarte-Rojo, C. Manski, D.P. Ladner. ePoster presented at American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2025.
Disease trajectory and competing risks of patients with cirrhosis in the US. 
M. Mohammadi, B. J. Hasjim, S. N. Balbale, P. Polineni, A. A. Huang, M. Paukner, T. Banea, O. Dentici, D.J. Vitello, J.E. Obayemi, A. Duarte-Rojo, S.N. Nadig, L.B. VanWagner, L. Zhao, S. Mehrotra, D. P. Ladner.  
2025 PLoS One 
Comparing the cost of cirrhosis to other common chronic diseases: A longitudinal study in a large national insurance database 
F. Obradović, D. J. Vitello, B. J. Hasjim, J. Obayemi, P. Polineni, M. Gmeiner, E. Koep, A. Jain, F. Crippa, A. Duarte-Rojo, V. Rohan, L. Kulik, J.M. Doll, T. Banea, G.E. McNatt, L. Zhao, L.B. VanWagner, C. F. Manski, D. P. Ladner. 
2025 Hepatology  
Trends in the Perioperative Practices for Immunological Assessment and Immunosuppression Strategies for Patients Undergoing Intestinal Transplantation at American Transplant Centers 
M. Abusuliman, S. M. Jafri, B. B. Summers, T. Beduschi, J. Boike, D. G. Farmer, et al. 
2025 Transplant Proc 
Hepatic encephalopathy predicts early post-transplant cognitive and functional impairment: The Livcog cohort study 
M. Serper, D. E. Schaubel, K. A. Q. Cousins, C. McMillan, S. Asrani, J. Boike, et al.
2025 Hepatol Commun
Moving toward outpatient kidney transplantation: A case report 
V. Garcia-Tomas, V. Rohan, A. Agrawal, T. G. Liu, R. Arora, A. Tran, M. Harris, S.N. Nadig 
2025 Am J Transplant  
Machine Perfusion and Liver Transplantation-The Future Is Now  
D. Borja-Cacho, Z. Dietch and S. N. Nadig 
2025 JAMA Surg 
Fully Robotic Left Lobe Donor Hepatectomy is Safer Compared to Open 
D. C. Broering, Y. Elsheikh, Y. Alnemary, D. Borja-Cacho, M. L. Sturdevant, S. Alabbad, et al. 
2025 Ann Surg 
 Racial and ethnic disparities in liver transplant access vary within and across transplant referral regions A.T. Ayuk-Arrey, L. Nephew, J. C. Caicedo and K. Ross-Driscoll 
2025 Liver Transpl 
Consortium for the Holistic Assessment of Risk in Transplant: Harmonizing Data for Research, Transparency, and Equity 
L. M. McElroy, R. D. Reed, E. J. Gordon, A. T. Strauss, J. Harding, A. Adams, J.C. Caicedo, K.R. Driscoll, D. J. Taber, Y.H. Ng, N.A. Bhavsar, R.E. Patzer, A.D. Kirk.  
2025 Ann Surg 
Risk Stratification for Chronic Kidney Disease After Liver Transplant for Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatohepatitis (MASH) Cirrhosis: Results From the NailMASH Consortium 
S. K. Satapathy, S. Elwir, D. Brandman, C. Smith, Y. Jiang, J. Vanatta, N.B. Ha, A. Cheung, M. Bhat, P. Patel, M.S. Siddiqui, M.E. Rinella, K.D. Watt.  
2025 Transplantation 
Guidance for Timely Referral to Liver Transplantation 
L. Y. King, E. S. Aby, A. Desai, B. E. Fortune, P. Sharma, N. Ufere, B.C. Lizaola-Mayo, A. Delemos, P. Barman, A. Duarte-Rojo. 
2025 Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 
Alemtuzumab Associated With Higher Mortality Than Basiliximab in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients 
M. Guo, V. Rohan, D. Ladner, J. Friedewald, J. Cahan and Z. Dietch. 
2025 J Surg Res 
A survey of national practice patterns of hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance for patients with fontan-associated liver disease: A call to action 
M. R. Kappus, D. Hughes, D. Ganger, Y. Kim, M. Bashir, J. Bonn, et al. 
2025 Liver Transpl 
Survival benefit associated with liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma based on tumor burden scores at listing  
H. Liu, W. Zhang, M. Di, H. Lee, L. Shi, X. Wang, Z. Xingyu, C.A. Powers, V. Sethi, X. Li, Y. Xiao, A. Crane, C. Kaltenmeier, R. Bataller Alberola, J. Behari, A. Duarte-Rojo, D. Hughes, S. Malik, N. Jonassaint, D. Geller, S. Tohme, V. Gunabushanam, A. Tevar, R. Cruz, C. Hughes, S. Dharmayan, S. Ayloo, A. Humar, M. Molinari.  
2025 Hepatol Commun 
Development of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure of Side Effects for Patients Taking Calcineurin Inhibitors: The FACIT-CNI-Ntx  
C. N. Hurt, G. J. Greene, J. Friedewald, A. D. Waterman, D. Ladner, X. Tang, et al. 
2025 Am J Kidney Dis 
The Liver Transplant Comorbidity Index (LTCI): A composite index of ambulatory pre-LT factors to identify patients at increased risk of post-LT mortality 
J.C. Lai, A. M. Shui, M. Molinari, R. S. Rahimi, D. P. Ladner, D. R. Ganger, M. Kappus, E.A. King, A.D. Tevar, M.L. Volk, A. Duarte-Rojo, E.C. Verna.
2025 Hepatology
Measuring disease burden with individual cumulative incidence in patients with cirrhosis 
M.Paukner, D. P. Ladner and L. Zhao
2025 J Biomed Inform
The Liver Cirrhosis Network Cohort Study: Cirrhosis Definition, Study Population, and Endpoints 
E.B. Tapper, D. Goldberg, N. D. Parikh, N. A. Terrault, N. Welch, S. Sharpton, B. Hameed, M. Khalili, A. Stolz, E.C. Verna, R.S. Brown, A.J. Sanyal, L.VanWagner, D.P. Ladner, C.A. Moylan, A.M. Diehl, P.D. Jones, R. Loomba, S. Dasarathy, D.A. Simonetto, V.H. Shah, J.S. Bajaj, LCN Study Group
2025 Am J Gastroenterol
Home-based LIver FrailTy Intervention (LIFT) in Transplant Candidates: A Feasibility Study 
A.J. Thuluvath, P. Polineni, S. Morrissey, K. Belfanti, M. Nizamuddin, O. Siddiqui, A. Daud, D.C. Simpson, J. Levitsky, A.M. Flores, A. Duarte-Rojo, D.P. Ladner.
2025 Transplantation
M. Wang, S. H. Chiou, D. Ganger, J. Ruck, C. Y. Huang, M. R. Kappus, E.A. King, D.P. Ladner, R.S. Rahimi, A. Duarte-Rojo, M.L. Volk, A.D. Tevar, E.C. Verna, J.C. Lai.
2025 Hepatology
Using Torque Teno Virus as a Serial Monitoring Tool for the Net State of Immunosuppression of Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Singla, K. Chen, B. Robelly, C. Rebello, C. Lantz, L. Zhao, R. Sinha, S. Park, S. Kleiboeker, J. J. Friedewald, S. Mehrotra. 
2025 Clin Transplant
Induction immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients with HIV: To deplete or not to deplete? 
A. Agrawal and V. Stosor
2024 Transpl Infect Dis
Development of a culturally targeted chatbot to inform living kidney donor candidates of African ancestry about APOL1 genetic testing: a mixed methods study 
E.J. Gordon, J. Gacki-Smith, M. J. Gooden, P. Waite, R. Yacat, Z. R. Abubakari, D. Duquette, A. Agrawal, J. Friedewald, S.K. Savage, M. Cooper, A. Gilbert, L.N. Muhammad, C. Wicklund.
2024 J Community Genet
Surgical Treatment of Medically Refractory Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis in a Patient After Kidney Transplant
R.C. Jacobs, J. J. Friedewald, A. H. Agrawal, M. P. Angarone, S. N. Nadig and V. S. Rohan
2024 Exp Clin Transplant
Attitudes Toward Use of an APOL1 Genetic Testing Chatbot in Living Kidney Donor Evaluation: A Focus Group Study
L. Rogers, J. Gacki-Smith, R. Yacat, C. Wicklund, D. Duquette, J. Friedewald, M. Cooper, A. Gilbert, A. Agrawal, E.J. Gordon.
2024 Clin Transplant
Percutaneous Biliary Interventions via the Modified Hutson Loop in Patients with Biliary-Enteric Anastomoses: A Retrospective Study
A. Husnain, A. Malik, J. Caicedo, S. Nadig, D. Borja-Cacho, J. Boike, J. Levitsky, A. Reiland, B. Thornburg, R. Keswani, M.S.E. Patel, A. Aadam, R. Salem, A. Duarte, D. Ganger, A. Riaz.
2024 Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol
G. Panayotova, K. E. Lunsford, R. C. Quillin, 3rd, A. Rana, V. G. Agopian, G. S. Lee-Riddle, D. Markovic, F. Paterno, A.D. Griesermer, A. Amin, D. Alonso, J.P. Rocca, D. Borja-Cacho, R. Hernandez-Alejandro, J.J. Fung, S.J Pelletier, S.A. Shah, J.V. Guarrera.
2024 Hepatology
Organ Utilization Rates from Non-Ideal Donors for Solid Organ Transplant in the United States
S.A. Wisel, D. Borja-Cacho, D. Megna, M. Adjei, I. K. Kim and J. A. Steggerd
2024 J Clin Med
Disparities Persist Among Hispanic Patients: Completing Evaluation, Waitlisting, and Receiving a Kidney Transplant.
E.J. Gordon, J. Lee, R. Kang, J. Uriarte and J. C. Caicedo
2024 Transplant Direct
Incidence, management and outcomes in hepatic artery complications after paediatric liver transplantation: protocol of the retrospective, international, multicentre HEPATIC Registry
W.Li, H. P. J. van der Doef, B. E. Wildhaber, P. Marra, M. Bravi, D. Pinelli, J.C. Caicedo, et al.
2024 BMJ Open
B.L. Thomae, T. Kaihou, D. F. Pinelli, J. J. Friedewald, J. C. Caicedo-Ramirez, A. Bharat, S. Nadig, C. Kurihara.
2024 Clin Transplant
Blood Testing for Phosphatidylethanol
A.Mazhar and A. Cheung
2024 JAMA
Top-Down Proteomics Identifies Plasma Proteoform Signatures of Liver Cirrhosis Progression
E. Forte, J. M. Sanders, I. Pla, V. L. Kanchustambham, M. A. R. Hollas, C. F. Huang, A. Sanchez, K.N. Peterson, R.D. Melani, A. Huang, P. Polineni, J.M. Doll, Z. Dietch, N.L. Kelleher, D.P. Ladner.
2024 Mol Cell Proteomics
Association of Pre-Existing Type 2 Diabetes on Kidney Transplant Outcomes and Factors Correlating With Survival: A Single-Center Analysis
A.A. Huang, J. O. Zahid, M. Haji, I. Ansari, M. Singh, Z. Dietch, A. Desai, B. Ho, J. Friedewald, V. Rohan
2024 J Surg Res
Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Incited by Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor Therapy for Breast Cancer Effectively Treated With Liver Transplantation 
V.Kalas, J. Nguyen, A. W. Wan, Z. C. Dietch, L. Kulik and D. L. Hughes
2024 ACG Case Rep J
Brief PROMIS Assessment Screens for Frailty and Predicts Hospitalizations in Liver Transplant Candidates 
A.J. Thuluvath, A. Duarte-Rojo, J. C. Lai, J. Peipert, Z. C. Dietch, O. Siddiqui, S. Morrissey, K. Belfanti, L. Zhao, K. Guo, M. Nizamuddin, P. Polineni, J. Levitsky, A. Flores, D.P. Ladner.
2024 Transplantation
Patient-Reported Outcome Screens for Cognitive Dysfunction and Predicts Admissions in Cirrhosis
A. J. Thuluvath, M. Kim, J. Peipert, A. Duarte-Rojo, A. Huang, O. Siddiqui, M. Nizamuddin, Z. Dietch, J. Levitsky, D.P. Ladner
2024 Transplant Proc
Characterization of the Antibody Response to SARS-CoV-2 Infection in COVID-19 Transplant versus Nontransplant Recipients by Ig-MS
B. J. Des Soye, R. D. Melani, M. A. R. Hollas, J. Duan, S. M. Patrie, T. D. Fisher, B.B. Mattamana, A. Daud, D.F. Pinelli, D.P. Ladner, N.L. Kelleher, E. Forte
2024 J Proteome Res
Where you live matters: Area deprivation predicts poor survival and liver transplant waitlisting
B. J. Hasjim, A. A. Huang, M. Paukner, P. Polineni, A. Harris, M. Mohammadi, K.N. Kershaw, T. Banea, L.B. VanWagner, L. Zhao, S. Mehrotra, D.P. Ladner.
2024 Am J Transplant
Financial burden of cirrhosis is significantly reduced after liver transplantation
D.P. Ladner and C.F. Manski
2024 Liver Transpl
New Liver Allocation Policy and National Liver Transplant Volume
D.P. Ladner, C.F. Manski, S. Mehrotra
2024 JAMA Surg
Comparing Functional Frailty and Radiographic Sarcopenia as Predictors of Outcomes After Liver Transplant
S. L. Olson, P. Polineni, W. A. H. Schwartz, A. J. Thuluvath, A. Duarte-Rojo and D. P. Ladner
2024 Clin Transplant
Association of body mass index with post-liver transplant outcomes
J. M. Ruck, A. M. Shui, A. A. Jefferis, A. Duarte Rojo, R. S. Rahimi, D. R. Ganger, E.C. Verna, M. Kappus, D.P. Ladner, D.L. Segev, M. Volk, A. Tevar, E.A. King, J.C Lai.
2024 Clin Transplant
The African American Transplant Access Program: Mitigating Disparities in Solid Organ Transplantation
D. C. Simpson, J. E. Obayemi, K. N. Kershaw, J. E. Franklin and D. P. Ladner
2024 NEJM Catal Innov Care Deliv
Brief PROMIS Assessment Screens for Frailty and Predicts Hospitalizations in Liver Transplant Candidates
A. J. Thuluvath, A. Duarte-Rojo, J. C. Lai, J. Peipert, Z. C. Dietch, O. Siddiqui, S. Morrissey, K. Belfanti, L. Zhao, K. Guo, M. Nizamuddin, P. Polineni, J. Levitsky, A. Flores, D.P. Ladner.
2024 Transplantation
Peak insulin drip rate associated with decreased infections post-solid organ transplant
G. Upadrasta, A. Affinati, S. Kumar, H. Zelada, C. Fulkerson, S. Gupta, T. Pollack, A. Andrei, D.J. Oakes, K. Schmidt, A. Therasse, K. Grady, D. Pham, J. Wilcox, J. Levitsky, N. Parikh, D.P Ladner, G. Aleppo, M.E. Molitch, A. Wallia.
2024 Clin Transplant
The liver frailty index is a predictor of healthcare utilization after liver transplantation in older adults
M. Wang, A. M. Shui, J. Ruck, E. King, R. Rahimi, M. Kappus, M. Volk, D.R. Ganger, D.P. Ladner, A. Duarte-Rojo, C. Huang, E.C. Verna, J.C. Lai.
2024 Clin Transplant
Clinical Value of Peripheral Blood Gene Expression Profile and dd-cfDNA for Identifying Persistent Rejection
R. L. Heilman, J. N. Fleming, S. H. Park, C. Rebello, S. Kleiboeker, J. Holman, J. Friedewald.
2024 Kidney360
Combined Metagenomic Viral Detection and Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Quantification in Plasma From Kidney Transplant Recipients
R. Sinha, Z. Zhu, S. Park, C. Rebello, B. Kinsella, J. Friedewald, S. Kleiboeker.
2024 Transplant Proc
Implementation of a culturally competent APOL1 genetic testing programme into living donor evaluation: A two-site, non-randomised, pre-post trial design
J. D. Smith, A. Agrawal, C. Wicklund, D. Duquette, J. Friedewald, L. V. Rasmussen, et al.
2023 BMJ Open
Transplant Renal Vein Stenosis: Diagnosis and Intervention
N. Xiao, D. Riopelle, A. Agrawal, J. Friedewald and S. Resnick
2023 J Vasc Interv Radiol
Transplant Nephrologists' Preferences for Clinical Decision Support for APOL1 Genetic Testing of Living Kidney Donors: A Focus Group Study
L. V. Rasmussen, A. H. Agrawal and E. J. Gordon
2023 Kidney360
Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir + sofosbuvir for post-liver transplant recurrent hepatitis C virus treatment
R. Arora, M. T. Martin, J. Boike and S. Patel
2023 World J Hepatol
The novel SALT-M score predicts 1-year post-transplant mortality in patients with severe acute-on-chronic liver failure
R. Hernaez, C. J. Karvellas, Y. Liu, S. C. Sacleux, S. Khemichian, L. L. Stein, K. Shetty, C.C. Lindenmeyer, J.R. Boike, D.A. Simonetto, R.S. Rahimi, P.K. Jalal, M. Izzy, M.S. Kriss, G.Y. Im, M.V. Lin, J.H Jou, B.E. Fortune, G. Cholankeril, A. Kuo, N. Mahmud, F. Kanwal, F. Saliba, V. Sundaram, T. Artzner, R. Jalan.
2023 J Hepatol
Cognitive function, self-management, and outcomes among liver transplant recipients: LivCog, a multicenter, prospective study
M. Serper, A. Chafale, A. Burdzy, M. Kim, S. K. Asrani, J. Yoshino Benavente, R. Gershon, P.P. Reese, D.E. Schaubel, J.R. Boike, M.C. Blanco, M.S. Wolf.
2023 Hepatol Commun
Imaging Evaluation of the Living Liver Donor: A Systems-Based Approach
R. E. Bailey, R. A. Pugliesi, D. Borja-Cacho and A. A. Borhani
2023 Radiol Clin North Am.
A Retrospective Evaluation of Changing Health Characteristics Amongst Deceased Organ Donors in the United States
J. A. Steggerda, D. P. Ladner, I. K. Kim, S. A. Wisel and D. Borja-Cacho
2023 Transplant Proc
Portal Vein Recanalization-Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (PVR-TIPS) Facilitates Liver Transplantation in Cirrhotic Patients with Occlusive Portal Vein Thrombosis
A. Swersky, D. Borja-Cacho, Z. Deitch, B. Thornburg and R. Salem
2023 Semin Intervent Radiol
Hereditary thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura acquired through liver transplantation: A case report
K. A. Martin, A. Zakarija, O. Odetola, D. Simpson, A. Cheung, E. Kinsella, S. Nadig, J. Caicedo, R. Stein.
2023 Am J Transplant
Financial Impact of a Culturally Sensitive Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program on Increasing Living Donation
A. Wang, J. C. Caicedo, A. K. Mathur, R. M. Ruiz and E. J. Gordon
2023 Transplantation
CAQ Corner: Basic concepts of transplant immunology
A. Cheung and J. Levitsky
2023 Liver Transpl
Patient randomised controlled trial of technology enabled strategies to promote treatment adherence in liver transplantation: rationale and design of the TEST trial
M. Serper, A. Burdzy, D. E. Schaubel, R. Mason, A. Banerjee, D. S. Goldberg, E.F. Martin, S.J. Mehta, L.B. Russell, A.C. Cheung, D.P. Ladner, J.Y. Benavente, M.S. Wolf. 
2023 BMJ Open
Living kidney donors with HIV: experience and outcomes from a case series by the HOPE in Action Consortium
C. M. Durand, N. Martinez, K. Neumann, R. C. Benedict, A. W. Baker, C. R. Wolfe, V. Stosor, A. Shetty, Z.D. Dietch, L. Goudy, M.A. Callegari, A.B. Massie, D. Brown, W. Cochran, A. Muzaale, D. Fine, A. A.R. Tobian, C. A. Winkler, F.A. Ammary, D.L. Segev, HOPE in Action Investigators.
2023 Lancet Reg Health Am
Cognitive Impairment in Liver Transplant Recipients With a History of Cirrhosis: A Systematic Review
O. M. Siddiqui, A. B. Baskaran, K. A. Lin, N. Najam, T. Shah, M. L. Beestrum, A. Thuluvath, B. Bonakdarpour, M. Kim, Z. Dietch, M. Wolf, D.P. Ladner.
2023 Transplant Direct.
Use of a Mobile-Assisted Telehealth Regimen to Increase Exercise in Transplant Candidates: A Home-Based Prehabilitation Pilot and Feasibility Trial
A. Duarte-Rojo, P. M. Bloomer, R. K. Grubbs, J. G. Stine, D. Ladner, C. B. Hughes, et al.
2023 Clin Transl Gastroenterol
Discordance in cardiac risk burden and incidence of adverse cardiac events in liver transplant patients: Account for the means to understand the ends
D. L. Hughes and A. Duarte-Rojo
2023 Liver Transpl
Association of Frailty With Health-Related Quality of Life in Liver Transplant Recipients
J. C. Lai, A. M. Shui, A. Duarte-Rojo, R. S. Rahimi, D. R. Ganger, E. C. Verna, M.L. Volk, M. Kappus, D.P. Ladner, B. Boyarsky, D.L. Segev, Y. Gao, C. Huang, J.P. Singer.
2023 JAMA Surg
The plasma degradome reflects later development of NASH fibrosis after liver transplant
J. Li, T. Sato, M. Hernández-Tejero, J. I. Beier, K. Sayed, P. V. Benos, D.W. Wilkey, A. Humar, M.L. Merchant, A. Duarte-Rojo, G.E. Arteel.
2023 Sci Rep
The tele-liver frailty index (TeLeFI): development of a novel frailty tool in patients with cirrhosis via telemedicine
M. Wang, A. M. Shui, F. Barry, E. Verna, D. Kent, F. Yao, S. Seetharaman, K. Berry, R.K. Grubbs, G. George, C. Huang, A. Duarte-Rojo, J.C. Lai.
2023 Am J Transplant
Kidney organ allocation: reducing discards
J. J. Friedewald, K. Schantz and S. Mehrotra
2023 Curr Opin Organ Transplant
Physician Preferences when Selecting Candidates for Lower-Quality Kidney Offers
J. M. Gonzalez Sepulveda, S. Mehrotra, J. C. Yang, K. J. Schantz, Y. Becker, R. Formica, D.P. Ladner, D. Kaufman, J. Friedewald.
2023 Clin J Am Soc Nephrol
European Society of Organ Transplantation Consensus Statement on Testing for Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Kidney Allograft Rejection
S. Park, J. Sellares, C. Tinel, D. Anglicheau, O. Bestard and J. J. Friedewald
2023 Transpl Int
Addressing sex-based disparities in solid organ transplantation in the United States - a conference report
D. Sawinski, J. C. Lai, S. Pinney, A. L. Gray, A. M. Jackson, D. Stewart, D.J. Levine, J.E. Locke, J.J. Pomposelli, M.G. Hartwig, S.A. Hall, D.M. Dadhania, R. Cogswell, R.V Perez, J.D. Schold, N.A. Turgeon, J. Kobashigawa, J. Kukreja, J.C. Magee, J. Friedewald, J.S. Gill, G. Loor, J.K. Heimbach, E.C. Verna, M.N. Walsh, N. Terrault, G. Testa, J.M. Diamond, P.P. Reese, K. Brown, S. Orloff, M.A. Farr, K.M. Olthoff, M. Siegler, N. Ascher, S. Feng, B. Kaplan, E. Pomfret.
2023 Am J Transplant
Positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (PET MPI) findings predictive of post-liver transplant major adverse cardiac events
D. L. Hughes, J. Pan, A. R. Answine, C. J. Sonnenday, S. A. Waits, S. S. Kumar, et al.
2023 Liver Transpl
Living donor liver transplant candidate and donor selection and engagement: Meeting report from the living donor liver transplant consensus conference
T. Jesse, W. E. Jackson, A. Liapakis, S. Ganesh, A. Humar, N. Goldaracena, J. Levitsky, D. Mulligan, E.A. Pomfret, D.P. Ladner, J.P. Roberts, A. Mavis, C. Thiessen, J. Trotter, G.S. Winder, A.D. Griesemer, A. Pillai, V. Kumar, E.C. Verna, D. LaPointe Rudow, H.H. Han, AST LDLT Consensus Conference Working Group.
2023 Clin Transplant.
Personality Traits in Patients With Cirrhosis Are Different From Those of the General Population and Impact Likelihood of Liver Transplantation
A. J. Thuluvath, O. Siddiqui, J. C. Lai, J. Peipert, J. Levitsky, A. Daud, N. Mazumder, AM. Flores, D. Borja-Cacho, JC. Caicedo, C. Loftus, R. Wong, D. Mroczek, DP. Ladner.
2022 Transplantation
Factors Underlying Racial Disparity in Utilization of Hepatitis C-Viremic Kidneys in the United States 
K. Atiemo, R. Baudier, R. Craig-Schapiro, K. Guo, N. Mazumder, A. Anderson, L. Zhao, D. Ladner
2022 J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
Describing Predictors Of Regimen Nonadherence Among Kidney Recipients Using Multiple Measures
A. Balakrishnan, S. Bailey, D. Mroczek, M. Serper, D. Ladner, M. Wolf  
2022 Prog Transplant 
A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States
C. Park, M. Jones, S.Kaplan, F. Koller, J.Wilder, L. Boulware, L. McElroy
2022 Int J Equity Health
Resolution of Disseminated Angiosarcoma in a Kidney Transplant Recipient After Treatment With Sirolimus: A Case Report
J. K. Friedman, M. Atari, K. Atiemo, A. Vijay, H. Jeon, M. T. Killackey, et al.
2022 Transplant Proc.
Falls are an underappreciated driver of morbidity and mortality in cirrhosis
A. Ha, Z. M. Saleh, M. Serper, E. B. Tapper
2022 Clin Liver Dis
Association of Frailty With Health-Related Quality of Life in Liver Transplant Recipients
J. C. Lai, A. M. Shui, A. Duarte-Rojo, R. S. Rahimi, D. R. Ganger, E. C. Verna, D. Ladner, et al.
2022 JAMA Surg.
Are cultural or psychosocial factors associated with patient-reported outcomes at the conclusion of kidney transplant evaluation
S. L. Swift, Y. Leyva, S. Wang, C. H. Chang, M. A. Dew, R. Shapiro, JD Peipert, et al.
2022 Clin Liver Dis
HLA-DQ Mismatches Lead to More Unacceptable Antigens, Greater Sensitization, and Increased Disparities in Repeat Transplant Candidates
D. Isaacson, J. D. Schold, M. W. Gmeiner, H. C. Copley, V. Kosmoliaptsis, A. R. Tambur
2022 J Am Soc Nephrol. 
Clinical outcomes of patients with Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System 3 or Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System 4 observations in patients with cirrhosis: A systematic review
M. Kanneganti, J. A. Marrero, N. D. Parikh, F. Kanwal, T. Yokoo, M. Mendiratta-Lala, et al.
2022 Liver Transpl.
Financial burden in adults with chronic liver disease: A scoping review
N. N. Ufere, N. Satapathy, L. Philpotts, J. C. Lai, M. Serper
2022 Liver Transpl.
Development of de novo donor specigic antibodies in renal transplant recipients with BK viremia managed with immunosuppression reduction
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2022 Transpl Infec Dis.
What to do about hepatocellular carcinoma: Recommendations for health authorities from the International Liver Cancer Association
M. Allaire, J. Bruix, M. Korenjak, S. Manes, Z. Maravic, H. Reeves, R. Salem, et al.
2022 JHEP Rep.
Connexins in endothelial cells as a therapeutic target for solid organ transplantation
D. Jaishankar, K.M Quinn, J. Sanders, L. Plumblee, T.A. Morinelli, S.N. Nadig
2022 Am J Transplant.
Management of cardiac diseases in liver transplant recipients: Comprehensive review and multidisciplinary practice-based recommendations
M. Izzy, B. E. Fortune, M. Serper, N. Bhave, A. deLemos, J. F. Gallegos-Orozco, LB VanWagner, et al.
2022 AM J Transplant
Financial Impact of a Culturally Senseitive Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program on Increasing Living Donation
A. Wang, J. C. Caicedo, A. K. Mathur, R. M. Ruiz, E. J. Gordon
2022 Transplantation.
Selective decrease of donor-reactive Tregs after liver transplantation limits Treg therapy for promoting allograft tolerance in humans
Q. Tang, J. Leung, Y. Peng, A. Sanchez-Fueyo, J. J. Lozano, A. Lam, J. Levitsky, et al.
2022 Sci Transl Med.
Module of Acute Liver Failure in an Isolated Perfused Porcine Liver-Challenges and Lessons Learned
J. Hefler, S. Hatami, A. Thiesen, C. Olafson, K. Durand, J. Acker, K. Carvellas, etc. 
2022 Biomedicines. 
Black and White adults With CKD Hospitalized with Acute Kidney Injury: Findings From the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study
A. N. Muiru, J. Yang, V. K. Derebail, K. D. Liu, H. I. Feldman, A. Srivastava, et al.
2022 Am J Kidney Dis. 
Patient Perspectives on the Use of Frailty, Cognitive Function, and Age in Kidney Transplant Evaluation 
P. Shrestha, S. E. Van Pilsum Rasmussen, M. Fazal, N. M. Chu, J. M. Garonzik-Wang, E. J. Gordon, et al.
2022 AJOB Empir Bioeth
Shared Decision Making Among Older Adults With Advanced CKD
R. Frazier, S. Levine, T. Porteny, H. Tighiouart, J. B. Wong, T. Isakova, S. Koch-Weser, E. J. Gordon, et al.
2022 Am J Kidney Dis.
Baseline risk markers and visit-to-visit variability in relation to kidney outcomes - a post-hoc analysis of the PERL Study
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2022 Diabetes Res Clin Pract.
Intensive care managment of liver transplant recipients
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2022 Curr Opin Crit Care. 
Achieving tolerance modifies cancer susceptibility profiles in liver transplant recipients
M. Bhat, E. Pasini, P. Patel, J. Yu, C. Baciu, S. M. Kurian, J. Levitsky 
2022 Cancer Med
Social determinants of health data in solid organ transplantation: National data sources and future directions
N. W. Chan, M. Moya-Mendez, J. B. Henson, H. Zaribafzadeh, M. P. Sendak, N. A. Bhavsar, S. Balu, A. Kirk. L. McElroy
2022 Am J Transplant
The emotional burden of caregiving for patients with cirrhosis
Z. M. Saleh, N. E. Salim, S. Nikirk, M. Serper, E. B. Tapper
2022 Br J Radiol. 
Feasibility and Acceptability of a mHealth Self-Management Intervention for Pediatric Transplant Families
S. M. Lerret, R. Schiffman, R. White-Traut, B. Medoff-Cooper, S. I. Ahamed, R. Adib, M. Liegl, E. Alonso, et al. 
2022 West J Nurs Res.
Patterns of Care Utilization and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surviellance: Tracking Care Across the Pandemic 
M. Serper, E. B. Tapper, D. E. Kaplan, T. H. Tadde, N. Mahmud
2022 Am J Gastroenterol. 
Geospatial Analysis of Organ Tranwsplant Referral Regions
T. Schappe, S. Peskoe, N. Bhavsar, L. E. Boulware, J. Pendergast, L. M. McElroy
2022 JAMA Netw Open 
Two-step screening for depressive symptoms in patients treated with kidney replacement therapies -cross-sectional analysis
S. Dano, H. H. Lan, S. Macanovic, S. Bartlett, D. Howell, M. Li, J. Hanmer, JD. Peipert, et al
2022 Nephrol Dial Transplant
Assessment of mental health in patients with chronic liver disease
M. P. Whitsett, A. Goswami Banerjee, M. Serper
2022 Clin Liver Dis 
Health Disparities in Chronic Liver Disease 
A. Kardashian, M. Serper, N. Terrault and L. D. Nephew
2022 Hepatology
A novel Method Using the Levels of Mobility to Predict Mortality in Patients Admitted for Decompensated Cirrhosis: A Prospective Study
A. J. Groff, M. Serper, S. Y. Tao, P. M. Bloomer, M. A. Dunn, A. Duarte-Rojo
2022 Liver Transpl.
Navigating medication-taking after kidney transplant 
A. Balakrishnan, R. Weinmeyer, M. Serper, S. C. Bailey, K. Kaiser, M. Wolf
2022 Res Social Adm Pharm.
Outcomes of patients with acute liver failure listed for liver transplantation: A multicenter prospective cohort analysis
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2022 Liver Transpl.
Patient Preferences for Waiting Time and Kidney Quality 
S. Mehrotra, J. M. Gonzalez, K. Schantz, J. C. Yang, J. J. Friedewald, R. Knight.
2022 Clin J Am Soc Nephrol.
Are cultural or psychosocial factors associated with patient-reported outcomes at the concluson of kidney transplant evaluation? 
S. L. Swift, Y. Leyva, S. Wang, C. H. Chang, M. A. Dew, R. Shapiro, M Unruh, K Kendall, E Croswell, JD Peipert, L Myaskovsky
2022 Clin Transplant  
Expression of unfolded protein response genes in post-transplantation liver biopsies
X. Liu, S. A. Taylor, S. Celaj, J. Levitsky and R. M. Green  
2022 BMC Gastroenterol 
An Update on Pediatric Acute Liver Failure: Emerging Understanding of the Impact of Immune Dysregulation and Novel Opportunities for Intervention
S. Kulkarni, C. A. Chapin, E. M. Alonso, D. A. Rudnick  
2022 Clin Liver Dis
Single Center Experience with Incidence, Impact and Predictors of Biliary Complications in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation
O. Bushara, J. Alhalel, J. Sanders, H. Azad, T. Cerri, S. Zafer, K. Guo, L. Zhao, A. Daud, D. Borja-Cacho, J.C. Caicedo 
2022 Prog Transplant
Implications of Accumulated Cold Time for US Kidney Transplantational Offer Acceptance
M. Barah, V. Kilambi, J. Friedewald, S. Mehrotra   
2022 Clin J Am Soc Nephrol
Alloimmune versus autoimmune hepatitis following liver transplantation 
C. R. Harrington, J. Levitsky 
2022 Clin Liver Dis  
An Assessment of Ineligible Donor Use in Solid Organ Transplantation 
L. J. DeRoos, E. B. Tapper, M. S. Lavieri, D. W. Hutton, N. D. Parikh  
2022 Transplantation
Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals Genetic Variants in HLA Class II Genes Associated With Transplant-free Survival of Indeterminate Acute Liver Failure
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2022 Clin Transl Gastroenterol  
Defining the ethical considerations surrounding kidney transplantation for frail and cognitively impaired patients: a Delphi study of geriatric transplant experts 
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2022 BMC Geriatr.
Liver transplantation in the era of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease/metabolic (dysfunction) associated fatty liver disease: the dilemma of the steatotic liver graft on transplantation and recipient survival 
S. M. Gedallovich, D. P. Ladner, L.B. VanWagner  
2022 Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr
Impact of having potential living donors on ethnic/racial disparities in access to kidney transplantation 
E.J. Gordon, J. Lee, R. Kang, J.C. Caicedo 
2022 Am J Transplant 
Treatment Decision Making for Older Kidney Patients during COVID-19 
Porteny T, Gonzales KM, Aufort KE, Levine S, Wong JB, Isakova T, Rifkin DE, Gordon E.J., et al.
2022 Clin J Am Soc Nephrol
Sustainment of a complex culturally competent care intervention for Hispanic living donor kidney transplantation: A longitudinal analysis of adaptations 
E.J. Gordon, J.J. Uriarte, N. Anderson, J.D. Smith, J. C. Caicedo, M. Shumate  
2022 J Clin Transl Sci 
Impact of Donor and Recipient Clinical Characteristics and Hepatic Histology on Steatosis/Fibrosis Following Liver Transplantation 
O. Shaked, J. Demetris, J. Levitsky, S. Feng, B. L. Loza, J. Punch, et al. 
2022 Transplantation
A Multifaceted Medication Adherence Promotion System to Reduce Late Kidney Allograft Rejection in Children and Young Adults
A. Benintende, M. Wolf, D. Ladner
2022 Am J Kidney Dis
Frailty and the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury Among Patients With Cirrhosis
G. Cullaro, E. Verna, A. Duarte-Rojo, M. Kappus, D. Ganger, R. Rahimi, B. Boyarsky, D. Segev, M. McAdams-DeMarco, D. Ladner, M. Volk, V. Hsu, J. Lai
2022 Hepatol Commun
Loneliness in adults awaiting liver transplantation at 7 U.S. transplant centers
K. Berry, D. Kent, S. Seetharaman, R. Wong, Y. Mohamad, F. Yao, M. Nunez-Duarte, S. Wadhwani, B. Boyarsky, R. Rahimi, A. Duarte-Rojo, M. Kappus, M. Volk, D. Ladner, D. Segev, M. McAdams-DeMarco, E. Verna, D. Ganger, J. Lai
2022 Ann Hepatol
Monitoring for Ascites in Cirrhosis Using Patient-Generated Health Data: No Longer a Remote Possibility
M. Serper
2022 Dig Dis Sci
Monitoring Cardiovascular Risks Factors After Liver Transplantation May Improve Outcomes
L.B. VanWagner, S. Lieber
2022 Liver Transpl
Not everything that counts can be counted: Tracking long-term outcomes in pediatric liver transplant recipients
K. Cheng, S. Feng, J. Bucuvalas, J. Levitsky, E. Perito
2022 Am J Transplant
Dealing With the Kidney Discard Problem in the United States-One Potential Solution for a Difficult Problem
J. Friedewald, K. Schantz, S. Mehrotra
2022 Am J Kidney Dis
The Role of Procurement Biopsies in Kidney Acceptance Decision Making and Kidney Discard: Perceptions of Physicians, Nurse Coordinators, and OPO Staff and Directors
K.Schantz, E. Gordon, U. Lee, M. Rocha, J. Friedewald, D. Ladner, Y. Becker, R. Formica, P. Reese, D. Kaufman, M. Barah, M. Walker, O. Mehrotra, D. Viveros, S. Mehrotra
2022 Transplant Direct
An Electronic Decision Support Intervention Reduces Readmissions for Patients With Cirrhosis
J. Louissaint, K. Grzyb, L. Bashaw, R. Mohammad, N. Parikh, E. Tapper 
2022 Am J Gastroenterol
Diversity in transplantation surgery and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons: Opportunity for a bold vision and positive change
M. Abouljoud, D. Simpson, A. Dick
2022 Am J Surg
Cognitive Impairment and Physical Frailty in Patients With Cirrhosis
K. Berry, A. Duarte-Rojo, J. Grab, M. Dunn, B. Boyarsky, E. Verna, M. Kappus, M. Volk, M. McAdams-DeMarco, D. Segev, D. Ganger, D. Ladner, A. Shui, M. Tincopa, R. Rahimi, J. Lai
2022 Hepatol Commun
Redefining Success After Liver Transplantation: From Mortality Toward Function and Fulfillment
M. Serper, S. Asrani, L. VanWagner, P. Reese, M. Kim, M. Wolf 
2022 Liver Transpl
Cardiac Risk Assessment in Liver Transplant Candidates: A Survey of National Practice Patterns
P. Barman, R. Chadha, L. VanWagner
2022 Liver Transpl
Biomarkers of rejection in liver transplantation
G. Perottino, C. Harrington, J. Levitsky
2022 Curr Opin Organ Transplant
Poor Practitioner Adherence to Clinical Tobacco Use Guidelines in Liver Transplant Recipients
C. Harrington, M. Kosirog, P. Campbell, D. Gregory, A. Daud, J. Levitsky, J. Holl, D. Lloyd-Jones, L. VanWagner
2022 Transplant Direct
Impact of race on pancreas transplant outcomes in the current era: It is not all Black and White
L. McElroy, J. Fridell
2022 Clin Transplant
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in heart transplantation: What we do and do not know
S. Aslam, M. Ison
2022 J Heart Lung Transplant
The Knowledge Assessment of Renal Transplantation (KART) 2.0: Development and Validation of CKD and Transplant Knowledge Scales
A. Waterman, D. Nai, I. Purnajo, K. Cavanaugh, B. Mittman, J. Peipert
2022 Clin J Am Soc Nephrol
Long-Term Infectious Complications of Kidney Transplantation
A. Agrawal, M. Ison, L. Danziger-Isakov
2022 Clin J Am Soc Nephrol
The answer at our fingertips: Volume status in cirrhosis determined by machine learning and pulse oximeter waveform
N. Mazumder, A. Kazen, A. Carek, M. Etemadi, J. Levitsky
2022 Physiol Rep
E. Tapper, Z. Zhao, N. Mazumder, N. Parikh
2022 Dig Dis Sci