On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the JHLT Digital Media Editors explore two studies from the March issue of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Digital Media Editor Marty Tam, MD, an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, hosts this episode.

First, Dr. Tam and Digital Media Editor David Schibilsky, MD interview their first guests, Fiorella Calabrese, MD and Francesca Lunardi, MD, ScD, PhD, of University of Padova, in Padova Italy. Dr. Lunardi was first author and Dr. Calabrese was senior author on the study "Assessing the role of phosphorylated S6 ribosomal protein in the pathological diagnosis of pulmonary antibody-mediated rejection." In the conversation, Drs. Calabrese and Lunardi share the main challenges in the current diagnostic algorithm for AMR in lung transplantation, and why this protein expression may be a future mainstay in evaluating patients with this condition.

Next, Dr. Tam and Digital Media Editor Van-Khue Ton, MD, interview their next guest, Benjamin Mackie, MD, of Tampa General Hospital. Dr. Mackie was senior author on the study "Relationship between blood and tissue-based rejection-related transcripts in heart transplantation." In the conversation, Dr. Mackie shares the current state of rejection assessment, including new, non-invasive modalities, and how the relation between these diagnostic methods may inform clinical practice.

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