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ReviewXenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation Literature Update: January-June 2026.

Kasra Shirini, Joseph M Ladowski, Niket Harsh, Raphael P H Meier

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Review in Xenotransplantation. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kasra ShiriniDepartment of Abdominal Transplant and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4104-7633
Joseph M LadowskiDepartment of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6787-3725
Niket HarshDepartment of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Raphael P H MeierDepartment of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9050-0436

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the first half of 2026, xenotransplantation advanced through refinement rather than dramatic new clinical milestones. Clinical studies described graft physiology, immune infiltration, complement activation, coagulation incompatibility, and early function in living recipients, decedent models, and clinical islet xenotransplantation, including the first orthotopic multi-organ decedent xenotransplantation model. Additional preclinical studies in pigs and nonhuman primates on kidney, heart, islets, and blood product models used more advanced engineering of donor organs, including up to ten genetic edits. They identified persistent issues such as thrombotic microangiopathy, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system dysregulation, and hemolysis-induced ferroptosis. Translational advances in xenotransplantation included the Banff guidelines for xenograft pathology, detection of cell-free DNA derived from the donor, complement, better histocompatibility tests, improved immunosuppressive approaches, and biosafety considerations.

Indexed as

HeterograftsTransplantation, HeterologousAnimalsGraft RejectionHumansbiosafetygenetic engineeringheart xenotransplantationimmunosuppressionislet xenotransplantationkidney xenotransplantationliver xenotransplantationnonhuman primatexenograft rejectionxenotransplantation

Identifiers

PMID42578566
PMCPMC13459524

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