Reviews

Front Med. 2020 Jul 21;7:423. Authors Benedetti C, Waldman M, Zaza G, Riella LV, Cravedi P. Abstract The new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a world health emergency. The disease…

Front. Immunol. 2020 Aug 7;11:1748. Authors Cunha LL, Perazzio SF, Azzi J,  Cravedi P, Riella LV Abstract Elderly individuals are the most susceptible to an aggressive form of coronavirus disease (COVID-19),…

KIDNEY360 1: 130–140, 2020. Shruti Gupta , Frank B. Cortazar, Leonardo V. Riella, and David E. Leaf Full PDF version on this link Abstract Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICPIs) have transformed…

Transplantation. 2019 Apr 10. Authors: Leon J, Perez-Saez MJ, Batal I, Beck LH Jr, Rennke HG, Canaud G, Legendre C, Pascual J, Riella LV. Abstract Membranous nephropathy (MN) is a…

Chong AS, Rothstein DM, Safa K, Riella LV. Minireview on Outstanding Questions in Transplantation: B Cells, Alloantibodies, and Humoral Rejection. Am J Transplant. 2019 Feb 25. doi: 10.1111/ajt.15323. Abstract Over…

Kollar B, Pomahac B, Riella LV. “Novel Immunological and Clinical Insights in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation,”Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation 2018 2018 Dec 6. Abstract Purpose of review  Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) is…

Risk factors associated with post-kidney transplant malignancies: an article from the Cancer-Kidney International Network. Authors Sprangers B, Nair V, Launay-Vacher V, Riella LV, Jhaveri KD. Abstract In kidney transplant recipients,…

Abstract Chronic allograft injury (CAI) remains one of the biggest challenges in transplantation as it directly affects long-term allograft survival, an area in which the scientific and transplantation community has…

Abstract Although gene-environment interactions have been investigated for many years to understand people’s susceptibility to autoimmune diseases or cancer, a role for environmental factors in modulating alloimmune responses and transplant…